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Explore January 1, 2009 – August 10, 2010

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Events

North American Free Trade Agreement 1994-01-01 - 2020-07-01
Second Chechen War 1999-08-26 - 2009-04-16
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) 2001-10-07 - 2021-08-30
War in Darfur 2003-02-26 - 2020-08-31
Iraq War 2003-03-20 - 2011-12-18
2008 financial crisis 2007-08-09 - 2009-06-30
2009 swine flu pandemic 2009-01 - 2010-08-10
Eurozone crisis 2009
Launch of Bitcoin 2009-01-03
2010 Haiti earthquake 2010-01-12
Deepwater Horizon oil spill 2010-04-20 - 2010-09-19

People

Amadou Toumani Touré age 60
President - Mali
Ram Baran Yadav age 60
President - Nepal
László Sólyom age 67
President - Hungary
Valdis Zatlers age 53
President - Latvia
Bingu wa Mutharika age 74
President - Malawi
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 56
President - Colombia
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 52
President - Mauritania
Danilo Türk age 56
President - Slovenia
Abdoulaye Wade age 82
President - Senegal
Mauricio Funes age 49
President - El Salvador
Manuel Zelaya age 56
President - Honduras
Pál Schmitt age 66
President - Hungary
João Bernardo Vieira age 69
President - Guinea-Bissau
Seretse Khama Ian Khama age 55
President - Botswana
Branko Crvenkovski age 46
President - North Macedonia
Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete age 58
President - Tanzania
Zillur Rahman age 79
President - Bangladesh
François Bozizé age 62
President - Central African Republic
Mohamed Nasheed age 41
President - Maldives
Than Shwe age 75
President - Myanmar
Doris Leuthard age 45
President - Switzerland
Girma Wolde-Giorgis age 84
President - Ethiopia
René Préval age 66
President - Haiti
Vladimir Voronin age 67
President - Moldova
George Tupou V of Tonga age 60
King - Tonga
Fatmir Sejdiu age 57
President - Kosovo
Choummaly Sayasone age 72
President - Laos
Michel Suleiman age 60
President - Lebanon
George Abela age 60
President - Malta
Hifikepunye Pohamba age 73
President - Namibia
Ernest Bai Koroma age 55
President - Sierra Leone
Željko Komšić age 44
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Iajuddin Ahmed age 77
President - Bangladesh
Marc Ravalomanana age 59
President - Madagascar
Ricardo Martinelli age 56
President - Panama
Haris Silajdžić age 63
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Leonel Fernández age 55
President - Dominican Republic
Mamadou Tandja age 70
President - Niger
S. R. Nathan age 84
President - Singapore
Rupiah Banda age 71
President - Zambia
Rose Francine Rogombe age 66
President - Gabon
Porfirio Lobo Sosa age 61
President - Honduras
Anote Tong age 56
President - Kiribati
Anerood Jugnauth age 78
President - Mauritius
Armando Guebuza age 65
President - Mozambique
Pedro Pires age 74
President - Cape Verde
Eddie Fenech Adami age 74
President - Malta
Ronald Venetiaan age 72
President - Suriname
Malam Bacai Sanhá age 61
President - Guinea-Bissau
Nambaryn Enkhbayar age 50
President - Mongolia
Thomas Remengesau Jr. age 52
President - Palau
Marcus Stephen age 39
President - Nauru
Hans-Rudolf Merz age 66
President - Switzerland
Sharif Sheikh Ahmed age 44
President - Somalia
James Michel age 64
President - Seychelles
Iolu Abil age 66
President - Vanuatu
Nicholas Liverpool age 74
President - Dominica
Bharrat Jagdeo age 44
President - Guyana
Josefa Iloilo age 88
President - Fiji
Fradique de Menezes age 66
President - São Tomé and Príncipe
George Maxwell Richards age 77
President - Trinidad and Tobago
Antonio Saca age 43
President - El Salvador
Mihai Ghimpu age 57
President - Moldova
Martín Torrijos age 45
President - Panama
Moussa Dadis Camara age 44
