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The Gregorian year, which is in use in most of the world, begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. It has a length of 365 days in an ordinary year, with 8760 hours, 525,600 minutes, or 31,536,000 seconds; but 366 days in a leap year, with 8784 hours, 527,040 minutes, or 31,622,400 seconds. With 97 leap years every 400 years, the year has an ...
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in the World War II conflict.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from December 2009. December 1, 2009. ( 2009-12-01) (Tuesday) edit. history. watch. Porfirio Lobo Sosa is elected President of Honduras. Turnout increases dramatically despite ousted former President Manuel Zelaya 's plea for a boycott.
December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 13 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
December 21 – Edwin G. Krebs, American Nobel biologist (b. 1918) [citation needed] December 25 – Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter (b. 1964) [citation needed] December 28 – The Rev, American musician (b. 1981) [citation needed] December 29 – Dr. Death Steve Williams, wrestler and American football player (b. 1960) [citation needed]
History of Wikipedia. The English edition of Wikipedia has grown to 6,826,452 articles. [1] Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [2]
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (December 21, December 22, or December 23) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (June 20, June 21, or June 22). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on ...
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 ...
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 ...