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January 3, 2009

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Historical Context for January 3, 2009

In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]

Notable Deaths

Betty Freeman

2009Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (born 1921)[†]

Betty Freeman was an American philanthropist and photographer.

Pat Hingle

2009Pat Hingle, American actor (born 1923)[†]

Martin Patterson Hingle was an American character actor who appeared in stage productions and in hundreds of television shows and feature films. His first film was On the Waterfront in 1954. He often played tough authority figures. Hingle was a close friend of Clint Eastwood and appeared in the Eastwood films Hang 'Em High, The Gauntlet, and Sudden Impact. He also portrayed Commissioner Gordon in the Batman film franchise from 1989 to 1997.

Hisayasu Nagata

2009Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (born 1969)[†]

Hisayasu Nagata was a Japanese politician born in Nagoya City in Aichi Prefecture. He was well known for falsely accusing the former Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie of bribing the Liberal Democratic Party.

Historical Events

2009The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.[†]

A payment system is any system used to settle financial transactions through the transfer of monetary value. This includes the institutions, payment instruments such as payment cards, people, rules, procedures, standards, and technologies that make its exchange possible. A payment system is an operational network which links bank accounts and provides for monetary exchange using bank deposits. Some payment systems also include credit mechanisms, which are essentially a different aspect of payment.

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