November is the 11th month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning "nine") when January and February were added to the Roman calendar.
In the pagan wheel of the year, November begins at or near Samhain in the northern hemisphere and Beltaine in the southern hemisphere.
The United States and Puerto Rico observe Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November.
Advent (from the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming") is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas (Nov 27. - Dec 3.). It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday.
Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used in reference to the Second Coming. Christians believe that the season of Advent serves a dual reminder of the original waiting that was done by the Hebrews for the birth of their Messiah as well as the waiting that Christians today endure for the second coming of Christ.
November 1, 2009, All Souls Day
November 2, 2009, Premiere of TV Series Strange Rituals.
November 5, 2009, 13 people die and 30 people are injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base in Texas. Fort Hood is currently under lock-down. (BBC)
November 5, 2009, Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Nicaragua. (Reuters)
November 6, 2009, Release of A Christmas Carol.
November 6, 2009, Release of The Fourth Kind
November 6, 2009, Release of The Box.
November 6, 2009, Release of Pirate Radio.
November 6, 2009, One person is killed and five are injured during a shooting in an office building in Orlando, Florida, USA. (CNN)
November 7, 2009, Scientists in the South Island, New Zealand, discover the first dinosaur footprints in the country, thought to be 70 million years old. (AFP)
November 8, 2009, The United States House of Representatives votes 220-215 to pass the highly debated health care reform act. (New York Times)
November 8, 2009,
November 9, 2009, World leaders mark the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, with the main celebrations taking place at the Brandenburg Gate. (BBC
November 9, 2009, I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs.(Times)
November 9, 2009,
November 9, 2009,
November 10, 2009, Release of Wyclef JeanFrom The Hut To The Projects To The Mansion
November 10, 2009, Release of Puscifer album "C" is for (Please Insert Sophomonic Genitalia Reference HERE)
November 10, 2009, Release of MF Doom album Unexpected Guests
November 10, 2009, Release of Wale album Attention Deficit
November 10, 2009, Release of Clipse album Road til the Casket Drops.
November 10, 2009, Release of Throw Down Album Deathless.
November 10, 2009, 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street
November 10, 2009, Fort. Hood Memorial
November 10, 2009, John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is executed in Virginia at 9:11 pm. (AP via Fox News (US)
November 11, 2009, Remembrance Day
November 11, 2009, For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France appear together at a ceremony on Rememberance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict. (MSNBC)
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009, Iran protests to Oxford University's Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan. (AP)
November 11, 2009, Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in Montreal, Quebec during a tour by Prince Charles. (Metro)
November 11, 2009, The discovery of a new dinosaur species, named Aardonyx celestae, in South Africa is announced. (IOL)
November 11, 2009, South Park S13 Ep13: Dance With Smurfs.
November 12, 2009,
November 12, 2009,
November 12, 2009, Parks and Recreation S1 Ep9: The Camel
November 12, 2009, United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan will face 13 charges of murder for the Fort Hood shooting. (AP via New York Times)
November 12, 2009, United States Federal prosecutors begin legal action to seize properties owned by the Alavi Foundation on the grounds that it has ties with Iran. (New York Times)
November 12, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls for an overhaul of the Russian economy and democratic modernisation in an annual state of nation address. (BBC)
November 13, 2009, Release of 2012.
November 13, 2009, Relase of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
November 13, 2009, NASA claims to have discovered water after the LCROSS satellite crashes near the South Pole of the Moon. (New York Times)
November 13, 2009, Trail of 9/11 mastermind Mohammed too be held in New York.
November 13, 2009, The United States opens its first marijuana cafe. (Reuters)
November 13, 2009, American politician William J. Jefferson, former Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Louisiana, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
November 13, 2009, Actor and film director Clint Eastwood is made a commander of the Légion d'honneur. (Xinhua)
November 14, 2009, U.S. evangelist Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse. (CNN)
November 14, 2009, The United Nations chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization completes a 24 hour hunger strike in Rome, Italy, ahead of a UN summit next week. (AP)
November 15, 2009, Release of TV Series Prisoner
November 15, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep6: Ladies Night.
November 15, 2009, American Dad 5Ep6: Shallow Vows.
