two-part mini-series ended on June 28.
June 22, 2009, A subway train
derailment and collision on the Red Line of the Washington Metro kills at least six and
injures at least 70. (NBC Washington)
June 22, 2009, A major international conference in Sydney looks at how to expand Internet domain names. (ABC)
June 23, 2009, Stephen Colbert announces himself Governor of South Carolina in place of missing Governor Mark Stanford with a crown.
June 23, 2009, Release of Royal City.
June 24, 2009, Release of Transformers The: Fallen Angel (Lucifer).
June 24, 2009,
Release of Moby Album Wait for Me.
June 24, 2009, A flute carved over 35,000 years ago, and thought to be the oldest musical instrument, is unearthed in Germany.
June 24, 2009, Shaquille O'Neil (Superman) is traded from the Phoenix Suns to Cleveland Cavaliers (Royalist) to team up with "The King" Lebron James.
June 25, 2009, Fallen Angel: American actress Farrah Fawcett dies of anal cancer at the age of 62 in the intensive care unit of Saint John's Health Center, in Santa Monica, California.
June 25, 2009, "King" of "Pop" Michael Jackson aka The "Moonwalker" dies
from cardiac arrest at the age of 50 after arrival at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
in Los Angeles, California. (The Los Angeles Times).
Drug (Rx) complications Lead to Jackson's Death. (HuffPost)
(August 29 1959 - "June 25" 2009 (June mirrored is December 25))
June 28, 2009, Series Premiere of Hung.
Hung is a comedy show from HBO, created by Dmitry Lipkin & Colette Burson. It stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a well-endowed struggling high school basketball coach who use his large penis to his advantage, resorting to prostitution.
June 28, 2009, 'Infomercial King' Billy Mays Found Dead in Home at age 50(Fox)
August 7, 2009, Cocaine (Rx) Tied To TV Pitchman's Death(ABC)
An autopsy shows that cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that suddenly killed
boisterous TV pitchman Billy Mays in June, officials announced Friday.
The 50-year-old bearded TV personality died of a heart attack in his sleep after going to
bed at his Tampa condo the night of June 27. His wife found him unresponsive the next
morning. The Hillsborough County medical examiner's office Friday said Mays had last used cocaine days before his death. The report said that although Mays died from heart disease, cocaineuse was a contributing cause of death.
Mays was a pop-culture fixture with his energetic commercials pitching gadgets and cleaning products like Orange Glo and OxiClean.
June 29, 2009, Scientific tests prove bones housed in the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome are those of the apostle Saint Paul himself, according to the pope. (CNN)
June 29, 2009, Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150years in prison for investment fraud. (The New York Times)
June 29, 2009, The Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to Masdar City, Abu Dhabi. (Deutsche Welle)
June 30, 2009, The Pirate Bay, one of the world's largest BitTorrent trackers, confirms today that it would be acquired by Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) for 7.8 million USD. (The Pirate Bay blog)
June 30, 2009, Strange Clouds Turn NYC Sky Orange Over The Weekend.(Huffpost)
July 1, 2009, Release of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
July 1, 2009, Release of Public Enemies.
Public Enemies is a 2009 film directed by Michael Mann, an adaptation of Bryan Burrough's non-fiction book Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933–34. The crime drama is set during the Great Depression with the focus on the FBI agent Melvin Purvis's attempt to stop criminals John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd.
July 1, 2009, TerreStar-1, the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is successfully launched. (spaceflightnow.com )
July 2, 2009, The United States armed forces claim to have launched what they term "a major offensive against the Taliban" in Helmand. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, A 148-year old colonial law banning homosexual intercourse in India is overturned by the High Court in New Delhi. (BBC)
July 2, 2009, Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency. (AP via The Washington Post)
July 2, 2009, Japanese scientists intend to breed super-tuna to meet demands for the fish. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 3, 2009, "Humans entering new stage of "human evolution" says Stephen Hawking.(Daily)
July 3, 2009, Michael Jackson "King of Pop" too be buried in a gold plated casket nicknamed "Prometheus" (Lucifer). (Telegraph)
July 3, 2009, The Great Bubble Machine.(Rollingstones)
"In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia"investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi's piece is "an hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories" and a spokesman adding, "We reject the assertion that we are inflators of bubbles and profiteers in busts, and we are painfully conscious of the importance in being a force for good." Taibbi shot
back: "Goldman has its alumni pushing its views from the pulpit of the U.S. Treasury, the
NYSE, the World Bank, and numerous other important posts; it also has former players
fronting major TV shows. They have the ear of the president if they want it." Here, now,
are excerpts from Matt Taibbi's piece and video of Taibbi exploring the key issues."
Article from Rolling Stone magazine that examines the interconnectedness of big banking
firms and the government by giving specific names of officials playing both sides. Of all
the articles I have read about the bailout this might be the most comprehensive. It is not
too technical but it definitly sparked interest for me to read more ("Web of Debt" Ellen
Hodgson Brown).
July 3, 2009, Sarah Palin announces she will resign from her Governor position on July 26, 2009.
July 3, 2009, Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge.(UTV)
July 3, 2009, John Demjanjuk is declared fit to stand trial for assisting in the deaths of 29,000 Jews in Treblinka extermination camp. (RTÉ)
July 3, 2009, Three dinosaur species— Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae— have been discovered in Australia. (BBC)
July 3, 2009, North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer. (BBC)
July 4, 2009, Statue Liberty (Moon/Columbia/Venus) reopens her Crown.
July 4, 2009, Former NFL QB and MVP Steve "Air" McNair a is found shot too Death, and concluded as murder-suicide committed by his girlfriend. (ESPN)
July 5, 2009, Biden on Economy.
During his interview with ABC's This Week on Sunday,
Vice President Joe Biden made what will be a much-discussed admission in the week ahead.
The Obama administration, he said, had "misread" the extent of the economic catastrophe it
inherited.
"The
truth is, we and everyone else misread the economy," declared Biden. "The figures we worked
off of in January were the consensus figures and most of the blue chip indexes out
there."
July 5, 2009, Monorail crash at Disney Land leaves One Dead(Huffpost).
July 5, 2009, Vatican runs Deficit amid Global Economic Crisis(Huffpost).
July 5, 2009, Premiere of Television Series Torchwood.
July 6, 2009, The Sun Has Spots, Finally.
After one of the longest sunspot droughts in modern times,
solar activity picked up quickly over the weekend. A new group of sunspots developed, and while not dramatic by historic standards, the spots were the most significant in many months."This is the best sunspot I've seen in two years," observer Michael Buxton of
Ocean Beach, Calif., said on Spaceweather.com.
displayed on the internet. (BBC)
July 6, 2009, South Africa's new "Hawks" (Horus/Phoenix) serious crime squad begins work six months after its "Scorpions".
July 6, 2009, Henry Kissinger says "Obama is like a chess player"(ABC)
July 6, 2009, United States President Barack Obama
and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agree on cutting their nuclear warheads and cooperate
on military action in Afghanistan. (The Guardian)
July 6, 2009, Iran says it will hold the US
responsible for any Israeli attack against their country, in response to US Vice President
Joe Biden's claim that the US will not interfere in an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. (Al Jazeera)
July 7, 2009, The Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS) announces the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in
Brazil. (Sciencedaily)
July 7, 2009, Pope calls for "world political authority".(Reuters)
July 7, 2009, A public memorial for Michael Jackson takes place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, with over 17,000 viewing in Los Angeles, and millions more viewing around the world. (AP via Google News)
Closing statement given by Paris Jackson.
July 7, 2009, A £1m permanent memorial to the victims of the July 7, 2005 London bombings is unveiled in the city's Hyde Park. (BBC)
July 7, 2009, The United Nations Security Council condemns the recent missile launches by North Korea. (Xinhua)
July 8, 2009, 350 Dogs seized in biggest Dogfighting ring in United States history. (Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, Oscar Meyer Dies.(Huffpost).
July 8, 2009, Media Moguls meet at Sun Valley for Conference. (Fox)
July 8, 2009, Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so President could attend The 35th G8 Summit begins in L'Aquila (Eagle/Phoenix), Italy. (CNN)
Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines (the crown group of the superorder Chelonia)
July 8, 2009, President Barack Obama is choosing an
influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code and is known for finding
common ground between belief in God and science to head the National Institutes of Health.(Huffpost)
July 8, 2009, It is claimed that the drug rapamycin( Rx), discovered in the soil of Easter Island in the 1970s, may help to fight the ageing process(Evolution). (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Iraq: ancient Babylon archaeological site damaged by military activity(UN)
July 9, 2009, Mayan Headdress/Crown Chakra. (CropCircle)
July 9,2009, PrinceCharles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled.(Telegraph)
July 9, 2009, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says G8 action on climate change is "not good enough". (BBC)
July 9, 2009, Portrait of Jackson's pill consumption emerges.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, Statue of Liberty replica decapitated (Cloverfield/Escape from New York) on YouTube.(CNN)
July 9, 2009, President Barack Obama gets football jersey, and maybe a dig, from Brazil.(Telegraph)
Templar Cross
July 10, 2009, Release of Bruno.
July 10, 2009, Release of I Love You Beth Cooper.
July 10, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican.(Examiner)
July 10, 2009, President Barack Obama has landed in Ghana on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa.(Bourse)
July 11, 2009, Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8. (Bloomberg)
July 13, 2009, John Demjanjuk is charged with 27,900 counts of accessory to murder in World War Two at a court in Germany. (Deutsche Welle)
July 13, 2009, Anderson Cooper interviews Obama in a castle.(CNN)
July 13, 2009, Budget Deficit Tops $1 Trillion for First Time.(ABC)
July 13, 2009, Prince Fielder wins 2009 Allstar Home-run Derby in Saint Louis @ Busch (Rx) Stadium.
July 14, 2009, 80th Major league Baseball Allstar game. President Obama will throw out the first pitch at this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game on July 14 in St. Louis, home of the Cardinals.
