Portal:Current events/2009 January 5
January 5, 2009 (Monday)
- United States President-elect Barack Obama nominates Leon Panetta to be the Central Intelligence Agency's next Director. (CNN)
- A fourth bomb targeting EnCana Corporation gas pipelines is detonated outside Tomslake, British Columbia, Canada, making it the first bombing since the three original blasts in October 2008. (CBC)
- Minnesota's State Canvassing Board certifies Democratic candidate Al Franken as the winner of the senatorial election recount. Republican Senator Norm Coleman, whose term officially expired January 3, intends to file a lawsuit challenging the decision. (Bloomberg)