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The Palestinian Center for Human Rights publishes a list of Palestinian killed between December 27, 2008 and January 18, 2009, stating that of those killed, 926 were civilians, 236 were combatants and 255 were members of the Palestinian security forces. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev disputes the findings.
Islamic State of Iraq [1] The December 2009 Baghdad bombings were attacks in Baghdad, Iraq, which resulted in the deaths of at least 127 people and injuries to at least 448 more. [2] The attacks have been condemned internationally as acts of terrorism.
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. Space exploration
Mainstream Top 40 number-one songs of 2009. This is a list of songs which reached number one on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 (or Pop Songs) chart in 2009. During 2009, a total of 20 singles hit number-one on the charts.
Avatar premiered in London on December 10, 2009, and was released theatrically worldwide from December 16 to 18. The film was originally set for release on May 22 , 2009, during filming [166] but was pushed back to allow more post-production time (the last shots were delivered in November) [89] and give more time for theaters worldwide to ...
9 to 18 December – Team Singapore participated in the 2009 Southeast Asian Games in Laos. 21 December – The Committee for Private Education is formed to regulate the private education industry. 27 December – The largest air-conditioned bus interchange in Singapore, Boon Lay Bus Interchange, opens.
Global weather activity of 2009 profiles the major worldwide storms, including blizzards, tornadoes, ice storms, tropical cyclones and other meteorogical events, from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2009. Wintery storms are events in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or ...
Between November and December 2009, 51 tornadoes touched down across eight states. [note 1] Collectively, the tornadoes injured nine people and wrought $20.36 million, [note 2] much of which resulted from an EF3 —the strongest tornado during the two-month period—that struck Lufkin, Texas, on December 23. [1]