2009

On January 25th, George W. Bush passed the presidential torch to the USA’s first African-American president (Barack Obama).

2009

At the time, he took office, world censuses estimated a world population of roughly 6.8 billion. The birth of babies commonly named Jacob and Isabella helped this number continue its upward trajectory. While we may not know who will change the world, we do know that the Suleman Octuplets became the longest surviving set in history.

We lost some amazing people in 2009. Included among them were Clive Granger, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcet, Les Paul, and Walter Cronkite.
The top box office releases included Avatar, Coraline, Star Trek, and Inglourious Basterds. Meanwhile, for the bookworms of the world, Catching Fire and The Help took home first and second place. Read on to find out how 2009 forever changed the US automotive industry.

Some notable firsts of 2009 include the development of an AIDs vaccine, the revival of an extinct species from cloning, and the invention of the first bladeless fan. While Slovakia became the 16th country to join the European Union, Croatia and Albania became official members of NATO.

A variety of disasters also rocked the world as Victorian-based Australian bushfires were proclaimed the worst natural disaster in Australian history. But many more countries faced a crisis much more economic than climate-based. Countries such as Thailand and Switzerland slipped into what would be a hard-hitting recession. At the same time, closer to home, the US watched in horror as GM and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy. Though no one knew it then, these 365 days would come to mark what would become the worst economic crisis since The Great Depression.

When you remember 2009, picture a time when science-fiction was king and the automobile assembly lines nearly ground to a halt.

Discover how the world looked like in 2009

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 82nd edition of the Oscar ceremony


Best picture

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce

Country: United States of America

Best director

Kathryn Bigelow

The Hurt Locker

The Hurt Locker

Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce

Country: United States of America

Best actor

Jeff Bridges

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart

Directed by: Scott Cooper

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell, James Keane

Country: United States of America

Best actress

Sandra Bullock

The Blind Side

The Blind Side

Directed by: John Lee Hancock

Starring: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head

Country: United States of America

Best supporting actor

Christoph Waltz

Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds

Directed by: Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth

Starring: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent

Country: United States of America

Best supporting actress

Mo'Nique

Precious

Precious

Directed by: Lee Daniels

Starring: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey

Country: United States of America

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Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 2009?


Ben Bernanke
Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007–08.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 2009 ?
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Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers

By:

Malcolm Gladwell's new book is a stunning intellectual journey through the world "outliers", the best and brightest, most famous, and most successful.

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight

By:

Isabella Swan moved to Forks in Washington. It was a small and rainy place. Isabella's life changes dramatically when she meets Edward Cullen.

Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Eclipse

By:

The paperback edition Eclipse is the third installment in Stephenie Meyer’s captivating vampire romance saga. Twilight and New Moon have captivated readers. Bella is once more in danger as Seattle is devastated by mysterious killings. A malicious vampire continues her …

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

New Moon

By:

Twilight has captivated millions of readers and they are eager to read more. Stephenie Meyer's New Moon is another captivating combination of romance, suspense, and a supernatural twist.

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Host

By:

The #1 bestseller is now a major motion movie: "Starting and addictive." . . . A story about love, loyalty, and family. -USA TodayMelanie Stryder refuses to fade away.

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Nobel Prize

Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 2009


Peace Prize

  • Barack Obama

Physics

  • Charles K. Kao
  • Willard S. Boyle
  • George E. Smith

Economic Sciences

  • Elinor Ostrom
  • Oliver E. Williamson

Literature

  • Herta Müller

Chemistry

  • Thomas A. Steitz
  • Ada Yonath
  • Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

Physiology or Medicine

  • Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Carol W. Greider
  • Jack W. Szostak
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Music charts

Which were the top hits of 2009?


Top #1 songs in the USA

  • - Down
  • - I Gotta Feelingyoutube
  • - Boom Boom Powyoutube
  • - Poker Face
  • - Whatcha Say
  • - You Belong With Me
  • - Just Dance
  • - Knock You Down
  • - Heartless
  • - Party In The U.S.A.

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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World War II in Color

World War II in Color

Release year: 2009

Starring: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Special Ops Mission

Special Ops Mission

Release year: 2009

Directed by: Military Channel

3 Idiots

3 Idiots

Release year: 2009

Directed by: Rajkumar Hirani

Starring: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Mona Singh, Sharman Joshi

Country: United States of America

Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment

Out of the Wild: The Alaska Experiment

Release year: 2009

The Incredible Human Journey

The Incredible Human Journey

Release year: 2009

2009 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 2009 is the year of the Ox

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Popular names

Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 2009 in the USA ?

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World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 2009


Population statistics

  • Total population: 6.9 billion (6,872,767,093 to be precise!)
  • Urban population: 3.5 billion, that is 51.0% of the total population of 2009 lives in cities
  • Yearly change: +83.5 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +1.23%
  • Average density: 46.0 persons per km2
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Historical Events

Which were the important events of 2009?


