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March 11, 2021 – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is passed. March 16, 2021 – A spa shooting in Atlanta leaves 8 dead; 6 of the victims were of Asian descent. [27] March 22, 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers location in Boulder, Colorado. This is the second mass shooting with at least 8 dead in a week.
2009 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
Events from the year 2009 in the United States. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president , occurred on January 20. The nation, still recovering from the Great Recession , received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits .
December 13: 27 EU member states sign the Treaty of Lisbon, with the treaty coming into effect on December 1, 2009. December 27: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto, opposition leader and former prime minister of Pakistan. Spike in food prices and subprime crisis help trigger global recession. First Ivorian Civil War ends.
A Pew Research Center factsheet from 2021 noted that the number of adults using the internet in 2008 was 74% while in 2021 it had increased to 93%. [147] The number of people using the internet grew during this period going from 226.21 million in 2008 to 305.37 million in 2020.
[71] [72] As of November 2021, the U.S. State Department believes as many as 14,000 U.S. legal permanent residents remain in Afghanistan. [73] 2021: On October 22, 2021, a U.S. airstrike in northwestern Syria killed senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Hamid al-Matar as part of ongoing anti-terrorism operations in the region. [74] [75]
President Obama only has a few months left in office as November approaches, but let's take a look at some of the things we'll remember him for.
Hubble Space Telescope 1990 — Hubble Space Telescope launches during STS-31, a Space Shuttle Discovery mission.; 1991 — The Gulf War is waged in the Middle East, by a U.N.-authorized coalition force from thirty-four nations, led by the U.S. and United Kingdom, against Iraq.