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| | | The Large Hadron Collider, at Cern in Switzerland, begins accelerating protons round a 17-mile circular tunnel | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The Hadron Collider at Cern has to be halted when a serious fault develops, leading to a predicted six-month delay in the programme | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Thabo Mbeki resigns as President of South Africa, after losing the support of his party, the African National Congress | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Kgalema Motlanthe is elected temporary President of the Republic of South Africa after the resignation of Mbeki | |
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| 2008 |
| | | The Dow Jones index suffers its largest one-day fall (777 points) when the US House of Representatives rejects President Bush's emergency package | |
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| 2008 |
| | | In the face of a major financial crisis the Icelandic government takes control of the country's three largest banks | |
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| 2008 |
| | | A series of terrorist attacks on several targets in Mumbai result in nearly 200 deaths | |
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| 2008 |
| | | Israel begins an intense series of airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, in response to rockets launched by Hamas | |
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| 2009 January 3 |
| | | Israel escalates its war against Hamas by launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip | |
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| 2009 January 15 |
| | | The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 lands his plane on Manhattan's Hudson River with no loss of life among his 155 passengers and crew | |
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| 2009 January 20 |
| | | Amid unprecedented international enthusiasm Barack Obama is inaugurated as the fourteenth President of the USA | |
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| 2009 January 21 |
| | | Israel completes a military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, nearly three weeks after launching its invasion of the territory | |
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| 2009 January 22 |
| | | One of President Obama's first acts in office is to sign an order that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is to be closed within a year (a promise that fails to be fulfilled) | |
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| 2009 January 26 |
| | | The prime minister of Iceland, Geir Haarde, resigns after the collapse of his country's banking system | |
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| 2009 February 1 |
| | | In the Icelandic crisis Johanna Siguroardottir becomes prime minister and forms a new government | |
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| 2009 February 2 |
| | | Iran launches a satellite into orbit on an Iranian-built rocket | |
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| 2009 February 11 |
| | | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes prime minister of Zimbabwe, six months after agreeing to share power with Robert Mugabe | |
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| 2009 March 4 |
| | | The International Criminal Court in the Hague issues a warrant for the arrest of the Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on a charge of war crimes | |
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| 2009 April 7 |
| | | Peru's Supreme Court finds Alberto Fujimori guilty of authorizing death squads and sentences him to 25 years in prison | |
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| 2009 May 18 |
| | | The long civil war in Sri Lanka ends with the conclusive defeat of the Tamil Tigers by government forces | |
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| 2009 May 21 |
| | | North Korea announces that it has carried out a second successful nuclear test | |
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| 2009 June 11 |
| | | The World Health Organization declares that "swine flu" (strain H1N1, spreading from Mexico), has reached the status of a pandemic | |
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| 2009 June 12 |
| | | Iran's declaration that its presidential election has been a landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brings vast crowds of protesters onto the streets | |
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| 2009 June 25 |
| | | The sudden death of the pop star Michael Jackson triggers a world-wide emotional response | |
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| 2009 June 29 |
| | | Iran's Guardian Council decrees that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election was valid, amid increasingly strong crackdown on any sign of dissent | |
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