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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.
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 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.
Pages in category "October 2009 events" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Deaths in October ...
October 2009 events in insular areas of the United States (1 P) Pages in category "October 2009 events in the United States" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
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 .
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2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. 2014 – The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1 , which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.