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Events from the year 2009 in the United States. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president , occurred on January 20. The nation, still recovering from the 2007–2008 financial crisis , received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits .
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 ...
150,000 people assemble in Hong Kong, China, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989. (BBC) Two hundred thousand people attend the funeral of Dera Sach Khand leader Sant Ramanand Dass in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. (BBC) ( Times of India) June 5, 2009 (Friday) edit. history.
The week before the New Year is traditionally crystal ball time for the press. Looking deep into my orb, I see these headlines appearing in 2009: Loss of ad revenue forces NBC to replace entire ...
Unemployment in Britain is now standing at a 14-year high of 2.22 million and the quarterly rise in unemployment is the highest for 28 years. [112] 14 June. The first death in the United Kingdom related to the 2009 swine flu pandemic is confirmed by the Scottish Government at 20:30 BST. [113]
Portal:Current events [ edit] This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from May 2009. Police and protesters battle during May Day demonstrations in Germany, Greece, and Turkey. (BBC) ( The Straits Times) The Pakistani Army kills approximately 60 Taliban militants during Operation Black Thunder.
By March 9, 2009, the Dow had fallen to 6,500, a percentage decline exceeding the pace of the market's fall during the Great Depression and a level which the index had last seen in 1997. On March 10, 2009, a countertrend bear market rally began, taking the Dow up to 8,500 by May 6, 2009. Financial stocks were up more than 150% during this rally ...
Some of the companies making headlines today: Alcoa (AA) unofficially kicked off earnings season late Wednesday, being the first of the Dow industrials to report results. It said it earned $77 ...