He will be only the fourth president to throw out the ball in the game - "joining John
F. Kennedy (1962), Richard Nixon ('70) and Gerald Ford ('76 and '78).In a statement, MLB Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig said
"The central theme of the
2009 All-Star Game is community service, celebrating the extraordinary work being done by
ordinary people. We are thrilled that we can come together with President Obama, who has
encouraged a renewed spirit of national service, and illustrate a call to action in our
communities. President Obama will continue a great tradition that joins our nation's leader
and the national pastime."
July 15, 2009, Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smiling after testing the stresses that space travelers may face on the journey to Mars. (Huffpost)
July 15, 2009, Release of Harry Potter: Half Blood Prince.
July 15, 2009, Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, the world's oldest new mother, is announced to have died of cancer aged 69, three years after giving birth. (BBC)
July 15, 2009, Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on mission STS-127 to the International Space Station. (BBC)
July 16, 2009, NASA releases clearest videos yet of 1969 "moonwalk".(CNN)
July 16, 2009, The Holy See acknowledges Oscar Wilde as a "lucid analyst of the modern world", softening its hardline stance against the poet. (The Daily Telegraph)
July 17, 2009, Release of 500 Days of Summer.
July 17, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI slips in the bath in his mountain chalet, is treated for a fractured wrist in Aosta, Italy. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, A second person dies from the collapse of a stage being built in Marseille for Madonna's forthcoming tour to France. (AFP)
July 17, 2009, Ghana is set to receive a $600
million three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, The World Bank approves a $76 million loan for Mozambique. (Reuters Africa)
July 17, 2009, 49 members of a Sicilian Mafia syndicate are jailed in Italy in what the government describes as a landmark case. (BBC)
July 17, 2009, NASA Pics Show Apollo Leftovers on "Moon".(ABC)
July 17, 2009, Walter Conkrite is dead at age 92.
July 18, 2009, Last surviving Battle of Jutland
veteran and last surviving founder member of the Royal Air Force Henry Allingham dies at
the age of 113. At the time of his death he was the oldest living man in the world. (BBC)
July 18, 2009, A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle (Phoenix) fighter
jet crashed early Saturday in central Afghanistan, killing the two crew members, the U.S. military said.(ABC)
July 18, 2009, An Oscar Mayer Weinermobile crashed into a home in Racine,
Wisconsin after the driver turned onto a dead-end street. She tried turning around and
accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake.(TMZ)
July 19, 2009, Aldrin: NASA Needs To Put People On Mars. (Huffpost)
July 19, 2009, A preserved barracks in the Netherlands that was used by Nazi Germany to process Jews and others on their way to concentration camps, known to have been occupied at one point by Anne Frank, is destroyed by fire. (France 24)
July 19, 2009, Astronauts Dealing With Flooded Toilet On Space Station(Huffpost)
July 20, 2009, GIANT "Evolutionary" LEAP: 40th anniversary of Apollo (Eagle/Phoenix) 11 Moon Landing.
July 20, 2009, Longest Solar Eclipse of the 21st Century(Space)
July 20, 2009, Moon or Mars? 'Next giant leap' sparks debate.(CNN)
July 20, 2009, Govt.'s Wall Street, bank supportcould be $24T. (CNN)
July 20, 2009, Suspended NFL quarterback MichaelVick completed the electronic monitoring device portion of his federal dog fighting sentence Monday and will remain on probation the next three years. (SI)
July 20, 2009, Astronomers say Jupiter (Lucifer/Zeus/Barak) has apparently been struck by an object, possibly a comet.
Images taken by NASA early Monday show a scar in the
atmosphere near the south pole of the gas giant. The images, taken by the
space agency's infrared telescope in Hawaii, come on the 15th anniversary of another comet strike.In 1994, Jupiter was bombarded by pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena captured the new imagesafter receiving a tip from an amateur astronomer the night before.
July 21, 2009, Release of Our Lady Peace Album Burn Burn.
July 21, 2009, Romanian city mayor outrages Jewish and pro-democracy groups after he goose-steps with his son in World War Two German uniforms during a local fashion show(Yahoo)
July 22, 2009, Chinese and Russian troops begin a five-day joint military drill, aimed at boosting their ability to fight terrorism. (Xinhua)
July 22, 2009, Humans Glow in Visible Light.(Yahoo)
July 23, 2009, The FBI arrests 30 officials and rabbis in New Jersey as part of a public corruption and international money laundering probe. Authorities also searched a synagogue in Deal, New Jersey and removed several boxes. (Newark Star-Ledger)
July 23, 2009, Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle completes a perfect game against the Tampa Bay Rays. 17th in history. (ESPN.com)
July 24, 2009, Release of G-Force.
The film revolves around a team of trained secret agent animals: guinea pigs Darwin (Sam Rockwell/Moon), Juarez (Penélope Cruz), Blaster (Tracy Morgan), mole Speckles (Nicolas Cage), and fly Mooch (Edwin Louis).
July 24, 2009, The Ugly Truth.
A romantically challenged morning show producer (Heigl) is reluctantly embroiled in a
series of outrageous tests by her male chauvinist correspondent (Butler) to prove his
theories on relationships and allow her to find love. His clever ploys, however lead to the
expected result - she finds love at the same time that he falls in love with her.
July 24, 2009, Release of The Answer Man.
A reclusive author (Jeff Daniels) of a landmark book on spirituality is sought out by many
people who think he has all the answers, but he just wants to be left alone
July 24, 2009, The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain. (The New York Times)
July 24, 2009, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has issued an apology to Kindle customers after "1984" and other books by British novelist George Orwell were remotely deleted from their electronic readers.(Breit)
July 25, 2009, Series Finale of Kings.
Into the wilderness
July 25, 2009, Charlie Crist's Office Mistakenly Praises Nazi Film.(HuffPost)
June 26, 2009, Sarah Palin resigns as Governor of Alaska.
July 27, 2009
, The United States and China begin the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AFP)
July 27, 2009
, Fox 5 Chicago aired a startling report about scientists claiming that "evolution" is causing women to become more beautiful. (Huffpost)
July 27, 2009,
July 27, 2009, Shaq denied entry into White House(Huffpost)
July 27, 2009, Michael Vick Reinstated by NFL (Huffpost)
July 27, 2009, The Worlds Biggest Dog.
Zeus/Lightning/Barak
July 28, 2009, Chinese scientists announce the discovery of "vampire gene", Tryp-SPc.(AsiaNews)
July 30, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama arranged a meeting with police
officer Sgt. James Crowley and African American public intellectual Henry Louis Gates at
the White House in a bid to quell a dispute over racial profiling that arose from an
altercation between the two of them with a few beers. (AP via New York Times)
July 31, 2009, Release of Aliens in the Attic.
The Pearson family think they have got the ultimate family vacation as they head to their
vacation home in Maine. However, soon after arriving to the house, they discover that they
are not the only people staying in it since a friendly alien has found the house first.
Though the alien is friendly, his friends are not, and they are ready to invade the house.
The kids have to gear up and defend their vacation house with everything they have or else
the aliens will probe them out to space and destroy the world.
August 2, 2009, The 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation.
August 2, 2009, A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS is discovered in a woman from Cameroon. (MSNBC)
August 3, 2009, Tax revenues biggest drop since great depression.(Huffpost)
August 3, 2009, Barak/Joker poster popping up in LA.(Drudge Report)(The Sirius Fool)
Cut from December 5 post: Rise of the Black phoenix (Sirius Fool)
August 3, 2009, Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hits western Mexico. (USGS)
August 3, 2009, Antidepressant use doubles in US, study finds(Drudge)
August 3, 2009, Malaria linked to chimps. (CNN)
August 4, 2009, President Barak Obama's 48th "Birth"day.
"Most High"
August 4, 2009, Release of Tantric Album Mind Control
August 5, 2009, Blackwater accused of murder in 'crusade to eliminate Muslims': Erik Prince, chief executive of Blackwater, has seen allegations made against him by two former employees. (Time)
August 5, 2009, The 40th Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting opens in Cairns, Australia. (RNZI)
Palm/Phoenix/Southern Cross/Christ
August 5, 2009, Part- nationalised lender Lloyds Banking Group reports pre-tax losses of £4bn for the first half of this year. (Sky News)
August 5, 2009, At the XXI Annual Meeting of the Council of Managers of Antarctic Programs, President of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Chuck Kennicut, emphasizes the importance ”to produce a comprehensive dialogue in the Antarctic community about the role of international cooperation in the optimization of national resources, mainly for economic reality". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, The United States White House defends its decision to award its Presidential Medal of Freedom to former First Female President of Ireland Mary Robinson. (Irish Examiner)
August 5, 2009, Bolivian President Evo Morales expresses concern in La Paz about the possibility that the “Pinochetistas” in Chile and the “fascist right” in Argentina could win the general elections in those countries and that it "would be very serious for Latin American democracy and for South America". (MercoPress)
August 5, 2009, Jury convicts ex-Congressman William Jefferson of 11 of 16 counts, including bribery, racketeering and money laundering, after feds find $90G in his freezer.(Fox)
August 6, 2009, Japan calls for a nuclear-weapons-free world as it marks 64 years since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack. (RTÉ)
August 6, 2009,Brazil returns 1.500 tonnes of syringes, condoms and dirty nappies which were sent from the United Kingdom. (MercoPress)
August 6, 2009, Scientists say they have decoded the entire genetic structure of HIV-1—the main cause of AIDS in humans. (BBC)
August 7, 2009, Release of G.I Joe: Rise of Cobra. (Snake/Serpent/Lucifer).
Hawk/Eagle/Phoenix
Rush Limbaugh Compares 3rd Reich Black Eagle/Phoenix/Sun too Baraks Caduceus/Rising Sun Logo
August 7, 2009, Forty years on, Beatles fans flock to Abbey Road crosswalk.(Yahoo)
ROME – Archaeologists have unearthed a sprawling country villa believed to be the birthplace of Vespasian, the Roman emperor who built the Colosseum, they said Friday. The 2,000-year-old ruins were found about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northeast of Rome, near Cittareale, lead archaeologist Filippo Coarelli said
August 7, 2009, Cassini Spacecraft Spots New Object in Saturn’s Rings(Wired)
August 8, 2009, Birthplace of Roman emperor Vespasian found in Italy.(Yahoo)
August 8, 2009, Tragedy on the Hudson.
