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Clemmons is shot dead by a police officer on December 1. December. December 1 – Virginia's smoking ban for most restaurants and bars goes into effect. The bill had broad public support. December 5 – The University of Cincinnati college football team walks into Pittsburgh and defeats the Panthers 45-44. Pike to Binns. Game.
2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections. 2015 – Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes. 2017 – Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
December 1 – The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force. [76] December 5 – Fire at the Lame Horse nightclub in Perm, Russia. December 7 – 18 – The UNFCCC 's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Three Somali cabinet ministers are amongst dozens killed in a bomb blast at a university graduation ceremony at a hotel in Mogadishu. (Al Jazeera) (CCTV) (AFP) Three Iranian pilgrims are killed after their bus exploded at a petrol station in the Syrian capital Damascus.
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.
On Friday 18 December, the final day of the conference, international media reported that the climate talks were "in disarray". [3] [4] [5] Media also reported that in lieu of a summit collapse, only a "weak political statement" was anticipated at the conclusion of the conference.
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 ...
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.
On December 27, 2009, the Narang night raid killed 10 Afghan civilians mostly school children when at around 2:30 mid night US Special Forces raided Ghazi Khan Ghondi village of Narang District in Kunar province. Deaths. In overall 2009, 520 NATO soldiers killed. 317 US soldiers, 108 UK soldiers and 95 Other NATO soldiers killed in 2009.
On 18 December, the Ariane 5GS made its final flight, delivering the Helios-IIB satellite into a Sun-synchronous orbit. The last orbital launch of the year was conducted eleven days later, on 29 December, when a Proton-M with a Briz-M upper stage launched the DirecTV-12 satellite.