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Current events/2009 December 18. Thirty world leaders present in Copenhagen for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change agree on a draft accord. ( The Sydney Morning Herald) (Forbes.com "Silver Lining In Copenhagen 'Fiasco'") (AllAfrica.com "Copenhagen Accord Politically Significant But Not Legally Binding") (Associated Press "China ...
December 22, 2009: Dissipated: December 28, 2009: Lowest pressure: 985 millibars (985 hPa) Tornadoes confirmed: 28: Max. rating 1: EF3 tornado: Maximum snowfall or ice accretion: 40.0 inches (102 cm) (Lead, South Dakota) Fatalities: 21: Areas affected: Midwest, Great Plains, Parts of Ontario, Eastern Seaboard
Part of the 2009–10 North American winter. 1Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale. The December 2009 North American blizzard was a powerful nor'easter that formed over the Gulf of Mexico in December 2009, and became a major snowstorm that affected the East Coast of the United States and Canadian Atlantic provinces.
The attempted bombing of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 occurred on December 25, 2009, aboard an Airbus A330 as it prepared to land at Detroit Metropolitan Airport following a transatlantic flight from Amsterdam.
December 2009 1. Christoph Budde, 46, German football player (Borussia Mönchengladbach), swine flu. Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, perpetrator of the 2009 shooting of Lakewood, Washington, police officers, shot. Neil Dougall, 88, British footballer (Plymouth Argyle).
1957 – A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois. [7] 1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched. 1966 – Saturn 's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
December 2009 was the twelfth and final month of that common year. The month, which began on a Tuesday, ended on a Thursday after 31 days. It was the last month of the 2000s decade. Portal:Current events. This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from December 2009.
December 18 – Avatar, directed by James Cameron, is released in theaters and later becomes the highest-grossing film of all time. [ citation needed ] December 25
The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit, was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 7 and 18 December.
In mid-December the British Army and Afghan workers begin construction of the Route Trident road in Helmand Province. On December 16–18, 2009, Coalition troops conducted Operation Septentrion, a 36-hour operation in the Uzbin Valley (east of Kabul).