November 15, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to meet with Burma's military government, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. (Reuters)
November 15, 2009, APEC leaders say a deal on climate change will not be possible before next month's United Nations summit in Denmark. (CNN)
November 16, 2009, NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 at 1928 UTC (2:28pm EST), bringing supplies and the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station. (NASA)
November 16, 2009, The United Nations "Hunger Summit" opens in Rome, Italy. (AFP)
November 16, 2009, The IAEA expresses concern after a late declaration of a second nuclear site by Iran. (Al Jazeera)
November 16, 2009, One of the United Kingdom's most prolific rapists, known as the "Night Stalker" who it thought to have struck more than 200 times, is charged with 22 offences against the elderly from 1992 to 2009. (The Times)
November 16, 2009, The United Nations is criticised after a poster that made reference to China's internet censorship by the OpenNet Initiative at an international conference focussed on Internet freedom in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, is removed. (BBC)
November 17, 2009, Release of 50 Cent Album Before I Self Destruct.
November 17, 2009, Release of Rob Zombie Album Hellbilly Deluxe 2- Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls And The Systematic Dehumanization Of Cool.
November 17, 2009, Release of Norah Jones Album Fall.
November 17, 2009, Release of The Empire Shall Fall Album Awakening.
November 17, 2009, Release of OneRepublic Album Waking Up.
November 17, 2009, Release of Rakim Album 7th Seal.
November 17, 2009, Release of Going Rogue
November 17, 2009,
November 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China. (Reuters)
November 17, 2009, An inquiry into a scandal known as "Indonesia's Watergate" says a police case against two anti-corruption officials should be dropped. (Jakarta Post)
November 18, 2009, A magical season for Royal's Zack Grienke, KC's Cy Young Award winner.(KC)
November 18, 2009, The population of Africa reaches one billion. (BBC)
November 18, 2009, According to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, Somalia is the most corrupt of 180 countries surveyed, and New Zealand is the least corrupt. (Reuters)
November 18, 2009, Senator and President pro tempore of the United States Senate Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia becomes the longest serving member in the history of the United States Congress. (Associated Press)
November 18, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Parliament of the United Kingdom and delivers Her Majesty's Most Gracious Address. (Daily Telegraph)
November 19, 2009,
November 19, 2009, Parks and Recreations S2 Ep10: Hunting Season.
November 19, 2009, The Office S6 Ep11: Shareholder's Meeting.
November 19, 2009, Google releases the source code of its open source Operating system Chrome OS.(PCMAG)
November 19, 2009, U.S. media mogul and talk show host Oprah Winfrey announces she will end her long running talk show in 2011. (AP via Newser)
November 19, 2009, European Union / Three new positions created by the Treaty of Lisbon:
-The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy is chosen as the first permanent President of the European Council by European Union leaders. (BBC)
-British politician Catherine Ashton is selected as EU's first Foreign Minister. (BBC News)
-French diplomat Pierre de Boissieu is selected as the first Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union. (AFP via Google News)
November 19, 2009, The discovery of three ancient crocodile species, Kaprosuchus saharicus, Araripesuchus rattoides and Laganosuchus thaumastos, is announced. (AP)
November 20, 2009, Release of Twilight: New Moon
November 20, 2009, Release of Planet 51
November 20, 2009, Release of Blind Side.
November 20, 2009,
November 20, 2009, The United States Senate clears Senator Roland Burris of legal wrongdoing in relation to his appointment to the Senate. (WLS Chicago)
November 20, 2009, Officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States express "regret" at Iran's refusal to accept nuclear proposals. (Reuters)
November 20, 2009, The Irish Defence Forces are deployed to assist civil authorities after widespread flooding hits the west and south of Ireland after the heaviest rainfall in over thirty years falls in one night. The worst affected areas are Cork and Galway, where there is widespread disruption to public transport and services and several major roads are closed. Lectures at University College Cork are cancelled as the university is submerged. (RTÉ)
November 20, 2009, Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is officially unveiled at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, live on an American morning television show. (The Independent)
November 20, 2009, Nasa taps The Rock for Spokesman.
