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In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]
2009Chris Henry, American football player (born 1983)[â ]
Christopher Henry was an American professional football player who was a wide receiver for five seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the West Virginia Mountaineers and was selected by the Bengals in the third round of the 2005 NFL draft.
2009Jennifer Jones, American actress (born 1919)[â ]
Jennifer Jones, also known as Jennifer Jones Simon, was an American actress and mental-health advocate. Over the course of her career that spanned more than five decades, she was nominated for an Academy Award five times, including one win for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe Award win for Best Actress in a Drama.
2009Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (born 1946)[â ]
Alaina Reed Hall was an American actress and singer who portrayed Olivia Robinson, Gordon's younger sister, on the PBS children's television series Sesame Street, and Rose Lee Holloway on the NBC sitcom 227.
2009MVÂ Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.[â ]
Danny F II was a cargo ship built in 1975 as a car carrier. She was renamed Danny F II when rebuilt as a livestock transporter in 1994. The ship capsized and sank off Lebanon on 17 December 2009, carrying 83 people, 10,224 sheep, and 17,932 cattle. 40 people were rescued and 11 found dead. The other crew, passengers and animals are presumed to have died.
There is nothing bare-bones about the retreat for recovering addicts that Pete Hathaway, once a director at Sothebyâs, has made of his home.
Fancy a stuffed albino peacock? The display artist Kein Cross is turning his downtown duplex apartment into a holiday shop.
Young men are embracing the âMad Menâ elements of style in a way that the older men never did, still donât and just wonât.
Bank of America named one of its top managers, Brian Moynihan, as its chief executive, succeeding Kenneth D. Lewis, who plans to leave by the end of the year.
The action represents the biggest erosion of New York Cityâs transit service since its recovery from the crisis of the 1980s.
The federal law regulating tap water is so out of date that the water Americans drink can pose serious health risks.
As fraud surfaced in the Afghan election, the No. 2 U.N. official in the country proposed enlisting the White House in a plan to replace Hamid Karzai.
There is a risk of a debt loop, as the companies draw new government money to keep up with their existing debts.
For a company that has spent millions to link its services with Woodsâs image, severing that link may take time.
The world is looking to the president to wrest some credible success from climate negotiations, and there were some signs that a meaningful political deal might be at hand.
With âAvatarâ James Cameron has turned one manâs dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life as we know it.
The new Accord Crosstour is one of a group of vehicles trying to carve out a niche between conventional sedans and crossover utility vehicles.