April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, and one of four months with a length of 30 days. April was originally the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC. It became the fourth month of the calendar year during the time of the decemvirs about 450 BC, when it also was given 29 days. The derivation of the name is uncertain.
The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of for spring. Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her Greek name Aphrodite, or from the Etruscan name Apru. Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.
The traditional etymology is from the Latin aperire, "to open," in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open," which is supported by comparison with the modern Greek use of for spring. Since most of the Roman months were named in honor of divinities, and as April was sacred to Venus, the Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis being held on the first day, it has been suggested that Aprilis was originally her month Aphrilis, from her Greek name Aphrodite, or from the Etruscan name Apru. Jacob Grimm suggests the name of a hypothetical god or hero, Aper or Aprus.
April 1, 2009, April Fool's day.
April 1, 2009, Five thousand people protest in London as the G-20 begins its summit. (BBC)
April 1, 2009, Series Finale of Life on Mars.
Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home.
At the end of the series it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 & 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the futuristic computer - named Windy - aboard a space ship that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars.
Tyler's actual reality is the year 2035, and the crew he worked with in the past are just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. The reason why he had traveled back to 1973 was due to a temporary malfunction on board the ship: to sustain their lives, all of the crew were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but a meteor storm caused a momentary glitch in the program (Sam had chosen his 2008 identity as part of his VR program, but the program accidentally kicked him back to 1973). Frank Morgan is the Mission Control flight director, Annie Norris is the Colonel in charge of the mission, and Gene Hunt - "Major Tom" - is also revealed to be Sam's father.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie. He appears in the songs "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy" by Bowie, the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling, a French cover of "Major Tom" by Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand, "I'm A Soldier" by Stefán, "Mrs. Major Tom" by K.I.A., "Rocket" by Def Leppard, and "Rain or Shine" by Five Star. Due to some similarities in Elton John's "Rocket Man", some presume this song might also be an allusion to Major Tom. In fact, Bowie made the connection during concerts, calling out during the song, "Oh, Rocket Man!" Bowie's lyrics in "Ashes to Ashes" reinterpret Major Tom as an oblique autobiographical symbol for himself.
In a final wink to its fans, the writers describe the mission as one of science; looking for evidence of life on mars a "gene hunt" aka "Bigfoot".
April 1, 2009, South Park S13 Ep4: Eat, Pray, Queef.
April 1, 2009, The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
April 1, 2009, At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity. (BBC)
April 1, 2009, Barak meets with the Queen
April 1, 2009, Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, The United States' World War II steamship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
April 1, 2009, A Computer virus called Conficker was spread throught millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information.
April 2, 2009, The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC)
April 2, 2009, The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
April 3, 2009, Release of the Fast and Furious 4
Fast & Furious is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series. It is an interquel set between the second and third films. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles.
Plot
After a successful run at hijacking fuel tanks on the lowways of Bani/Punta Cana Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto has become an international criminal. Dominic's partner Han departs for Tokyo. With an increasing pressure from the police, Dom leaves Letty, not wanting her to be caught with him. Years later, Letty is found murdered in her wrecked car, bullet in the brain. At the scene of her murder, Dom finds traces of nitromethane residue that can only be purchased at one tuner shop in L.A.. At the body shop, he finds one of his old racing counterparts that, after being coerced, leads him to a man named David Park. Dominic finds Park and hangs him out of a window threatening to drop him and vowing to kill anyone that stands in his way of avenging Letty. He receives the information that only through a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, can he gain access to the man responsible for Letty's death, Fenix Caulderon.
Laz Alonso as Fenix "Rise" Caulderon
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist Party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer superimposed on a sickle, or vice versa. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolises the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. This emblem was made during the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union, along with the Red Star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.
April 3, 2009, Release of Adventure Land.
April 3, 2009, Release of Barak action figure
April 3, 2009, French police detain 300 people after protests in Strasbourg, where British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and U.S. President Barack Obama are attending a NATO summit.
April 3, 2009, The United States economy lost 663,000 jobs in March, raising the unemployment rate to 8.5%. (New York Times)
April 3, 2009, Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)
April 4, 2009, Anniversary of the Death of Martin Luther King.
April 4, 2009, Three police officers are killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN)
[Eagle/Phoenix]
April 5, 2009, WrestleMania 25 takes place from the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
April 5, 2009, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command report that North Korea's Bright Star-2 communications satellite did not reach Earth's orbit. (CNN)
April 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announces his plan for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (AFP via Google News)
April 6, 2009, At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila (The Eagle/Phoenix), Italy. (CNN)
April 6, 2009, Mysterious blue foot reaches for orange cloud in photograph from Space.
April 6, 2009, North Carolina Tarheels win the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the oldest state-supported university in the U.S. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates.
The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County, and Johnston County. It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.
The Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order or the Orange Lodge, is a Protestant fraternal organization based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. It was founded in Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland in 1795; its name is a tribute to Dutch-born Protestant king of Britain, William III of England (William II of Scotland), of the House of Orange-Nassau. William had defeated the Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Observers have accused the Orange Institution of being a sectarian organization, due to its goals and its exclusion of Roman Catholics as members.Some denominations of Protestants, however, are also ineligible for membership.
April 6, 2009, Chuck S2 Ep19: Chuck vs Dream Job
April 8, 2009, Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly decommissions its black sites worldwide. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitcher Nick Adenhart killed in car accident.
April 10, 2009, Season Finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Born to Run.
April 10, 2009, Release of Observe and Report.
April 10, 2009, Release of Dragonball "Evolution".
April 10, 2009, The Fourth East Asia Summit begins in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)
April 10, 2009, Japan announces a US$150-billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
April 11, 2009, Anti-government protests cancel the Fourth East Asia Summit in Pattaya, Thailand. (BBC)
April 12, 2009, Easter
April 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI says that only reconciliation can resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. (MSNBC)
April 12, 2009, Ángel Cabrera wins the PGA Tour's 2009 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States. (Yahoo)
April 12, 2009, Captain Richard Phillips of the MV Maersk Alabama, who was abducted by Somali pirates, is rescued. (CNN)
April 13, 2009, The U.S. federal government will rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)
April 13, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)
April 14, 2009, North Korea will depart the six-party talks and resume its nuclear program. (BBC)
April 14, 2009, The Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announces the birth of Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)
April 15, 2009, Obamas introduce BO the Portuguese Water Dog. (WashPost)
April 15, 2009, China launches a second satellite as part of its Compass global navigation system. (Xinhua)
April 15, 2009, Swiss investment bank UBS AG will cut 8,700 jobs. (Sky News)
April 15, 2009, The Tax Day Tea Party protests against higher taxes and out-of-control government spending began rallying across the United States. [WSJ)
April 15, 2009, The Pitcairn Islands abolish alcohol prohibition. (RNZI)
April 15, 2009, The United States' consumer price index records its first year-on-year deflation since 1955. (Times Online)
April 16, 2009, Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
April 16, 2009, China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
April 17, 2009, Release of 17 Again.
April 17, 2009, Release of Crank: High Voltage.
April 17, 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
April 17, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)
April 19, 2009, United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
April 19, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)
April 20, 2009, Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
April 20, 2009, China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)
April 20, 2009, Durban Review Conference: The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
-A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
-Several delegations exit during an anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters)
April 21, 2009, Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
April 21, 2009, The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
April 21, 2009, The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
April 21, 2009, The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)
April 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
April 22, 2009, Japan reports its first annual trade deficit since 1981. (BBC)
April 23, 2009, General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)
April 23, 2009, Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)
April 23, 2009, The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN)
April 23, 2009, Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)
April 24, 2009, Release of The Soloist
April 24, 2009, Release of Tyson.
April 24, 2009, Swine influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
April 24, 2009, The bovine genome is sequenced. (Science)
April 25, 2009, Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza. (Reuters)
April 26, 2009, The United States declares a public health emergency over the outbreak of swine influenza. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Season Finale of Chuck S2 Ep22. Chuck Versus the Ring:
The day of Ellie and Devon's wedding arrives, but Chuck finds himself forced to protect both his sister and the event from a vengeful Ted Roark.
April 27, 2009, A low-flying Boeing VC-25, Air Force One, causes momentary panic in New York City, New York, United States. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Mexico reports 149 deaths from the outbreak of swine influenza. (BBC)
April 27, 2009, General Motors announces that its Pontiac brand will be eliminated by 2010. (AP via Google News)
April 27, 2009, A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. (Sky News)
April 28, 2009, The first transgenic, fluorescent dogs are cloned in South Korea. (AP via Google News)
April 29, 2009, The United States economy contracts by 6.1% in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via New York Times)
April 29, 2009, Swine influenza outbreak: The United States suffers its first casualty. (USA Today)
-Mexico reports 159 deaths and 2,500 suspected cases. (Sky News)
-The World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert Level to five.(BBC)
April 30, 2009, 30 Rock: The Natural Order
April 30, 2009, Chrysler LLC files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Code. (CNN-IBN)
April 30, 2009, Five people are killed and 13 injured during a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
April 30, 2009, The United Kingdom ends combat operations in the Iraq War. (BBC)
April 30, 2009, Helios Airways is charged with 119 counts of manslaughter over the crash of Flight 522 in 2005. (AP)
Sam Tyler receives a phone call that presents him with three tasks he must perform so he can return to his life in the future, he must weigh his alternatives and decide whether to stay in 1973 or go home.
At the end of the series it is revealed that Tyler's 2008 & 1973 realities were both fictitious, created by the futuristic computer - named Windy - aboard a space ship that is carrying Tyler, Hunt, Norris, Carling and Skelton on the first ever manned mission to the planet Mars.
Tyler's actual reality is the year 2035, and the crew he worked with in the past are just virtual reality versions of his fellow spaceship crewmembers. The reason why he had traveled back to 1973 was due to a temporary malfunction on board the ship: to sustain their lives, all of the crew were routinely kept active while asleep using virtual reality "neural stimulation" programs of their own choosing, but a meteor storm caused a momentary glitch in the program (Sam had chosen his 2008 identity as part of his VR program, but the program accidentally kicked him back to 1973). Frank Morgan is the Mission Control flight director, Annie Norris is the Colonel in charge of the mission, and Gene Hunt - "Major Tom" - is also revealed to be Sam's father.
Major Tom is a fictional astronaut created by David Bowie. He appears in the songs "Space Oddity", "Ashes to Ashes" and "Hallo Spaceboy" by Bowie, the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Peter Schilling, a French cover of "Major Tom" by Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand, "I'm A Soldier" by Stefán, "Mrs. Major Tom" by K.I.A., "Rocket" by Def Leppard, and "Rain or Shine" by Five Star. Due to some similarities in Elton John's "Rocket Man", some presume this song might also be an allusion to Major Tom. In fact, Bowie made the connection during concerts, calling out during the song, "Oh, Rocket Man!" Bowie's lyrics in "Ashes to Ashes" reinterpret Major Tom as an oblique autobiographical symbol for himself.
In a final wink to its fans, the writers describe the mission as one of science; looking for evidence of life on mars a "gene hunt" aka "Bigfoot".
April 1, 2009, South Park S13 Ep4: Eat, Pray, Queef.
April 1, 2009, The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
April 1, 2009, At least eight people are killed when a Eurocopter AS332 ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity. (BBC)
April 1, 2009, Barak meets with the Queen
April 1, 2009, Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
April 1, 2009, The United States' World War II steamship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
April 1, 2009, A Computer virus called Conficker was spread throught millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information.
April 2, 2009, The Group of 20 announces a US$1-trillion agreement to combat the current financial crisis. (BBC)
April 2, 2009, The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
April 3, 2009, Release of the Fast and Furious 4
Fast & Furious is the fourth film in The Fast and the Furious film series. It is an interquel set between the second and third films. The plot connects with the original film of the series from which Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster reprise their roles.
Plot
After a successful run at hijacking fuel tanks on the lowways of Bani/Punta Cana Dominican Republic, Dominic Toretto has become an international criminal. Dominic's partner Han departs for Tokyo. With an increasing pressure from the police, Dom leaves Letty, not wanting her to be caught with him. Years later, Letty is found murdered in her wrecked car, bullet in the brain. At the scene of her murder, Dom finds traces of nitromethane residue that can only be purchased at one tuner shop in L.A.. At the body shop, he finds one of his old racing counterparts that, after being coerced, leads him to a man named David Park. Dominic finds Park and hangs him out of a window threatening to drop him and vowing to kill anyone that stands in his way of avenging Letty. He receives the information that only through a street race, arranged by Ramon Campos, can he gain access to the man responsible for Letty's death, Fenix Caulderon.
Laz Alonso as Fenix "Rise" Caulderon
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist Party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer superimposed on a sickle, or vice versa. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them together symbolises the unity between industrial and agricultural workers. This emblem was made during the Bolshevik Revolution.
It is best known from having been incorporated into the red flag of the Soviet Union, along with the Red Star. It has also been used in other flags and emblems.
April 3, 2009, Release of Adventure Land.
April 3, 2009, Release of Barak action figure
April 3, 2009, The United States economy lost 663,000 jobs in March, raising the unemployment rate to 8.5%. (New York Times)
April 3, 2009, Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a shooting at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)
April 4, 2009, Anniversary of the Death of Martin Luther King.
April 4, 2009, Three police officers are killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN)
[Eagle/Phoenix]
April 5, 2009, WrestleMania 25 takes place from the Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas.
April 5, 2009, Simpsons Ep 20 x 16
April 5, 2009, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command report that North Korea's Bright Star-2 communications satellite did not reach Earth's orbit. (CNN)
April 5, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama announces his plan for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (AFP via Google News)
April 6, 2009, At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila (The Eagle/Phoenix), Italy. (CNN)
April 6, 2009, Mysterious blue foot reaches for orange cloud in photograph from Space.
April 6, 2009, North Carolina Tarheels win the NCAA March Madness Tournament.
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange County, North Carolina, United States and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), the oldest state-supported university in the U.S. The population was 48,715 at the 2000 census; its population was listed at 54,492 in the Census Bureau's 2007 estimates.
The county was formed in 1752 from parts of Bladen County, Granville County, and Johnston County. It was named for the infant William V of Orange, whose mother Anne, daughter of King George II of Great Britain, was then regent of the Dutch Republic.
The Orange Institution, more commonly known as the Orange Order or the Orange Lodge, is a Protestant fraternal organization based predominantly in Northern Ireland and Scotland with lodges throughout the Commonwealth and the United States. It was founded in Loughgall, County Armagh, Ireland in 1795; its name is a tribute to Dutch-born Protestant king of Britain, William III of England (William II of Scotland), of the House of Orange-Nassau. William had defeated the Catholic army of James II at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. Observers have accused the Orange Institution of being a sectarian organization, due to its goals and its exclusion of Roman Catholics as members.Some denominations of Protestants, however, are also ineligible for membership.
April 6, 2009, Chuck S2 Ep19: Chuck vs Dream Job
Chuck tracks down his long-lost father and gets a job working for one of
his idols, not knowing what the job has in store for him.
April 8, 2009, Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly decommissions its black sites worldwide. (BBC)
April 9, 2009, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Pitcher Nick Adenhart killed in car accident.
April 10, 2009, Season Finale of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Born to Run.
April 10, 2009, Release of Observe and Report.
April 10, 2009, Release of Dragonball "Evolution".