November 20, 2009, The Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom collider in the world, is restarted after a fourteen-month delay for repairs. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 20, 2009, Two fingers and a tooth belonging to astronomer Galileo Galilei are located more than 100 years after their disappearance. (BBC)
November 21, 2009,
November 21, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll. (Reuters)
November 21, 2009, New research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 22, 2009, American Music Awards.
November 22, 2009,
November 22, 2009, Debate is stoked over whether scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change after computer hackers break into a server at University of East Anglia, the well-respected climate change research center. (Wall Street Journal)
November 22, 2009, The United States Senate votes to allow a debate on the healthcare reform bill of its President, Barack Obama. The debate is to begin on November 30, 2009. (The Guardian)
November 23, 2009, Release of Lady GaGa Album Fame Monster
November 23, 2009, Release of Shakira Album She Wolf
November 23, 2009, Release of Rhianna Album Rated R (Russian Roulette)
November 23, 2009, Release of Real Estate Album Real Estate
November 23, 2009, The first atom collisions have taken place in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. (The Times)
November 23, 2009, The world's largest mass immunisation against yellow fever begins in West Africa, targeting 12 million people. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, Premiere of TV Mini-Series Paradox.
November 24, 2009, Over 1,500 complaints are received from American viewers after a gay kiss involving Adam Lambert is televised during an awards ceremony. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, The European Parliament approves a major overhaul of telecommunications systems in the European Union aimed at boosting the rights of mobile and internet users. (AFP)
November 24, 2009, China executes two people for their role in the tainted milk poisoning scandal. (Xinhua)
November 24, 2009, In a tribute to Hindu goddess Gadhimai, approximately 20,000 buffalo and 300,000 birds, sheep and goats are ritually slaughtered in a festival in Bariyapur, Nepal. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, Web browser Opera closes a loophole which allowed Chinese users to access websites banned by the government. (BBC)
November 26, 2009, The Murphy Report, commissioned by the Irish government, finds that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid 1990s. (Irish Times)
November 26, 2009, Germany's army chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigns over allegations of a cover up related to a September NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan. (Xinhua)
November 26, 2009, Ceremonies are held in India to mark the first anniversary of a series of attacks in Mumbai by Pakistani militants which killed 166 people. (Hindustan Times)
November 26, 2009, China unveils its first firm target to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a United Nations summit in Copenhagen next month. (Xinhua)
November 26, 2009, Police in Hong Kong attempt to find the founder of a Facebook group whose members claim to have planned to commit a mass suicide on December 21. (IOL)
November 27, 2009,Release of Old Dogs
November 27, 2009, Release of The Princess and The Frog.
November 27, 2009,
November 27, 2009, Tiger Woods, the world's number one golfer, is hospitalised after sustaining injuries in a car crash in Orlando, Florida, USA. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 27, 2009, The International Atomic Energy Agency passes a resolution 25-3 condemning Iran for developing a secret uranium enrichment site. (BBC)
November 27, 2009, Multibillion-dollar debt problems of Emirati investment company Dubai World, including the possibility of default, upset markets worldwide. (MarketWatch)
November 27, 2009, The China National Space Administration sets a launch date of October 2010 for Chang'e 2, its second lunar orbiter. (AP)
November 27, 2009, The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 opens with the following issues on its agenda: discussion of climate change ahead of the December United Nations Climate Change Conference; Rwanda's admission into the Commonwealth of Nations; and Sri Lanka's bid to host the 2011 meeting. (BBC)
November 27, 2009, Franz Josef Jung resigns as Germany's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs following allegations of covering up the Kunduz airstrike, during which he served as Minister of Defence. (Deutsche Welle)
November 27, 2009, Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth following the completion of its STS-129 mission. (Reuters)
November 27, 2009, A mass shooting at a Thanksgiving party in Jupiter, Florida, United States kills four people and critically wounds a fifth. (CNN)
November 29, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep8: From Bed to Worse.
