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Fiat said it would take a 35 percent stake in Chrysler, giving it the ability to market its cars through Chrysler’s dealership network. Chrysler will have access to Fiat’s technology.
The new president was sworn in while surrounded by a clan that redrew the image of the first family.
Administration advisers have cautioned that they would not be rushed.
The recession of the early 1980s doesn’t have a catchy name, and many Americans are too young to remember it. But indicators say that these were worse times then.
Barack Obama experienced a dash of disbelief on the day in which he formally became the president.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2009, covering January 21, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Nickelback
Kanye West
Beyonce
Soundtrack
2009Krista Kilvet, Estonian journalist, politician and diplomat (born 1946)[†]
Krista Kilvet was an Estonian radio journalist, politician and diplomat.
2009Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it had with Hamas. However, intermittent fire by both sides continues in the weeks to follow.[†]
The Gaza Strip, also known simply as Gaza, is a small territory located on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea; it is the smaller of the two Palestinian territories, the other being the West Bank, that make up the State of Palestine. Inhabited by mostly Palestinian refugees and their descendants, Gaza is one of the most densely populated territories in the world. An end of 2024 estimate puts the population of the Strip at 2.1 million, which was a 6% decline from the previous year due to the Gaza war. Gaza is bordered by Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the east and north. Its capital and largest city is Gaza City.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]