October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name (from the Latin "octo" meaning "eight") when January and February were added. When the calendar was originally created by the Romans, the year began in March (in honor of the God of War, Mars) this meant that instead of October being the 10th month of the year it was originally the 8th month of the year. October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
October 1, 2009, Sarah Palin's memoir Going Rogue tops best-seller list; 6 weeks before Release. (Telegraph)
October 1, 2009, American Police Force trusted into public spotlight after controversy.(Raw)
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October 1, 2009, Fringe: Fracture.
There is an explosion in a train station that leaves no trace of any explosive device. Walter finds the remains of a human body who was not identified as one of the deceased. He heads back to the lab to examine the remains. He discovers that this person was actually the bomb. He had been injected with a mysterious compound regularly for a few years as part of a secret military experiment. Olivia and Peter head to Iraq, where Peter has connections with someone who may have been involved in the government project. They learn the names of everyone involved in the experiment, one of whom is the wife of the man who exploded. They return to America, where she has been tricked into being the next bomb. Olivia and Peter prevent the explosion and take the man responsible into custody. He suggests that the bombs were intended to eliminate agents operating for 'The Observer.'
October 1, 2009, The Mentalist: The Scarlet Letter.
The CBI team investigates the murder of a prominent State Senator's intern.
October 1, 2009, Community: An Introduction to Film.
Abed pursues his interest in film study to the chagrin of his strict father. Jeff bites off more than he can chew after registering for a class he thought he could breeze through with no effort.
October 1, 2009, Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Great Recession.
Mac and Dennis try to keep the bar afloat in the tough economic times; Frank starts a family business with Dee; newly poor people gather outside the bar.
October 1, 2009, A second earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale occurs near Sumatra, Indonesia, following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake the previous day. (Reuters)
October 1, 2009, The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are sworn into office, replacing the Law Lords as the final court of appeal in the country. (BBC)
October 1, 2009, Mass celebrations take place in Beijing to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Xinhua)
October 1, 2009, The Dow Jones loses over 200 points by the closing bell. (CNN)
October 1, 2009, AP Exclusive: Autopsy shocker: Jackson was healthy (BreitBart)
October 1, 2009, President "Blair" Within Weeks. (Sun)
October 1, 2009, Police use acoustic warfare to disperse crowds (MyWay)
October 1, 2009, The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are sworn into office, replacing the Law Lords as the final court of appeal in the country. (BBC)
October 1, 2009, Mass celebrations take place in Beijing to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. (Xinhua)
October 1, 2009, The Dow Jones loses over 200 points by the closing bell. (CNN)
October 1, 2009, AP Exclusive: Autopsy shocker: Jackson was healthy (BreitBart)
October 1, 2009, President "Blair" Within Weeks. (Sun)
October 1, 2009, Police use acoustic warfare to disperse crowds (MyWay)
October 2, 2009, Series Premiere of Stargate: Universe.
Stargate Universe is set on the Ancient ship Destiny, which was launched nearly a million years ago. Several ships were sent ahead of it to seed the universe with Stargates. The Ancients had planned on using the Stargate to board Destiny when it was far out enough into the universe, but learned how to ascend before that time. In order to reach this ship, an address would have to be dialed consisting of nine chevrons, a possibility that had been unknown in the previous Stargate series.
Stargate Universe is set on the Ancient ship Destiny, which was launched nearly a million years ago. Several ships were sent ahead of it to seed the universe with Stargates. The Ancients had planned on using the Stargate to board Destiny when it was far out enough into the universe, but learned how to ascend before that time. In order to reach this ship, an address would have to be dialed consisting of nine chevrons, a possibility that had been unknown in the previous Stargate series.
October 2, 2009, Olympics headed to Brazil(Etymology: Ember), first time Olympics will be held in South America.
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September 29, 2009, Samoa Earthquake/Tsunami
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Southern Cross
Crux is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations, but is one of the most distinctive. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross because since the time of Christ it has been easily visible from the southern hemisphere, at practically any time of year.
Crux is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations, but is one of the most distinctive. Its name is Latin for cross, and it is dominated by a cross-shaped asterism that is commonly known as the Southern Cross because since the time of Christ it has been easily visible from the southern hemisphere, at practically any time of year.
As a highly distinctive asterism, Crux has great significance in the cultures of the southern hemisphere.
In Australian Aboriginal astronomy, Crux and the Coalsack mark the head of the 'Emu in the Sky' in several Aboriginal cultures, while Crux itself is said to be a possum sitting in a tree.
A stone image of the constellation has been found at the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, Peru.[citation needed] In Mapudungun, the language of Patagonian Mapuches, the name of Crux is Melipal, which means "four stars". In Quechua, the language of the Inca civilization, Crux is known as "Chakana", which means literally "stair" (chaka, bridge, link; hanan, high, above), but carries a deep symbolism within Quechua mysticism.
October 2, 2009, Release of Zombie Land.
Zombieland is an American zombie comedy horror film, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by Ruben Fleischer. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.
The film takes place within a post-apocalyptic context, beginning with narration from Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a college student from Austin, Texas, who is on his way to Columbus to see if his parents are alright. He begins by explaining his "rules" for surviving the zombie apocalypse, which is a recurring motif in the film. After surviving a few zombie attacks, he encounters Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), whose life goal is to find the remaining Twinkies on Earth. To avoid attachment, Tallahassee insists that no real names be used so they instead go by their intended destinations: Columbus and Tallahassee, as that's where they're each heading.
October 2, 2009, Release of More then a Game.
More Than a Game is a documentary that follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James' journey to fame.
October 2, 2009,
The Invention of Lying is a comedy film, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. It also stars Gervais and Jennifer Garner.
The film is set in an alternate reality in which no one has ever lied. Not only does no one tell a lie, but people often tell the entire truth, or blurt out very blunt remarks and opinions that people in normal society would normally keep to themselves. Organized religion does not exist, nor are there any forms of fiction, in both film and literature. Advertisements are not very flattering of their products.