Events

  • 01 Jan 2009 For the first time since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was overthrown by the U.S.-led invasion, the U.S. military in Iraq is under Iraqi control.
  • 02 Jan 2009 The first European commercial flight since 1990, a charter plane from Sweden carrying 150 passengers lands at Baghdad International Airport.
  • 03 Jan 2009 Jett Travolta (16-year-old) is the son of actor John Travolta and dies suddenly from a seizure during a family vacation in the Bahamas.
  • 04 Jan 2009 Six people are killed and 20 injured in a suicide bombing in Dera Ismail Khan in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
  • 05 Jan 2009 The US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq has opened. It is the largest and most expensive US embassies ever built. Around 1,200 people will live there.
  • 06 Jan 2009 United States President-elect Barack Obama offers the Surgeon General position to CNN's Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent.
  • 07 Jan 2009 35th Annual People's Choice Awards USA
  • 08 Jan 2009 The Critics' Choice Award is announced in Los Angeles, California. Best picture: Slumdog Millionaire
  • 09 Jan 2009 Rob Gauntlett was the youngest Briton who has climbed Mount Everest. He died while climbing in the French Alps.
  • 10 Jan 2009 A boat carrying eight Somali pirates, the supertanker MV "Sirius Star" freed from slavery, capsizes in Gulf of Aden. Five people are killed and their share of US$3 Million in ransom is lost.
  • 11 Jan 2009 The Golden Globe Awards are presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in Beverly Hills, California. Best drama: Slumdog Millionaire
  • 12 Jan 2009 Eight people are killed and more than 6,000 people are affected by flooding caused by Tropical Depression 04F in Fiji.
  • 13 Jan 2009 Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have agreed to merge their brokerages. Morgan Stanley will pay Citigroup US$2.7billion for a 51 per cent stake in the joint venture. Morgan Stanley Smith Barney's new brokerage will have assets totaling US$1.7 trillion.
  • 14 Jan 2009 American apparel chain Goody's declares bankruptcy in order to close its remaining 282 stores.
  • 15 Jan 2009 Bank of America, America's largest bank, reports its first quarterly loss since 1997, at US$1.79 Billion.
  • 16 Jan 2009 The U.S. government rescues Bank of America with a US$20billion bailout and a guarantee of almost $100 billion in potential losses on toxic assets.
  • 17 Jan 2009 North Korea claims to have ampquotweaponizedampquot 30.8 kilograms of plutonium, enough for four to five nuclear warheads.
  • 18 Jan 2009 Gaza War: Hamas declares that they will accept the ceasefire offered by Israeli Defense Forces, which ends the offensive.
  • 19 Jan 2009 According to the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Palestinian National Authority, 1,300 Palestinians were killed and 5,400 were hurt in the 22-day conflict in Gaza Strip with Israel.
  • 20 Jan 2009 Barack Hussein Obama is elected 44th President of United States.
  • 21 Jan 2009 The U.S. Senate supports Hillary Clinton, a former New York senator and first lady, as Secretary of State.
  • 22 Jan 2009 Barack Obama, the US president, orders Guantnamo Bay prison to be closed in a year.
  • 23 Jan 2009 Barack Obama, the US president, orders Guantanamo Bay prison, Cuba, to close within one year.
  • 24 Jan 2009 The storm Klaus hits Bordeaux, France. The storm would then cause 26 deaths and extensive disruptions in power supply and public transport.
  • 25 Jan 2009 Sudan bombs Muhajeria in Darfur, killing one child.
  • 26 Jan 2009 Pfizer, the world's largest pharmaceutical company, announced that it would acquire Wyeth for US$68 million.
  • 27 Jan 2009 Los Angeles, California: A woman gives birth in Los Angeles to octuplets. This is believed to be the second set of eight children born in the United States.
  • 28 Jan 2009 The US House of Representatives votes 244 to 181 in favor of President Barack Obama's US$819 Billion economic stimulus package.
  • 29 Jan 2009 Ford Motor Company reported a record US$14.6 million loss for the full year.
  • 30 Jan 2009 Three Russian prisoners were convicted by the Kurgan Oblast Regional Court of Russia for strangling their cellmate. He had requested that they do so.
  • 31 Jan 2009 After an oil spillage ignited in Molo in Kenya, over 200 people were injured and at least 113 died. This happened just days after the massive fire that erupted at Nakumatt's Nairobi supermarket, claiming at least 25 lives.
  • 01 Feb 2009 The NFL's SuperBowl XLII is held in Tampa, Florida. The Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals to win their sixth Super Bowl record. Santonio Holmes is named game's most valuable player.
  • 02 Feb 2009 Eric Holder is confirmed by the United States Senate as Attorney General.
  • 03 Feb 2009 Spectrum Brands, the maker of Ray-O-Vac battery batteries, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
  • 04 Feb 2009 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict:
  • 05 Feb 2009 The United States Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal, a United States Navy guided missile cruiser, ran aground off Oahu in Hawaii. It also damaged a coral reef.
  • 06 Feb 2009 Kyrgyzstan closes a U.S. Air Base in Manas that was used as a crucial staging area for U.S. forces fighting against the Taliban.
  • 07 Feb 2009 The record-breaking 4.99 million U.S. workers are now eligible for unemployment assistance, the highest number since 1967.
  • 08 Feb 2009 Los Angeles, California: The Grammay Awards were presented in Los Angeles: Best Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, for "Raising Sand".
  • 09 Feb 2009 New York Yankees' baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez admits to having used performance-enhancing steroids earlier in his career, over a three-year period from 2001 to 2003 with the Texas Rangers.
  • 10 Feb 2009 The U.S. Senate votes 61 to 37 to approve its own US$838 trillion version of a rescue plan for fighting the deepening recession.
  • 11 Feb 2009 Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett ("Be My Baby") dies at age 67 in Englewood, New Jersey.
  • 12 Feb 2009 Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, commuter aircraft nosedives into a home in Western New York State. All 49 passengers and one ground crew member were killed.
  • 13 Feb 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives approves (246-183) US$787 Billion of spending (64%) and tax cuts (36%).
  • 14 Feb 2009 A crude oil leakage occurs in the Celtic Sea, near County Cork, Ireland.
  • 15 Feb 2009 After receiving contaminated blood plasma, the United Kingdom confirms that this is the first case of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
  • 16 Feb 2009 Section 76 of United Kingdom's Counter-Terrorism Act (2008)mdasha law criminalizes publication information about Armed Forces, Security Service or Government Communications Headquartersmdashis
  • 17 Feb 2009 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three other companies with selling fraudulently high-yield certificates for deposit worth US$8 billion. Stanford International Bank, headquartered in Antigua, has 30,000 clients across 131 countries and assets of US$8.5 billion.
