What Happened In March 2009 In History

Historical Events for March, 2009

• 3rd » The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
• 4th » The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for President of Sudan called Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the
• 7th » The Real Irish Republican Army 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting named kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
• 7th » The Kepler (spacecraft) e.g Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Terrestrial planet or Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
• 11th » Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
• 12th » Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
• 27th » The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
• 27th » A suicide bombing e.g suicide bomber 2009 Jamrud mosque bombing known as kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
• 30th » Twelve gunmen 2009 Lahore police academy attacks known as attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.

Famous Birthdays on March in 2009

• 7th » Prince Umberto of Savoy-Aosta

Famous Deaths for March 2009

• 2nd » Chris Finnegan, English boxer (b. 1944)
• 2nd » João Bernardo Vieira, Bissau-Guinean politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
• 3rd » Gilbert Parent, Canadian politician, 33rd Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons (b. 1935)
• 4th » Joseph Bloch, American pianist (b. 1917)
• 4th » John Cephas, American guitarist (Cephas & Wiggins) (b. 1930)
• 4th » Yvon Cormier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1938)
• 4th » Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish author (b. 1957)
• 4th » Horton Foote, American playwright (b. 1916)
• 4th » George McAfee, American football player (b. 1918)
• 4th » Harry Parkes (footballer born 1920) e.g Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
• 4th » Salvatore Samperi, Italian director and screenwriter (b 1944)
• 4th » Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet (b. 1942)
• 6th » Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 6th » Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean businesswoman (b. 1959)
• 7th » Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
• 8th » Ali Bongo, Indian-English magician (b. 1929)
• 8th » Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
• 8th » Zbigniew Religa, Polish surgeon and politician (b. 1938)
• 11th » Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman (b. 1963)
• 13th » Test (wrestler) e.g Test, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1975)
• 13th » Betsy Blair, American-English actress (b. 1923)
• 14th » Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1947)
• 14th » Altovise Davis, American actress and dancer (b. 1943)
• 15th » Ron Silver, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1946)
• 16th » Marvin Sutton, American criminal (b. 1946)
• 17th » Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian television host and politician (b. 1937)
• 17th » Fernand Lindsay, Canadian organist and educator (b. 1929)
• 18th » Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
• 18th » Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
• 19th » Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
• 20th » Mel Brown (guitarist) called Mel Brown, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
• 21st » Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1960)
• 22nd » Steve Doll, American wrestler (b. 1960)
• 22nd » Jade Goody, English television personality, contestant on 'Big Brother (UK) called Big Brother' (b. 1981)
• 22nd » Abismo Negro, Mexican wrestler (b. 1971)
• 23rd » Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
• 23rd » Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer and trainer (b. 1934)
• 24th » George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 24th » Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
• 25th » Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 25th » Kosuke Koyama, Japanese-American theologian (b. 1929)
• 25th » Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
• 26th » Shane McConkey, Canadian skier (b. 1969)
• 27th » Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation (b. 1913)
• 27th » Irving R. Levine, American journalist (b. 1922)
• 27th » Arnold Meri, Estonian colonel (b. 1919)
• 28th » Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 29th » Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1943)
• 29th » Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
• 31st » Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (b. 1927)
• 31st » Jarl Alfredius, Swedish journalist (b. 1943)
• 31st » Choor Singh, Indian-Singaporean judge (b. 1911)

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