October 2, 2009,
Whip It! is a comedy film directed by Drew Barrymore and written by Shauna Cross, based on Cross' novel Derby Girl.
A misfit girl named Bliss (Ellen Page) is constantly being pressured to enter beauty pageants by her mother. However, she feels this isn't something she's meant to do, and joins a roller derby league instead. She feels that these girls are her new heroes. She has no idea how to skate but Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), one of her teammates, tells her to be her own hero. This is a recurring theme in the movie. She then is determined to join their roller derby league. She realizes that she skates well, and in an effort to join the league, tells her parents she will be taking SAT preparation classes. Her mom believes her and is very happy she is taking some initiative in her life. When her mother finds out, everything will change.
October 2, 2009, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi birthday.
October 2, 2009, The New York Daily News is reporting that Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams' severed head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility, according to details from a new book(Huffpost)
October 2, 2009,
October 3, 2009, Ireland approves the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon by a margin of 67.1% to 32.9% in a second referendum. (RTÉ)
October 3, 2009,
October 3, 2009, Tony Blair's former chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell, has been touring European capital cities, including Brussels, Paris and Prague, in an undercover move to make him the first President of the European Council. Blair is supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (The Times)
-William Hague says Blair as EU president would be the worst option for Britain, saying "most people would be extremely annoyed" and that his appointment would "underline the lack of accountability and democracy that is our objection to the Lisbon treaty". (The Times)
October 3, 2009, The 19th anniversary of the reunification of Germany is marked by a special four-day puppet show in Berlin. (BBC)
October 3, 2009, Typhoon Parma hits the Philippines, with early reports indicating at least four deaths as trees are uprooted and roofs torn off houses. (Philippine Inquirer)
October 3, 2009, Thousands of people demonstrate in defence of press freedom in Rome, Italy, amid concerns of government interference. (The New York Times)
October 3, 2009, Archaeologists discover a smaller prehistoric site near Stonehenge, dubbed as "Bluehenge", named after the hue of the 27 stones that formed it. (BBC)
October 4, 2009, Family Guy S8 Ep2: Family Goy.
October 2, 2009, Release of Zombie Land.
Zombieland is an American zombie comedy horror film, written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick and directed by Ruben Fleischer. The film stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, and Abigail Breslin.
The film takes place within a post-apocalyptic context, beginning with narration from Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), a college student from Austin, Texas, who is on his way to Columbus to see if his parents are alright. He begins by explaining his "rules" for surviving the zombie apocalypse, which is a recurring motif in the film. After surviving a few zombie attacks, he encounters Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson), whose life goal is to find the remaining Twinkies on Earth. To avoid attachment, Tallahassee insists that no real names be used so they instead go by their intended destinations: Columbus and Tallahassee, as that's where they're each heading.
October 2, 2009, Release of More then a Game.
More Than a Game is a documentary that follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James' journey to fame.
October 2, 2009,
The Invention of Lying is a comedy film, written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson. It also stars Gervais and Jennifer Garner.
The film is set in an alternate reality in which no one has ever lied. Not only does no one tell a lie, but people often tell the entire truth, or blurt out very blunt remarks and opinions that people in normal society would normally keep to themselves. Organized religion does not exist, nor are there any forms of fiction, in both film and literature. Advertisements are not very flattering of their products.
October 2, 2009,
Whip It! is a comedy film directed by Drew Barrymore and written by Shauna Cross, based on Cross' novel Derby Girl.
A misfit girl named Bliss (Ellen Page) is constantly being pressured to enter beauty pageants by her mother. However, she feels this isn't something she's meant to do, and joins a roller derby league instead. She feels that these girls are her new heroes. She has no idea how to skate but Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), one of her teammates, tells her to be her own hero. This is a recurring theme in the movie. She then is determined to join their roller derby league. She realizes that she skates well, and in an effort to join the league, tells her parents she will be taking SAT preparation classes. Her mom believes her and is very happy she is taking some initiative in her life. When her mother finds out, everything will change.
October 2, 2009, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi birthday.
October 2, 2009, The New York Daily News is reporting that Red Sox Hall of Famer Ted Williams' severed head was mistreated at an Arizona cryonics facility, according to details from a new book(Huffpost)
October 2, 2009,
October 3, 2009, Ireland approves the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon by a margin of 67.1% to 32.9% in a second referendum. (RTÉ)
October 3, 2009,
October 3, 2009, Tony Blair's former chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell, has been touring European capital cities, including Brussels, Paris and Prague, in an undercover move to make him the first President of the European Council. Blair is supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. (The Times)
-William Hague says Blair as EU president would be the worst option for Britain, saying "most people would be extremely annoyed" and that his appointment would "underline the lack of accountability and democracy that is our objection to the Lisbon treaty". (The Times)
October 3, 2009, The 19th anniversary of the reunification of Germany is marked by a special four-day puppet show in Berlin. (BBC)
October 3, 2009, Typhoon Parma hits the Philippines, with early reports indicating at least four deaths as trees are uprooted and roofs torn off houses. (Philippine Inquirer)
October 3, 2009, Thousands of people demonstrate in defence of press freedom in Rome, Italy, amid concerns of government interference. (The New York Times)
October 3, 2009, Archaeologists discover a smaller prehistoric site near Stonehenge, dubbed as "Bluehenge", named after the hue of the 27 stones that formed it. (BBC)
October 4, 2009, Family Guy S8 Ep2: Family Goy.
Quagmire is introduced to internet pornography, something that he never believed even exists since he still uses dial-up. After Peter falls in love with a cardboard cutout of Kathy Ireland, Lois tells Peter that it was the dumbest thing he's done since he got into a turf war with a cat. Peter continues to "date" the cutout as though it were a real person, until he accidentally "kills" it after Chris had taken it into his room (concluding that it was having an affair with Chris). While having sex to make up for what he did, Peter finds a lump on Lois' breast and takes to the doctor to test for cancer.
The tests come back negative, but the doctor looks at her family medical history and reveals that Lois is Jewish, learning her mother hid her ethnic background to keep up her image. Though Lois tries not to be as open about being Jewish, Peter takes to the family’s newfound faith eagerly until he changes his tune when he is visited by the ghost of his stepfather.