November 29, 2009, Four police officers are shot and killed while in a coffee shop in Parkland, Washington, United States. (MSNBC)
November 29, 2009, The Iranian parliament urges the government to reduce ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency. (Fars News Agency)
November 29, 2009, The central bank of the United Arab Emirates announces it will provide extra liquidity to Dubai banks. (Gulf News)
November 29, 2009, A United States Senate report states that Osama bin Laden was "within grasp" of the United States Army in Tora Bora in December 2001. (BBC)
November 30, 2009, John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Munich accused of war crimes relating to the killing of 27,000 Jews in the Holocaust. (Deutsche Welle)
November 30, 2009, The Large Hadron Collider sets a new world record for particle accelerations. (The Times)
November 30, 2009, Police in Seattle report that the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, shot in the murder of four police officers in Parkland, Washington, is on the run. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
November 30, 2009, Argonne National Laboratory announces that nanodiscs, made from an iron-nickel alloy and subjected to a magnetic field, destroy 90 percent of cancer cells in tests. (AFP)
In the pagan wheel of the year, November begins at or near Samhain in the northern hemisphere and Beltaine in the southern hemisphere.
The United States and Puerto Rico observe Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November.
Advent (from the Latin word adventus, meaning "coming") is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas (Nov 27. - Dec 3.). It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday.
Latin adventus is the translation of the Greek word parousia, commonly used in reference to the Second Coming. Christians believe that the season of Advent serves a dual reminder of the original waiting that was done by the Hebrews for the birth of their Messiah as well as the waiting that Christians today endure for the second coming of Christ.
November 1, 2009, All Souls Day
November 2, 2009, Premiere of TV Series Strange Rituals.
November 3, 2009, Series Premiere of V
November 3, 2009,
November 3, 2009, Czech President Václav Klaus signs the Lisbon Treaty after it was upheld by the Constitutional Court, thus fulfilling the final step in its ratification. (euronews)
November 3, 2009, Release of Carrie Underwood album Play On
November 4, 2009, China approves a Disney theme park in Shanghai after a decade of negotiations. (The Times)
November 4, 2009, Italian politicans and the Vatican condemn a ruling by a European Court that says having a crucifix in a classroom is a breach of human rights. (RTÉ)
November 4, 2009, An Italian court convicts 22 CIA agents and 2 Italian agents over the kidnap of Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in Milan in 2003, in the first court case challenging the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" programme. (BBC)
November 4, 2009, The New York Yankees defeat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 to win the 2009 World Series. (Associated Press)
November 5, 2009, Community S1 Ep8: Home Alone
November 5, 2009, An international team of scientists announces that the genome of the domestic horse has been successfully sequenced. (BBC)
November 5, 2009, 13 people die and 30 people are injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood U.S. Army base in Texas. Fort Hood is currently under lock-down. (BBC)
November 5, 2009, Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Nicaragua. (Reuters)
November 6, 2009, Release of The Men Who stares at Goats
November 6, 2009, Release of A Christmas Carol.
November 6, 2009, Release of The Fourth Kind
November 6, 2009, Release of The Box.
November 6, 2009, Release of Pirate Radio.
November 6, 2009, Release of Verizon Eris Phone.(PCW)
November 6, 2009, One person is killed and five are injured during a shooting in an office building in Orlando, Florida, USA. (CNN)
November 7, 2009, Scientists in the South Island, New Zealand, discover the first dinosaur footprints in the country, thought to be 70 million years old. (AFP)
November 8, 2009, The United States House of Representatives votes 220-215 to pass the highly debated health care reform act. (New York Times)
November 8, 2009,
November 9, 2009, World leaders mark the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall, with the main celebrations taking place at the Brandenburg Gate. (BBC
November 9, 2009, I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs.(Times)
November 9, 2009,
November 9, 2009,
November 10, 2009, Release of Wyclef JeanFrom The Hut To The Projects To The Mansion
November 10, 2009, Release of Puscifer album "C" is for (Please Insert Sophomonic Genitalia Reference HERE)
November 10, 2009, Release of Bon Jovi The Circle
November 10, 2009, Release of MF Doom album Unexpected Guests
November 10, 2009, Release of Wale album Attention Deficit
November 10, 2009, Release of Clipse album Road til the Casket Drops.
November 10, 2009, Release of Throw Down Album Deathless.
