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“Treme,” an HBO series by David Simon, tells the story of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The series is separated by just enough time to offer insight without being overly detached.
Regulators are drafting rules to restrict short-selling, or trades that profit from a decline in a stock’s price.
The Yankees have a player unlike any other in C. C. Sabathia, the high-priced starter with a hulking frame who makes his regular-season debut for the team on Monday.
“Up,” the latest film from Pixar Animation Studios, is expected to be a critical and commercial success, but Wall Street has its doubts.
In his second season in New York, Johan Santana is finding his comfort level and showing he is an ace who can be a joker, too.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 2009, covering April 6, 2009.
Kelly Clarkson
U2
Soundtrack
The-Dream
Lady Gaga
2009Shaylee Mansfield, deaf American actress and YouTuber[†]
Shaylee Ava Mansfield is an American actress. Mansfield, who is deaf, first gained recognition by making YouTube videos in which she told Christmas stories in American Sign Language. Mansfield appeared in an "Unforgettable Stories" video advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements.
2009Valentina Tronel, French child singer[†]
Valentina Tronel, known mononymously as Valentina, is a French singer. She rose to prominence after she won Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020, becoming the first French entrant to win the contest. Previously, in 2016, she took part in the French version of The Voice Kids. Between 2018 and 2021, she was part of the child pop group Kids United Nouvelle Génération.
2009J. M. S. Careless, Canadian historian and academic (born 1919)[†]
James Maurice Stockford Careless was a Canadian historian.
2009Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1982)[†]
Shawn Mackay was an Australian rugby union player with the Canberra based Brumbies in the Super 14 competition. He was the son of former Eastern Suburbs rugby league player John Mackay.
2009A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.[†]
An earthquake occurred in the region of Abruzzo, in central Italy, at 03:32 CEST on 6 April 2009. It was rated 5.8 or 5.9 on the Richter scale and 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale; its epicentre was near L'Aquila, the capital of Abruzzo, which together with surrounding villages suffered the most damage. There were several thousand foreshocks and aftershocks since December 2008, more than thirty of which had a Richter magnitude greater than 3.5.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]