He then starts trying to convert the family back to Catholicism, but Lois won't let him after she decides to embrace her Jewish heritage.
Eventually, when Peter tries to ruin the Passover Seder Lois has, Jesus shows up and tells Peter that Catholicism and Judaism are very similar. Peter and Lois apologize to each other, and Jesus tells Peter that it doesn't really matter which religion they are, since "they're all complete crap". This is met with agreement from Brian, an atheist
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009, Shōichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese Finance Minister who resigned over apparent drunken behaviour at the 2009 G7 meeting in Rome, is found dead in Tokyo. (Japan Today)
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009, Pressure increases on the Czech and Polish nations to approve the Treaty of Lisbon; Polish President Lech Kaczyński is expected to sign it following the second Irish referendum but Czech President Václav Klaus continues to decline. (RTÉ)
October 4, 2009, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is revealed to have Jewish roots. (The Daily Telegraph)
October 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI opens a three-week synod of African bishops with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. (BBC)
October 4, 2009, The British and French governments announce a "historic" £2.5 billion allocation to the International Monetary Fund to help less wealthy countries. (BBC)
October 5, 2009, House S6 Ep4: The Tyrant.
The team treats a controversial African politician (James Earl Jones) who has fallen ill; House tries to make amends with a feuding neighbor.
Mirror Box
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009, The United States Federal Trade Commission issues regulations for writers of web logs. (AP via Google)
October 5, 2009, The Canadian province of Quebec is planning a lawsuit against tobacco companies to seek damages for healthcare costs. (Reuters)
October 5, 2009, United States President Barack Obama delays a meeting with the Dalai Lama until after a visit to China. (Washington Post)
October 6, 2009, FlashForward Date.
October 6, 2009, Release of Everclear Album In a Different Light.
October 6, 2009, Release of Toby Keith Album American Ride.
October 6, 2009, Release of Kiss Album Sonic Boom.
October 6, 2009, The demise of the dollar.
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009, Shōichi Nakagawa, the former Japanese Finance Minister who resigned over apparent drunken behaviour at the 2009 G7 meeting in Rome, is found dead in Tokyo. (Japan Today)
October 4, 2009,
October 4, 2009, Pressure increases on the Czech and Polish nations to approve the Treaty of Lisbon; Polish President Lech Kaczyński is expected to sign it following the second Irish referendum but Czech President Václav Klaus continues to decline. (RTÉ)
October 4, 2009, President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is revealed to have Jewish roots. (The Daily Telegraph)
October 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI opens a three-week synod of African bishops with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. (BBC)
October 4, 2009, The British and French governments announce a "historic" £2.5 billion allocation to the International Monetary Fund to help less wealthy countries. (BBC)
October 5, 2009, House S6 Ep4: The Tyrant.
The team treats a controversial African politician (James Earl Jones) who has fallen ill; House tries to make amends with a feuding neighbor.
Mirror Box
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009,
October 5, 2009, The United States Federal Trade Commission issues regulations for writers of web logs. (AP via Google)
October 5, 2009, The Canadian province of Quebec is planning a lawsuit against tobacco companies to seek damages for healthcare costs. (Reuters)
October 5, 2009, United States President Barack Obama delays a meeting with the Dalai Lama until after a visit to China. (Washington Post)
October 6, 2009, FlashForward Date.
October 6, 2009, Release of Everclear Album In a Different Light.
October 6, 2009, Release of Toby Keith Album American Ride.
October 6, 2009, Release of Kiss Album Sonic Boom.
October 6, 2009, The demise of the dollar.
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading
October 6, 2009, Gold price hits record high on report to ditch dollar.
October 6, 2009, UN calls for new reserve currency(BreitBart)
October 6, 2009, Threat of next world war may be in cyberspace: WorldWideWeb/WWW/WW3.(BreitBart)
October 7, 2009, South Park S13 Ep8: Dead Celebrities.
"Dead Celebrities" is the premiere episode of the second half of the thirteenth season of the animated television series South Park, and the season's eighth episode overall.
For a while, Ike has been seeing ghosts of dead celebrities such as Billy Mays. The boys call Ghost Hunters to find the problem, but they get scared and instead end up urinating and defecating themselves thinking that it's actually paranormal activity. After Ike ends up in a coma, a medium (based on Tangina from Poltergeist) comes to help the boys, managing to contact the spirits as they reveal they're trapped in Purgatory because Michael Jackson refuses to accept his death.
As the medium gets thrown out a window by the ghost's denial and killed, Jackson possesses Ike's body as the other spirits are forced to remain in Purgatory, which is revealed to be an airplane stuck on a metaphorical runway. The only way to release Michael from Ike's body and to free the celebrities from Purgatory is for Michael to achieve his dream: being a "little white girl". The boys enter Michael in a beauty pageant. After Michael's singing performance, the two male judges love him, but the police arrest the two judges for pedophilia, leaving the female judge to decide the final outcome. Cartman sees her eating Chipotle and bribes her with the Chipotl-away a Billy Mays Product which haunted Ike. Michael wins and his spirit leaves Ike's body and returns to Purgatory. Purgatory then lifts off and takes all of the people to their destination, Hell. To the annoyance of the dead celebrities, they are informed that Hell is a Tow gate.
October 7, 2009,
October 7, 2009, One Nation Under God painting by Jon McNaughton.
October 7, 2009, The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". (Nobel Foundation)
October 7, 2009, European Union leaders again warn the Czech Republic of the costs which will be imposed by the further delaying of the Lisbon Treaty. (RTÉ)
October 7, 2009, The discovery of a new ring around Saturn is announced. (BBC)
October 7, 2009, The Constitutional Court of Italy overturns a law offering Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from prosecution while in office, ruling it unconsitutional. (Adnkronos)
October 7, 2009, A 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Vanuatu, followed 15 minutes later by a 7.3 magnitude aftershock. A tsunami warning is issued. (USGS)
October 7, 2009, The Red Book by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung is displayed for the first time in public. (BBC)
October 8, 2009, Fringe S2 Ep4: Momentum Deferred.