November 10, 2009, Fort. Hood Memorial
November 10, 2009, John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is executed in Virginia at 9:11 pm. (AP via Fox News (US)
November 11, 2009, Remembrance Day
November 11, 2009, For the first time since World War I, the leaders of Germany and France appear together at a ceremony on Rememberance Day to commemorate the end of the conflict. (MSNBC)
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009,
November 11, 2009, Iran protests to Oxford University's Queen's College over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student Neda Agha Soltan. (AP)
November 11, 2009, Anti-monarchy protesters and riot police clash in Montreal, Quebec during a tour by Prince Charles. (Metro)
November 11, 2009, The discovery of a new dinosaur species, named Aardonyx celestae, in South Africa is announced. (IOL)
November 11, 2009, South Park S13 Ep13: Dance With Smurfs.
November 12, 2009,
November 12, 2009,
November 12, 2009, Parks and Recreation S1 Ep9: The Camel
November 12, 2009, United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan will face 13 charges of murder for the Fort Hood shooting. (AP via New York Times)
November 12, 2009, United States Federal prosecutors begin legal action to seize properties owned by the Alavi Foundation on the grounds that it has ties with Iran. (New York Times)
November 12, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev calls for an overhaul of the Russian economy and democratic modernisation in an annual state of nation address. (BBC)
November 13, 2009, Release of 2012.
November 13, 2009, Relase of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
November 13, 2009, NASA claims to have discovered water after the LCROSS satellite crashes near the South Pole of the Moon. (New York Times)
November 13, 2009, Trail of 9/11 mastermind Mohammed too be held in New York.
November 13, 2009, The United States opens its first marijuana cafe. (Reuters)
November 13, 2009, American politician William J. Jefferson, former Democratic Party Congressman from the U.S. state of Louisiana, is sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. (AP via Houston Chronicle)
November 13, 2009, Actor and film director Clint Eastwood is made a commander of the Légion d'honneur. (Xinhua)
November 14, 2009, U.S. evangelist Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse. (CNN)
November 14, 2009, The United Nations chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization completes a 24 hour hunger strike in Rome, Italy, ahead of a UN summit next week. (AP)
November 15, 2009, Release of TV Series Prisoner
November 15, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep6: Ladies Night.
November 15, 2009, American Dad 5Ep6: Shallow Vows.
November 15, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. President to meet with Burma's military government, calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners. (Reuters)
November 15, 2009, APEC leaders say a deal on climate change will not be possible before next month's United Nations summit in Denmark. (CNN)
November 16, 2009, NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 at 1928 UTC (2:28pm EST), bringing supplies and the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station. (NASA)
November 16, 2009, The United Nations "Hunger Summit" opens in Rome, Italy. (AFP)
November 16, 2009, The IAEA expresses concern after a late declaration of a second nuclear site by Iran. (Al Jazeera)
November 16, 2009, One of the United Kingdom's most prolific rapists, known as the "Night Stalker" who it thought to have struck more than 200 times, is charged with 22 offences against the elderly from 1992 to 2009. (The Times)
November 16, 2009, The United Nations is criticised after a poster that made reference to China's internet censorship by the OpenNet Initiative at an international conference focussed on Internet freedom in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, is removed. (BBC)
November 17, 2009, Release of 50 Cent Album Before I Self Destruct.
November 17, 2009, Release of Rob Zombie Album Hellbilly Deluxe 2- Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls And The Systematic Dehumanization Of Cool.
November 17, 2009, Release of Norah Jones Album Fall.
November 17, 2009, Release of The Empire Shall Fall Album Awakening.
November 17, 2009, Release of OneRepublic Album Waking Up.
November 17, 2009, Release of Rakim Album 7th Seal.
November 17, 2009, Release of Going Rogue
November 17, 2009,
November 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China. (Reuters)
November 17, 2009, An inquiry into a scandal known as "Indonesia's Watergate" says a police case against two anti-corruption officials should be dropped. (Jakarta Post)
November 18, 2009, A magical season for Royal's Zack Grienke, KC's Cy Young Award winner.(KC)
November 18, 2009,
November 18, 2009, The population of Africa reaches one billion. (BBC)
November 18, 2009, According to the 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index, Somalia is the most corrupt of 180 countries surveyed, and New Zealand is the least corrupt. (Reuters)
November 18, 2009, Senator and President pro tempore of the United States Senate Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia becomes the longest serving member in the history of the United States Congress. (Associated Press)
November 18, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II officially opens the Parliament of the United Kingdom and delivers Her Majesty's Most Gracious Address. (Daily Telegraph)
November 19, 2009,
November 19, 2009, Parks and Recreations S2 Ep10: Hunting Season.
