Portal:Current events/August 2009/Sidebar

• Automotive industry crisis
• Financial crisis
• Worldwide recession

• H1N1/09 flu pandemic
• West African meningitis outbreak
• HIV/AIDS in Africa

• Expedition 20
• STS-128

• Honduran constitutional crisis
• Nigerien constitutional crisis
• Treaty of Lisbon ratification

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• 29: Simon Dee
• 28: Adam Goldstein
• 26: Abdul Aziz al-Hakim
• 26: Dominick Dunne
• 26: Ellie Greenwich
• 25: Ted Kennedy
• 24: Toni Sailer
• 22: Muriel Duckworth
• 22: Elmer Kelton
• 21: Johnny Carter
• 20: Larry Knechtel
• 20: Dudu Topaz
• 19: Don Hewitt
• 18: Rose Friedman
• 18: Kim Dae-jung
• 18: Hugo Loetscher
• 18: Robert Novak

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• War on terror

• Chadian Civil War
• Iraq War
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Maghreb insurgency
• Niger Delta conflict
• Somali Civil War
• Turkey–PKK conflict

• War in Afghanistan
• Balochistan conflict
• Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
• Insurgency in the Philippines
• Ethnic conflict in Nagaland
• Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
• War in North-West Pakistan
• South Thailand insurgency

• Colombian conflict
• Mexican drug war

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• 4: Niger, Constitutional referendum
• 20: Afghanistan, President
• 30: Gabon, President
• 30: Japan, Parliament

• 1: Vanuatu, President
• 14: Norway, Parliament
• 16: Switzerland, Federal Council
• 20: Macau, Legislative
• 25: Aruba, Parliament

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• Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi
• Canada: Larry O'Brien
• New Zealand: Nai Yin Xue
• New Zealand: David Bain (retrial)
• Peru: Alberto Fujimori
• Sweden: The Pirate Bay
• United States: James Charles Kopp, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Phil Spector, Bernard Madoff, William J. Jefferson

• Cambodia: Khmer Rouge Tribunal
• France: Church of Scientology
• Iraq: Supreme Criminal Tribunal
• Italy: Raffaele Sollecito, Amanda Knox
• Netherlands: Thomas Lubanga (ICC), Radovan Karadžić (ICTY)
• Republic of China: Chen Shui-bian
• Russia: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Platon Lebedev
• Sierra Leone: Charles Taylor (SCFSL)
• Singapore: Tak Boleh Tahan
• Thailand: Thaksin Shinawatra
• United States: Jena Six

• Germany: John Demjanjuk
• Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein
• United Kingdom: Allen Stanford
• United States: Viktor Bout, Noshir Gowadia, Ehren Watada, Sheila Dixon, Joseph Bruno

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• 21 evening – September 20: Ramadan (Islam)
• 23 – September 3: Ganesh Chaturthi (Hinduism)
• 28 – 31: Umhlanga (Swaziland)

• 31: Summer Bank Holiday (England, Northern Ireland, Wales)
• 31: Independence Day (Kyrgyzstan)
• 31: Hari Merdeka (Malaysia)
• 31: National Language Day (Moldova)
• 31: National Heroes' Day (Philippines)
• 31: Independence Day (Trinidad and Tobago)

• 1: Parkash Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism)
• 1: Revolution Day (Eritrea)
• 1: National Day (Libya)
• 1: Random Acts of Kindness Day (New Zealand)
• 1: Knowledge Day (Russia)
• 1: Teachers' Day (Singapore)
• 1: Constitution Day (Slovakia)
• 1: Independence Day (Uzbekistan)

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