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October 24, 2008, Jennifer Hudsons Mother, Brother, Nephew Fatally Shot(Chicago)
January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549(US Bird/Eagle/Phoenix) was a commercial passenger flight that ditched in the Hudson (North) River with all 155 on board surviving.
February 12, 2009, The United States National Transportation Safety
Board concludes that Canada geese caused US Airways Flight 1549 to ditch into New York City's Hudson River.
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August 9, 2009, United States First Solar powered Tower goes live. (Huffpost)
August 9, 2009, Banks make 48 billion in overdraft fees.
August 10, 2009, More than 350 new species—including 244 plants and 16 amphibians—are discovered in the Eastern Himalayas. (Evolution.)
August 11, 2009, Release of Queen Latifah Album Persona.
August 11, 2009, Bailout = Buyout.
August 11, 2009, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, dies aged 88. (BBC)
August 11, 2009, A German court sentences former Nazi army commander Josef Scheungraber to life in prison for his role in the murder of 10 Italians in Tuscany in 1944. (RTÉ)
August 11, 2009, Thousands of people worship a baby born with four arms and four legs in Ramechhap, Nepal, revering him as the reincarnation of Ganesh. (The Guardian)
August 11, 2009, A Russian woman is arrested after throwing a teacup at the Mona Lisa portrait in the Louvre, Paris. (Irish Independent)
August 11, 2009, Nepenthes attenboroughii, a new species of giant carnivorous plant, is discovered in the highlands of the central Philippines. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, A swastika was found Tuesday painted on a sign outside Rep. David Scott's district office, an act the Georgia Democrat said reflects an increasingly hateful and racist debate over health care and should serve as a reminder for people to tone down their rhetoric. (Yahoo)
August 12, 2009, German Jews Want 'Mein Kampf' Reprinted.(Huffpost)
August 12, 2009, The Roman Catholic Church is expresses "unease" and "mortification" over revelations surrounding the private life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. (BBC)
August 12, 2009, Astronomers discover WASP-17b, the first planet that orbits in the opposite direction to the spin of its star. (BBC)
August 13, 2009, More than 80 years after it was first published --and later outlawed-- in Germany, a signed copy of Adolf Hitler's infamous manifesto "Mein Kampf" was sold Thursday for 21,000 pounds ($34,900). (Huffpost)
August 13, 2009, Electric Guitar, studio wizard Les Paul dies at 94(CNN)
August 13, 2009, Michael Vick signs 2 year contract with Philadelphia Eagles (Phoenix) (Espn)
Falcon/Horus/Phoenix/Eagle
August 14, 2009, Release of District 9.
District 9 is a science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp.It takes place in
Johannesburg, South Africa. District 9 is based on Alive in Joburg, a short film directed
by Neill Blomkamp, and stars Sharlto Copley, Simon Hansen and Shanon Worley.
August 14, 2009, Release of It Might get Loud.
It Might Get Loud is a documentary by filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. It explores the history
of the electric guitar, focusing on the careers and
styles of Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White.
August 14, 2009,
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard is a 2009 comedy film directed by Neal Brennan, starring
Jeremy Piven, and Ed Helms.
Used-car liquidator Don Ready (Jeremy Piven) is hired by a failing auto dealership to turn
their Fourth of July sale into a majorly profitable event.
August 14, 2009, An archaeological
excavation uncovers the foundations of the 17th-century Smock Alley Theatre(Theatre Royal) and several artefacts from theatrical performances in Dublin. (RTÉ)
August 14, 2009, Lynette Fromme, a former member of the Manson family, is released after serving 34 years in prison. (ABC News)
August 17, 2009, Fla. population drops for 1st time since 1946.(Myway)
August 17, 2009, Madonna makes a splash on her 51st birthday.(Mail)
August 17, 2009, Building block of life found on comet(Breit)
August 17, 2009, (Huffpost)
August 17, 2009, Japan officially exits the recession. (BBC)
August 17, 2009, IBM sees future of microchips in DNA.(Breit)
August 18, 2009, Release of Sean Paul Album Imperial Blaze.
August 18, 2009, Release of 3rd Eye Blind Album Ursa Major.
August 18, 2009, Release of Nathan Maxwell and the Originally Bunny Gang Album White Rabbit.
August 18, 2009, Robert Novak, Long-Time Conservative Columnist, Dies at 78(WashPost)
August 20, 2009, Usian Bolt (Lightning/Barak) sets new world record for 200m, on year anniversary of Olympics.
August 21, 2009, Release of Inglorious Bastards.
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and
released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. It was filmed in
several locations, among them Germany and France, beginning in October 2008. The title of
the film was inspired by Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 movie The Inglorious
Bastards, but it is not a remake of that film, being set in Nazi-occupied France during
World War II, and depicting a plan to assassinate the Nazi leadership.
August 21, 2009, Release of 5 Minutes of Heaven.
Five Minutes of Heaven is a British/Irish television film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
from a script by Guy Hibbert. The first part reconstructs the killing of 19-year-old Jim
Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional
meeting between Little and Jim's brother Joe 33 years later. The film won two awards at the
2009 Sundance Film Festival. It was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009.
August 21, 2009, Release of Shorts.
Shorts (Also Shorts: A Not-So-Tall Tale) is a 2009 family comedy/adventure film written and
directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Chaos hits a uniformly "perfect" family neighborhood when an 11-year-old boy (Jimmy
Bennett) finds a rainbow-colored rock that grants wishes to anyone who holds it.
August 21, 2009, Mexico decriminalises the use of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs for "personal use". (The Times of India)
August 21, 2009, Hawaii commemorates fifty years of U.S. statehood. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
August 22, 2009, Officials from North and South Korea meet for talks for the first time in two years. (BBC)
August 22, 2009, Artificial life will be created 'within months' as genome experts claim vital breakthrough.(Dmai)
August 24, 2009, According to court documents, the Los Angeles County coroner's preliminary assessment is that Michael Jackson's death was caused by an overdose of the anesthetic propofol.(Reuters)
August 24, 2009, The district court in Stockholm orders BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay's largest ISP, Black Internet, to stop serving the website's traffic.(CNET News)
August 25, 2009, Release of Collective Soul Album Rabbit.
August 25, 2009, Release of Matisyahu Album Light.
August 25, 2009, Release of Imogen Heap Album Ellipse.
August 25, 2009, Release of Yung La Album Futuristic Leland.
August 25, 2009, Telescopes 400th yr anniversary.
August 25, 2009, Senator Teddy (Bear/Arthur/King) Kennedy dies at 77.
The Lion/Sun King
August 25, 2009, South Korea successfully launches its first space rocket, Naro-1, orbiting the STSAT-2A satellite. (BBC News)
August 25, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama nominates Ben Bernanke for his second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve. (Bloomberg)
August 25, 2009, The US budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded. (BBC)
August 26, 2009, A revolutionary IVF technique that creates babies with three biological parents has been developed by scientists.
August 26, 2009, Real US unemployment rate at 16 pct: Fed official(Breitbart)
August 27, 2009,English youth
Michael Perham, aged 17 years, 5 months, becomes the youngest person to complete a solocircumnavigation of the world by sailboat, breaking the previous record by two months. (Reuters)
August 28, 2009, Release of H2.
Halloween II is a 2009 American horror film written, directed, and produced by Rob Zombie.
The film is a sequel to Zombie's 2007 remake of Halloween (1978). Halloween II follows the
aftermath of the events of the 2007 remake, particularly how they affected Laurie Strode.
August 28, 2009,Release of The Final Destitation
August 28, 2009, Michael Vick makes his official return to the field.
August 28, 2009, Reading Rainbow, the third longest-running children's show on United States public-service television network PBS, ends its 26-year run. (NPR)
August 28, 2009, The
detailed chemical structure of a single molecule has been imaged for the first time. The
physical shape of single carbon nanotubes has been outlined before, using similar
techniques, but the new method even shows up chemical bonds. (BBC)
August 28, 2009, Japan's unemployment rate reaches a record high of 5.7%. (BBC)
August 28, 2009, The Los Angeles County coroner rules that American entertainer andmusician Michael Jackson's death was a homicide caused by acute intoxication from the drug propofol. (Reuters)
August 28, 2009, NASA launches the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) for a resupply and crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The mission will also deliver the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module Leonardo. This is Discovery's 37th flight and will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its first flight during the mission. (AFP)
August 28, 2009, Disc Jockey Adam Michael Goldstein "DJ AM" is found dead due to a suspected drug overdose.(CNN)
August 29, 2009, Michael Jackson's Birthday.
August 29, 2009, Ted Kennedy's Funeral.
Vatican:
August 29, 2009, Chandrayaan-1 loses contact with ground control. (Indian Express)
August 29, 2009, Noel Gallagher leaves the British rock band Oasis. (The Times)
August 29, 2009, (MSNBC)
August 31, 2009, Britain will face
widespread power cuts and rationing of energy in 2019 for the first time sincethe 1970s, according to Her Majesty's Government. (The Daily Telegraph)
August 31, 2009, Disney reaches a deal to acquire Marvel Entertainment for US$4
billion, with Marvel shareholders being issued $30 and about 0.745 Disney shares for each
share of Marvel they own. (Marketwatch)
August 31, 2009, Nigeria charges several banking executives with financial crimes
discovered following the $2.6 billion bail-out of five banks. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, Release of Juliette Lewis Album Terra Incognito.
September 1, 2009, Former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali visits the birthplace of his great-grandfather in Ennis, Ireland. (RTÉ)
September 1, 2009, The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, The European Union bans the manufacture or import of 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, beginning a phase-out in favour of energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps. (BBC)
September 2, 2009, (Drudge Report)
And Taken to Venus
September 2, 2009, Two British boys planning to create a massacre (Project Rainbow) in a high school in Manchester are on trial after wanting to emulate the Columbine High School massacre. (BBC News)
September 2, 2009, UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic.(BreitBart)
September 2, 2009, British energy company BP says it has drilled to one of the lowest depths ever in the oil and gas industry as it made a "giant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. (MarketWatch)
September 2, 2009, A 3,700-year-old wall is discovered in east Jerusalem. (BBC)
September 3, 2009, Michael Jackson's Funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Buried in the Great Mausoleum.
