Explore 2493 historical events from 2000–2009.
Edward Moore Kennedy was an American lawyer and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic P…
Ted Kennedy, American politician (born 1932)
Dominick John Dunne was an American writer, investigative journalist, and producer. He began his career in film and television as a producer of the pioneering gay film The Boys in …
Dominick Dunne, American journalist and novelist (born 1925)
Sergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov was a Russian author of children's books and satirical fables. He wrote the lyrics for the Soviet and Russian national anthems.
Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian author and poet (born 1913)
Adam Michael Goldstein, known professionally as DJ AM, was an American DJ. Born in Philadelphia, Goldstein became interested in deejaying as a child after watching Herbie Hancock p…
Adam Goldstein, American drummer, DJ, and producer (born 1973)
Richard John Egan was an American business executive, political fundraiser, and United States Ambassador to Ireland (2001–2003).
Richard Egan, US Ambassador, Owner of Dell EMC, Engineer (born 1936)
In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events occurring in distant galaxies which represent the brightest and most powerful class of explosion in t…
The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the ti
On 30 April 2009 in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, a man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and other members of the…
A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family
The Czech Pirate Party often known simply as the Pirates is a liberal progressive political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009. The party was founded as a student-driven …
Following a petition, the liberal progressive Czech Pirate Party was officially registered as a political party
Napier is a city in the Hawke's Bay region on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a beachside city with a seaport, known for its sunny climate, esplanade li…
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at off
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back to…
The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bri
The 2009 North Korean nuclear test was the underground detonation of a nuclear device conducted on Monday, 25 May 2009 by North Korea. This was its second nuclear test, the first t…
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led
George Richard Tiller was an American physician and abortion provider from Wichita, Kansas. He gained national attention as the medical director of Women's Health Care Services, wh…
American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and
The ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, took place on Friday, June 5, 2009 and resulted in 49 deaths. Thirty five children died that day, with the death toll su…
A fire at a day-care center kills 49 children in Mexico
The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Indigenous peoples; they protested Petroperú and confront…
After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and
The Shishou Incident was a popular protest and riot in the city of Shishou, Hubei Province, in central China between June 19–21, 2009. The protests were the result of dubious circu…
Mass rioting broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is admi…
Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D
Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her…
Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.
On March 17, 2009, North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were working for the American-based independent television station Current …
Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard l
The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedo…
War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault
Neda Agha-Soltan was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her …
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sanaa in Yemen …
Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros, killing 152 people, with French schoolgirl Bahia Baka
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin in no…
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. The first day's ri…
A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.