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Revisit the news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[ā ]
2009Bernard Ashley, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Laura Ashley plc (born 1926)[ā ]
Sir Bernard Albert Ashley was an English businessman and engineer. He was the husband of Laura Ashley, and was her business partner from the founding of their fashion-textiles-centred business.
2009Louie Bellson, American drummer and composer (born 1924)[ā ]
Louie Bellson, often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the use of two bass drums.
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āAstronome: A Night at the Opera,ā a collaboration between Richard Foreman and John Zorn, is jolting but their styles never truly meld.
Federal prosecutors plan to call Barry Bondsās former personal shopper at his perjury trial to testify that she saw Bonds being injected by his trainer.
Many filmmakers presenting at this yearās festival, which ends Sunday, seemed to measure the worth and seriousness of their work in terms of geographic scope.
The recession has cast a shadow on Miami Beach, but heat-seeking visitors are still coming.
France is warming to its first lady, who has taken up a global cause.
Call of Duty: World at War balances the exciting action of a conventional shooter with a frank acknowledgment of warās brutality.
āSlumdog Millionaireā is inadvertently an advertisement for one of the most prominent game shows in television history.
A league appeals committee reversed the result of a high school game in which referees awarded 26 free throws after an on-court altercation.
Timothy Geithnerās bailout plan includes a so-called stress test to figure out how crippled big banks would be under various economic assumptions.
Drew Lebed yearns to be a firefighter, to pull people from burning buildings, to āeat the blackest smoke.ā Had city budget cuts not intervened, he might have made it.
Young investors caught in the financial downturn still have time on their side.
A new electronic gear system makes it debut this weekend at the Tour of California, and traditionalists worry that it may erode the basic tenets of the sport.