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Crime / Law

• Camp Liberty killings
• Oslo shooting

Cultural / Social

• 63rd Tony Awards
• American Idol season 8 finale
• Eurovision Song Contest 2009
• Ricky Hatton vs. Manny Pacquiao

Economic

• Automotive industry crisis
  • Bankruptcy of Chrysler
• Financial crisis
  • Global
  • Iceland
  • Ireland (banking / financial)
  • Russia
• Worldwide recession

Humanitarian

• Brazilian floods and mudslides
• Californian wildfires
• Swine influenza outbreak
• Zimbabwean cholera outbreak

Political / Military

• British Parliamentary spending scandal
• Fijian constitutional crisis
• North Korean nuclear program
• Piracy in Somalia
• Solomon Islands ethnic conflict resolution
• Sri Lankan Civil War
• Thai political crisis
• Treaty of Lisbon ratification

Scientific

• Soyuz TMA-14
• STS-125

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May

• 15: Susanna Agnelli
• 15: Bud Tingwell
• 15: Wayman Tisdale
• 11: Abel Goumba
• 9: Chuck Daly
• 8: Dom DiMaggio
• 7: David Mellor
• 7: Danny Ozark
• 6: Ean Evans
• 6: Kevin Grubb
• 6: Valentin Varennikov
• 5: Benjamin Flores
• 4: Dom DeLuise
• 2: Augusto Boal
• 2: Marilyn French
• 2: Jack Kemp
• 1: Danny Gans

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Worldwide

• War on Terrorism

Africa / Middle East

• Fourth Chadian Civil War
• War in Darfur
• Iraq War
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Maghreb insurgency
• Conflict in the Niger Delta
• Somali Civil War
• Second Tuareg Rebellion
• Second Ugandan Civil War

Asia

• War in Afghanistan
• Balochistan conflict
• Internal conflict in Burma
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Laotian Secret War
• Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• Naxalite-Maoist insurgency
• War in North-West Pakistan
• South Thailand insurgency
• Turkey–PKK conflict

Americas

• Colombian Civil War
• Mexican Drug War
• Internal conflict in Peru

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Recent

May

• 3: Panama, President and National Assembly
• 6: South Africa, President
• 7: India, House of the People (fourth round)
• 9: Maldives, People’s Majlis
• 10: New Caledonia, Congress
• 12: British Columbia, Legislative Assembly
• 13: India, House of the People (fifth round)

Upcoming

May

• 16: Kuwait, National Assembly
• 17: Lithuania, President (first round)
• 17: Switzerland, referendum
• 17: Comoros, constitutional referendum
• 19: Malawi, President and National Assembly
• 20: Cayman Islands, Legislative Assembly and constitutional referendum
• 20: Moldova, President (indirect)

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 Recently concluded

• Peru: Alberto Fujimori
• Sweden: The Pirate Bay
• United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector

 Ongoing

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• Canada: Larry O'Brien
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
• New Zealand: David Bain (retrial)
• Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• United States: Jena Sixedit sidebar

 Upcoming

• United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, William J. Jefferson, Bernard Madoff, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

May

Ongoing

• April 9 - May 28: Omer (Judaism)

Current

• 17: International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
• 17: World Information Society Day
• 17: Feast of ‘Aẓamat (Bahá'í Faith)
• 17: Navy Day (Argentina)
• 17: Liberation Day (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• 17: Galician Literature Day (Galicia)
• 17: National Famine Memorial Day (Ireland)
• 17: Constitution Day (Nauru)
• 17: Constitution Day (Norway)
• 17: Raja's Birthday (Perlis)

Upcoming

• 18: International Museum Day
• 18: World AIDS Vaccine Day
• 18: Victoria Day (Canada)
• 18: Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)
• 18: Flag and Universities Day (Haiti)
• 18: Independence Day (Somaliland)
• 18: Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day (Turkmenistan)
• 18: Battle of Las Piedras Day (Uruguay)
• 19: World Hepatitis Day
• 19: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus)
• 19: Ho Chi Minh's Birthday (Vietnam)

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