Fringe division investigates a series of robberies of human heads that are linked to shapeshifters. Olivia is given a memory-jogging concoction by Walter made of flatworms. Walter finds that the shapeshifters are made of mercury and that the shapeshifter they thought was dead is still alive.
Walter and Peter visit the woman that Walter experimented on with LSD to see what she might still remember about the shapeshifters from her visions. She immediately remembers Walter and volunteers to help. Back in the lab, they give her a dose of LSD and she sees the shapeshifters again.
Olivia has a sudden rush of memories regarding her meeting with William Bell. He draws a symbol and says that the shapeshifters are looking for someone with that symbol on his head. He also tells Olivia that she is the only person strong enough to be the gatekeeper between the dimensions, because "The Storm" is coming. After Olivia wakes from her memories, she visits Nina Sharp, who explains that "The Storm" is William Bell's theory that when the two dimensions collide, only one will remain in existence.
The shapeshifters are trying to cause this. As the woman that Walter experimented on says good-bye to Peter, she pauses momentarily, implying that she realizes Peter is from the other dimension. Elsewhere, Olivia discovers that Charlie is the missing shapeshifter and kills him. At the end, the shapeshifters find the head they were looking for and attach it to its body.
October 8, 2009, The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the Romanian-German novelist Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". She becomes the twelfth woman to win the literature prize and the fourth female Nobel Laureate of 2009, a record year for female achievers. (Nobel)
October 8, 2009, DNA analysis reveals the identity of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family in the 19th and early 20th centuries. (BBC)
October 8, 2009, A new study reveals one in four people are Muslim, with the global Muslim population standing at 1.57 billion. (The Guardian)
October 8, 2009, Colombia's Administrative Department of Security to be dismantled and become newly named Agencia Central de Inteligencia (Central Intelligence Agency).(Colombia Reports)
October 9, 2009, Release of Couples Retreat.
Couples Retreat is a comedy film directed by Peter Billingsley and written by Jon Favreau, Vince Vaughn and Dana Fox.
Jason (Jason Bateman) and Cynthia (Kristen Bell) are dangerously close to getting a divorce. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, they decide to take a vacation to a tropical resort meant to help ailing couples through therapy. Short on cash, they enlist help from their friends to offset the cost through a group rate: the kid-raising Dave (Vince Vaughn) and Ronnie (Malin Akerman), the lovelessly married Joey (Jon Favreau) and Lucy (Kristen Davis), and the recently divorced Shane (Faizon Love) and his much younger girlfriend Trudy (Kali Hawk). The three other couples think they are just going to have fun and help their friends, but they realize they are in for having their relationships examined as well.
October 9, 2009, In an attempt to determine the extent of lunar ice, NASA commences bombing of the Moon by crashing two unmanned spacecraft into its south pole in front of a live audience. (ABC News)
October 9, 2009, U.S. president Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” (The New York Times)
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish, Danish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) was one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel
(Alfred Bernhard Nobel (Stockholm, Sweden, 21 October 1833 – Sanremo, Italy, 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, armaments manufacturer and the inventor of dynamite. He owned Bofors, a major armaments manufacturer, which he had redirected from its previous role as an iron and steel mill. In his last will, he used his enormous fortune to institute the Nobel Prizes.).
According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." Alfred Nobel's will stated that the prize should be awarded by a committee of five people elected by the Norwegian Parliament. Norway and Sweden were at that time still in union, and with Sweden responsible for all foreign policy, Nobel felt that the prize might be less subject to political corruption if awarded by Norway. The Peace Prize is presented annually in Oslo on December 10 (the anniversary of Nobel's death), and is the only Nobel Prize not presented in Stockholm. In Oslo, the Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee presents the Nobel Peace Prize in the presence of the King of Norway. The Nobel Laureate then receives a diploma, a medal and a document confirming the prize amount. The Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony is held at the Oslo City Hall, followed the next day by the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, which is broadcast to more than 450 million households in over 150 countries around the world. The concert has received worldwide fame and the participation of top celebrity hosts and performers.
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October 9, 2009, Wallace Souza, the former Brazilian state legislator and host of Canal Livre who faces accusations of drug trafficking and murder, surrenders to police after being a fugitive for four days. (CNN)
October 10, 2009, Barak gives speech at Human Rights Campaign.
October 10, 2009, Marge to appear in Playboy.
October 10, 2009, Colorado Rockies Playoff game is Snowed out.
October 11, 2009,
October 11, 2009, Columbus Day.
October 11, 2009, Simpsons S21 Ep4: The Great Wife Hope.
Marge Simpson, Sarah Wiggum, Edna Krabappel, Luann Van Houten and Bernice Hibbert are out bowling and wonder why there are no men in the alley. Marge discovers that all the men of Springfield, including Homer and Bart, are spending their time viewing the Ultimate Punch, Kick and Choke Championship. When Marge catches Bart engaged in ultimate fighting in the school yard, she convinces her friends to form a protest group. The women picket the ultimate fighting stadium, but this fails to attract attention. Marge enters the arena to denounce ultimate fighting, and the promoter, Chett Englebrick, offers Marge a compromise. He challenges Marge to a match, and if she wins he will shut down ultimate fighting in Springfield. Marge accepts the challenge, believing it to be for the betterment of the community. Her family is horrified, and Homer and Bart try to convince Marge to call off the match. Marge, however, believes the fight is the only way to stop the violence.
Marge tries to get fighting instructions in boxing from Drederick Tatum, jujitsu from Akira, and Greco-Roman wrestling from Mr. Burns (who wrestled for Yale under the nick-name "The New Haven Nuisance"). Marge then decides to train on her own, practicing rhythmic gymnastics in her backyard. On the day of the match, most of the town is convinced Chett will win, and he knocks Marge out with one punch. Homer leaps to her rescue, but becomes stuck in the stadium chairs. Bart jumps in the ring to continue the fight. When Marge sees Chet hurting Bart, she bursts into a violent fighting rage and easily defeats him. Marge tries to make a speech about how to end violence, noting that she discovered her own dark side through the course of the fight. In spite of her heartfelt speech, the audience has left to witness a drunken brawl in the parking lot. Homer and Marge leave the stadium with the intention to make love, and the episode ends with Bart challenging Lisa to settle their sibling war. As they charge towards each other, the credits start, only to cut back to Lisa knocking Bart out.
