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In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]
2009George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)[â ]
George Clyde Kell was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1943 to 1957, most prominently as a member of the Detroit Tigers where, he became a perennial All-Star player, and won the American League (AL) batting championship in 1949.
2009Hans Klenk, German racing driver (born 1919)[â ]
Hans Klenk was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix on 3 August 1952 and did not score any championship points. Klenk won the 1952 edition of La Carrera Panamericana in a Mercedes Benz W194, along with Karl Kling.
2009GĂĄbor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)[â ]
GĂĄbor Ocskay, Jr. was a Hungarian ice hockey player. As the center of the first line, he played a huge part in his national team's promotion to the 2009 World Championship. He died of a heart attack weeks before the start of the 2009 Championships. Ocskay was posthumously awarded the Torriani Award by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 2016, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.
As unemployment has risen and 401(k)âs have shrunk, American adults have been consuming more candy.
Details of the governmentâs plan to fix problems at the countryâs banks brought a glimmer of hope for a recovery to Wall Street.
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner staged a comeback after his first presentation of the bank recovery plan fizzled six weeks ago.
Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said 15 of the top 20 bonus recipients in A.I.G.âs financial products division had returned their bonuses.
The Supreme Court will consider how far school officials can go to enforce zero-tolerance drug policies.
Courtney Paris, a star center at the University of Oklahoma, promised that she would pay back her scholarship if the Sooners do not win the championship.
Fifteen years after the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, the pact, in some cases, has produced results that were exactly opposite of what was promised.
If Goldman succeeds in returning our money, it could put pressure on other banks to give their money back, too, lest they appear weak.
This work comes closer than Shakespeare in making 21st-century audiences feel what it must have been like to be a foot soldier in the early 15th century.
Forced to take a more pragmatic approach, states are now seeing prisoners as expenses to be reined in.
Take this! French and Italian classics, combined with some twists on American tradition.
Take that! Looking toward Mexico to make clever use of inexpensive ingredients.