November 19, 2009, The Office S6 Ep11: Shareholder's Meeting.
November 19, 2009, Google releases the source code of its open source Operating system Chrome OS.(PCMAG)
November 19, 2009, U.S. media mogul and talk show host Oprah Winfrey announces she will end her long running talk show in 2011. (AP via Newser)
November 19, 2009, European Union / Three new positions created by the Treaty of Lisbon:
-The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy is chosen as the first permanent President of the European Council by European Union leaders. (BBC)
-British politician Catherine Ashton is selected as EU's first Foreign Minister. (BBC News)
-French diplomat Pierre de Boissieu is selected as the first Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union. (AFP via Google News)
November 19, 2009, The discovery of three ancient crocodile species, Kaprosuchus saharicus, Araripesuchus rattoides and Laganosuchus thaumastos, is announced. (AP)
November 20, 2009, Release of Twilight: New Moon
November 20, 2009, Release of Planet 51
November 20, 2009, Release of Blind Side.
November 20, 2009,
November 20, 2009, The United States Senate clears Senator Roland Burris of legal wrongdoing in relation to his appointment to the Senate. (WLS Chicago)
November 20, 2009, Officials from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, China and the United States express "regret" at Iran's refusal to accept nuclear proposals. (Reuters)
November 20, 2009, The Irish Defence Forces are deployed to assist civil authorities after widespread flooding hits the west and south of Ireland after the heaviest rainfall in over thirty years falls in one night. The worst affected areas are Cork and Galway, where there is widespread disruption to public transport and services and several major roads are closed. Lectures at University College Cork are cancelled as the university is submerged. (RTÉ)
November 20, 2009, Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, is officially unveiled at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, live on an American morning television show. (The Independent)
November 20, 2009, Nasa taps The Rock for Spokesman.
November 20, 2009, The Large Hadron Collider, the largest atom collider in the world, is restarted after a fourteen-month delay for repairs. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 20, 2009, Two fingers and a tooth belonging to astronomer Galileo Galilei are located more than 100 years after their disappearance. (BBC)
November 21, 2009,
November 21, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama's job approval rating slips below 50 percent in a daily tracking survey by Gallup poll. (Reuters)
November 21, 2009, New research concludes that Homo floresiensis, discovered in 2003, is a distinct species and not a previously known species with dwarfism or microcephaly. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 22, 2009, American Music Awards.
November 22, 2009,
November 22, 2009, Debate is stoked over whether scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change after computer hackers break into a server at University of East Anglia, the well-respected climate change research center. (Wall Street Journal)
November 22, 2009, The United States Senate votes to allow a debate on the healthcare reform bill of its President, Barack Obama. The debate is to begin on November 30, 2009. (The Guardian)
November 23, 2009, Release of Lady GaGa Album Fame Monster
November 23, 2009, Release of Shakira Album She Wolf
November 23, 2009, Release of Rhianna Album Rated R (Russian Roulette)
November 23, 2009, Release of Real Estate Album Real Estate
November 23, 2009, The first atom collisions have taken place in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. (The Times)
November 23, 2009, The world's largest mass immunisation against yellow fever begins in West Africa, targeting 12 million people. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, Premiere of TV Mini-Series Paradox.
