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t. e. The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to United States President Barack Obama (b. 1961) for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples". [1] The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the award on October 9, 2009, citing Obama's promotion of nuclear nonproliferation [2] and a "new ...
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 2009. Around 150 Venezuelan students end a weeklong hunger strike protesting against alleged human rights abuses in Venezuela, after Organization of American States officials agree to meet the students and one of their leaders is released.
Current events/2009 October 9. A United Nations plane from Uruguay attached to MINUSTAH monitoring the Haiti – Dominican Republic border crashes near Fonds-Verrettes, killing at least 11 people from Jordan and Uruguay. (BBC) (Xinhua) (Associated Press)
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2009 – First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
The US bear market of 2007–2009 was a 17-month bear market that lasted from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. The S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average. The bear market was confirmed in June 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
October 9, 2009, 11:37 () UTC The Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite ( LCROSS ) was a robotic spacecraft operated by NASA . The mission was conceived as a low-cost means of determining the nature of hydrogen detected at the polar regions of the Moon . [ 2 ]
It occurred on October 3, 2009, when a force of 300 Taliban assaulted the American Combat Outpost ("COP") Keating near the town of Kamdesh in Nuristan Province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack was the bloodiest battle for US forces since the Battle of Wanat in July 2008, which occurred 20 miles (32 km) away from Kamdesh. The attack on COP ...
Leif Erikson. Leif Erikson Day is an annual observance that occurs on October 9. [1] It honors Leif Erikson (Old Norse: Leifr Eiríksson), [note 1] the Norse explorer who, in approximately 1000, led the first Europeans believed to have set foot on the continent of North America (other than Greenland).