President - Guinea
Roberto Micheletti age 65
President - Honduras
Johnson Toribiong age 62
President - Palau
Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi age 50
President - Comoros
Epeli Nailatikau age 67
President - Fiji
Manny Mori age 60
President - Federated States of Micronesia
Kalkot Mataskelekele age 59
President - Vanuatu
Nebojša Radmanović age 59
President - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Giovanni Lajolo age 74
President - Vatican City
Raimundo Pereira age 52
President - Guinea-Bissau
Litokwa Tomeing age 69
President - Marshall Islands
Salou Djibo age 43
President - Niger
Sékouba Konaté age 44
President - Guinea
Adan Mohamed Nuur Madobe age 52
President - Somalia
Stefano Palmieri age 44
Captain Regent - San Marino
Jurelang Zedkaia age 58
President - Marshall Islands
Maxime Carlot Korman age 67
President - Vanuatu
Francesco Mussoni age 37
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ba Mamadou Mbaré age 63
President - Mauritania
Oscar Mina age 50
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ruben Zackhras age 61
President - Marshall Islands
Didjob Divungi Di Ndinge age 62
President - Gabon
Hyppolite Ramaroson age 57
President - Madagascar
Assunta Meloni age 57
Captain Regent - San Marino
Glauco Sansovini age 70
Captain Regent - San Marino
Massimo Cenci age 41
Captain Regent - San Marino
Ernesto Benedettini age 60
Captain Regent - San Marino
Marco Conti age 39
Captain Regent - San Marino
Vladimir Putin age 56
Prime Minister - Russia
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan age 54
Prime Minister - Turkey
Viktor Orbán age 45
Prime Minister - Hungary
Julia Gillard age 47
Prime Minister - Australia
Sheikh Hasina age 61
Prime Minister - Bangladesh
Yulia Tymoshenko age 48
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Stephen Harper age 49
Prime Minister - Canada
Jens Stoltenberg age 49
Prime Minister - Norway
Jean-Claude Juncker age 54
Prime Minister - Luxembourg
Shavkat Mirziyoyev age 51
Prime Minister - Uzbekistan
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero age 48
Prime Minister - Spain
Kevin Rudd age 51
Prime Minister - Australia
Hassanal Bolkiah age 62
Prime Minister - Brunei
Robert Fico age 44
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Borut Pahor age 45
Prime Minister - Slovenia
Najib Razak age 55
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Lee Hsien Loong age 56
Prime Minister - Singapore
Hashim Thaçi age 40
Prime Minister - Kosovo
Boyko Borissov age 49
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
John Key age 47
Prime Minister - New Zealand
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir age 66
Prime Minister - Iceland
Fredrik Reinfeldt age 43
Prime Minister - Sweden
Sali Berisha age 64
Prime Minister - Albania
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum age 59
Prime Minister - United Arab Emirates
Meles Zenawi age 53
Prime Minister - Ethiopia
Jan Peter Balkenende age 52
Prime Minister - Netherlands
Milo Đukanović age 46
Prime Minister - Montenegro
Yves Leterme age 48
Prime Minister - Belgium
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 44
Prime Minister - Denmark
Hun Sen age 56
Prime Minister - Cambodia
Mari Kiviniemi age 40
Prime Minister - Finland
Giorgos Papandreou age 56
Prime Minister - Greece
Oleksandr Turchynov age 44
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 51
Prime Minister - Central African Republic
Werner Faymann age 48
Chancellor - Austria
Morgan Tsvangirai age 56
Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
Saad Harirị age 38
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 44
Prime Minister - Thailand
Nouri al-Maliki age 58
Prime Minister - Iraq