After the burial, the closest the public will be able to get to Jackson's vault is a portion of the mausoleum that displays "The Last Supper Window," a life-size stained-glass re- creation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.
Jesus/King of Kings
Many commentators have considered Forest Lawn to be a unique American creation, and perhaps a uniquely maudlin Los Angeles creation, with its "theme park" approach to death. Link
September 4, 2009, Release of Extract.
September 4, 2009, Release of Gamer.
Gamer is a science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as an unwilling participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players.
September 4, 2009, Release of All About Steve.
All About Steve is a American comedy film directed by Phil Traill and produced by Sandra Bullock, who also stars in the film.The movie's name is a pun on the 1950 film All About Eve.
September 4, 2009, The International Monetary Fund grants Zimbabwe a US$ 500 million loan, its first to the country in 10 years. (The Herald)
September 5, 2009, The G-20 finance ministers outline plans for banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions. (MarketWatch
September 5, 2009, The G-20 finance ministers outline plans for banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions. (MarketWatch)
September 5, 2009, An oil deal and trade concerns with Libya were at one point considered as factors in the Lockerbie bomber's release, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw says in an interview. (CNN)
September 7, 2009, Scientists working in Papua New Guinea announce the discovery of over forty new species, including a giant rat weighing approximately 1.5kg. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, Release of Phish album Joy.
September 8, 2009, A colossal statue of Apollo is discovered at a UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hierapolis, Turkey. (Discovery Channel)
September 8, 2009, Mobile network operators T-Mobile and Orange agree to merge their British businesses. (BBC)
September 9, 2009, September 9, 2009 was 09/09/09, next date with three nines will be September 9, 2109. After this there is only 3 triple number days left this century... Oct 10, 2010, Nov. 11, 2011, Dec 12, 2012.
September 9, 2009, Release of 9.
9 is a animated sci-fi/action film directed by Shane Acker and produced by Tim Burton and
Timur Bekmambetov, director of Wanted, and stars Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer
Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau and Christopher Plummer.
The story follows the character of 9, a sentient robot with the size and appearance of a
ragdoll. As his name implies, he is the ninth and final stitchpunk creation of a brilliant
inventor known only as The Scientist. Awakening in a post-apocalyptic world in which all
humans have been killed off by a machine army, and inadvertently using a talisman he found
to reawaken the B.R.A.I.N., the machine responsible for the extinction of humanity, 9 must
convince the rest of his kind, especially their cautious leader 1, that they must engage
and triumph over the machine army, and solve the mystery of the talisman left behind by
their creator.
September 9, 2009, "Beatles Day" is celebrated
worldwide as The Beatles release remastered versions of their albums, as well as The
Beatles: Rock Band. (Newsday)
September 9, 2009, Obama Health (Venus) Care speech to Congress.
September 9, 2009, Google plans new mirror for cheaper solar power.(Reuters)
September 9, 2009,
Hubble photographs a butterfly.
September 10, 2009, Greek militant group Revolutionary Struggle threatens to attack the "golden boys" it blames for the economic crisis as it claims responsibility for the Athens stock market bombing. (RTÉ)
September 10, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the post-war treatment of celebrated WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated for having homosexual relations(Downing St)
September 11, 2009, Michael Jordan, John Stockton, David Robinson and Jerry Sloan are elected to the NBA Hall of Fame.
September 11, 2009, Release of I can do bad all by myself.
September 11, 2009, Release of the Blueprint 3.
September 11, 2009, Panic on the Potomac.(ABC)
September 11, 2009, NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at the Edwards air force base in California, USA. (BBC)
September 12, 2009, Lebanon wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (Reuters)
September 13, 2009, MTV VMA Awards. Madonna (Moon) Leads Michael Jackson(Sun) Tribute.
September 13, 2009, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis. (BBC)
September 15, 2009, Release of Dan Brown book Lost Symbol.
September 15, 2009, Release of Muse album The Resistance.
September 15, 2009, Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America. ((Telegraph)
September 15, 2009, Release of Megadeth Album Engame.
September 15, 2009, Release of Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day.
September 16, 2009, President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games. (Huffpost)
September 16, 2009,
September 16, 2009, New documents disclose that novelist J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for His Majesty's Government in the run up to World War II. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 16, 2009, The World Meteorological Organisation says the hole in the Ozone layer is smaller than in 2008. (AFP)
September 16, 2009, The TEAMS cable system, providing high speed broadband to East Africa for the first time, is poised to go live. (BBC)
September 17, 2009, Season premiere of Fringe.
September 17, 2009, The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy says European Union leaders agree to impose a cap on banker pay. (AP via Google News)
September 18, 2009, Release of the Informant.
The Informant! is about Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois based
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the
company’s price-fixing tactics, only after his wife forced him to.
September 18, 2009, Release of Splice.
Two young scientists achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals
to create a new creature. In the process they ignore their society's ethical and legal
boundaries. The scientists name their creature "Dren", which is initially a deformed female
infant, however, rapidly develops into a beautiful but deadly winged human-chimera.
September 18, 2009, Release of Jennifer's Body.
Jennifer's Body is a dark comedy and horror film written by Diablo Cody. The film is
directed by Karyn Kusama and stars Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried and Adam Brody.
September 18, 2009, The Raptorex
kriegsteini, a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered in northeastern
China. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 18, 2009, Hong Kong sentences former Morgan Stanley managing director Du Jun to seven years in prison for his insider trading conviction in its most high-profile case. (BBC)
September 18, 2009, The first ever Irish Global Economic Forum, modelled on Switzerland's World Economic Forum, begins in Farmleigh in Dublin's Phoenix Park. (The Belfast Telegraph)
September 19, 2009, Obama Says Financial Regulations Must Be Strengthened Globally.(Bloomberg)
September 21, 2009, Return of House (Rx).
September 21, 2009, Dog-Star Barak on Leno
September 21, 2009, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world's longest-serving monarch, is admitted to the hospital after suffering from fever and fatigue. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a "golden cage", his phone tapped and the Kremlin controlling visitors, a colleague reveals. (The Irish Times)
September 21, 2009, Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, including Colorado, Nile, Pearl, Rhone and Yangtze, increasing the flood risk faced by ½ a billion people, scientists report. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Adidas and Puma end their 60-year-old feud. (BBC)
September 22, 2009, Autumnal Equinox.
September 22, 2009, G-20 summit gives Pittsburgh a chance to update rust belt image.(CNN)
September 22, 2009, Chinese President Hu Jintao tells a U.N. summit on climate change that China will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on clean energy sources in coming years. (CNN)
September 22, 2009, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for menthol cigarettes. (The New York TImes)
September 22, 2009, #17 Plaxico Burress is sent to Jail for shooting himself.(CNN)(Link)
September 22, 2009, Series premiere of Cougar Town.
September 23, 2009, Release of Capitalism: A Love Story.
September 23, 2009, Series Premeire of Eastwick.
September 23, 2009, (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, The cities of Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia are covered by a dust storm, the worst in at least 70 years. Aviation in New South Wales is disrupted. (The Australian) (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, (Huffpost)
September 23, 2009, (Espn)
September 23, 2009, The multi- billion dollar King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology, boasting one of the world's fastest
supercomputers, opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to
compete in science and technology internationally. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, Series Premiere of Flash Forward.
A mysterious global event causes everyone on the planet to simultaneously lose consciousness for 2 minutes and 17 seconds (137 seconds), during which people worldwide see what may be visions of their lives approximately six months in the future, April 29, 2010. The event results in deaths from accidents and leaves the survivors wondering whether what they saw will happen.
September 24, 2009, (Drudge)
September 24, 2009, (Huffpost)
September 24, 2009, Leaders of the world converge on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the opening of the G-20 Summit. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
September 24, 2009, Police use a lachrymatory agent to disperse a riot at the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit. (AP via Fox News)
September 24, 2009, The United Nations Security Council, headed by world leaders, unanimously approve Resolution 1887 to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, Thailand announces a breakthrough of a HIV/AIDS vaccine, after trials find it can reduce infection by 31%. (Thai News Agency)
September 24, 2009, Arthur's Day: The 250th
anniversary of the signing of a lease by Arthur Guinness for a brewery at St James's Gate
in Dublin. Events organised by Diageo get underway in Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, New York
and Yaoundé. (RTÉ)
September 24, 2009, The United
Kingdom's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure, a collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces comparable to the Book of Kells, is discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire. (BBC)
September 25, 2009, Release of Pandorum.
Two astronauts wake to find themselves drifting through space 500 million
miles from Earth and with no memory of what has happened to the crew of a sleeper ship
transporting 60,000 passengers. Exploring the spacecraft, they encounter several other
surviving crew members and the astronauts start to learn that a terrible event has occurred
on board which might have affected the survival of the entire human race. They discover
other human crew members running from monsters that they learn are some of the crew who
have mutated from genetic enhancements that were supposed to help them adapt to their
eventual new world but ended up mutating and adapting to the spacecraft environment. They
also learn that some crew members also suffer from a psychosis - a severe psychological
condition called Pandorum - which was brought about by being in deep-space for extended
periods of time. Those afflicted with Pandorum experience severe paranoia and vivid
hallucinations.
September 25, 2009, Release of Surrogates.
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic
surrogates -- sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an
ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in
years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer (Willis) discovers a vast conspiracy behind the
surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
September 25, 2009, Return of Series Medium.
September 25, 2009,
September 25, 2009, Poland approves a law making chemical castration mandatory for paedophiles. (Reuters)
September 25, 2009, A group of Polish political bloggers appeal to Irish people to vote "No" to the Treaty of Lisbon in the country's October 2 referendum as "the EU is trying to pass the treaty without asking Europeans to vote on it" and it is "an attempt to establish a European superstate". (The Irish Times)
September 25, 2009, Iran reveals to the United Nations nuclear watchdog the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, facing accusations of secret building projects from Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy. (BBC)
September 25, 2009, Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, succeeding the late Ted Kennedy. (Roll Call)
September 27, 2009,
September 27, 2009,
September 27, 2009,
September 27, 2009, Season Premiere of Simpsons: "Homer the Whopper" .
