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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 ...
Year-End Hot 100 singles of 2009. Billboard magazine each year releases a Top Hot 100 songs of the year, counted from the first week of November to the final week in October. 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.
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 ...
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay. There were a total of 12 number-one singles in 2009, although 13 claimed the top spot as ...
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 ...
The U.S. economy lost 598,000 jobs during January 2009, with unemployment rising to 7.6 percent. (New York Times) Canada's economy lost 129,000 jobs during January 2009, an all-time record, with unemployment rising to 7.2 percent. (AP via Google News) Bankruptcies in the United Kingdom rose during 2008 by 50 percent to an all-time high. (ABC ...
Fall 2009. A public television service provided by the Kentucky Educational Television network, the channel provided instructional television and professional development programming to schools and libraries, fulfilling the duty of its predecessors KET3, KET4, and Star Channels 703 and 704.