October 11, 2009, American Dad S5 Ep3: Home Adrone
Steve is left home alone when the family takes a trip to look at a potential college for Hayley. When his friends arrive and realize he has the run of the house, they persuade Steve to break the rules. They’re soon in over their heads when they discover that what they thought was a video game is actually a military controlled drone. As they attempt to cover their tracks, Roger has a meltdown that keeps the family from making their trip. Stan returns to find that Steve has betrayed his trust and thrust them into a high-level security situa
October 11, 2009, Thousands of people attend the state funeral of Arturo "Zambo" Cavero in Lima, Peru. President Alan García posthumously awards him the Order of the Sun. (BBC)
October 11, 2009, Thousands of people march in protest for gay rights in Washington, D.C.. (BBC)
October 11, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI canonizes five new saints: Father Damien, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński, Francisco Coll Guitart, and Jeanne Jugan. (Reuters)
October 12, 2009, House S6 Ep4: Instant Karma
A billionaire insists his son be treated by House after several doctors failed to diagnose his dying son. Cuddy appoints House to make all the final diagnostic decisons, although Foreman is still in charge of the department. The father believes that his son's condition is the result of karma, saying that "everything he touches turns to gold" except for when it comes to his family. His son's health continues to decline and House diagnoses his son with Degos, an incurable disease. House says that his son has one more day to live, at most. The father then signs a deal that is guaranteed to make him bankrupt in hopes of making his son's health improve by balancing out the success in his life. House soon after diagnoses his son with Primary Antiphospholipid Syndrome, a manageable disease. The bankrupt father is later shown with his recovering son happily sharing pizza.
October 12, 2009, Heroes S4 Ep5: Hysterical Blindness.
Sylar wakes up with no memories. Claire discovers that there is more to her new roommate than what she already knows. Peter helps Emma to better understand her ability. Samuel seeks out a new member to the carnival family.
October 12, 2009,
This is it, here I stand
I’m the "light" of the world, I feel grand
Got this love I can feel
And I know yes for sure it is real
And it feels as though I’ve seen your face a thousand times
And you said you really know me too yourself
And I know that you have got addicted with your eyes
But you say you gonna live it for yourself.
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn’t my plan
I never thught that I would be your lover
C’mon baby, just understand
This is it, I can say,
I’m the light of the world, run away
We can feel, this is real
Every time I’m in love that I feel
And I feel as though I’ve known you since 1,000 years
And you tell me that you’ve seen my face before.
And you said to me you don’t wnat me hanging round
Many times, wanna do it here before
I never heard a single word about you
Falling in love wasn’t my plan
I never thught that I would be your lover
C’mon baby, just understand
This is it, I can feel
I’m the light of the world, this is real
Feel my song, we can say
And I tell you I feel that way
October 12, 2009, Edgar Allan Poe receives a funeral in Baltimore, USA, 160 years after his death and 200 after his birth. (BBC)
October 12, 2009,
October 13, 2009, Release of David Archueleta and Bob Dylan Albums Christmas in the Heart.
October 13, 2009, Release of Brian McKnight Album Evolution of man.
October 13, 2009, Release of Los Lonely Boys Album 1969.
October 13, 2009, Senates Finance committee approves health care bill.
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October 14th, 2009, Rush Limbaugh Denied from Buying Rams.
October 13, 2009, Halo appears in Russian Sky, meteorologist calls it an illusion.
October 13, 2009, Swastika and Obama Carved into Golf Course.
October 13, 2009, Knight Templar anniversary.
October 13, 2009, It is revealed that Czech President Václav Klaus has told his supporters he will never sign the Treaty of Lisbon. (The Times)
October 13, 2009, An autopsy on the body of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately finds he died of natural causes. Andrew Cowles blames himself. The Bulgarian who found his body speaks out for the time. (The Irish Times)
October 13, 2009, A previously unrecognized painting is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on fingerprint evidence. (BBC)
October 14, 2009, The United Nations warns that malnutrition is getting worse. (BBC)
October 14, 2009, The Dow Jones closes above 10,000 points for the first time in more than a year. (The New York Times)
October 14, 2009,Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, holds a mass wedding ceremony for some 1,000 couples near Seoul. (Reuters)
October 14, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee issues an apology for the unnecessary "//" in URLs he designed for the World Wide Web. (BBC)
October 14, 2009, Iraq's Human Rights Ministry announces at least 85,000 Iraqis have been killed by bombs, murders and fighting between 2004 and 2008. (Associated Press)
October 15, 2009, Fringe S2 Ep5: "Dream Logic"
The Fringe division investigates the case of a man who attacked his boss in Seattle, believing he was a strange horned creature. While investigating the body, Walter finds a computer chip attached to the thalamus, the part of the brain that controls dreams.
This part of the brain is also attached the the motor cortex, leading Walter to believe the chips are being used as mind control. Broyles and Nina Sharp reveal new information which leads to the sleep researcher who implanted the chips. Walter changes his theory; the dreams are being stolen from their hosts to cause a "high" in the person receiving them. The sleep researcher is in fact a dream addict with two personalities. His doctor personality sets a trap so that Olivia and Peter will catch his alternate persona. At the end of the episode, Peter has a nightmare that he can't remember, suggesting that he too might be having his dreams stolen.