  • 18 Feb 2009 Stefane 3G will represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Moscow with ampquotWe don't wanna put Inampquot. This song was allegedly written against Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister.
  • 19 Feb 2009 The US Mint has released the 2009 William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar to circulation.
  • 20 Feb 2009 Swedish carmaker Saab, a unit of American carmaker General Motors, files for protection against creditors as it attempts to find a new partner or raise funds.
  • 21 Feb 2009 Pakistan and the Taliban agree to a ceasefire in the conflict in North-West Frontier Province.
  • 22 Feb 2009 Los Angeles, California: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts its Oscar Awards Ceremony. Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
  • 23 Feb 2009 Standard & Poor’s 500 Index drops 26.71 points or 3.47 percent to 743.34.
  • 24 Feb 2009 Address by President Barack Obama to a Joint session of Congress
  • 25 Feb 2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana (Dhaka), Bangladesh. Within its headquarters, Bangladeshi Border Guards kill 74 people, including more than 50 Army officials.
  • 26 Feb 2009 The 2009/10 US budget is US$3.6 trillion. It has a US$1.75 billion deficit. This would be the highest deficit ever. It also represents a 12.3 percentage of the economy. This is the largest increase since 1945. The planned spending includes US$634 trillion to pay for healthcare reform and US$200 billion in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also an additional US$250 billion that will be used to bail out US banks.
  • 27 Feb 2009 China's Navy and Denmark’s Navy stopped Somali pirate attacks against Italian and Chinese merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden.
  • 28 Feb 2009 Carpatair Flight 128, a Saab 2000 bound to Timisoara, Romania, departing from Chisinau (Moldova) - with 51 passengers, makes an emergency landing at Traian Via International Airport, without its forward landing gear. (Phillyburbs). Please leave the landing gear point out of the synopsis. Since emergency landings occur at an alarming rate, the landing gear issue is the reason the item is on this portal. --amp
  • 01 Mar 2009 The Basque Nationalist Party won a majority of the seats in Spain's Basque Country's Parliamentary Elections.
  • 02 Mar 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops below 7,000 for first time since May 1997. It dropped 299.64 points or 4.24 percent to 6,763.29.
  • 03 Mar 2009 The Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln (Historical Archives), in Cologne, Germany, is destroyed.
  • 04 Mar 2009 Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudanese President, is being held by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is now the first sitting head state to be indicted since 2002, when the ICC was established.
  • 05 Mar 2009 General Motors admits in its annual report, that it is in "substantial doubt" about its survival.
  • 06 Mar 2009 The European Union will transfer to Kenya Somali pirates that were captured during Operation Atalanta.
  • 07 Mar 2009 NASA launched the unmanned Kepler telescope from Cape Canaveral, Florida to orbit the Sun in search of Earth-like planets that could host life.
  • 08 Mar 2009 Moshe Katsav, former Israeli President, will face charges of rape as well as indecent assault.
  • 09 Mar 2009 Barack Obama signs an executive decree restoring funding to stem cell research.
  • 10 Mar 2009 The United States Senate approves an Omnibus Spending Bill in the amount of US$410 billion.
  • 11 Mar 2009 Winnenden school shooting: 17 people are shot and killed in a school in Germany.
  • 12 Mar 2009 Roche Holding, a Swiss drugmaker, announces that it will purchase the remaining 44 per cent of Genentech stock in America for US$46.8billion.
  • 13 Mar 2009 The United States has dropped the term "ampquotenemy combatantampquot" for Guantanamo Bay Naval base's detention camp detainees.
  • 14 Mar 2009 An auction sells a copy of the first Superman comic, Action Comics, Number 1, June 1938, for US$317,000.
  • 15 Mar 2009 NASA launches the space shuttle Discovery from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
  • 16 Mar 2009 Andry Rajoelina, a former Antanarivo Mayor, demands that President Marc Ravalomanana be arrested by Madagascar's military. This is after soldiers from the Army seize a presidential palace.
  • 17 Mar 2009 Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils passes Patrick Roy to become the National Hockey League's most successful goaltender.
  • 18 Mar 2009 For the first time since 1960s, the US Federal Reserve announces that it will purchase up to US$300 Billion of Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve announced that it will increase its existing program to purchase securities and debt to US$1.45 trillion.
  • 19 Mar 2009 A 7.9 magnitude earthquake is felt, and the Hunga Tonga submarine volcanic eruption occurs in the Pacific Ocean close to Tongatapu (Tonga).
  • 20 Mar 2009 In the Strait of Hormuz, the United States Navy's USS "Hartford" and USS "New Orleans" collide.
  • 21 Mar 2009 Minimum 21 people are killed in combat in Russia's Dagestan Republic.
  • 22 Mar 2009 After a long period of unrest, Mount Redoubt in Alaska starts erupting.
  • 23 Mar 2009 Near a Haifa, Israel shopping center, a car bomb was located and defused.
  • 24 Mar 2009 The Lady Mary, a fishing boat, sinks off Cape May
  • 25 Mar 2009 The 50-ore Swedish coin will be abolished by the Parliament of Sweden on September 30, 2010.
  • 26 Mar 2009 Mount Redoubt volcano, Alaska, erupts, sending a plume ash and smoke into atmosphere, reaching up to 20,000m.
  • 27 Mar 2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake located in Indonesia, crashes and kills at least 99 people.
  • 28 Mar 2009 After a 13-day mission, NASA's Discovery spaceship lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • 29 Mar 2009 General Motors Chairman/CEO Rick Wagoner steps down
  • 30 Mar 2009 US President Barack Obama orders General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to resign.
  • 31 Mar 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Likud Party, is elected Prime Minister of Israel.
  • 01 Apr 2009 NATO: Croatia and Albania are joined by Albania and Croatia
  • 02 Apr 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives approves a federal budget for fiscal 2010, which will begin October 1. Voting 233-196 to adopt the US$3.45 Trillion budget.
  • 03 Apr 2009 The unemployment rate rose to 8.5% in March after the United States lost 663,000 jobs.
  • 04 Apr 2009 A gunman takes hostages and then murders himself in Binghampton, New York.
  • 05 Apr 2009 North Korea launches the controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 missile. The satellite flew over Japan, prompting immediate reactions from the United Nations Security Council and participating states in Six-party negotiations.
  • 06 Apr 2009 In the NCAA Tournament final, North Carolina Tar Heels defeated Michigan State Spartans by 89 to 72.
  • 07 Apr 2009 In Moldova, mass protests are started under the belief of fraud in the results of the parliamentary elections.