Bart and Milhouse convince Comic Book Guy to publish a comic book he wrote titled Everyman, in which the title character can absorb superpowers from the characters of comic books he touches. The comic becomes an instant hit, and many Hollywood studios become interested in making it into a movie. Comic Book Guy agrees to let Everyman become a movie, but only if he can pick the star. When Comic Book Guy sees Homer, he considers Homer perfect for the role, as he wants Everyman to be played by a middle-aged fat man. But the studio executives realizes that audiences want a physically fit actor for the role, so they hire celebrity fitness trainer Lyle McCarthy to make Homer fit. After a month, Homer becomes fit and the movie begins production.
September 27, 2009, Season Premiere of Family Guy: Road to the Multiverse.
Stewie breeds a winning pedigree pig for Quahog Clam Day, and reveals to Brian that he got
the pig from a parallel universe. He shows Brian the remote that allows him access to
different parallel universes, each depicting Quahog in the same time and place, but under
different conditions. They travel to different worlds as a demonstration, but having never
traveled to more than one other parallel universe Stewie is unaware of how to return them
home.
September 27, 2009, Season Premiere of American Dad: In Country...Club.
Roger experiences the alien equivalent of a DMT trip.
September 27, 2009, Series Premiere of The Cleveland Show.
September 27, 2009, In Germany the Christian Democrats and the Liberals win the federal election and announce their intention to form a new government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The Social Democrats concede defeat. (Der Spiegel)
September 27, 2009, American General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, formally requests more troops for the War in Afghanistan. (BBC)
September 27, 2009, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi tells a rally in Milan about his encounters with President of the United States Barack Obama, saying: "What's his name? Some tanned guy... Ah, Barack Obama!", also commenting on his wife Michelle: "You won't believe it, but two of them went to the beach because the wife is also tanned". (IOL)
September 27, 2009, An award-winning essay written by Paul McCartney as a 10-year-old for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered in Liverpool's Central Library for more than 50 years. (BBC)
September 27, 2009,
September 28, 2009, Australia's 12 Apostles natural
landmarks continue to crumble. (The Times)
September 28, 2009,
September 29, 2009, Release of Mariah Carey Album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
September 29, 2009, Release of Paramore Album Brand New Eyes.
September 29, 2009,
September 30, 2009,
September 30, 2009,
September 30, 2009, The final report of an international fact-finding mission concludes that Georgia started the 2008 South Ossetia war. (New York Times)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 aftercontroversy.(Raw)
October 1, 2009,
October 1, 2009,
October 1, 2009, Fringe: Fracture.
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.
Southern Cross
October 2, 2009, Release of Zombie Land.
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 Invention of Lying.
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, Release of Whip It.
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, 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, The 19th anniversary of the reunification of Germany is marked by a special four-day puppet show in Berlin. (BBC)
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,
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, 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,
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 KissAlbum Sonic Boom.
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.
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.
October 7, 2009, One Nation Under God painting by Jon McNaughton.
October 7, 2009, The discovery of a new ring around Saturn is announced. (BBC)
October 7, 2009, The Red Book by Swiss psychiatrist
Carl Jung is displayed for the first time in public. (BBC)
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, 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)
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 10, 2009, Barak gives speech at Human Rights Campaign.
October 10, 2009, Marge to appear in Playboy.
October 11, 2009,
October 11, 2009, Columbus (Venus) Day.
October 11, 2009, Simpsons S21 Ep4: The Great Wife Hope.
October 11, 2009, American Dad S5 Ep3: Home Adrone.
October 12, 2009, House S6 Ep4: Instant Karma
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 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.
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, 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 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, The United Nations warns that malnutrition is getting worse. (BBC)
October 14, 2009, Tim Berners- Lee issues an apology for the unnecessary "//" in URLs he designed for the World Wide Web.(BBC)
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.
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, 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, 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.
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,
October 16, 2009, The United States records a budget deficit of $1.42 trillion. (Bloomberg)
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, 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, The Rock Obama Returns. (Huffpost)
October 18, 2009, Church Denounces African Children as "Witches". (Huffpost)
October 18, 2009, Ukraine commences its first presidential election campaign since the 2004 Orange Revolution. (Reuters)
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,
October 18, 2009,
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, Rare footage of the abuse of suspected witches causes controversy in India. (BBC)
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, 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 InternationalAtomic 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, 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.
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.
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.
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, 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 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 Time)
October 26th, 2009,
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 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, 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 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.
October 28, 2009, Ares I-X, the first test article for NASA's Ares I rocket, launches successfully from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a sub-orbital test flight. (CNN)
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 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, 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 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
October, the eve of Halloween.
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, 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 impersonate by young men dressed in white with masked, veiled or blackened face.
November 2, 2009, Premiere of TV Series Strange Rituals.
November 3, 2009, Release of V.
V is an upcoming television series remake to be broadcast on
ABC during the mid season of the 2009-2010 television season.The series will premiere for four weeks, before being put on hiatus until March 2010.
Giant spaceships appear over all major cities of the world, the alien "Visitors"
claiming to come in peace. As some humans begin to doubt the sincerity of the Visitors, FBI
counter-terrorism agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have spent decades
infiltrating human governments and businesses and are now in the final stages of their plan
to take over the planet. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, a
Visitor sleeper agent who wants to save humanity. However, the aliens have won favor among
the people of Earth by curing a variety of diseases, and have recruited Earth's youth,
including Erica's son, to serve unknowingly as spies.
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 (Oz).
November 4, 2009, China approves a Disney theme park in Shanghai after a decade of negotiations. (The Times)
November 4, 2009,The United Nations General Assembly debates on whether to endorse the Goldstone report on the Gaza War. (New York Times)
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, Guy Fawkes Day.
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 6, 2009, Release of The Men Who stares at Goats.
The Men Who Stare at Goats is a American comedy
film by director Grant Heslov due for release on November 6, 2009. It is based on the book
of the same title by author Jon Ronson, an account of Ronson's investigation of attempts by
US military forces to use psychic powers.
November 6, 2009, Release of A Christmas Carol.
A Christmas Carol is a 2009 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 story of the same
name. The film is written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Jim Carrey in a
multitude of roles, including Ebenezer Scrooge as a young, middle-aged, and old man, and
the three ghosts who haunt Scrooge.
November 6, 2009, Release of The Fourth Kind.
The Fourth Kind is an upcoming science fiction/thriller/horror film directed by Olatunde
Osunsanmi, and starring Milla Jovovich. The film is purported to be a documentary
reenactment set in Nome, Alaska, and deals with alien abductions. The title is derived from
J. Allen Hynek's classification of close encounters with aliens, in which the fourth kind
denotes an alien abduction.
November 6, 2009, Release of The Box.
The Box is a horror film based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by author Richard
Matheson, which was previously adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone. The film is
written and directed by Richard Kelly and stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple
who receive a box with a mysterious power.
November 6, 2009, Release of Pirate Radio.
The Boat That Rocked (retitled Pirate Radio for U.S. release) is an ensemble comedy film,
released in the UK on April 1, 2009 and currently scheduled for a U.S. release on November
13, 2009. Set in 1966, it tells a story about a fictitious pirate radio station
broadcasting from a ship to the United Kingdom.
November 6, 2009, Release of Verizon Eris Phone.(PCW)
November 6, 2009,
November 6, 2009, One person is killed and five are injured during a shooting in an office building in Orlando, Florida, USA. (CNN)
November 6, 2009, The composer and pianist Elton John is released from his hospital bed in London after a period of illness which saw him cancel several concerts on The Red Piano Tour. (BBC)
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 10, 2009, Release of Puscifer album "C" is for (Please Insert Sophomonic Genitalia Reference HERE) E.P.
November 10, 2009, Release of Bon Jovi The Circle.
November 10, 2009, Release of Wale album Attention Deficit.
November 10, 2009, 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
November 10, 2009, Fort. Hood Memorial.
Boots on display
President Obama spoke in front of the grim reminders of the deceased men and women: Each of
the 13 (Knight Templar/Last Templar/Boots) was remembered with a photo, boots, and a helmet atop
an inverted gun. According to army lore, helmet and ID tags represent the fallen soldier.
The rifle pointed toward the ground notes a break in action to pay tribute to the dead. The
combat boots symbolize the soldier's last march.
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, Veteran/Remembrance Day
Veterans Day is an annual American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal
holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is usually observed on November 11. However,
if it occurs on a Sunday then the following Monday is designated for holiday leave, and if
it occurs Saturday then either Saturday or Friday may be so designated. It is also
celebrated as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on
November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major
hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th
month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)
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,
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,
1. U.S. President Barack Obama
2. Chinese President Hu Jintao
3. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
4. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
5. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page
6. Carlos Slim, Chief Executive of Mexico's Telmex
7. Rupert Murdoch, chairman of media group News Corp.
8. Michael T. Duke, Chief executive, Wal-Mart Stores
9. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
10. Bill Gates, co-chairman, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
November 12, 2009, Parks and Recreation S1 Ep9: The Camel One of the city hall murals is defaced, which plunges Leslie and the Parks Department into a fierce competition to come up with a new design. Ron and Andy share an awkward moment at Andy's new shoe-shine job.
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.
Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.
November 13, 2009, Relase of Fantastic Mr. Fox.
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live an idyllic home life with their son Ash and visiting young nephew Kristofferson. But after 12 years, the bucolic existence proves too much for Mr Fox’s wild animal instincts. Soon he slips back into his old ways as a sneaky chicken thief and in doing so, endangers not only his beloved family, but the whole animal community. Trapped underground and with not enough food to go around, the animals band together to fight against the evil Farmers - Boggis, Bunce and Bean - who are determined to capture the audacious, fantastic Mr Fox at any cost.
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, King announces new Dark Tower book.
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,
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.
AMC presents The Prisoner miniseries, a reinterpretation of the British 1960s cult hit series that starred and was co-created by Patrick McGoohan.
The Premise : A man, known as Six, finds himself inexplicably trapped in The Village with no memory of how he arrived.
In Search Of The Water (Liberty).
