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June 17, 2009

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 2009, covering June 17, 2009.

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    Album cover for Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King by Dave Matthews Band

    Big Whiskey And The GrooGrux King

    Dave Matthews Band

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    Album cover for Relapse by Eminem

    Relapse

    Eminem

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    Album cover for Uplifter by 311

    Uplifter

    311

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    Album cover for Chickenfoot by Chickenfoot

    Chickenfoot

    Chickenfoot

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    Album cover for 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day

    21st Century Breakdown

    Green Day

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Notable Deaths

Ralf Dahrendorf

2009Ralf Dahrendorf, German-English sociologist and politician (born 1929)[†]

Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, was a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and liberal politician. A class conflict theorist, Dahrendorf was a leading expert on explaining and analysing class divisions in modern society. Dahrendorf wrote multiple articles and books, his most notable being Class and Conflict in Industrial Society (1959) and Essays in the Theory of Society (1968).

Darrell Powers

2009Darrell Powers, American sergeant (born 1923)[†]

Darrell Cecil "Shifty" Powers was a non-commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Powers was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Peter Youngblood Hills.

Historical Context for June 17, 2009

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