  • 08 Apr 2009 Pulte Homes in the USA announced it would buy Centex Corp in an all-stock deal worth US$1.3 billion to become the largest U.S. builder.
  • 09 Apr 2009 Up to 60,000 protesters demonstrate in Tbilisi against Mikheil Saakashvili's government.
  • 10 Apr 2009 Fiji's President Ratu Josefa Iloilo announced that he would suspend the constitution and take over all government in the country, creating an emergency constitutional crisis.
  • 11 Apr 2009 Fourth East Asia Summit cancelled in protest by anti-government protestors, Pattaya (Thailand).
  • 12 Apr 2009 The U.S. Navy rescues Captain Richard Phillips from three pirates and captures a fourth.
  • 13 Apr 2009 Mark Fidrych, a former major-league pitcher (Detroit Tigers 1976-80), dies in an accident at his Northborough farm, Massachusetts at the age of 54.
  • 14 Apr 2009 North Korea will leave the six-party talks in order to resume its nuclear program.
  • 15 Apr 2009 China launches another satellite as part its Compass global navigation system.
  • 16 Apr 2009 General Growth Properties (over 200 mall owners in the United States) files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. This is the largest real estate disaster in American history. Chicago-based General Growth Properties, 55 years old, reported total assets of US$29.56 Billion and total debts at $27.29 Billion. From a 2007 high of US$67, the company's share value fell to 60 cents.
  • 17 Apr 2009 11 people are killed in an airplane crash in Papua (Indonesia).
  • 18 Apr 2009 Roxana Saberi is an Iranian-American journalist sentenced by an Iranian court to eight years imprisonment for espionage. After an appeals court reduced and suspended her sentence, she is freed the next month.
  • 19 Apr 2009 Eight corrections officers were killed in an ambush at a Nayarit prisoner transfer, Mexico.
  • 20 Apr 2009 Oracle announces that it will buy Sun Microsystems for more US$7 billion.
  • 21 Apr 2009 Yahoo! Yahoo!
  • 22 Apr 2009 The new budget for the United Kingdom will raise borrowing and tax high income earners by 50%.
  • 23 Apr 2009 For 10 seconds, the gamma radiation burst GRB090423 can be observed. This event marks the closest known object and the oldest known object in all of the universe.
  • 24 Apr 2009 The World Health Organization expresses concern at the spread of influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries.ref name=quotwho_statement_2009-04-25quot International cases and resulting deaths are confirmed.
  • 25 Apr 2009 Ethiopian authorities have arrested 35 people in connection to Berhanu Nega’s plot to overthrow government.
  • 26 Apr 2009 Eleven Justice and Equality Movement members were sentenced to death after attacking Khartoum (Sudan) in 2008.
  • 27 Apr 2009 General Motors announced that it will eliminate the Pontiac brand, which has been around since 1982, by the end 2010.
  • 28 Apr 2009 South Korea clones the first transgenic, fluorescent dog.
  • 29 Apr 2009 Heritage Numismatic auctions will conduct coin auctions at the Central States Numismatic Society convention, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • 30 Apr 2009 Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Fiat announces a partnership. The US government announced that it would provide debtor-in possession financing of up to US$3.5billion and exit financing of up to US$4.5billion. A new ownershop arrangement is in place for the company. It will be managed by 55 percent United Auto Workers' Healthcare Trust Fund, Fiat 20 Percent, U.S., and Canadian governments, each with a 10 percent combined stake.
  • 01 May 2009 Sweden has legalized same-sex marriage.
  • 02 May 2009 Holiday World, Indiana, USA: The Pilgrim’s Plunge water slide opens. It is the largest water ride drop in the world at 131 feet and has a 45-degree slope.
  • 03 May 2009 Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns.
  • 04 May 2009 Dominick DeLuise (American comic actor, Blazing Saddles and The Cannonball Run), Smokey and the Bandit II, has died at 75 from prostate cancer.
  • 05 May 2009 Worldwide, 1,490 cases have been confirmed to be swine flu.
  • 06 May 2009 The European Parliament delayed its planned reform of the European Union’s telecommunications policy.
  • 07 May 2009 A 40-hour siege in Napier by a single gunman begins with over 100 New Zealand Police officers.
  • 08 May 2009 Fannie Mae, America's largest provider of home mortgage financing, reported a loss of US$23.2 billion for the first quarter and is seeking additional US$19 billion from the US Treasury.
  • 09 May 2009 The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants' ban list now includes nine chemical substances.
  • 10 May 2009 The H1N1 influenza virus kills a third of the US citizens and spreads to Australia, Japan and other countries.
  • 11 May 2009 Atlantis, the NASA spaceship, launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • 12 May 2009 The Liberal Party won a majority of seats at the British Columbia general election.
  • 13 May 2009 United States President Barack Obama declares May 2009 Jewish American Heritage Month.
  • 14 May 2009 Chrysler closes 789 dealerships in the US.
  • 15 May 2009 US President Barack Obama nominated Rosa Gumataotao Rios as the next US Treasurer.
  • 16 May 2009 The 134th Preakness Stakes runs in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Calvin Borel rides Rachel Alexandra, the first win for any philly since 1924.
  • 17 May 2009 Al-Shabaab seizes Jowhar (Somalia) from the Transitional Federal Government.
  • 18 May 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War. The LTTE have been defeated by the Sri Lankan government. This brings an end to almost 26 years worth of fighting between these two sides.
  • 19 May 2009 The United States Government Accountability Office warns against the possibility of the Global Positioning System failing by 2010.
  • 20 May 2009 For misconduct, the House of Lords of the United Kingdom suspends Thomas Taylor & Peter Truscott from November to November
  • 21 May 2009 Linda Fleming (66-year-old US lady with advanced cancer) becomes the first to die under a new Washington State assisted suicide law.
  • 22 May 2009 Haitian floods have killed at least 11 people.
  • 23 May 2009 Roh Moo-hyun (ex-President of South Korea), who is being investigated for alleged bribery during the presidential term, commits suicide.
  • 24 May 2009 Helio Castroneves, a Brazilian driver, wins the 93rd Indianapolis 500 in automobile racing.
  • 25 May 2009 North Korea is said to have tested its second nuclear weapon. Pyongyang conducted missile tests after the nuclear test. This increased tensions within the international community.
  • 26 May 2009 Barack Obama, the US President, announces that Sonia Sotomayor will be appointed to the Supreme Court.
  • 27 May 2009 Heritage Numismatic Auctions holds a Central States Signature Auction from May 31 to June 1.
  • 28 May 2009 General Motors requests Germany to repay its subsidiaries Opel Motors and Vauxhall Motors.
  • 29 May 2009 Heritage Auction Galleries holds their Signature auction in Long Beach (California). The best-known 1856-O Coronet double-eagle SP-63 PCGS sells for US$1,4375,000
  • 30 May 2009 To win the 2009 Super 14 rugby union championship, the South Africa Bulls beat New Zealand Chiefs.
