Portal:Current events/2009 April 1

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• The 72-year-old American soap opera Guiding Light will broadcast its final episode on September 18. [https://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSTRE53081C20090401 (Reuters)]
• The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402171019/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25277869-2703,00.html (The Australian)]
• Local government in England undergoes structural changes. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/7975854.stm (BBC)]
• A Computer virus called Conficker was spread through millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information. This was supposed to be an April Fools' Day Joke.
• Ukraine will hold a presidential election on October 25. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gbLU-LbvlslNMWB5OMnhTI8IFK-w (AFP via Google News)]
• At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hj8sIk2wBnv5uRFxLhfG6rbS_7dw (AFP via Google News)]
• Five thousand people protest in London as the G-20 begins its summit. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7975851.stm (BBC)]
• Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity." [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7977002.stm (BBC)]
• New South Wales, Australia, declares its flooded Mid North Coast a disaster area. [http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2532013.htm (ABC News Australia)]
• Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jPTmqJDexK-a1IWV9lsNDP9t0Fpw (AFP via Google News)]
• The United States' World War II motor ship {{MS|City of Rayville||2}} is located near Australia. [http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/first-us-ship-sunk-in-wwii-found-off-vic-20090401-9j9q.html (The Age)]
• Sweden's Parliament legalizes same-sex marriage. [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJ00yScMCdkD7_X4ZlbWV2bEgucg (AFP via Google News)]
• A bomb damages a statue of Vladimir Lenin near Finlyandsky Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090404004208/http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1010/42/375879.htm (Moscow Times)]

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