2009
This will be the second to last post in this historical series. Although, the last one won't exactly be historical... Come back next week to see what I mean!
This was so recent, yet I wonder how many of you can think of anything significant that happened that year off the top of your head. What follows is a list of events, with one event or incident from each month included, from my usual sorce.
US Airways Flight 1549 from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, was hit by a flock of geese, which caused a loss of thrust in both engines. Captain and First Officer safely ditched the plane in the Hudson, and all 155 passengers and crew survived.
The Black Saturday bushfires, the deadliest in Australian history, killed 173, injured 500, and left 7000 homeless. Most of the fires were ignited by fallen or clashing power lines or were deliberately lit.
NASA's Kepler Mission launched from Cape Carnaveral, a space photometer to search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
UNESCO launched the World Digital Library.
Sri Lankan civil war ended after more than 25 years of fighting.
Michael Jackson died.
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
At the G-20 Pittsburg Summit world leaders announced that the G-20 would assume greater leverage over the world economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another financial crisis like the one in 2008.
The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.
The Prime Minister of Belgium , Herman Van Rompuy, was designated the first permanent President of the European Council.
Astronomers discovered GJ1214b, the first known exoplanet on which water could exist.
And to conclude this historical post, the Nobel Prizes:
This was so recent, yet I wonder how many of you can think of anything significant that happened that year off the top of your head. What follows is a list of events, with one event or incident from each month included, from my usual sorce.
US Airways Flight 1549 from New York City to Charlotte, North Carolina, was hit by a flock of geese, which caused a loss of thrust in both engines. Captain and First Officer safely ditched the plane in the Hudson, and all 155 passengers and crew survived.
The Black Saturday bushfires, the deadliest in Australian history, killed 173, injured 500, and left 7000 homeless. Most of the fires were ignited by fallen or clashing power lines or were deliberately lit.
NASA's Kepler Mission launched from Cape Carnaveral, a space photometer to search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
UNESCO launched the World Digital Library.
Sri Lankan civil war ended after more than 25 years of fighting.
Michael Jackson died.
The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
Bolivia became the first South American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
At the G-20 Pittsburg Summit world leaders announced that the G-20 would assume greater leverage over the world economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another financial crisis like the one in 2008.
The International Olympic Committee awarded the 2016 Summer Olympics to Rio de Janeiro.
The Prime Minister of Belgium , Herman Van Rompuy, was designated the first permanent President of the European Council.
Astronomers discovered GJ1214b, the first known exoplanet on which water could exist.
And to conclude this historical post, the Nobel Prizes:
- Chemistry: Ada Yonath, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and Thomas A. Seitz
- Economics: Elinor Ostrom and Oliver E. Williamson
- Literature: Herta Müller
- Peace: Barack Obama
- Physics: Charles K. Kao, Willard Boyle, and George E. Smith
- Physiology or Medicine: Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak
- Farenheit
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown
- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- I Am Legend
- Dark Angel
- The Sarah Jane Adventures
- several Doctor Who episodes - interesting, as there was no series that year, only a few specials.
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