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As with history in general, modern history, the 20th century, the early 21st century, the late 2000s, 2009, and the fourth quarter 2009, the examination of peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change gives weight and substance to events of December 2009. |
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Analysis of historical events in December 2009 using peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change is at present in progress but incomplete.
Analysis of historical events in December 2009 using nations of the world, Western Civilization, Asiatic peoples, African peoples, and American Indian peoples is at present in progress but incomplete.
Riyadh, Caracas, Rangoon, Sian, Poona, St. Petersburg, Kuala Lumpur, Nanking can be connected.
Particular changes including the agricultural revolution, agrarian revolution can be connected. Changes and events of the Industrial revolution, including those of the early industrial revolution can be connected.
Changes and events related to the middle industrial revolution can be connected.
5 Dec 2009 - Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in London and other European capitals ahead of a United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen.
6 Dec 2009 - Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom firmly warned newspaper editors in a letter to cease publication of personal pictures of the British Royal Family after years of being "hounded" by paparazzi.
7 Dec 2009 - Bishop Dermot O'Mahony resigned as patron of The Irish Pilgrimage Trust after his response to child sexual abuse was described as "worse than that of any other living auxiliary bishop of Dublin".
7 Dec 2009 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates admitted that the United States has had no information on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden for many years.
8 Dec 2009 - For the second time in as many years, CBS canceled a United States-produced soap opera, this time As the World Turns after 54 years, in effect putting Procter & Gamble, the creators of said genre, out of that business.
8 Dec 2009 - Scaled Composites SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial spacecraft, was officially unveiled in the Mojave Desert, California.
9 Dec 2009 - A legal challenge to Ireland's abortion laws took place at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
9 Dec 2009 - In what has been described as a landmark case, the Supreme Court of Ireland ruled that a gay man, identified as "A", who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple shall have access to the resulting boy child, overturning the original High Court decision. GLEN expressed concern at the Supreme Court's rejection of the lesbian couple as a "de facto family".
11 Dec 2009 - The USA threatened Iran with "significant new sanctions" over the country's nuclear programme according to US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
12 Dec 2009 - Annise Parker was elected Mayor of Houston, which became the largest United States city with an openly gay person elected mayor.
18 Dec 2009 - The BBC apologised for offence caused when it used the headline: "Should homosexuals face execution?"
20 Dec 2009 - United States Army Major General Anthony Cucolo made pregnancy a court-martial offense for both female and male troops under his command in northern Iraq.
24 Dec 2009 - The United States Senate passed a health-care bill expected to extend insurance coverage to 30 million additional Americans, in a party-line vote, 60-39.
25 Dec 2009 - American officials investigate a possible attempted terrorist attack after an incident on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
27 Dec 2009 - A second issue in as many days involving Northwest Airlines Flight 253 occurred, with an ill Nigerian man being detained briefly at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, United States, after a false alarm.
Changes and events of computerization can be connected.
2 Dec 2009 - Wikipedia was ordered by a senior British judge to breach its confidentiality after a woman pleaded for help in identifying an alleged blackmailer.
20 Dec 2009 - American band Rage Against the Machine top the UK Christmas Singles Chart with 1992 song "Killing in the Name". Its popularity arose from an internet campaign to prevent X Factor winner Joe McElderry from topping the charts. (CNN)
Social change processes such as innovation, transmission, adaptation, and extinction can be connected. Social change factors including institutional change, cultural change, demographic change, and natural change can be considered.
Social types including hunting and gathering societies, horticultural societies, agrarian societies, and industrial societies can be connected.
Social structure including community and regional structure, class structure, institutional structure, cultural structure, and anthropological structure can be connected.
31 Dec 2009 - Patrick Stewart, the actor who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Professor X in X-Men, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.