Portal:Current events/2009 March 22
March 22, 2009 (Sunday)
- Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano erupts. (CNN)
- A Pilatus PC-12 crashes near Butte, Montana, killing at least 17 people. (CNN)
- Four police officers are killed in Oakland, California, United States. (CNN) (CNN)
- India's Board of Control for Cricket will relocate the 2009 Premier League outside the country. (Hindustan Times)
- India and Pakistan exchange gunfire at the Line of Control. (IHT)
- England defeats New Zealand to win the Women's Cricket World Cup. (BBC)
- An Australian motorcycle gang assaults and kills a man at Sydney Airport. (BBC)
- Ninety-three Tibetan monks are arrested after attacking a police station in Qinghai, China. (AP)
- Thousands of people assemble for Pope Benedict XVI's Catholic Mass in Luanda, Angola. (BBC) (AP)
- Somali pirates release the Indian cargo ship Al Rafiquei one day after hijacking it. (Times of India)