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The International Day of Climate Action occurred worldwide in prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2009, with over 5,400 actions to raise awareness of the assertion that 350 ppm is the maximum safe level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, and call for mitigation of global warming before Earth reaches a climatological ...
October 23 – The 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire began after an explosion at the refinery in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. [64] October 24 – The 2009 El Ayyat railway accident occurred in Giza, Egypt, when a passenger train derailed due to stoppage of animals on the train tracks. 50 people were killed and 30 people were injured. [65]
October 24 is the 297th day of ... the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, ... , American actor (d. 2009) 1934 – Sanger D ...
Events from the year 2009 in the United States.. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president, occurred on January 20.The nation, still recovering from the Great Recession, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits.
24 October – Great Britain finish top of the table in both medals won and number of gold medals at the 2009 IPC Swimming European Championships at Reykjavík, Iceland. [ 175 ] 25 October – It is reported that the Crown Office of Scotland has emailed relatives of British victims of the Lockerbie Disaster to inform them that a police review ...
October 23 Lou Jacobi, actor (born 1913) Jack Poole, multimillionaire, real estate developer (born 1933) October 28 – Ted Nebbeling, former British Columbia MLA (born 1943) October 28 – Taylor Mitchell, singer-songwriter (born 1990) October 29 – Gino Fracas, football player (born 1930) October 31 – Harry Gauss, soccer coach (born 1952)
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October 1, 2017 – A gunman opens fire at a Las Vegas Strip concert, killing 60 people and injuring 867. This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas ...