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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.
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.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]
2002 — 10 people are killed and 3 are injured in the Beltway sniper attacks around the Washington D.C. area. 2003 — Republicans retake narrow control of the Senate following 2002 elections. 2003 — Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts and resulting in a 29-month ...
10. Finally, he jumpstarted the economy during the worst recession since the Great Depression. In the wake of the global recession, Obama signed the Recovery Act, which cut taxes and saved ...
This was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. November 5, 2017 – A gunman kills 26 people and wounds 22 others at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before killing himself. This was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history and the deadliest shooting in an American place of worship in modern history.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider, and Jack W. Szostak, "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase". (Nobel Foundation) An early morning passenger train bound for Bangkok derails in Hua Hin, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more.
April 29 until August 2 - "The Pictures Generation", curated by Douglas Eklund, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. [6] November 13 until February 28, 2010 "Botticelli : likeness, myth, devotion" at the Städel Museum, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. [7]