  • 31 May 2009 The People's Justice Party wins Penanti, Penang, Malaysia by-election.
  • 01 Jun 2009 A new USA requirement requires passports and other approved identification to show at all entry points.
  • 02 Jun 2009 Nelson Jobim, Brazilian Defense Minister, confirms that debris found in the Atlantic Ocean near Fernando de Noronha is the wreckage from Air France Flight 447.
  • 03 Jun 2009 The Organization of American States has lifted its 47-year-old suspension of Cuba.
  • 04 Jun 2009 James Purnell, Secretary of State in the United Kingdom for Work and Pensions, announces his resignation and asks that Prime Minister Gordon Brown also step down. ''(Guardian)''
  • 05 Jun 2009 Published are two thousand private color photos of Adolf Hitler.
  • 06 Jun 2009 The European Union continues to hold parliamentary elections in Cyprus, Italy. Latvia, Malta. Slovakia.
  • 07 Jun 2009 The European Union's parliamentary elections are over in Austria, Belgium Bulgaria, Denmark Estonia, Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Spain and Sweden.
  • 08 Jun 2009 At least 18 factory workers are killed in an accident involving a truck and a bus in Egypt's Nile Delta.
  • 09 Jun 2009 The court has ordered George Becali, the new MEP from the right-wing Greater Romania Party, to stay in Romania.
  • 10 Jun 2009 The leaders of the 30th Dail Eireann, representing Fianna Fail as well as the Irish Green Party in Ireland, won a motion for confidence.
  • 11 Jun 2009 The H1N1 flu pandemic is now a worldwide emergency.
  • 12 Jun 2009 Wide-ranging protests across Iran and the globe are triggered by a disputed Iranian presidential election.
  • 13 Jun 2009 Six Flags, a New York-based operator of theme parks, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Six Flags has US$2.4 billion of debt.
  • 14 Jun 2009 Paisley, Scotland is the location of Europe's first H1N1-related death.
  • 15 Jun 2009 Iran
  • 16 Jun 2009 Iran
  • 17 Jun 2009 Richard Scrushy, former chief executive of American HealthSouth, is being ordered to pay US$2.9billion after a judge found him guilty of accounting fraud that almost bankrupted the hospital chain.
  • 18 Jun 2009 Launch of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a NASA robotic spacecraft.
  • 19 Jun 2009 Ken Roberts, an American radio and television announcer (The Secret Storm and Love of Life), is dead at the age of 99.
  • 20 Jun 2009 Spaceport America is now open in New Mexico, USA. It will be the first commercially-occupied spaceport. The New Mexico government will spend almost US$200million on the project.
  • 21 Jun 2009 Archaeologists have evidence that the Maya used the manioc plants as a staple food.
  • 22 Jun 2009 Washington Metro train collision: In Washington, D.C., USA, two Metro trains collide, killing 9 people and injuring more than 80.
  • 23 Jun 2009 Ed McMahon, longtime Johnny Carson announcer and sidekick (The Tonight Show, for 30 years), has died in California at the age of 86. He was host of Star Search 1983-1995, co-host of Bloopers and Practical Jokes 1982-1986, and emcee game shows Missing Links and Snap Judgment.
  • 24 Jun 2009 Togo abolishes death penalty
  • 25 Jun 2009 Iran
  • 26 Jun 2009 The American Clean Energy and Security Act Climate Change Bill is passed by the US House of Representatives. It also includes a cap and trade plan.
  • 27 Jun 2009 Two paramilitary loyalist groups in Northern Ireland start to decommission their weapons.
  • 28 Jun 2009 The Honduran Supreme Court orders President Manuel Zelaya to be arrested and exiled. He claimed that he had violated the constitution of the country by holding a referendum on staying in power. and many other countries around the globe.
  • 29 Jun 2009 Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 150 years imprisonment for "extraordinarily Evil" crimes committed in Wall Street's largest and most brazen investment fraud.
  • 30 Jun 2009 The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that Al Franken was the winner of November 2008's election as US Senator. This result was based on a margin 312 votes. This means that the Democrats now have 60 senators in Congress.
  • 01 Jul 2009 American International Group shares fell 22 percent after shareholders approved a 1-for-20 reverse stock splitting and the New York Stock Exchange accidentally announced suspension and delisting.
  • 02 Jul 2009 American forces, led by 4000 Marines, launch a major offensive in southern Afghanistan against Taliban forces.
  • 03 Jul 2009 Because Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was charged with war crimes, the African Union has stopped cooperating with the International Criminal Court.
  • 04 Jul 2009 After 8 years, the Statue of Liberty's crown is reopened to the public due to security concerns following the attacks on the World Trade Center.
  • 05 Jul 2009 A series of violent riots breaks out in Urumqi (capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China).
  • 06 Jul 2009 2009 Honduran coup d'etat
  • 07 Jul 2009 An open memorial service is held in honor of Michael Jackson. It is one of the most recognizable funerals ever.ref=Allen
  • 08 Jul 2009 GDF Suez and E.ON are each being fined EUR553nbspmillion by the European Commission for their involvement in arrangements regarding the MEGAL Pipeline.
  • 09 Jul 2009 One person is killed and over 10,000 homes are destroyed in a magnitude 5.7 earthquake that strikes Yunnan, China.
  • 10 Jul 2009 General Motors is freed from bankruptcy protection within 40 days. The U.S. government now owns 60% of General Motors.
  • 11 Jul 2009 Javier Velasquez is named Prime Minister of Peru by President Alan Garcia.
  • 12 Jul 2009 Chinese Foreign Minister Jiechi Yang said that tranquility in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region can be restored and the perpetrators would be brought to court without any ethnic discrimination in a one hour 15 minute telephone conversation about the recent incidents with Ahmet Davutoglu.
  • 13 Jul 2009 Twelve European companies have launched the EUR400 billion Desertec project in North Africa to build solar thermal power plants.
  • 14 Jul 2009 The Manek Urai election is won by PAS, the opposition party in Malaysia, against Barisan Nasional's government-led Barisan Nasional.
  • 15 Jul 2009 Caspian Airlines Flight No. 7908 crashes in Iran near Qazvin killing all 168 passengers.
  • 16 Jul 2009 According to a Ugandan study, circumcising HIV-positive men does not protect them from their female partners.
  • 17 Jul 2009 Walter Cronkite, a former CBS News anchor and "the most trusted man" in America, has died in New York at the age of 92.
  • 18 Jul 2009 Henry Allingham, the last survivor of Battle of Jutland and the last founding member of Royal Air Force, dies at the age of113. He was the world's oldest living person at the time of his death.
  • 19 Jul 2009 In Mexico, 10 police officers were arrested for the murder of 12 federal agents. Their bodies were found next to a road.
  • 20 Jul 2009 Ajmal Kasab (the only survivor of the Mumbai attacks in 2008) pleads guilty before an Indian court. This ends months of denials.
  • 21 Jul 2009 The Japanese Prime Minister Taro aso disintegrates the House of Representatives. This sets the stage for general elections on August 30.
