Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
2009 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
October 2009 events in the United States (3 C, 14 P) November 2009 events in the United States (3 C, 22 P) December 2009 events in the United States (2 C, 10 P)
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.
General Motors asks Germany to indebt its subsidiary automakers Opel and Vauxhall Motors. (Times Online)Sixteen people are killed and more than 20 injured when a bus crashes near Yambol, Bulgaria.
Northern Mariana Islands gubernatorial election, 2009. The Northern Mariana Islands election commission sets November 23 as the guberntorial runoff election between Governor Benigno Fitial and challenger Heinz Hofschneider. (Saipan Tribune) Iraq sets its next general election for January 21, 2010. (Washington Post)
Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, only the second full suspension in the organization's history. (Times of India) Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using no safety equipment. (New Straits Times) The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%.
Russia devalues the ruble for the sixth time in 2009 and will overhaul the state budget to reflect the sharp decrease in the price of petroleum, its key export. Global financial crisis of 2008–2009: European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet says that global economic growth in 2009 will be "substantially below" December 2008 forecasts.
The Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings in game seven to win the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals. (AP via WSLS) The head of the fourth largest coalition in the Iraqi parliament, Harith al-Obeidi, is assassinated in west Baghdad. U.S. full power television stations complete their switch from analog to digital television. (The Washington Times)