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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 tipping point.
On October 24, 2009, in Richmond, a city on the northeast side of the San Francisco Bay in California, U.S., a female student of Richmond High School was gang raped repeatedly by a group of young males in a courtyard on the school campus while a homecoming dance was being held in the gymnasium.
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.
In 2009, six acts achieved their first U.S. number-one single either as a lead artist or a featured guest: ... October 24 "3" Britney Spears [94] [95] re October 31 ...
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 25 – Two suicide attacks in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 155 people and injure at least 721 people. [66]
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During 2009, a total of 20 singles hit number-one on the charts. Chart history ... October 24 [43] October 31 [44] November 7 "Party in the U.S.A." Miley Cyrus [45 ...
October 22 – Microsoft releases Windows 7. [citation needed] October 24 – A female student at Richmond High School in Richmond, California is gang raped by a group of several young men. As many as 20 witnesses are believed to have been aware of the attack, but for more than two hours no one notified the police. [93]