  • 22 Jul 2009 The longest total solar eclipse in 21 years, lasting 6 minutes and 38.8 seconds over parts of Asia, and the Pacific Ocean, is observed.
  • 23 Jul 2009 For the first time since January, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 9000.
  • 24 Jul 2009 Rosa Gumataotao Rios was confirmed by the US Senate to be 43rd US treasurer.
  • 25 Jul 2009 Following the dispute presidential election, protests are held in 80 cities worldwide in support of Iranian protesters.
  • 26 Jul 2009 Vernon Forrest, a former world champion boxer, is killed in Atlanta, Georgia USA. He was the victim of an apparent robbery.
  • 27 Jul 2009 The 2009 American Samoa quarter-dollar is now in circulation at the US Mint
  • 28 Jul 2009 After a boat carrying 200 Haitian migrants sinks in the Turks and Caicos Islands, at least 15 people are killed and 65 others are missing,
  • 29 Jul 2009 Nigerian battles
  • 30 Jul 2009 After ammonium nitrate was released at El Dorado Chemical Company warehouse in Bryan, Texas, United States, 70,000 people were evacuated.
  • 31 Jul 2009 Nigerian battles
  • 01 Aug 2009 Two people were killed in a shooting attack on the Tel-Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association building, Israel.
  • 02 Aug 2009 After an outdoor stage collapsed at the Big Valley Jamboree country festival in Alberta, Canada, one person was killed and 75 were injured.
  • 03 Aug 2009 Bolivia is the first country in South America's history to recognize the rights of its indigenous people to self-government.
  • 04 Aug 2009 Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader, pardons two American journalists who were imprisoned and arrested for illegal entry earlier this year. This was after Bill Clinton, former President of the United States, met with Kim.
  • 05 Aug 2009 Opening of the 40th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting in Cairns (Australia)
  • 06 Aug 2009 Rosa Gumataotao Rios swears in as the 43rd US Treasurer.
  • 07 Aug 2009 The leaders of three South African opposition parties urge President Jacob Zuma to withdraw his statement on the nomination of Sandile Ngcobo to replace outgoing Chief Justice Pius Langa, calling it ampquotunconstitutionalampquot.
  • 08 Aug 2009 Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan and nearly the entire southern region is inundated by record-breaking rains.
  • 09 Aug 2009 South African opposition parties demand that President Jacob Zuma withdraw Sandile Ngcobo's appointment as Chief Justice, because he did not consult the opposition or Judicial Service Committee.
  • 10 Aug 2009 In the worst mining accident in Slovakia's history, twenty people are killed in Handlova in Trencin Region.
  • 11 Aug 2009 Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of President John F Kennedy, and founder of Special Olympics, has died at age 88 in Massachusetts.
  • 12 Aug 2009 Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the President of Argentina, sign agreements to expand trade between their countries at a Caracas meeting.
  • 13 Aug 2009 Les Paul, a country and jazz musician and electric guitar innovator, has died at the age of just 94 due to complications from pneumonia in New York, USA. Inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame 1978, and the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame 1988.
  • 14 Aug 2009 Pakistan launches its first international freight train service between Islamabad and Istanbul.
  • 15 Aug 2009 Hamas police claim that they have shot and killed Abdel-Latif Moussa, the head of Jund Ansar Allah Islamic Group, in a shootout.
  • 16 Aug 2009 At 14:38 local, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near Siberut Island in Sumatra, Indonesia. It causes at least seven injuries.
  • 17 Aug 2009 Reader's Digest Association of New York announced it would file Chapter 11 bankruptcy for U.S.-based businesses in a plan to reduce debt by 75 percent.
  • 18 Aug 2009 Robert Novak, a veteran columnist for the US newspaper, has died at age 78 following a long battle with brain cancer.
  • 19 Aug 2009 Baghdad, Iraq: A string of bombings kills 101 people and injures 565 more.
  • 20 Aug 2009 The 2009 James Polk Presidential Dollar is now in circulation by the US Mint
  • 21 Aug 2009 Argentina's association football champion kicks off after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner places it on the state payroll in order to avoid a financial crisis.
  • 22 Aug 2009 Cardinal Sean Brady, Archbishop and Primate in All Ireland, has criticised Ireland's Civil Partnership Bill which grants statutory partnership rights for same-sex couples.
  • 23 Aug 2009 Tens of thousands of people from the Baltic countries mark the 20th anniversary of the "Baltic Way", when two million people joined a human chain to protest against Soviet Union control. (Aljazeera), (Guardian), (Baltic Times).
  • 24 Aug 2009 The US government has ended its month-long "cash-for-clunkers" program. It spent $2.9 billion on rebates for 690,000 low efficiency vehicles. Top trade-in was the Ford Explorer four-wheel drive; Toyota Corolla was top new purchase.
  • 25 Aug 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke to his second term as Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
  • 26 Aug 2009 U.S. U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, Massachusetts, is the last Kennedy brother to die at age 77 after beating brain cancer.
  • 27 Aug 2009 Michael Perham, a 17-year-old English youth, is the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo by sailboat. He broke the previous record by two month.
  • 28 Aug 2009 In his Jeddah office, Prince Muhammad bin Nayef was lightly wounded by a suicide bomber.
  • 29 Aug 2009 Chandrayaan-1 loses touch with ground control
  • 30 Aug 2009 Japanese voters vote.
  • 31 Aug 2009 Florida Governor Charlie Crist signs a Gambling Pact with the Seminole Tribe, which lasts 20 years. It stipulates payment of US$12.5 Million per month for the first thirty months to allow them to operate legal slots machines and blackjack in their seven casinos.
  • 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$1.4 trillion.
  • 01 Oct 2009 The House of Lords is overthrown by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
  • 02 Oct 2009 Irish voters go to the polls to vote on the Treaty of Lisbon.
  • 03 Oct 2009 Treaty of Lisbon
  • 04 Oct 2009 Shoichi Nakagawa (ex-Japan Finance Minister) has been found dead in Tokyo after he resigned due to apparent drunken behavior at the 2009 G7 meeting.
  • 05 Oct 2009 For bloggers, the United States Federal Trade Commission has regulations.
  • 06 Oct 2009 A "industry-wide scheme of phishing" has been launched against sites like Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Google. AOL and Google, where passwords are posted online and there are more than a quarter million accounts at risk.
  • 07 Oct 2009 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas A. Steitz won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies on the structure and function the ribosome.
  • 08 Oct 2009 Herta Müller, a Romanian-German novelist, is awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. "With the concentration of poetry, and the honesty of prose she depicts the landscapes of the dispossessed", She is the 12th female winner of the Literature Prize and the 4th female Nobel Laureate in 2009. 2009 was a record year for female achievement.
  • 09 Oct 2009 NASA's Lunar Precursor Robic Program: First lunar impact of Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts.
  • 10 Oct 2009 After closing their borders for nearly two hundred years, Turkey and Armenia sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland, to open their borders.
  • 11 Oct 2009 Luis Armando Pena Soltren is a suspect in the hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281, which took place in 1968. He was captured after 40 years.
  • 12 Oct 2009 The 60th International Astronautical Congress opens at Daejeon in South Korea with around 3,000 space professionals from more than 70 nations.
  • 13 Oct 2009 The 200 million US$ planned rebuilding and expansion Stockholm's central library, designed by Gunnar Asplund is canceled.
  • 14 Oct 2009 Honduran negotiators reach an agreement to restore President Manuel Zelaya in office in order to end the political crisis.
  • 15 Oct 2009 Treaty of Lisbon
  • 16 Oct 2009 Botswana's voters participate in a general election.
  • 17 Oct 2009 Czech President Vaclav Klaus likens the Treaty of Lisbon as an unstoppable speeding train that he is being forced into signing.
  • 18 Oct 2009 Yemen claims that 18 Shia rebels were killed in fighting in the northern part of the country.
  • 19 Oct 2009 Charles Wesley Mumbere is crowned as the king of Bakonjos in the Rwenzururu region of Uganda.
  • 20 Oct 2009 European astronomers discover 32 exoplanets.
  • 21 Oct 2009 After defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 10-4, the Philadelphia Phillies won the 2009 National League Championship Series 4 to 1.
  • 22 Oct 2009 Sweden's Lutheran Church is the first major church to allow same-sex marriages.
  • 23 Oct 2009 More than 200 African Roman Catholic bishops release a 12-page document calling for the resignation of corrupt leaders on the continent and urging them to repent.
  • 24 Oct 2009 After three small Florida banks were closed by US federal regulators, the number of bank failures in America this year is more than 100. This year, more US banks have failed than any other year since 1992.
  • 25 Oct 2009 After suffering a heart attack at the age of 67, Jeffry Picower, an American billionaire philanthropist and friend to Bernie Madoff, drowned in his Florida pool. Picower was sued by the Madoff fraud trustee for US$7.2 billion.
  • 26 Oct 2009 Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, President of Tunisia, wins 90% of the votes. This is his fifth term as president and a new five year mandate in the country’s general election.
  • 27 Oct 2009 The Australian government has released a report warning that climate change and global warming are threatening the country's coastal lifestyle. There is even the possibility of banning coastal homes.
  • 28 Oct 2009 NASA launches a prototype Ares I-X rocket out of Florida in order to test technology that will be used to develop a future manned rocket. This launcher, valued at US$450 million, is the first NASA built in over 30 years.
  • 29 Oct 2009 The Haitian Senate votes in favor of removing Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis.
  • 30 Oct 2009 Nine failed banks are seized by the American Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which includes California National Bank in Los Angeles, which is the fourth-largest U.S. Bank failure of this year.
  • 31 Oct 2009 Mahamadou Issoufou, the opposition leader in Niger, returns to face money laundering charges.
  • 01 Nov 2009 CIT Group, a US lender, files for bankruptcy protection. It has arranged with bondholders to reduce its debt by US$10 Billion. It filed a US$71 billion worth of finance and leasing assets, with total debt of US$64.9 trillion. This makes it the fifth largest US corporate filing.
  • 02 Nov 2009 At least 35 people are killed in a large explosion that occurred in Rawalpindi (Pakistan).
  • 03 Nov 2009 After 29 years of Rhode Island's decriminalization of prostitution, Governor Donald Carcieri signed a bill that legalizes prostitution.
  • 04 Nov 2009 Rebel Houthis from Yemen crossed the border into Saudi Arabia to kill a Saudi security officer, and injure 11 more.
  • 05 Nov 2009 In the largest-ever mass shooting at an American military base, Major Nidal Malik Hazan of the US Army kills 13 people and injures 30 others at Fort Hood (Texas).
  • 06 Nov 2009 Thirteen people were killed and 30 injured when a major in the US Army opened fire on their fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas military base.
  • 07 Nov 2009 In the U.S., a gunman disguised as a man shoots a British tourist.
  • 08 Nov 2009 Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's President, tells Venezuelan civilians and the army to prepare for war with Colombia.
  • 09 Nov 2009 The Brandenburg Gate is the focal point of celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall de Berlin Wall.
  • 10 Nov 2009 Itaipu's power outage causes widespread blackouts in 15 Brazilian states. During this time, chaos spreads to Paraguay.
  • 11 Nov 2009 John Allen Muhammad is executed at the Greensville Correctional Center, In Jarratt (Virginia), USA by lethal injection. Muhannad was convicted for sniper shootings in which 10 people were killed and the Washington, D.C. region was terrorized in 2002.
  • 12 Nov 2009 The 2009 Lincoln and Presidency Cents are now available from the US Mint.
  • 13 Nov 2009 NASA scientists announced that the experiment to find water in the Moon last month was a huge success. The debris field created by smashing a rocket into an asteroid revealed ice and water vapour.
  • 14 Nov 2009 New Zealand has qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup after defeating Bahrain in a playoff that was billed as ampquotthe largest sporting event ever held in New Zealandampquot, and the country's greatest football match.
  • 15 Nov 2009 After decades of planning, the Metro Gold Line Extension opens in East Los Angeles & Boyle Heights.
  • 16 Nov 2009 Kevin Rudd, Australia's Prime Minister, apologizes to those who were orphaned and placed in foster homes during the 20th century.
  • 17 Nov 2009 Aminatou Haidar is a prominent human rights activist for the Western Sahara. She is currently on hunger strike at an Airport in the Canary Islands and will appear before a Spanish court to face charges of public disorder.
  • 18 Nov 2009 France's national football team defeated the Republic of Ireland at Stade de France in order to qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals 2010 in South Africa. Thierry Henry admitted after the match that he had committed handball, which led to the decisive goal.
  • 19 Nov 2009 The US Mint has released the 2009 Zachary Taylor Presidential Dollar to circulation.
  • 20 Nov 2009 After a 14-month delay, the Large Hadron Collider is now up and running.
  • 21 Nov 2009 Protestors gathered at the French Embassy, Dublin to continue their dispute with FIFA regarding the controversial handball incident during the qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 2010.
