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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
December 4 – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo officially places Maguindanao under a state of martial law. [18] The declaration, also suspended the writ of habeas corpus in the province. [19] December 10 – 18 hostages are released after at least 65 people are kidnapped by gunmen in Agusan del Sur. [20] [21]
Part of the Tornadoes of 2009 and 2009–10 North American winter 1 Most severe tornado damage; see Fujita scale The 2009 North American Christmas blizzard was a powerful winter storm and severe weather event that affected the Midwestern United States , Great Plains , Southeastern United States, the Eastern Seaboard , and parts of Ontario .
For 2009, the chart was published on December 11. [1] The 2009 list was dominated by The Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, who shared the top four spots. In late December, DJ Earworm released a mashup video to YouTube titled "Blame It On The Pop", featuring the top twenty-five songs from the list, as he had also done the previous two years for his ...
Connie Hedegaard, former president of the UN Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen (left chair to Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen on 16 December) [1]. 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.
On the ending December 31, 2009, "Tik Tok" broke the record for the highest U.S. single-week sales, selling 610,000 digital downloads. [34] The record was surpassed by Taylor Swift 's " We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together " (2012) when it sold 623,000 digital copies in its debut week. [ 35 ]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ' s $22.2 million gross from midnight showings broke The Dark Knight ' s record ($18.5 million) for the highest midnight opening ever. [ 34 ] 30
1499 – Muslims in Granada began a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.; 1867 – In Angola, New York, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 feet (12 m) down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.