Portal:Current events/2009 July 18
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to:
navigation
,
search
Current events of
July 18, 2009
(
2009-07-18
)
(Saturday)
edit
history
watch
Last surviving
Battle of Jutland
veteran and last surviving founder member of the
Royal Air Force
Henry Allingham
dies at the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world.
(BBC)
(AFP)
(RTÉ)
Ireland
's
Green Party
, part of the ruling coalition, votes by a two to one majority to campaign for the
Treaty of Lisbon
prior to the
2 October referendum
.
(France 24)
Three people are missing in
Nachterstedt
,
Germany
, after their home collapses into a lake.
(Deutsche Welle)
Voters in
Mauritania
go to the polls for a
presidential election
, its first election since the
coup d'état
last year.
(Al Jazeera)
(BBC)
(Xinhua)
Palestinian
Prime Minister
Salam Fayyad
receives a slice as
Nablus
bakers attempt to set a record for the world's biggest
kunafa
.
(BBC)
A woman is killed and two people are seriously injured in an accident involving a motorcycle on the
Tour de France
in
France
, the race's first fatal accident since 2002.
(BBC)
(RTÉ)
The
Justice and Equality Movement
releases sixty prisoners in
Kutum
,
Darfur
.
(BBC)
Brazil
demands the return of over 1,400 tonnes of hazardous
British
waste.
(BBC)
(
The Independent
)
(
The Times
)
Over 100
UK
and
US
schoolchildren and teachers are quarantined in
Beijing
due to
swine flu
.
(BBC)
China
admits it shot dead 12 rioters in
one riot incident
in
Ürümqi
.
(BBC)
Forty-seven people are injured in a
collision
between two
Muni Metro
light rail cars
at the
West Portal Station
in
San Francisco
,
United States
.
(
San Francisco Chronicle
)
(KGO-TV)
Paul Biyoghé Mba
is appointed
Prime Minister
of
Gabon
after
Jean Eyeghe Ndong
launches his presidential campaign.
(France 24)
(Reuters)
Category
:
2009 by day
Navigation menu
Personal tools
Log in
Request account
Namespaces
Portal
Discussion
Variants
Views
Read
View source
View history
More
Search
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help
Infogalactic News
Buy an account
Tools
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Printable version
Permanent link
Page information