Portal:Current events/2009 February 1
February 1, 2009 (Sunday)
- The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 to win Super Bowl XLIII. (ESPN.com)
- The wreck of the British warship HMS Victory is discovered in the English Channel. (The Melbourne Age)
- Four people are killed in a café shooting in Russia's Dagestan Republic. (Reuters via IHT)
- Rafael Nadal of Spain defeats Roger Federer of Switzerland to win the 2009 Australian Open men's singles. (AP via Google News)
- Japan Airlines conducts the first successful test flight of a Boeing 747-300 partly powered by biofuel. (Sky News Australia)
- Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fire four rockets and sixteen mortar shells into Israel's Negev region. (Haaretz)
- The Japan Meteorological Agency warns that Honshū Island's Mount Asama could erupt within the next two days. (Reuters)
- Kirill I is officially enthroned as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. (BBC)
- The Sri Lankan Army bombs a hospital in Puthukkudiyiruppu twice, killing at least six Tamil civilians and wounding countless more patients. (AP)
- France defeats Croatia to win the Men's World Handball Championship. (Croatia 2009)
- The International Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System ceases monitoring for 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz (Class B) signals from ELTs, EPIRBs, and PLBs. (Cospas-Sarsat.org)