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North Korea fires five short range missiles into the Sea of Japan, after issuing a "no sail zone" for waters off its east and west coasts until October 20. The body of two-year-old Aisling Symes, who disappeared last week in New Zealand, is located in a drain in Henderson, Auckland, near the place where she was last sighted.
October 12 is the 285th day of the year (286th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2009 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (b. 1974)
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the Romanian-German novelist Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". She becomes the twelfth woman to win the literature prize and the fourth female Nobel Laureate of 2009, a record year for female achievers.
October 12 – The Chicago Cubs National League baseball team files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. [90] October 15 – In the balloon boy hoax, parents claim their young child has been swept away in a large balloon resembling a spacecraft, triggering an extensive rescue effort by authorities. They later admit to the hoax and are fined ...
A sneak preview of Fanboy & Chum Chum was aired in the United States on October 12, 2009. The official US debut of the series was November 6, 2009. In Canada, the series premiered on YTV on November 1, 2009, and on Nickelodeon on November 2, 2009. [9] In the UK and Ireland, the series premiered on Nickelodeon April 2, 2010.
The October 2009 North American storm complex was a powerful extratropical cyclone that was associated with the remnants of Typhoon Melor, which brought extreme amounts of rainfall to California. The system started out as a weak area of low pressure (an Aleutian Low ), that formed in the northern Gulf of Alaska on October 7.
FlashForward [65] – picked up for a full 22-episode season on October 12, 2009. 3 additional episodes ordered later the same day for a 25-episode season. The Forgotten [66] – picked up for 5 additional episodes for an 18-episode season on November 10, 2009. The Middle [64] – picked up for a full 22-episode season on October 8, 2009.
On 15 October 2009, Germany, Austria and Poland were hit by heavy snowstorms. [citation needed] One person died after falling in a Tyrolian lake by accident. 27,000 lightning strikes and heavy rainstorms hit parts of Spain in just over 12 hours on 16 October. [25]