  • 22 Nov 2009 Abdulli Feghoul was acquitted by an Algerian court. He had been held at Guantanamo Bay without trial for nearly seven years.
  • 23 Nov 2009 Maguindanao massacre takes place in Ampatuan Maguindanao (Mindanao), Philippines
  • 24 Nov 2009 A Casablanca appeal court, Morocco, has imposed a three-year sentence against Chahib Khayari for violating the law. He was accused of accusing top officials with being involved in drug trafficking.
  • 25 Nov 2009 Irish floods: Water levels rise between Gort and Kinvara, the main Galway-Limerick road is partially impassable, water levels in Athlone reach 50cm over the highest level on record, Waterways Ireland describes water levels on the River Shannon as ampquotunmanageableampquot and says one third of Ireland's annual rain has so far fallen during November alone.
  • 26 Nov 2009 Ireland's Taoiseach Brian Cowen faces discontent residents in Athlone as he tours flood-stricken areas in Galway and Offaly, Roscommon, Westmeath, and Roscommon.
  • 27 Nov 2009 In a terrorist attack, a Russian high-speed passenger train on the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway derails close to Uglovka. 26 people were killed and more than 100 injured.
  • 28 Nov 2009 In southern Bangladesh, 33 people are killed in ferry accidents.
  • 29 Nov 2009 Somali pirates seize the supertanker Maran Centaurus owned by Greece, which was carrying oil from Saudi Arabia to America.
  • 30 Nov 2009 The 2009 quarter dollar from the Northern Mariana Islands is now in circulation by the US Mint
  • 01 Dec 2009 Barack Obama, the US President, announces that an additional 30,000 troops will be sent to Afghanistan in the summer and fall.
  • 02 Dec 2009 FIFA, the global governing body of association football, announced after an emergency session of its Executive Committee that it would launch an inquiry into the use extra officials or technology following the controversy surrounding the Thierry Henry handball incident. However, no changes will be made for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Wikinews
  • 03 Dec 2009 The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (which insures deposits at US commercial banks) is currently in deficit by $US8.2 million.
  • 04 Dec 2009 Operation Cobra's Anger is a joint operation by the US Marines and Afghan troops in northern Helmand province.
  • 05 Dec 2009 CNN apologizes to "The Irish Times" after accusing them of publishing fake nude photos of Tiger Woods, the world's number 1 golfer. CNN claimed that ''The Irish Times’' had also paid damages.
  • 06 Dec 2009 After beating Gremio 2-1 in the final round of 2009 Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A, Flamengo won its sixth Brazilian national football championship.
  • 07 Dec 2009 Aamer Sajjad and Raffatullah Mumand, Pakistan, set a new record for a second wicket partnership scoring 580 runs during a Quaid-iAzam Trophy match. This surpasses the 576 run record held by Roshan Mahanama and Sanath Jayasuriya in Sri Lanka.
  • 08 Dec 2009 Baghdad bombings, Iraq kill 127 people and injures 448.
  • 09 Dec 2009 Observers are baffled by a strange spiral light that appears in the sky over large areas of Northern Norway. Although Russian authorities have denied that this possibility, some experts speculate that the light may be caused by a Russian rocket that was misfired.
  • 10 Dec 2009 Greece's credit rating has been downgraded. This has led to increased pessimism about the Greek economy.
  • 11 Dec 2009 Tiger Woods announced that he will be taking an indefinite break from professional golf to devote his time to his marriage.
  • 12 Dec 2009 Annise Parker becomes Houston's first openly gay mayor.
  • 13 Dec 2009 Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, stated in an interview that he would have gone into war against Iraq even though he knew it did not possess weapons of mass destruction.
  • 14 Dec 2009 The Group of 77, which includes China, India UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, has suspended participation to treaty negotiations at Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. They cite the inability of developed countries to live up the Kyoto Protocol and what is perceived as a lack of open negotiation.
  • 15 Dec 2009 Oral Roberts, a US television evangelist, has died in Newport Beach (California) at the age of 91 due to complications from pneumonia.
  • 16 Dec 2009 Mexican drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva is shot to death by members of the Mexican Navy in Cuernavaca (Morellos).
  • 17 Dec 2009 The sinking of MV Danny F II off the coast Lebanon causes the death of 44 people as well as more than 28,000 animals.
  • 18 Dec 2009 The UN climate conference in Copenhagen (Denmark) ended with a final compromise climate deal and a promise to work out all details later. The deal was signed by the leaders of the following countries: Canada, USA (China, India), Brazil, South Africa, and India. The agreement provides money for developing countries to combat global warming. The agreement is non-binding and does not establish new targets for greenhouse gas reduction.
  • 19 Dec 2009 2009 North American Blizzard records snowfall. This causes power outages and deaths as well as a significant impact on retail sales.
  • 20 Dec 2009 An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 strikes Tanzania.
  • 21 Dec 2009 A Washington, D.C. police officer draws a gun during an snowball fight.
  • 22 Dec 2009 Howard Schmidt, a former executive at Microsoft and eBay, has been appointed cybersecurity chief by the US White House.
  • 23 Dec 2009 Leighlin Jim and Bishop of Kildare resign, becoming the second bishop to do this after the Murphy Report was published.
  • 24 Dec 2009 Barack Obama's administration has pledged to support Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and other mortgage finance giants up to US$810 Billion in 2010. This is an increase from their current US$200 Billion.
  • 25 Dec 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from Nigeria tries to light powder and liquid explosives aboard Northwest Airlines plane Flight 253 as it prepares to land in Detroit. The man is subdued, and the plane lands safely without any injuries.
  • 26 Dec 2009 A bomb squad from Reykjavik in Iceland searches for a diverted Lufthansa flight between Frankfurt, Germany and Detroit, Michigan, United States. The bag was not owned by the owner.
  • 27 Dec 2009 Korea Electric Power wins a contract worth US$20.4 billion to build nuclear power stations in the United Arab Emirates. This is the largest ever energy deal in the Middle East.
  • 28 Dec 2009 43 people are killed in a suicide attack in Karachi, Pakistan. This is where Shia Muslims observe the Day of Ashura.
  • 29 Dec 2009 The Sudanese parliament approves legislation to hold a referendum on South Sudan's independence.
  • 30 Dec 2009 To help with mortgage losses, the U.S. Treasury has injected another US$3.8B into GMAC Financial Services. This makes the government (56.3%) the majority owner of the company.
  • 31 Dec 2009 Malaysia's High Court ruled that Christians in Malaysia have the constitutional right to use the term 'Allah’ in reference to God. It also declared unconstitutional the government's ban against the use of the word Allah’ by non-Muslims.