April 1, 2009 (Wednesday)
- The 72-year-old American soap opera Guiding Light will broadcast its final episode on September 18. (Reuters)
- The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
- Local government in England undergoes structural changes. (BBC)
- A Computer virus called Conficker was spread through millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information. This was supposed to be an April Fools' Day Joke.
- Ukraine will hold a presidential election on October 25. (AFP via Google News)
- At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
- Five thousand people protest in London as the G-20 begins its summit. (BBC)
- Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity." (BBC)
- New South Wales, Australia, declares its flooded Mid North Coast a disaster area. (ABC News Australia)
- Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
- The United States' World War II motor ship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
- Sweden's Parliament legalizes same-sex marriage. (AFP via Google News)
- A bomb damages a statue of Vladimir Lenin near Finlyandsky Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Moscow Times)