October 15, 2009, The U.N. General Assembly elects Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria to the U.N. Security Council as non-veto-holding members. (Reuters)
October 15, 2009, Three of the five members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee initially argued against awarding U.S. President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. (AFP via Google News)
October 15, 2009, Finland becomes the first country in the world to declare Internet broadband access a legal right. (CNN)
October 15, 2009, A worldwide media circus surrounds an incident in which a six-year-old boy named Falcon(Horus/Phoenix) is alleged to be flying in a homemade hot-air balloon; the boy was later found safe at home. (CNN)
October 15, 2009, President of Ireland Mary McAleese signs the Lisbon Treaty after returning from Luxembourg. (RTÉ)
October 16, 2009, Release of Where the Wild Things Are.
Where the Wild Things Are is a American fantasy film directed by Spike Jonze. It is a live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 children's book of the same name.
he story centers on Max, a little boy who imagines running away from his family to an island inhabited by giant animal-like creatures with childish personalities.
October 16, 2009, Release of Law Abiding Citizen.
Law Abiding Citizen is a thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer, and starring Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. The film takes place in Philadelphia and tells the story of Clyde Shelton (Butler), a man who decides to exact revenge on his family's killers, as well as the criminal justice system.
October 16, 2009, Release of The Stepfather.
The Stepfather is a remake of the 1987 American horror/thriller film of the same name, who was directed from Nelson McCormick.
Michael Harding (Penn Badgley) returns home from military school to find his mother Susan (Sela Ward), happily in love with a man known as David Harris (Dylan Walsh). He seems like the perfect father and husband to everyone - except Michael, who suspects that he isn't quite the man he seems to be.
October 16, 2009, The United States records a budget deficit of $1.42 trillion. (Bloomberg)
October 16, 2009, A strong earthquake hits Indonesia, causing mass panic and evacuations in Jakarta. (CNN)
October 16, 2009, Hurricane Rick forms off the coast of Mexico. (BBC)
October 16, 2009, The United Nations Human Rights Council endorses the Goldstone report on the Gaza War, accussing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. (Jerusalem Post)
October 16, 2009, Australian pop singer, songwriter, and actress Kylie Minogue makes her Hindi cinema debut in Blue, thought to be the most expensive Bollywood production ever.
October 17, 2009, Czech President Václav Klaus compares the Treaty of Lisbon to "an unstoppable speeding train" that he is being forced to sign. (BBC)
October 17, 2009, A report into dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura in Côte d'Ivoire is published. (BBC)
October 17, 2009, Two police officers are killed after their police helicopter is shot down by drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ten drug traffickers were also killed in the violence. (Associated Press)
October 17, 2009, The sheriff in Fort Collins, Colorado advises that criminal charges will be laid over the Colorado balloon incident. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
October 17, 2009, The government of the Maldives, including President Mohamed Nasheed, holds the world's first underwater Cabinet meeting, to highlight the threat of global warming. (Miadhu News)
October 18, 2009, American Dad S5 Ep4: Brains, Brains and Automobiles.
Stan arrives in the CIA's mobile lab, where his co-worker Ray is about to enter the brain of the cat to learn any terrorist intel, he learns that after Ray's kids left the house, his wife left too, considering him boring. Though Stan is confident that Francine will never leave him, he realizes that when Hayley and Steve leave for their respective summers of fun, Francine looks forward to her newfound alone time with him. He confides in Klaus that eighteen years of fathering, he had no alone time with Francine and fears her leaving her, especially with her on her period. Klaus assuring him that because Roger is incapable of being self-sufficient, there is no possibility of that. Unfortunately, Roger overhears them and manages to be self-sufficient and move into his own apartment. Stan tries desperately to get him back in the house by adding rat poison to Roger's drinks so that he will get sick. Klaus is horrified and threatens to rat to Francine, only to be shut up in the freezer. However, the second time, Roger manages to get up to make iced tea, but accidentally grabs the rat poison by mistake, throwing himself into a coma. Stan brings the CIA mobile lab to his house, using the mind transfer gear to go into Roger's unconscious mind to bring him back to consciousness.
Francine soon goes in as well, having learned from Klaus, having kept warm with a bottle of vodka, about Stan's antics and starts to resent him. Separately, they make it to Roger's memory hall, where Francine has viewed Roger's witnessing to Stan's statement about being needy. They then find Roger and bring him back to the living.
October 18, 2009, Simpsons S21 Ep5: Tree House Horror XX.
October 18, 2009, The Rock Obama Returns (Huffpost)
October 18, 2009, Church Denounces African Children as "Witches"(Huffpost)
October 18, 2009, Iraq accuses neighbouring countries of stealing sections of its national archives, including centuries-old documents. (AFP)
October 18, 2009, Ukraine commences its first presidential election campaign since the 2004 Orange Revolution. (Reuters)
October 18, 2009, Jenson Button wins the 2009 Formula One World Championship in Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil, by finishing fifth in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix.
October 18, 2009, Germany and Israel complain about a Bangkok museum billboard depicting a salute by Adolf Hitler beside the slogan "Hitler is not dead". (BBC)
October 18, 2009, Hurricane Rick strengthens to a Category 5 storm, becoming the strongest hurricane in a decade in the eastern Pacific Ocean. (Associated Press)
October 18, 2009, The Australian state of Queensland declares a state of emergency after more than 50 wildfires burn out of control. (TVNZ)
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October 20, 2009, In a set of canon laws, the Vatican welcomes groups of Anglicans as "personal ordinariates" into the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI announces. (BBC)
October 20, 2009, Sun Microsystems announces plans to lay off up to 3,000 workers as it prepares for a merger with Oracle Corp. (Market Watch)
October 20, 2009, Rare footage of the abuse of suspected witches causes controversy in India. (BBC)
October 21, 2009, South Park S13 Ep10: W.T.F
After seeing a Raw event, the boys find their true calling in life. They decide to sign up for wrestling classes but soon find out that the wrestling taught in schools is quite different from professional wrestling, including making professional wrestling monikers. The teacher (Mr. Connors) tries to teach them wrestling, only for them to find the starting position to be "gay", and the boys walk out of the class, assuming that the teacher is a child molester. The teacher realizes that they only took the class after seeing the WWE show, to his frustration.
The boys decide to start their own backyard wrestling federation, W.T.F. (Wrestling Takedown Federation).October 21, 2009, Eastwick S1 Ep5: Mooning and Crooning.
