Unix Timestamp: 1220918400
Tuesday, September 9. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The 2008 Bandar Abbas earthquake strikes southern Iran, killing 7 and injuring 45 people.

Political crisis in Thailand: The Constitutional Court of Thailand orders Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to resign, after he is paid for appearing on a television cooking show.

A Thai court rules that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej must be removed from office for receiving payment for appearing on a television cooking show. //ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hG71oGl1LokvZphtDQZzL44nzc3QD933CQI80 (AP via Google News)

The proton beam is circulated for the first time in the Large Hadron Collider, the world\\'s largest and highest-energyparticle accelerator, located at CERN, near Geneva, under the Franco-Swiss border.

Hurricane Ike makes its second landfall on Cuba, near San Cristóbal, north of the Isle of Youth, on its way into the Gulf of Mexico. //www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/09/09/hurricane.ike/index.html (CNN)