November 24, 2009, Over 1,500 complaints are received from American viewers after a gay kiss involving Adam Lambert is televised during an awards ceremony. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, The European Parliament approves a major overhaul of telecommunications systems in the European Union aimed at boosting the rights of mobile and internet users. (AFP)
November 24, 2009, China executes two people for their role in the tainted milk poisoning scandal. (Xinhua)
November 24, 2009, In a tribute to Hindu goddess Gadhimai, approximately 20,000 buffalo and 300,000 birds, sheep and goats are ritually slaughtered in a festival in Bariyapur, Nepal. (BBC)
November 24, 2009, Web browser Opera closes a loophole which allowed Chinese users to access websites banned by the government. (BBC)
November 26, 2009, The Murphy Report, commissioned by the Irish government, finds that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin covered up widespread sexual abuse of children by priests until the mid 1990s. (Irish Times)
November 26, 2009, Germany's army chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan resigns over allegations of a cover up related to a September NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan. (Xinhua)
November 26, 2009, Ceremonies are held in India to mark the first anniversary of a series of attacks in Mumbai by Pakistani militants which killed 166 people. (Hindustan Times)
November 26, 2009, China unveils its first firm target to cut greenhouse gas emissions, ahead of a United Nations summit in Copenhagen next month. (Xinhua)
November 26, 2009, Police in Hong Kong attempt to find the founder of a Facebook group whose members claim to have planned to commit a mass suicide on December 21. (IOL)
November 27, 2009,Release of Old Dogs
November 27, 2009, Release of The Princess and The Frog.
November 27, 2009,
November 27, 2009, Tiger Woods, the world's number one golfer, is hospitalised after sustaining injuries in a car crash in Orlando, Florida, USA. (The Daily Telegraph)
November 27, 2009, The International Atomic Energy Agency passes a resolution 25-3 condemning Iran for developing a secret uranium enrichment site. (BBC)
November 27, 2009, Multibillion-dollar debt problems of Emirati investment company Dubai World, including the possibility of default, upset markets worldwide. (MarketWatch)
November 27, 2009, The China National Space Administration sets a launch date of October 2010 for Chang'e 2, its second lunar orbiter. (AP)
November 27, 2009, The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2009 opens with the following issues on its agenda: discussion of climate change ahead of the December United Nations Climate Change Conference; Rwanda's admission into the Commonwealth of Nations; and Sri Lanka's bid to host the 2011 meeting. (BBC)
November 27, 2009, Franz Josef Jung resigns as Germany's Minister of Labour and Social Affairs following allegations of covering up the Kunduz airstrike, during which he served as Minister of Defence. (Deutsche Welle)
November 27, 2009, Space Shuttle Atlantis returns to Earth following the completion of its STS-129 mission. (Reuters)
November 27, 2009, A mass shooting at a Thanksgiving party in Jupiter, Florida, United States kills four people and critically wounds a fifth. (CNN)
November 29, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep8: From Bed to Worse.
November 29, 2009, Four police officers are shot and killed while in a coffee shop in Parkland, Washington, United States. (MSNBC)
November 29, 2009, The Iranian parliament urges the government to reduce ties with the International Atomic Energy Agency. (Fars News Agency)
November 29, 2009, The central bank of the United Arab Emirates announces it will provide extra liquidity to Dubai banks. (Gulf News)
November 29, 2009, A United States Senate report states that Osama bin Laden was "within grasp" of the United States Army in Tora Bora in December 2001. (BBC)
November 30, 2009, John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Munich accused of war crimes relating to the killing of 27,000 Jews in the Holocaust. (Deutsche Welle)
November 30, 2009, The Large Hadron Collider sets a new world record for particle accelerations. (The Times)
November 30, 2009, Police in Seattle report that the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, shot in the murder of four police officers in Parkland, Washington, is on the run. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
November 30, 2009, Argonne National Laboratory announces that nanodiscs, made from an iron-nickel alloy and subjected to a magnetic field, destroy 90 percent of cancer cells in tests. (AFP)
LOL, "OPEN SESAME" Ali Baba is on the move, LOL. Gotta open that cave of treasures. Cookie monster is on Google today. Good stuff as always. That reminds me, Ali Baba also helped "Prince Planet", my favorite cartoon when I was a wee lad, LOL.
ReplyDeletePrince Planet on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p30WL0YbI6M
How 'bout that new google android phone on Verizon (release 11/06/09) the HTC Droid Eris.
ReplyDeleteOdd for HTC to choose the name of the Greek goddess of Strife and Discord for a phone.
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RE: Yankees, wasn't it also their 42nd World Series win? = 9
ReplyDeleteSorry i meant their 27th World Series win = 9
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