Portal:Current events/2009 February 1

Current events of February 1, 2009 (2009-02-01) (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 distress radiobeacons.