< Portal:Current events
May 29, 2009 (Friday)
- Member of Parliament for Scunthorpe Elliot Morley will resign at the United Kingdom's 2010 General Election. (BBC)
- American record producer Phil Spector is jailed for 19 years for murdering actress Lana Clarkson in 2003. (BBC)
- American media companies Time Warner and AOL terminate their merger. (Washington Times)
- Irish brewery Beamish and Crawford closes after 217 years in business. (Irish Examiner) (Belfast Telegraph)
- Irish broadcaster Pat Kenny hosts his final episode of The Late Late Show. (BBC) (RTÉ)
- Kavya Shivashankar of Kansas wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. (ABC)
- Former President Roh Moo-hyun's state funeral is held in Seoul, South Korea. (Korean Daily News)
- The United States Department of Defense will create a computer-security military command. (New York Times)
- Four people are killed when a dam bursts in Piauí, Brazil. (BBC)
- The lethal Lujo virus is identified in Africa. (AP)
- North Korea launches a short-range ballistic missile. (RTÉ)
- Soyuz TMA-15 docks with the International Space Station. (BBC)
- Ireland's government intends to further recapitalize Anglo Irish Bank by €4 billion. (Irish Times) (RTÉ)
- At least 20,000 civilians were reportedly killed during the final five months of Sri Lanka's civil war. (The Times)
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