April 10, 2009, The Fourth East Asia Summit begins in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)
April 10, 2009, Japan announces a US$150-billion economic stimulus package. (BBC)
April 11, 2009, Anti-government protests cancel the Fourth East Asia Summit in Pattaya, Thailand. (BBC)
April 12, 2009, Easter
April 12, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI says that only reconciliation can resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people. (MSNBC)
April 12, 2009, Ángel Cabrera wins the PGA Tour's 2009 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States. (Yahoo)
April 12, 2009, Captain Richard Phillips of the MV Maersk Alabama, who was abducted by Somali pirates, is rescued. (CNN)
April 13, 2009, The U.S. federal government will rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)
April 13, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns North Korea's launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)
April 14, 2009, North Korea will depart the six-party talks and resume its nuclear program. (BBC)
April 14, 2009, The Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announces the birth of Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)
April 15, 2009, Obamas introduce BO the Portuguese Water Dog. (WashPost)
April 15, 2009, China launches a second satellite as part of its Compass global navigation system. (Xinhua)
April 15, 2009, Swiss investment bank UBS AG will cut 8,700 jobs. (Sky News)
April 15, 2009, The Tax Day Tea Party protests against higher taxes and out-of-control government spending began rallying across the United States. [WSJ)
April 15, 2009, The Pitcairn Islands abolish alcohol prohibition. (RNZI)
April 15, 2009, The United States' consumer price index records its first year-on-year deflation since 1955. (Times Online)
April 16, 2009, Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
April 16, 2009, China's economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)
April 17, 2009, Release of 17 Again.
April 17, 2009, Release of Crank: High Voltage.
April 17, 2009, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
April 17, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)
April 19, 2009, United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
April 19, 2009, The Fifth Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)
April 20, 2009, Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
April 20, 2009, China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)
April 20, 2009, Durban Review Conference: The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
-A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
-Several delegations exit during an anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters)
April 21, 2009, Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)
April 21, 2009, The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
April 21, 2009, The United Kingdom's Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)
April 21, 2009, The smallest confirmed extrasolar planet, Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)
April 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reports that cyber-spies have hacked the U.S. Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)
April 22, 2009, Japan reports its first annual trade deficit since 1981. (BBC)
April 23, 2009, General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)
April 23, 2009, Judge Tomas Norström of The Pirate Bay's trial is revealed to be a member of the same copyright protection organizations as several entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)
April 23, 2009, The International Monetary Fund forecasts that the world economy will not recover until 2010. (CNN)
April 23, 2009, Iraq's government calculates that more than 110,000 Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)
April 24, 2009, Release of The Soloist
April 24, 2009, Release of Tyson.
April 24, 2009, Swine influenza kills at least 68 people and infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)
April 24, 2009, The bovine genome is sequenced. (Science)
April 25, 2009, Mexico's government declares a state of emergency to combat the outbreak of swine influenza. (Reuters)
April 26, 2009, The United States declares a public health emergency over the outbreak of swine influenza. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Season Finale of Chuck S2 Ep22. Chuck Versus the Ring:
The day of Ellie and Devon's wedding arrives, but Chuck finds himself forced to protect both his sister and the event from a vengeful Ted Roark.
April 27, 2009, A low-flying Boeing VC-25, Air Force One, causes momentary panic in New York City, New York, United States. (New York Times)
April 27, 2009, Mexico reports 149 deaths from the outbreak of swine influenza. (BBC)
April 27, 2009, General Motors announces that its Pontiac brand will be eliminated by 2010. (AP via Google News)
April 27, 2009, A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. (Sky News)
April 28, 2009, The first transgenic, fluorescent dogs are cloned in South Korea. (AP via Google News)
April 29, 2009, The United States economy contracts by 6.1% in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via New York Times)
April 29, 2009, Swine influenza outbreak: The United States suffers its first casualty. (USA Today)
-Mexico reports 159 deaths and 2,500 suspected cases. (Sky News)
-The World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert Level to five.(BBC)
April 30, 2009, 30 Rock: The Natural Order
April 30, 2009, Chrysler LLC files for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Code. (CNN-IBN)
April 30, 2009, Five people are killed and 13 injured during a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
April 30, 2009, The United Kingdom ends combat operations in the Iraq War. (BBC)
April 30, 2009, Helios Airways is charged with 119 counts of manslaughter over the crash of Flight 522 in 2005. (AP)
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