September 2009 calendar

Events

• 01 Sep 2009 At 70 years since the outbreak of World War II, European leaders pay tribute to the victims at ceremonies that marked the occasion.
• 02 Sep 2009 Pfizer, a US drugmaker, agrees to pay US$2.3Billion in the largest healthcare fraud settlement ever made by the Department of Justice. Four drugs were illegally promoted by the firm, which was not approved by medical regulators.
• 03 Sep 2009 The wreckage of the helicopter which crashed in southern India with the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, has been located.
• 04 Sep 2009 The 2009 Java earthquake killed 63 people.
• 05 Sep 2009 G-20 finance ministers have outlined plans for reforming banking, which include stricter regulation of financial institutions.
• 06 Sep 2009 Ira & Larry Goldberg, Auctioneers in Beverly Hills, California, conduct the auction for part one of Dan Holmes' collection of US large coins.
• 07 Sep 2009 Busch Gardens, Florida, closes The Big Bad Wolf rollercoaster. The attraction was the first suspended roller coaster in the world and was enjoyed by 29 million people.
• 08 Sep 2009 Ampquotscores are killed in a shipwreck that occurred in Sierra Leone.
• 09 Sep 2009 US Representative Joe Wilson (R.S.C.) interrupts President Barack Obama’s health care speech before Congress with an audible shout: ampquotYou lie!
• 10 Sep 2009 Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, apologizes for the treatment of Alan Turing (respected WWII code-breaker) after World War II. He was chemically castrated for homosexual relations.
• 11 Sep 2009 Search and rescue efforts following the 2009 Sierra Leone Shipwreck come to an end. 90 people have been confirmed dead, and at least 100 are still missing.
• 12 Sep 2009 In Antananarivo, Madagascar, police disperse small groups that are opposed to Andry Rajoelina's administration.
• 13 Sep 2009 Russia declares it will support Venezuela in building a nuclear energy program.
• 14 Sep 2009 After a long battle against pancreatic cancer, Patrick Swayze, an American actor (Dirty Dancing and Ghost), has died at the age of 57.
• 15 Sep 2009 In the Norwegian parliamentary elections, the Red-Green Coalition of Prime Minster Jens Stoltenberg was elected for a second term.
• 16 Sep 2009 New documents reveal that J. R. R. Tolkien, a novelist, was secretly trained to spy for His Majesty’s Government during World War II.
• 17 Sep 2009 Senior Irish Catholic bishops have said that Roman Catholics are allowed to vote "Yes" in the country's second referendum about the Treaty of Lisbon.
• 18 Sep 2009 The final episode of The Guiding Light's 72-year-old run is broadcast.
• 19 Sep 2009 The six-nation East African Regional bloc, which includes Djibouti (Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Sudan), urges the UN to impose sanctions on Eritrea, for supporting Islamist rebels in Somalia's war-torn Somalia.
• 20 Sep 2009 "Precious" wins the People's Choice Award at 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
• 21 Sep 2009 Paris is the site of the Clearstream trial, where Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister France, will be tried.
• 22 Sep 2009 American Mesac Damas is extradited to Haiti to face trial for the murders committed against his six family members in Florida.
• 23 Sep 2009 A dust storm has swept through Australia's cities of Canberra, Sydney, and Brisbane. It is the worst for at least 70 years. New South Wales's aviation system is disrupted.
• 24 Sep 2009 Pittsburgh will host the G20 summit, with 30 international leaders. This is the first time LRAD has been used in American history.
• 25 Sep 2009 In a joint television appearance, President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain and Nicolas Sarkozy of France accused Iran in secret of building a nuclear enrichment facility.
• 26 Sep 2009 Second South America-Africa Summit, (ASA) at Isla Margarita
• 27 Sep 2009 William Safire, a columnist at The New York Times for 30 years, dies in Rockville, Maryland after succumbing to pancreatic cancer. He was also the author of Political Dictionary and a speechwriter for Richard Nixon.
• 28 Sep 2009 The 2009 quarter dollar of the US Virgin Islands is now in circulation thanks to the US Mint.
• 29 Sep 2009 A tsunami is caused by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake close to the Samoan Islands.
• 30 Sep 2009 In the year ending September, the US deficit hit a record US$1.4 trillion.

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