On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
The show on Thursday at Webster Hall, part of a 20th-anniversary celebration for the band, served as a primer on the generations, and modes, of New Jersey punkdom.
Wednesday’s memorable Downtown Dance Festival program featured performers in full Indian attire, moving apparently every muscle from head to toe.
VH1 canceled one reality television show and put another under review this week amid charges that a cast member had killed his ex-wife and fled to Canada.
Home Depot and Lowe’s are positioning for the wave of small, do-it-yourself repair and maintenance projects as sales suffer.
Two newlyweds are adding to the mix in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, by way of the boutique that they operate in their apartment.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 2009, covering August 22, 2009.
Sugarland
Various Artists
Gloriana
The Black Eyed Peas
Kings of Leon
2009Muriel Duckworth, Canadian pacifist, feminist, and activist (born 1908)[†]
Muriel Helen Duckworth was a Canadian pacifist, feminist, and social and community activist. She was a practising Quaker, a religious denomination committed to non-violence. Duckworth maintained that war, with its systematic violence against women and children, is a major obstacle to social justice. She argued that money spent on armaments perpetuates poverty while reinforcing the power of privileged elites. She believed that "war is stupid" and she steadfastly refused to accept popular distinctions between "good" and "bad" wars.
2009Elmer Kelton, American journalist and author (born 1926)[†]
Elmer Kelton was an American author, known for his Westerns. He was born in Andrews County, Texas.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]