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Dalia Grybauskaitė

• Dalia Grybauskaitė (pictured) is elected Lithuania's first female President.

• For the first time in Kuwait, women are elected to the National Assembly.

• Ruth Padel is named the first female Oxford Professor of Poetry, after a controversial race.

• Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Fairytale" performed by Alexander Rybak, with a record-breaking 387 points.

• In India's general election, the Bharatiya Janata Party concedes defeat to the United Progressive Alliance, the ruling coalition led by the Indian National Congress.

• The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory and Planck satellite are launched from the Guiana Space Centre, using an Ariane 5ECA rocket.