On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Called up from Class AAA Buffalo, the 22-year-old left-hander pitched seven innings and benefited from three home runs in a 10-3 victory at Houston.
Conservators are removing decades of yellowed varnish from the famed Art Deco murals in the lobby of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
The fears and anxieties the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave rise to are taking a toll on the design for a border-crossing station in northeastern New York State.
“Lost,” the ABC drama about people marooned on a mysterious island after their Oceanic Airlines flight crashes, has always taken a bells-and-whistles approach to Comic-Con.
Classical music has been treated as a poor relation at the Lincoln Center Festival in recent summers, but this year the tally was down to this one program.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2009, covering July 26, 2009.
Maxwell
Soundtrack
Various Artists
All Time Low
The Black Eyed Peas
2009Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (born 1919)[†]
Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other disciplines, including musicians John Cage, David Tudor, Brian Eno, and graphic artists Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns; and fashion designer Rei Kawakubo. Works that he produced with these artists had a profound impact on avant-garde art beyond the world of dance.
2009The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.[†]
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of 923,769 square kilometres (356,669 sq mi). With a population of more than 230 million, it is the most populous country in Africa, and the world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west. Nigeria is a federal republic comprising 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The largest city in Nigeria by population is Lagos, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world and the largest in Africa.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]