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2009 ( MMIX) 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. 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy [1] [2] by the United Nations ...
December 11 – Walt Disney Animation Studios' 49th feature film, The Princess and the Frog, is released in theaters. This marks Disney's first theatrical hand-drawn animated feature since Home on the Range in 2004. December 18 – Avatar, directed by James Cameron, is released in theaters and later becomes the highest-grossing film of all time.
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 ...
According to the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (the official arbiter of U.S. recessions) the recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, and thus extended over eighteen months.
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 This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from December 2009.
History of Google. Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm first (1996) known as "BackRub", with the help of Scott Hassan and Alan ...
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama from his inauguration as the 44th president of the United States on January 20, 2009, to December 31, 2009. For his time as president-elect, see the presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency; for a complete itinerary of his travels ...
Sun/Mon/Tue 28/29/30 Dec 2008: 28 December: 1431 AH: Thu/Fri/Sat 17/18/19 Dec 2009: 17 December: 1432 AH: Tue/Wed 7/8 December 2010: 6 December: 1433 AH: Sun Nov 27, 2011 (Close to the Solar eclipse of November 25, 2011) 26 November: 1434 AH: Thu/Fri 14/15 Nov 2012 (Close to the Solar eclipse of November 13, 2012) 15 November: 1435 AH
Windows 1.0, the first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on November 20, 1985, achieved little popularity. The project was briefly codenamed "Interface Manager" before the windowing system was implemented—contrary to popular belief that it was the original name for Windows and Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the ...
U. List of United States tornadoes from November to December 2009. Categories: 2009 events in the United States by month. December 2009 events by country. December 2009 events in North America.