Under the influence of a rare celestial event, Eastwick "goes wild"(Sexual) for a night - and our ladies aren't spared. Newly-single Kat fulfills a longtime fantasy -- atop a piano -- while Roxie and Mia end up in an embarrassing predicament with Chad and Josh. Feeling the pressure from her editor, Joanna, with Penny's help, rushes to print a newspaper story that gets her in some very hot water.
October 21, 2009,
October 21, 2009, The Philadelphia Phillies win the 2009 National League Championship Series 4 games to 1 after defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers 10–4. (New York Times)
October 21, 2009, A report on the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum, measuring around 70cm long, is published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. (RSPB)
October 21, 2009, The International Atomic Energy Agency propose draft agreement for Iran and three world powers to agree, aimed at reducing international concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme. (BBC)
October 22, 2009,
October 22, 2009,
October 22, 2009, Sweden's Lutheran Church decides to conduct same-sex marriages, becoming the first major church to do so. (Reuters)
October 22, 2009, China's economy grows at 8.9% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace in a year. (Bloomberg)
October 22, 2009, The Microsoft operating system Windows 7 goes on retail sale worldwide. (CNET News)
October 22, 2009, The U.S. House Financial Services Committee approved a measure establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Agency.(Washington Post)
October 23th, 2009, Apple Day.
Apple Day is an annual celebration, held on October 21 each year, of apples and orchards. It is celebrated mainly in the United Kingdom.
Apple Day was initiated by Common Ground in 1990 and has been celebrated in each subsequent year by people organizing hundreds of local events. Common Ground describe the day as a way of celebrating and demonstrating that variety and richness matter to a locality and that it is possible to effect change in your place. Common Ground has used the apple as a symbol of the physical, cultural and genetic diversity we should not let slip away. In linking particular apples with their place of origin, they hope that orchards will be recognized and conserved for their contribution to local distinctiveness, including the rich diversity of wild life they support.
October 23, 2009, Release of Saw VI.
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood
October 23, 2009, Release of Astroboy.
Astro Boy, also called Atom (アトム, Atomu?) in Japan, is a computer-animated 3-D film based on the long-running Japanese franchise of the same name.
An origin story set in the futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a robot (Freddie Highmore) with many powers, created by the grieving scientist Dr. Tenma (Nicolas Cage), in the image of his son, Toby, who died in an accident. Unable to fulfill the fathers' expectations, the robot embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, becoming part of a group of rowdy kids on the surface world below the floating city. There he meets a girl named Cora (Kristen Bell) and inadvertently becomes part of a world of robot gladiators led by the greedy, Fagin-like ringmaster Hamegg (Nathan Lane), before he returns to save Metro City from the evil president's (Donald Sutherland) renegade giant robot, and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
October 23, 2009, Release of Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is the film adaptation of the first three books of the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by author Darren Shan.
The Vampire's Assistant is a fantasy-adventure about a teenager who unknowingly breaks a 100-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires, a peaceful group called the Vampire Clan who doesn't kill their victims, and a group of stereotypical bloodsucking killers called the Vampaneze. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.
October 23, 2009, Release of Amelia.
Amelia is a currently released 2009 dramatized biographical film of the life of Amelia Earhart, starring Hilary Swank.
October 23, 2009, Series Premiere of White Collar.
Neal Caffrey is a con-man who was captured after a three year game of cat-and-mouse. After serving most of a four year sentence, he escapes from prison to find his girlfriend, who he has reason to believe is in danger. Peter Burke, the FBI agent who captured Caffrey, catches him again. This time, however, Caffrey gives him information about evidence in another case. However, this information comes with a price: Burke must have a meeting with Caffrey. In the meeting, Caffrey proposes a deal: he will help Burke catch other criminals as part of a work-release program. Burke agrees, after some hesitation. Within a day of being released from prison, Caffrey already lives in one of the most expensive houses in Manhattan, after convincing an elderly widow to allow him to stay in her guest room. After catching the elusive Dutchman, Caffrey has proved to Burke that he will help him, and that he won't try to escape again.
October 23, 2009,
October 23, 2009, At the end of their three-week synod in the Vatican, more than 200 African Roman Catholic bishops issue a 12-page document urging what they call corrupt political leaders on the continent to repent their sins or resign and criticising multinational companies who exploit and destroy the earth. (BBC)
October 23, 2009, A universal mobile phone charger that works with any handset is approved by the International Telecommunication Union. (BBC)
October 23, 2009, Jean Todt defeats Ari Vatanen in an election to become the new head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, replacing former head Max Mosley, who held the position for 16 years. (BBC)
October 23, 2009, The Swiss Government says that the United States has formally requested the extradition of film director Roman Polanski for having unlawful sex with an underage girl in 1977. (AP via Washington Post)
October 24, 2009, Senior envoys from North Korea and the United States hold rare talks on North Korea's nuclear programme in New York City. (Channel News Asia)
October 24, 2009, Over 5,400 synchronized demonstrations occur worldwide with the goal of pushing countries to get serious about an international climate accord. (New York Times)
October 24, 2009, A magnitude 7.0 under sea earthquake strikes off the eastern Indonesia. (Associated Press)
October 25, 2009, The New York Yankees beat the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 in Game 6 of the 2009 American League Championship Series to advance to the World Series. (New York Times)
October 25, 2009, Inspectors from the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), arrive in Iran to inspect a newly disclosed nuclear facility near the city of Qom. (CNN)
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October 26, 2009, Australian authorities offer a Aus$1 million reward in their search for a man suspected of ordering the murder of a vampire. (BBC)
October 26, 2009, Yahoo! discontinues its free web hosting service GeoCities, ten years after purchasing it from David Bohnett and John Rezner. (The Los Angeles Times)
October 26, 2009, A crater found in northern Latvia, believed at first to be a meteorite strike, is revealed to be a hoax perpetrated by telecom operator Tele2. (Fox News)
October 27, 2009,
October 27, 2009, Release of Atreyu Album Congregation of the Damned.
