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Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes inClarence Center ,New York , killing 50 people.(Buffalo News) (CNN) TheUnited States National Transportation Safety Board concludes thatCanada geese causedUS Airways Flight 1549 toditch intoNew York City 'sHudson River .(CNN) Pope Benedict XVI condemns anydenial ofthe Holocaust as "intolerable and altogether unacceptable".(New York Times ) Republican Senator Judd Gregg ofNew Hampshire withdraws his nomination asU.S. Secretary of Commerce .(BBC) Iraq 'sParliament demandsreparations fromIsrael for an attack on anuclear reactor in1981 .(Haaretz) .Hamas agrees to an 18-monthtruce in itsconflict withIsrael , which has not yet responded.(Al Jazeera ) Ford's Theatre inWashington, D.C. reopens for thebicentennial ofassassinated U.S. President Abraham Lincoln 's birth.(BBC) Late 2000s recession :A man is arrested after threateningself-immolation outside theGovernment Buildings inDublin ,Ireland .(RTÉ) Taliban militants kill 26 people in attacks on threegovernment buildings inKabul ,Afghanistan .(Sky News) Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez alleges that theArmy attempted tooverthrow hisgovernment .(AFP via France 24) [permanent dead link Australia announces anational day of mourning for victims ofbushfires inVictoria .(CNN) TheEuropean Parliament inBrussels ,Belgium , isrobbed .(RTÉ) Indian businessmanMoninder Singh Pandher and hisservant ,Surender Koli , areconvicted ofmurder .(BBC) Dutch Member ofParliament andIslam critic Geert Wilders is denied entry into theUnited Kingdom .(BBC) Microsoft places aUS$ 250,000bounty on theConficker computer worm 's creator.(PC World ) China 'sSanlu Group declaresbankruptcy , due to the country's2008 milk scandal .(BBC) February 13, 2009 (2009-02-13 ) (Friday)
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February 22, 2009 (2009-02-22 ) (Sunday)
Slumdog Millionaire Academy Awards , includingBest Picture andDirector forDanny Boyle .Sean Penn winsBest Actor forMilk Kate Winslet winsBest Actress forThe Reader (The Daily Mail ) Abomb kills one person and injures 20 others in theKhan el-Khalili souq ofCairo ,Egypt .(Reuters) AnAl-Shabaab suicide attack kills at least 11 and injures 15 moreBurundian peacekeepers on anAfrican Union military base inMogadishu ,Somalia .(BBC) Greek convicts Vassilis Paleokostas and Alket Rizaiescape fromAthens 'Korydallos Prison via a helicopter.(BBC) Iraq 'sAbu Ghraib prison reopens under the new nameBaghdad Central Prison .(Washington Post ) Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng inaugurates the country'sfirst oil refinery .(AFP via Google News) At least 73miners die following anexplosion in acoal mine inGujiao ,Shanxi ,China .(Bloomberg) Australia holds anational day of mourning for the 209 confirmed victims ofrecent bushfires inVictoria .(Melbourne Herald Sun ) TheTamil Tigers kill 10 people inKirimetiyagara ,Sri Lanka .(AFP viaThe Melbourne Age ) Anoutbreak ofhepatitis B inGujarat ,India , kills at least 38 people.(CNN) Somali pirates hijackGreece 'sMV Saldanha in theGulf of Aden .(AFP via Google News) TheEuropean Council meets inBerlin ,Germany , to discuss thecurrent economic crisis .(BBC) February 23, 2009 (2009-02-23 ) (Monday)
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February 26, 2009 (2009-02-26 ) (Thursday)
United States President Barack Obama will withdraw mostsoldiers from theIraq War by August 2010.(CNN) TheBangladesh Rifles surrender after thegovernment promisesamnesty .(BBC) Palestinian groupsHamas andFatah beginpeace deliberations inCairo ,Egypt .(New York Times ) TheInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia acquits formerSerbian President Milan Milutinović of committingwar crimes .(New York Times ) General Motors reports aUS$ 9.6 billion loss, due to thecurrent automotive industry crisis .(New York Times ) Switzerland 'sUBS AG appoints formerCredit Suisse CEO Oswald Grübel as its new Group CEO.(BBC) China 'sNavy andDenmark 'sNavy rescueItalian and Chinesemerchant vessels fromSomali pirates in theGulf of Aden .(BBC) TheMarriott Hotel inIslamabad ,Pakistan , catches fire, five months after it wasbombed .(BBC) Latvian President Valdis Zatlers names formerFinance Minister Valdis Dombrovskis as the newPrime Minister .(BBC) Ajmal Kasab , the 2008Mumbai attacks ' lone surviving gunman, is charged with wagingwar againstIndia .(Sky News) TheRoyal Bank of Scotland Group reports a 2008 loss of£ 24.1 billion.(BBC) Thirteen thousandcivil servants stage a one-daystrike action inIreland .(RTÉ) FormerGuinean President Lansana Conté 's eldest son confesses todrug trafficking .(BBC) Anoutbreak ofdengue fever inBolivia has killed 18 people and infected 31,000.(BBC) TheUniversity of Reading identifies the oldest words in theEnglish language .(BBC) A study by thescientific journal Nature HIV isevolving toresist thehuman immune system .(BBC) The earliestfootprints evidencing modernhuman foot anatomy andgait are discovered inKoobi Fora ,Kenya .(BBC) TheSvalbard Global Seed Vault receives 90,000food crop seed samples.(BBC) TheUnited States Defense Department allowsnews agencies to publicize photographs of thecoffins ofsoldiers killed inIraq andAfghanistan .(BBC) TheRocky Mountain News , one of Colorado's largest newspapers, publishes its last issue. This issue hits the streets the following morning.[www.9news.com] February 27, 2009 (2009-02-27 ) (Friday)
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