Editing 2009 (section)

=== March ===
* [[March 2]] – The President of [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[João Bernardo Vieira]], is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in [[Bissau]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/02/guineabissau.general/index.html|access-date=July 7, 2009|publisher=CNN|title=President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated|date=March 2, 2009|archive-date=April 29, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090429123834/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/03/02/guineabissau.general/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 4]] – The [[International Criminal Court]] issues an arrest warrant for [[President of Sudan|Sudanese President]] [[Omar al-Bashir]] for [[war crime]]s and [[crimes against humanity]] in [[Darfur]]. al-Bashir is the first sitting [[head of state]] to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUS123622821727|title=VIDEO: ICC issues arrest warrant for Bashir|date=March 4, 2009|work=[[Reuters]]|access-date=March 4, 2009|archive-date=November 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121202650/https://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUS123622821727|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 7]] – [[NASA]]'s [[Kepler Mission]], a space [[photometer]] that will search for [[extrasolar planets]] in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy, is launched from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station]], [[Florida]], USA.
* [[March 17]] – The President of [[Madagascar]], [[Marc Ravalomanana]], is overthrown in a [[2009 Malagasy political crisis|coup d'état]], following a month of unrest in [[Antananarivo]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|title=Madagascar president forced out|date=March 17, 2009|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=March 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319061800/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|archive-date=March 19, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – A [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11]] operated by [[FedEx Express Flight 80|FedEx suffers a bounced landing at Narita international airport resulting in the loss of 2 lives]].
* [[March 31]] – [[Rachel Crandall Crocker]] founds the [[International Transgender Day of Visibility]].