As he explores his environment, he discovers that his fellow inhabitants are identified by number instead of name, have no memory of any prior existence, and are under constant surveillance.
Not knowing whom to trust, Six is driven by the need to discover the truth behind The Village, the reason for his being there, and most importantly -- how he can escape.
November 15, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep6: Ladies Night.
Meanwhile, Cleveland Jr. is nominated as a joke for Student Council President. Afraid of looking bad if he loses, Rallo comes to his aid as his campaign manager. When their efforts at slander don't produce enough results, Rallo attempts to pass off Cleveland Jr. as blind. During a presentation, Cleveland Jr. sees that his opposing candidate's life is in danger and saves him, exposing his vision but inspires his opposition to withdraw from the race, leaving Cleveland Jr. as Student Council President. Having achieved his goal, Rallo retires as campaign manager.
November 15, 2009, American Dad 5Ep6: Shallow Vows.
Stan and Francine celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary, and Roger takes over the planning.
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 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, U.S. President Barack Obama continues his first trip to China. (Reuters)
November 17, 2009, Release of Going Rogue.
November 17, 2009,
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, 30 Rock S4 Ep5: Sun Tea.
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.
On December 13, 2008, Summit Entertainment released a synopsis of New Moon, which states: "Bella Swan is devastated by the abrupt departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, but her spirit is rekindled by her growing friendship with the irresistible Jacob Black. Suddenly she finds herself drawn into the world of the werewolves, ancestral enemies of the vampires, and finds her loyalties tested.
November 20, 2009, Release of Planet 51.
Planet 51 is an upcoming animated film directed by Jorge Blanco, written by Joe Stillman and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel, Justin Long, Seann William Scott, Gary Oldman and John Cleese. It was originally titled Planet One, but re-named Planet 51 in reference to Area 51.
The film follows a NASA astronaut, Captain Charles "Chuck" Baker who lands on Planet 51 thinking he's the first to set foot on it. However, he discovers it's inhabited by little green people who live in a white picket-fenced world reminiscent of 1950s America. This freaks out the aliens, who think he's an alien invader.
November 20, 2009, Release of Blind Side.
The Blind Side is a 2009 drama sports film written and directed by John Lee Hancock, and based on the 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis.
"The Blind Side" depicts the true story of Michael Oher, a homeless 15 year old from a broken home, taken in by the Tourhys, a well-to-do family who helps him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Tourhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, the 15 year old faces a completely different set of challenges. As a football player and student, Oher works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, and a great defense lawyer becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
November 20, 2009,
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans is an upcoming film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Nicolas Cage.
The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans draws elements from Abel Ferrara's 1992 film Bad Lieutenant, featuring a crooked cop who is a drug addict and takes sexual favors as bribes.
The main character is Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. McDonagh struggles with addictions and finds himself involved with drug dealer Big Fate, who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
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, 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, Astronaut becomes Father in Space. (Telegraph)
November 22, 2009, Family Guy S8 Ep7: Jerome is the New Black.
The episode features Peter, Joe and Quagmire searching for a new fourth friend to replace Cleveland, who left them to move to Stoolbend, Virginia, in his spinoff entitled The Cleveland Show.
November 22, 2009, The Cleveland Show S1 Ep7: A Brown Thanksgiving.
November 22, 2009, American Music Awards.
ovember 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,
November 24, 2009,
November 24, 2009,
November 24, 2009, Premiere of TV Mini-Series Paradox.
This gripping 5 x 60-minute series for BBC One stars Tamzin Outhwaite (The Fixer, Hotel Babylon) as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint, who is thrown together with Space Scientist Dr Christian King (Emun Elliott) when a series of rogue images are transmitted from a space satellite named "The Prometheus" into his laboratory. The fragmented images appear to be of a major incident but, shockingly, they also suggest it is yet to happen – it's in the future. Created and written by Lizzie Mickery (Messiah, The 39 Steps and The State Within), produced by Marcus Wilson (Whitechapel, Life On Mars).
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 25, 2009, Dubai World, the state-owned real-estate and ports giant, asks for a moratorium on its 59 billion US dollars' in debt until at least May 30, 2010. (Bloomberg)
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, 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.
Old Dogs is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Wild Hogs's Walt Becker and starring John Travolta and Robin Williams with supporting roles played by Kelly Preston, Matt Dillon, Justin Long, Seth Green, Rita Wilson, Dax Shepard and Bernie Mac.
Two friends and business partners find their lives turned upside down when strange circumstances lead to them being placed in the care of 7-year-old twins.
November 27, 2009, Thanksgiving and Advent.
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, 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.
Cleveland and Donna are excited to have the house to themselves when Cleveland Jr. and Roberta go on a school trip to Washington, D.C., but a disgruntled Rallo will do whatever it takes to keep Cleveland and Donna apart. Meanwhile Roberta’s partying gets out of control and Cleveland Jr. comes to her rescue.
November 29, 2009, Simpson's S21 Ep7: Redneck and Broomsticks.
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 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)
December 1, 2009,
December 1, 2009, The International Court of Justice begins hearings into the legality of the Kosovan declaration of independence from Serbia. (AFP)
December 1, 2009, The European Union now has legal personality and has acquired the competences previously conferred on the European Community. Community law therefore becomes European Union law. (ECJ)
- The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union enters into force. (AFP via Google News)
- The European Court of Justice acquires general jurisdiction to give preliminary rulings in the area of freedom, security and justice. (ECJ)
- The first permanent President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, officially takes office. (AFP via Google News)
- The first EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, officially takes office. (AFP via Google News)
December 2, 2009, Release of TruTv Series Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura.
December 2, 2009,
December 2, 2009, The trial of suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk is postponed after he is taken ill. (Deutsche Welle)
December 2, 2009,Leading Climate change scientist Dr. Jones steps down from lead role after Climate-Gate scandal.
December 3, 2009, Copenhagen heats up.
December 3, 2009, Palin-Genesis.
December 3, 2009, The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits in United States commercial banks, is running a deficit of $US8.2 billion. (New York Times)
December 4, 2009, Release of Armored.
Early morning, Ty Hackett is getting ready for work. He wakes up his younger brother, Jimmy , and tells him to get ready for high school. Ty is a war hero, having earned the Silver Star in Iraq. Both his parents recently died and left him with the mortgage and Jimmy to look out for. Ty is picked up by Mike Cochrane , and they carpool to work at the Eagle Shield Armored Truck Co.
A newbie guard for an the company Tyler is coerced by his veteran coworkers to steal a truck containing $42 million. But a wrinkle in their supposedly foolproof plan divides the group, leading to a potentially deadly resolution.
December 4, 2009, Release of Brothers.
Brothers is a 2009 drama-war film starring Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman. Directed by Jim Sheridan, the film is based on Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film Brødre which takes place in Afghanistan and Denmark. Both films take inspiration from Homer's epic poem The Odyssey.
A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.
December 4, 2009, Release of Serious Moonlight.
When a high-powered female attorney discovers that her husband is about to leave her for another woman, she prevents him from doing so by binding him to the toilet with duct tape. Complications ensue when burglars break into the couple’s home.
December 4, 2009, Release of Up In Air.
The story is about a corporate downsizer in his travels and follows his isolated life and philosophies, along with the people that he meets along the way.
"The movie is about the examination of a philosophy—what if you decided to live hub to hub, with nothing, with nobody?"
December 4, 2009, With the ongoing Climate-Gate Debate Texas receives 3rd earliest snowfall.
ecember 4, 2009, The judges and jury in the case of the murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007 in Perugia, Italy, retire to consider their verdict. (BBC)
December 4, 2009, The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation announces that 25 member countries will contribute a further 7,000 troops to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in addition to 30,000 additional American and 500 British troops previously announced. (BBC)
December 4, 2009, The final draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup takes place in Cape Town, South Africa. (AP via Yahoo sports)
December 4, 2009, Nepal's cabinet meets on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of climate change in the Himalayas. (CNN)
Alice is a 2009 television mini-series being broadcast on American cable television channel Syfy. The miniseries is a reimagining of the classic Lewis Carroll stories Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with science fiction and additional fantasy elements added. The miniseries is being produced by RHI Entertainment, the company that produced Tin Man, the highly successful 2007 adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. The series is four hours long, split into two parts, and premiered on Sunday, December 6, 2009. Writer and director Nick Willing previously directed a 1999 adaptation of the books which followed the story more closely; however, Alice is intended to be a modern interpretation, imagining how Wonderland might have evolved over the last 143 years.
Plot
Wonderland is an outlandish city of twisted towers and casinos built out of playing cards, all under the rule of the Queen of Hearts (Scarlet Women = Monarch = Fascism). The White Rabbit is a secret organization that works for the Queen of Hearts and abducts people from the real world, so they can gamble in the Queen's casino. Once people are kidnapped, they are referred to as "oysters," and play in the casino so their emotions can be drained by the Queen. These drained emotions serve as the currency of Wonderland. The Queen keeps people under control by sedating them with elixirs (Rainbow Drugs = (Apotheosis)) that provide an instant fix of emotions as a way to pacify them when they become too unruly.
Alice Hamilton (Caterina Scorsone), a woman in her twenties who lives with her mother, finds herself in Wonderland after the man she loves is kidnapped by the White Rabbit. However, the Queen is not very happy about Alice’s arrival. In the course of her adventure, Alice enlists the help of an array of characters including the resistance fighter Hatter (Andrew-Lee Potts), resistance leader Dodo (Tim Curry) and the White Knight (Matt Frewer). Unlike the Alice in Carroll's original stories, this characterization of Alice is a modern, assertive woman and not a young child.
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December 6, 2009, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom firmly warns newspaper editors in a letter to cease publication of personal pictures of the British Royal Family after years of being "hounded" by paparazzi. (BBC)
December 7, 2009,
December 7, 2009, The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen. (CNN)
December 7, 2009, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates admits that the United States has had no information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden for many years. (Dawn)
December 7, 2009, The English town of Swindon becomes the first ever Twin Town of Walt Disney World in the U.S. state of Florida. (BBC)
December 8, 2009, Release of This is War Album By 30 Seconds too Mars.
December 8, 2009,
December 8, 2009, Royal Variety Performance in Blackpool, England.
