Portal:Current events/2009 May 24
May 24, 2009 (Sunday)
- Brazilian driver Hélio Castroneves wins automobile racing's 93rd Indianapolis 500. (ESPN)
- The Deccan Chargers defeat the Royal Challengers Bangalore to win the Indian Premier League. (The Hindu)
- The Austrian film The White Ribbon wins the Golden Palm at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. (The Guardian)
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, United States, after completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA)
- Eleven people are killed during a stampede at the Mawazine world music festival in Rabat, Morocco. (BBC) (France 24)
- One person is killed and 15 others are injured during a clash in a Sikh temple in Vienna, Austria. (BBC)
- British driver Jenson Button wins the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix. (Telegraph)