October 27, 2009, Release of Weezer album Raditude.
October 27, 2009, Release of Creed Album Full Circle.
October 27, 2009, Release of R.E.M. Album Live At The Olympia.
October 27, 2009, Qatar inaugurates one of the world's largest LNG trains, operated by RasGas. (Al Bawaba)
October 27, 2009, NASA announces a delay in the launch of the Ares I-X test rocket, developed to replace the space shuttle, due to poor weather conditions. (New Scientist)
October 27, 2009, The Church of Scientology in France is convicted of organised fraud. (France 24)
October 27, 2009, The son of ex-French President François Mitterrand, Jean-Christophe Mitterrand and an ex-government minister, Charles Pasqua, are convicted for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola. (Associated Press)
October 27, 2009, A British couple are missing after their yacht is hijacked by Somali pirates off the Seychelles. (Bloomberg)
October 28th, 2009, Release of This is It (Film).
Michael Jackson's This Is It is a 2009 American concert film documenting Michael Jackson's rehearsals of the concert series of the same name, both on stage and behind the scenes. The film will comprise of Jackson mentoring his team for the 50 shows, as well as him creating, developing, and ultimately staging the high-tech performances. The footage was filmed at The Forum and the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Despite originally being set for an October 30, 2009 release date, the film's release date was rescheduled for October 28, 2009, with a limited two-week run. Tickets went on sale a month early on September 27, 2009, to satisfy a high anticipated demand.
The film's tour director Kenny Ortega release the following statement regarding the film:
The footage that was captured from the early stages of the production to our technical rehearsals at the STAPLES Center in L.A. will show Michael as he truly was, creatively involved with every aspect of the production, from the staging and choreography, to the music, lighting, production design and conception of the original short films and video backdrops. This Is It was Michael's last theatrical work and although it was still a work in progress, I think the footage will show that the process was something that Michael deeply enjoyed.
October 28th, 2009, Modern Family S1 Ep6: Run for your Wife.
October 28, 2009, The Matthew Shepard Act, providing legal protection against hate crimes to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people, is signed into law in the United States by President Barack Obama. (Associated Press)
October 28, 2009, Federal agents attached to the FBI fatally shoot the leader of a Sunni Muslim group wanted on firearm charges in Detroit, USA. (New York Times)
October 29th, 2009, All Saints Eve.
All Saints' Day (officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on November 1 in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.
In terms of Western Christian theology, the day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. Specifically, in the Catholic Church, the next day, All Souls' Day, commemorates the departed faithful who have not yet been purified and reached heaven.
October 29th, 2009, Release of Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
It is revealed that after Connor, Murphy, and their father Noah assassinated Papa Joe Yakavetta, they fled to Ireland and remained in a secluded farmhouse for the past eight years. Their uncle Sibeal arrives to inform them that a renowned Boston priest they heard of was murdered by a mysterious assassin who attempted to copycat their method. In response, the brothers dig up their old clothes and guns and prepare to depart back to Boston. On a freighter en route to Boston, they meet a Mexican fighter named Romeo who admires the saints and offers his resources in Boston if he is allowed to join them, and they accept. They hear a radio broadcast regarding Papa Joe's son Concezio Yakavetta and deduce that he is the man who hired the hitman to kill the priest and draw them out of hiding.
October 29, 2009, FlashForward S1 Ep6: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
October 29th, 2009, House unveils 1,990 page Health Bill.
October 29, 2009, The United States unofficially exits recession in the third quarter, growing at 3.5%. (Associated Press)
October 29, 2009, Kenya is to carry out its first census on its gay population to combat HIV/AIDS, even though homosexuality is banned in the country. (BBC)
October 29, 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the government is ready for a deal on its nuclear program. (Press TV)
October 30th, 2009, Numb3rs: Dreamland.
When strange, almost paranormal happenings are observed at a decommissioned air base, the spooky occurrences take on a decidedly different tone when the team is brought in to investigate the mystery of a dead woman found there
October 30th, 2009, Devils Night (Mischief Night).
Mischief night or mischievous night is a tradition in northern England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States; a night when the custom is for preteens and teenagers to take a degree of license to play pranks and do mischief to their neighbours.
It is known as "Gate Night" in Trail, British Columbia, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Thunder Bay, Ontario and as Mat Night (or Mad Night) in Quebec, Canada, always on the 30 October, the eve of Halloween.
October 30, 2009, NASA reveals that a partial parachute failure resulted in damage to the Ares I-X test booster upon splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean following its test flight on Wednesday. (Spaceflight Now)October 30, 2009, A U.S. judge orders a trial for two doctors and a lawyer accused of providing American sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith with drugs. (AP via Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
October 30, 2009, Internet regulator ICANN approves plans to allow non-Latin web addresses for the first time. (BBC)
October 30, 2009, European Union leaders agree a climate aid deal to help developing countries adapt to climate change. (CNN)
October 31th, 2009, Reformation.
The Protestant Reformation was a Christian reform movement in Europe which is generally deemed to have begun with Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses in 1517 although a number of precursors such as Johannes Hus predate that event. The Reformation is considered to have ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648; however, many of the denominations that arose during that period continue to exist and Protestantism constitutes one of the branches of Christianity today.
October 31th, 2009, Halloween.
Halloween is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It originates from the Gaelic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints. It is largely a secular celebration but some have expressed strong feelings about perceived religious overtones. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America during Ireland's Great Famine of the 1840s.
The day is often associated with orange and black, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties.Halloween has origins in the ancient Gaelic festival known as Samhain (pronounced sow-in or sau-an), which is dervied from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A similar festival was held by the ancient Britons and is known as Calan Gaeaf (pronounced kalan-geyf). The festival of Samhain celebrates the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darker half", and is sometimes regarded as the "Celtic New Year".
It could be seen as a festival of the dead. The ancient Gaels believed that the border between this world and the otherworld became thin on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home whilst harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks. Their purpose was to disguise oneself as a harmful spirit and thus avoid harm. In Scotland the spirits were impersonated by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened face.
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