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An important group of religious leaders in Iran called for the results to be thrown out, the most public sign of a major split in the clerical establishment.
In what is becoming a trend, the Mets bungled two pop-ups in the sixth inning of a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday.
McNair and a woman were found dead with gunshot wounds in Nashville, the police said.
Roger Federer held off Andy Roddick and won the longest fifth set ever in a Grand Slam final, 16-14. With his 15th major singles title, he broke Pete Sampras’s mark.
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” and “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs” each sold an estimated $43 million in tickets over the three-day weekend, according to box office tracking services.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 2009, covering July 5, 2009.
Jonas Brothers
The Black Eyed Peas
Dave Matthews Band
Eminem
Incubus
2009A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.[†]
Ürümqi is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the second-largest in Central Asia in terms of population, right after Kabul, Afghanistan. Ürümqi has seen significant economic development since the 1990s and currently serves as a regional transport node and a cultural, political and commercial center.
2009The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in Britain, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.[†]
The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who became one of the most important cultural groups in Britain by the 5th century. The Anglo-Saxon period in Britain is considered to have started by about 450 and ended in 1066, with the Norman Conquest. Although the details of their early settlement and political development are not clear, by the 8th century an Anglo-Saxon cultural identity which was generally called Englisc had developed out of the interaction of these settlers with the existing Romano-British culture. By 1066, most of the people of what is now England spoke Old English, and were considered English. Viking and Norman invasions changed the politics and culture of England significantly, but the overarching Anglo-Saxon identity evolved and remained dominant even after these major changes. Late Anglo-Saxon political structures and language are the direct predecessors of the high medieval Kingdom of England and the Middle English language. Although the modern English language owes less than 26% of its words to Old English, this includes the vast majority of everyday words.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]