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April 7, 2009

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 2009, covering April 7, 2009.

  1. 1
    Album cover for All I Ever Wanted by Kelly Clarkson

    All I Ever Wanted

    Kelly Clarkson

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for No Line On The Horizon by U2

    No Line On The Horizon

    U2

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  3. 3
    Album cover for Twilight by Soundtrack

    Twilight

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    14
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    20
  4. 4
    Album cover for Love V/S Money by The-Dream

    Love V/S Money

    The-Dream

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    2
  5. 5
    Album cover for The Fame by Lady Gaga

    The Fame

    Lady Gaga

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    21

Notable Deaths

Dave Arneson

2009Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (born 1947)[†]

David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental early role-playing game (RPG) genre work pioneered now-archetypical devices, such as: cooperative play to develop a storyline instead of individual competitive play to "win"; and adventuring in dungeon, town, and wilderness settings as presented by a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all characters aside from the player characters.

Historical Events

Peru

2009Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.[†]

Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered to the north by Ecuador and Colombia, to the east by Brazil, to the southeast by Bolivia, to the south by Chile, and to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country, with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west, to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country, to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River. Peru has a population of over 32 million, and its capital and largest city is Lima. At 1,285,216 km2 (496,225 sq mi), Peru is the 19th largest country in the world, and the third largest in South America.

Moldova

2009Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.[†]

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,483 km2 (12,928 sq mi) and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a unitary parliamentary representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre.

Historical Context for April 7, 2009

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