Xanana Gusmão age 62
Prime Minister - Timor-Leste
Ivo Sanader age 55
Prime Minister - Croatia
Andrus Ansip age 52
Prime Minister - Estonia
Nikola Gruevski age 38
Prime Minister - North Macedonia
Matti Vanhanen age 53
Prime Minister - Finland
Mykola Azarov age 61
Prime Minister - Ukraine
Jadranka Kosor age 55
Prime Minister - Croatia
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi age 69
Prime Minister - Malaysia
Iveta Radičová age 52
Prime Minister - Slovakia
Ferenc Gyurcsány age 47
Prime Minister - Hungary
Yusuf Raza Gilani age 56
Prime Minister - Pakistan
Valdis Dombrovskis age 37
Prime Minister - Latvia
Pushpa Kamal Dahal age 54
Prime Minister - Nepal
José Sócrates age 51
Prime Minister - Portugal
Emil Boc age 42
Prime Minister - Romania
Andrius Kubilius age 52
Prime Minister - Lithuania
Mirek Topolánek age 52
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Petr Nečas age 44
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Thein Sein age 63
Prime Minister - Myanmar
Gordon Bajnai age 40
Prime Minister - Hungary
Artur Rasizade age 73
Prime Minister - Azerbaijan
Luísa Diogo age 50
Prime Minister - Mozambique
Kostas Karamanlis age 52
Prime Minister - Greece
Mohamed Ghannouchi age 67
Prime Minister - Tunisia
Jan Fischer age 58
Prime Minister - Czech Republic
Tigran Sargsyan age 48
Prime Minister - Armenia
Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa age 73
Prime Minister - Bahrain
Frank Bainimarama age 54
Prime Minister - Fiji
Kamla Persad-Bissessar age 56
Prime Minister - Trinidad and Tobago
Sergey Stanishev age 42
Prime Minister - Bulgaria
Raila A Odinga age 64
Prime Minister - Kenya
Zinaida Greceanîi age 52
Prime Minister - Moldova
Dean Barrow age 57
Prime Minister - Belize
Roosevelt Skerrit age 36
Prime Minister - Dominica
Geir Haarde age 57
Prime Minister - Iceland
Lawrence Gonzi age 55
Prime Minister - Malta
Tuilaʻepa Saʻilele Malielegaoi age 63
Prime Minister - Samoa
Mirko Cvetković age 58
Prime Minister - Serbia
Michael Somare age 72
Prime Minister - Papua New Guinea
Fouad Siniora age 65
Prime Minister - Lebanon
Vlad Filat age 39
Prime Minister - Moldova
Ahmad Uyahya age 56
Prime Minister - Algeria
Sam Hinds age 65
Prime Minister - Guyana
Jigme Thinley age 56
Prime Minister - Bhutan
Ralph Gonsalves age 62
Prime Minister - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Oqil Oqilov age 64
Prime Minister - Tajikistan
Baldwin Spencer age 60
Prime Minister - Antigua and Barbuda
Syarhiey Sidorski age 54
Prime Minister - Belarus
Nika Gilauri age 33
Prime Minister - Georgia
Ivars Godmanis age 57
Prime Minister - Latvia
Guillaume Kigbafori Soro age 36
Prime Minister - Ivory Coast
Madhav Kumar Nepal age 55
Prime Minister - Nepal
David Thompson age 47
Prime Minister - Barbados
Pakalitha Mosisili age 63
Prime Minister - Lesotho
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake age 75
Prime Minister - Sri Lanka
Navin Ramgoolam age 61
Prime Minister - Mauritius
Abbas El Fassi age 68
Prime Minister - Morocco
Dileita Mohamed Dileita age 50
Prime Minister - Djibouti
Denzil Douglas age 56
Prime Minister - Saint Kitts and Nevis
Michèle Pierre-Louis age 61
Prime Minister - Haiti
Jaume Bartumeu Cassany age 54
Prime Minister - Andorra
Philémon Yang age 61
Prime Minister - Cameroon
Grigol Mgaloblishvili age 35
Prime Minister - Georgia
Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani age 49
Prime Minister - Qatar
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini age 66
Prime Minister - Eswatini
Nahas Angula age 65
Prime Minister - Namibia
Bernard Makuza age 46
Prime Minister - Rwanda
Nur Hassan Hussein age 70
Prime Minister - Somalia
Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah age 68
Prime Minister - Kuwait