December 8, 2009, A man was arrested for allegedly throwing two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony during a book signing event at the Mall of America in Minnesota, MyFoxTwinCities.com. reported.
Neither tomato came close hitting the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, but did hit a police officer in the face, the station reported.
The unidentified man may face charges for assaulting a police officer, according to the station.
Police identified him as 33-year-old Jeremy Paul Olson from St. Paul, but they think he also goes by the name Jeremiah Wobbe. Police said he was arrested and booked on assault and disorderly conduct charges. Officers added that when they arrested him, they found two more tomatoes he'd been carrying.
The word tomato comes from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. French botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort provided the Latin botanical name, Lycopersicon esculentum, to the tomato. The Latin name translates to "wolfpeach" - peach because it was round and wolf because it was mistakenly considered to be toxic due to its botanical connection to the Solanaceae or nightshade family.
The Bible contains 13 references to wolves, usually as metaphors for greed and destructiveness. In the New Testament, Jesus is quoted to have used wolves as illustrations to the dangers His followers would have faced should they follow him (Matthew 10:16, Acts 10:29, Matthew 7:15)
The Roman Catholic Church often used the negative imagery of wolves in order to create a sense of real devils prowling the real world.
Quoting from Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the Malleus Maleficarum states that wolves are either agents of God sent to punish sinners, or agents of the Devil sent with God's blessing to harass true believers in order to test their faith.
In Canto I of Dante's Inferno, the Pilgrim encounters a She-Wolf blocking the path to a hill bathed in light. The She-Wolf represents the sins of concupiscence (Lust) and incontinence ( Passion). She is prophecised by the shade of Virgil to one day be sent to Hell by a greyhound (Tour Bus?).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolves_in_ ... _mythology
The color peach represents immortality in Chinese culture (in Western culture, the color amaranth represents immortality). In China, the magical peaches of immortality were said to be consumed by the immortals due to their mystic virtue of conferring longevity on all who ate them. In Daoism The divinity Yu Huang, also called the Jade Emperor, and his mother called Xi Wangmu also known as Queen Mother of the West are said to be the guardians of the peaches of immortality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach_%28color%29
Sarah Palin -> Going Rogue = New Moon (+Wolf) = She Wolf (New Rome).
December 8, 2009, Japan unveils a new ¥7.2 trillion (US$80.6 billion) stimulus package to strengthen the country's economy amid signs it is weakening. (BBC)
December 8, 2009, For the second time in as many years, CBS cancels a United States-produced soap opera, this time As The World Turns after 54 years, in effect putting Procter & Gamble, the creators of said genre, out of that business. (Bloomberg News)
December 8, 2009, Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spacecraft, is officially unveiled in the Mojave Desert, California. (The Daily Telegraph)
December 9, 2009, Release of Malice in Wonderland Album by Snoop Dogg.
December 9, 2009, Release of Expressions Album by Music Go Round.
December 9, 2009,
December 9, 2009, Indonesia raises Obama Statue (Butterfly).
December 9, 2009, An unexplained spiral light seen in the sky across large parts of Northern Norway confound spectators. Authorities speculate that the light could come from a misfired Russian rocket, but Russian authorities deny this. (Daily Mail)
In Norway coinciding with Obamas Peace (V/Antenna/Health Care) prize speech which syncs with the V-Obama connection.
December 10, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. (CNN)
December 10, 2009, Thousands of "red shirt" anti-government protesters demonstrate in Bangkok, Thailand, calling for new elections. (Thai News Agency)
December 10, 2009, It is revealed that Egypt is building an iron wall up to 100 feet deep along its border with Gaza. (The National)
December 10, 2009, New 4,000-page Spanish grammar guidelines, produced by the Spanish Royal Academy and 21 organizations in Spanish-speaking countries, are unveiled. (AP)
December 11, 2009, Release of Did You hear about the Morgan's.
Did You Hear About the Morgans? follows a highly successful Manhattan couple, Meryl and Paul Morgan, whose almost-perfect lives have only one notable failure – their dissolving marriage. But the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to what they are about to experience: they witness a murder and become targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk away the Morgans from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely in the Rockies ... unless, in their new BlackBerry-free lives, the Morgans can slow down the pace and rekindle the passion.
December 11, 2009, Release of Invictus.
Invictus is a 2009 biographical drama film based on Nelson Mandela's life during the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Morgan Freeman as the then South African President Mandela, and Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar, the South African team captain. The story is based on the John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Changed a Nation.
December 11, 2009, Release of The Princess and the Frog.
The film, which began production under the working title The Frog Princess, is an American fairy tale, Broadway-style musical set in the French Quarter of New Orleans. A prince named Naveen (Bruno Campos) from the land of Maldonia is transformed into a frog by the evil scheming voodoo magician Dr. Facilier (Keith David). The frog prince mistakes a girl named Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) for a princess and has her kiss him to break the spell. The kiss does not break the spell, but instead turns Tiana into a frog as well. Together, the two of them must reach the good voodoo priestess of the Bayou, Mama Odie (Jenifer Lewis), while befriending a trumpet-playing alligator and a hopelessly romantic firefly along the way.
December 11, 2009, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett host Noble Peace Prize Concert.
December 11, 2009, Golfer Tiger Woods announces he is taking an indefinite break from the sport after a scandal over his infidelity in order to focus on "being a better husband, father, and person". (ABC)
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December 11, 2009, Vasily Khristoforov, the head archivist for Russia's Federal Security Service confirms for the first time that the Soviet Union's KGB cremated Adolf Hitler's body in 1970 and scattered his ashes in the Biederitz River. (CNN)
December 11, 2009, Oil company Royal Dutch Shell wins the right to develop Iraq's Majnoon oil field in a joint venture with Petronas after the first such auction since the 2003 invasion. The field is expected to generate $900 million a year. (BBC)
December 11, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI releases a statement stating that he shares the "outrage, betrayal and shame" felt by the Irish people over the findings of the Murphy Report into sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy in Dublin. (RTÉ)
December 11, 2009, The USA threatens Iran with "significant new sanctions" over the country's nuclear programme according to US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. (BBC)
December 11, 2009, The discovery of the Triassic theropod dinosaur genus Tawa is announced. (AP)
December 12, 2009, US Central Intelligence Agency has cancelled the contract of private security firm Xe Services LLC also know as Blackwater for its services related to Drone operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan.(Dawn)
December 12, 2009, Rise of the Black Phoenix.
The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King, according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday.
Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage.
The disclosures come despite months of denials from the Palace that the Queen was planning to step back from her official work in favour of her 27-year-old grandson.
The information is contained in a briefing note written by Chancellor Alistair Darling’s Treasury officials about new financial arrangements for Prince Charles and his sons.
Key paragraphs, disclosing the reason for the changes, are blacked out.
But this newspaper has obtained an uncensored version of the document which confirms that the Queen is grooming William as a ‘Shadow King’.
December 12, 2009, Mark Ingram RB for Alabama Crimson Tide wins Heisman Trophy.
December 13, 2009, American Dad S5 Ep9: Rapture's Delight.
Stan is upset when he can't find his family a good seat for a Christmas Day church service, but that proves to be the least of his worries when Stan discovers that he, Roger, and Francine are among those left on Earth when everyone ascends into Heaven as part of the Biblical end of days, while Hayley and Steve have ascended. Francine becomes upset when Stan cares more about ascending into heaven than being with her and leaves him; she soon meets the second coming of Jesus Christ and becomes his girlfriend.
Seven years pass and the world is shown to be a wasteland, brought on by the war between Jesus and The Anti-Christ. Jesus meets with Stan (who lost a hand and an eye) in a bar and convinces him to help him to rescue Francine, who has recently been captured by the Anti-Christ. On their mission they meet up with Roger, who for the past seven years has been trying to repair his spaceship to return to his home planet. They use the golden turd from previous episodes to power the ship, which they use to reach the Anti-Christ's lair at the United Nations headquarters. After a drawn-out battle Stan is shot by the Anti-Christ, taking a bullet meant for Jesus. When Francine goes to help Stan, she tears his shirt away to see that he has always kept their wedding rings. Stan then activates a bomb to destroy the lair and end the war once and for all. Francine tries to rescue him but the bomb would soon go off and Stan asks her to leave. Stan dies in the explosion and is sent to heaven; when guided to his "personalized heaven" we see that it is his home just as it was at the beginning of the episode, the only difference being Klaus' dead fish body (from earlier in the episode) being mounted on a plaque hanging on the wall.
December 13, 2009, Simpsons S21 Ep8: O Brother, Where Bart Thou?
Lisa informs Bart that she and Maggie share a bond that Bart will never understand because he doesn’t have a brother, so Bart asks Homer for a baby brother. When Homer denies Bart’s request, Bart makes his way to the Springfield Orphanage to find what he thinks he’s missing.
December 13, 2009, Global consulting firm Accenture is ending its sponsorship of Tiger Woods, saying the golfer is "no longer the right representative" after the "circumstances of the last two weeks." (Wall Street Journal)
December 13, 2009, American multinational corporation Procter & Gamble says it will begin phasing Tiger Woods out of promotions for its Gillette brand. (Bloomberg)
December 13, 2009, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is hit in the face and knocked to the ground after a political rally in Milan. (BBC News)
December 13, 2009, Campaigners in Copenhagen criticise "heavy handed" tactics by Danish police after 968 people are arrested as a result of protests surrounding the United Nations Climate Change Conference. (BBC)
December 14, 2009,
December 14, 2009, The Group of 77 (including China, India, UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) suspends participation in treaty negotiations at the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, citing the unwillingness of developed nations to live up to the Kyoto Protocol and what they view as a lack of open negotiations. (BBC)
December 14, 2009, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, claims that some banks were rescued during the recent global financial crisis by billions of dollars that originated from the illegal drug trade. (Press TV)
December 14, 2009, Researchers report that the Veined Octopus retrieves coconut shell halves to use as shelter, becoming the first invertebrates recorded to use tools. (AP)
December 14, 2009, Dubai receives a US$10 billion bailout from Abu Dhabi to help fund troubled Dubai World. (Gulf News)
December 14, 2009, Austrian bank Hypo Group Alpe Adria is nationalised to avert a bank collapse. (Reuters)
December 14, 2009, TeliaSonera opens the world's first 4G LTE cellular network for public in Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden. (The Inquirer)
December 15, 2009, Release of Alicia Keys Album Elements of Freedom.
December 15, 2009, Release of Robin Thicke Album Sex Therapy.
December 15, 2009,
December 15, 2009,
December 15, 2009, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urge countries on to compromise to salvage agreement on a new U.N. pact aimed at averting dangerous climate change and global warming.(Reuters)
December 15, 2009, The Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' widebody passenger airliner takes its maiden flight, travelling from Paine Field to Boeing Field, in Washington State, U.S.A. (BBC)
December 15, 2009, Evacuations begin in the Albay province of the Philippines as the Mayon Volcano oozes lava, with an eruption possible. (Philippine Inquirer)
December 15, 2009, Canadian sports medicine specialist Anthony Galea, who helped Tiger Woods recover from knee surgery, is accused of providing top athletes with performance-enhancing drugs. (New York Times)
December 16, 2009,
December 16, 2009,
December 16, 2009,
December 16, 2009, Roy E. Disney, head of Disney Animation and responsible for guiding the studio through a golden age of animation, dies in a California hospital in the United States. (CNN)
December 16, 2009, Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they have discovered a burial shroud from around the time of Jesus in a tomb. (Jerusalem Post)
December 17, 2009,
December 17, 2009,
December 17, 2009, Europe is hit by heavy snowfall leading to disruptions in France, Germany, Poland and Spain. (BBC)
December 17, 2009, Egyptian archaeologists recover from the Mediterranean Sea an ancient temple pylon belonging to the palace complex of Cleopatra. (AP)
December 17, 2009, It is revealed that Iraqi militants intercepted live video feeds from U.S. MQ-1 Predator drones, potentially acquiring information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations. (Wall Street Journal)
December 18, 2009, Release of Avatar.
Avatar is a 2009 American 3-D science fiction epic film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldaña, and Stephen Lang. The film is co-produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, and focuses on an epic conflict on Pandora, an inhabited Earth-sized moon of Polyphemus, one of three fictional gas giants orbiting Alpha Centauri A. On Pandora, human colonists and the sentient humanoid indigenous inhabitants of Pandora, the Na'vi, engage in a war over the planet's resources and the latter's continued existence.
The film's title refers to the Sanskrit word Avatar, a representation of a real person in a virtual world.
December 18, 2009, Release of Nine.
Nine is a 2009 American musical romantic film directed and produced by Rob Marshall. The screenplay, by Michael Tolkin and Anthony Minghella is based on Arthur Kopit's book for the 1982 Tony Award-winning musical of the same name, which was derived from an Italian play by Mario Fratti inspired by Federico Fellini's autobiographical film 8½.
Having reached the age of fifty, director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) is facing a midlife crisis that is stifling his creativity and leading him into a variety of complicated romantic involvements. As he struggles to complete his latest film, he is forced to balance the numerous formative women in his life, including his wife, Luisa (Marion Cotillard); his mistress, Carla (Penélope Cruz); his film star muse, Claudia (Nicole Kidman); his confidant and costume designer (Judi Dench); an American fashion journalist, Stephanie (Kate Hudson); a prostitute from his youth, Saraghina (Fergie); and his mother (Sophia Loren).
December 18, 2009, Release of The Young Victoria.
The Young Victoria is a 2009 British film based around the accession to the throne and early reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and her marriage to Prince Albert. It stars Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Miranda Richardson, and Jim Broadbent. The film is produced by Graham King, Martin Scorsese, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Tim Headington.
The film is a romantic dramatisation of some of the events preceding and following the coronation of Queen Victoria, focusing on her early reign and romance with Prince Albert in the 1830s.
December 18, 2009, Thirty world leaders present in Copenhagen for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change agree on a draft accord. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
December 18, 2009, NASA releases the first ever photo of liquid outside of Earth, in the form of sunlight reflecting on a lake on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. (CNN)
December 18, 2009,
December 18, 2009, Russian television news channels air repeated coverage of a UFO, shaped like a pyramid and similar to an Imperial Cruiser from Star Wars. (The Daily Telegraph)
December 18, 2009, General Motors announces that it will begin shutting down operations at the Swedish carmaker Saab automobile. (New York Times)
December 18, 2009, The Arbeit macht frei sign is stolen from Auschwitz concentration camp. (JTA)
December 19, 2009, The North American blizzard of 2009 produces record snowfall, causing power outages, deaths, and impacting retail sales. (The Weather Channel)
December 19, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI declares two of his predecessors, John Paul II and Pius XII to be Venerable, the second step toward sainthood. (BBC)
December 19, 2009, Freezing conditions cause electrical faults in the Channel Tunnel between Great Britain and France, isolating 2,000 passengers in five trains. The situation is coupled with disruptions at London Heathrow Airport and traffic delays due to snowy conditions in the south-east of England. (BBC)
December 19, 2009, Scientists announced the discovery of GJ 1214 b, an ocean planet orbiting a star in the Ophiuchus constellation. (Nature)
December 19, 2009, In association football, FC Barcelona sets a new record by winning all 6 possible competitions (The Sextuple) in one year. (The Guardian)
December 20, 2009, Brittany Murphy Dies at age 32.
December 21, 2009, Release of Eminem Album Refill.
December 21, 2009, Soon to be King (Sun) spends night homeless (Lowest Status).
December 21, 2009, Remains of the first dwelling in Nazareth that can be dated back
to the time of Jesus have been found by Israeli archaeologists. (The Jerusalem Post)
December 21, 2009,
December 22, 2009, A priest in York causes controversy when he says shoplifting from large national chain stores is acceptable in certain circumstances. (The Irish Times)
December 22, 2009, Brazil Judge Hands Goldman Custody Win (CBS)
December 23, 2009, Release of Alvin and the Chimpmunks: The Squeakquel.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel is a 2009 American live-action/CGI film and sequel to Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) starring Zachary Levi, David Cross, Wendie Malick, and Jason Lee. The film also stars the voices of Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, and Amy Poehler.
The world famous singing pre-teen chipmunk trio return to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity, and a rival female music group known as The Chipettes.
December 23, 2009,
December 23, 2009, Gävle's giant straw goat — a traditional symbol of yuletide in Scandinavia — is burned down for the 24th time. (The Daily Telegraph)
December 23, 2009, American Airlines Flight 331, with 154 people onboard, overshoots the runway at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica, injuring 44. (Jamaica Observer)
December 23, 2009, Soyuz TMA-17, carrying an international crew of one Russian, one American, and one Japanese astronaut, docks with the International Space Station. (RIA Novosti)
December 24, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI is knocked down by a woman during a procession before the Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. He is uninjured, but Cardinal Roger Etchegaray suffers a hip fracture. (Sky News)
December 24, 2009, The United States Senate passes a controversial health-care bill expected to extend insurance coverage to 30 million additional Americans while substantially raising taxes, in a party-line vote, 60-39. (BBC)
December 25, 2009, Christmas.
December 25, 2009, Release of Dr. Parnassus: Imaginarium.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a 2009 fantasy film directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown. The film follows the leader of a travelling theatre troupe who, having made a deal with the Devil, takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations.
Christopher Plummer, Tom Waits, and Heath Ledger star in the film, though Ledger's death one-third of the way through filming caused production to be temporarily suspended. Ledger's role was recast with Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell portraying transformations of Ledger's character Tony as he travels through a dream world.
Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional character of the same name. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg is based on Lionel Wigram's story and Doyle's characters. Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law portray Holmes and Dr. Watson respectively.
The film opens with Holmes and Watson racing against time to prevent a human sacrifice ritual conducted by Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong). They manage to stop the sacrifice ritual just in time. The police, led by Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan), arrive after Holmes and Watson neutralize Lord Blackwood and proceed to arrest him.
London is astir with rumors about his dark powers and Holmes and Watson resume their hunt to track him down Their adventures lead them to uncover an occult-dabbling secret society known as the Temple of the Four Orders (similar in vein to secret societies such as the Order of the Eastern Temple, the Freemasons, the Illuminati and the Rosicrucians), with Blackwood eventually leading it on a quest for world domination.
December 25, 2009,
December 25, 2009, The 19th century St Mel's Cathedral of Longford in Ireland is destroyed by an ongoing fire in the town. (RTÉ)
December 25, 2009, American officials investigate a possible attempted terrorist attack after an incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
(MSNBC)
December 27, 2009, A consortium led by Korea Electric Power gets a US$20.4-billion contract to build nuclear power plants in the United Arab Emirates, the largest-ever energy deal in the Middle East. (The Wall Street Journal)
December 27, 2009, A tomb, believed to be that of Cao Cao, one of the Chinese leaders during the Three Kingdoms period, is discovered in Henan Province. (Xinhua)
December 28, 2009,
December 28, 2009, Two Argentine men become the first gay couple to legally marry in Latin America at a civil ceremony. (Buenos Aires Herald)
December 28, 2009, President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez quotes Mary and Karl Marx in a New Year message broadcast by state media, describing an end to the "illusion" of Barack Obama and predicting a global ecological disaster. (Reuters)
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December 31, 2009,
December 31, 2009,
December 31, 2009, A High Court in Malaysia rules that the country's Christians have a constitutional right to use the word Allah in reference to God, declaring the government's ban on the use of Allah by non-Muslims as unconstitutional. (BBC News)
December 31, 2009, Former Catholic Primate of All Ireland Cardinal Cahal Daly, "the hierarchy's foremost theologian and its most trenchant critic of politically-inspired violence", dies in Belfast aged 92. (RTÉ)
December 31, 2009, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade issues an apology to "humiliated" Christians for comparing an "idolatrous" statue to Jesus Christ. (BBC)
December 31, 2009, The Althing (Icelandic parliament) approves the payment of €3.8 billion to the United Kingdom and the Netherlands as deposit insurance for the collapsed Icesave savings scheme. (BBC News)
December 31, 2009, Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor X in X-Men, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. (CNN)
December 31, 2009, Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. (CNN)
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