October 2009


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Other history Connections to early history through classical and medieval times are weak. Connections to modern history through the 19th century are also weak. This is weakly connected to most of the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is weakly connected to the early 2000s. It is weakly connected to the second quarter 2009 It is being treated as part of the third quarter 2009, and is immediately preceded by September 2009. It is followed by November 2009 and December 2009. It is closely connected to the future. The near future including next month including the remainder of December 2009 and January 2009, next quarter, and next year can be considered. Connections to the middle future and the far future are less clear. 3 Oct 2009 - Archaeologists discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Stonehenge, dubbed as "Bluehenge", named after the hue of the 27 stones that formed it.	Links to other sites Note: Section beginning with Content is adapted from 2009- Wikipedia More details are given in October 2009- Wikipedia
Sociology As with history in general, modern history, the 20th century, the early 21st century, and the late 2000s, the examination of peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change gives weight and substance to studies of October 2009.
Institutions Religion including particular religions, religious organization, religious practice, and religious belief can be connected. 4 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI opened a three-week synod of African bishops with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. 8 Oct 2009 - A new study revealed one in four people are Muslim, with the global Muslim population standing at 1.57 billion. 11 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints: Father Damien, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, Francisco Coll Guitart, and Jeanne Jugan. 14 Oct 2009 - Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, held a mass wedding ceremony for some 1,000 couples near Seoul. 20 Oct 2009 - In a set of canon laws, the Vatican welcomed groups of Anglicans as "personal ordinariates" into the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI announced. 22 Oct 2009 - Sweden's Lutheran Church decided to conduct same-sex marriages, becoming the first major church to do so. 23 Oct 2009 - At the end of their three-week synod in the Vatican, more than 200 African Roman Catholic bishops issued a 12-page document urging what they call corrupt political leaders on the continent to repent their sins or resign and criticising multinational companies who exploit and destroy the earth. 23 Oct 2009 - Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, said that the Vatican was considering the possibility of converting the Lefebvrist group into a personal prelature. 27 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana, to serve as the new head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. 27 Oct 2009 - The Church of Scientology in France was convicted of organised fraud. Government including particular governments, government activity, government structure, and law can be connected. 1 Oct 2009 - The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom were sworn into office, replacing the Law Lords as the final court of appeal in the country. 2 Oct 2009 - A bid to force publication of an internal BBC review of its Middle East coverage, EastEnders and Top Gear was rejected in the British High Court of Justice. 2 Oct 2009 - It was revealed that the British security services kept a file on their former Prime Minister Harold Wilson throughout his time in office. 3 Oct 2009 - Presidency of the European Council: Tony Blair's former chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell, had been touring European capital cities, including Brussels, Paris and Prague, in an undercover move to make him the first President of the European Council. Blair is supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. William Hague said Blair as EU president would be the worst option for Britain, saying "most people would be extremely annoyed" and that his appointment would "underline the lack of accountability and democracy that is our objection to the Lisbon treaty". 9 Oct 2009 - U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” 9 Oct 2009 - A United Nations plane from Uruguay attached to MINUSTAH monitoring the Haiti–Dominican Republic border crashed near Fonds-Verrettes, killing at least 11 people from Jordan and Uruguay. 10 Oct 2009 - More than 40 people were arrested after clashes between anti-Islamic and anti-racist demonstrations in Manchester, England. 10 Oct 2009 - Over 300 British MPs were to be asked to repay or explain expenses after controversy earlier this year. 11 Oct 2009 - Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a suspect wanted for the 1968 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281, was captured after more than 40 years. 14 Oct 2009 - The United Nations warned that malnutrition is getting worse. 15 Oct 2009 - The U.N. General Assembly elected Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria to the U.N. Security Council as non-veto-holding members. 16 Oct 2009 - The United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the Goldstone report on the Gaza War, accussing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes. 16 Oct 2009 - The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announced plans to establish a commission into the killing of unarmed protestors in Guinea last month. 24 Oct 2009 - The International Day of Climate Action occured worldwide in prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2009, with over 5,400 actions to raise awareness of the assertion that 350 ppm is the maximum safe level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, and call for mitigation of global warming before Earth reaches a climatological tipping point. 27 Oct 2009 - The Church of Scientology in France was convicted of organised fraud. 29 Oct 2009 - Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said a deal at a UN climate change summit in December was unlikely. 30 Oct 2009 - European Union leaders agreed on a climate aid deal to help developing countries adapt to global warming. Economics including economic systems, companies, and economic activities can be connected. 1 Oct 2009 - The International Monetary Fund said the global economy is "recovering faster than expected", raising its forecast for global growth to 3.1% for 2010, up from 2.5%. 4 Oct 2009 - The British and French governments announce a "historic" £2.5 billion allocation to the International Monetary Fund to help less wealthy countries. 5 Oct 2009 - Airline pilots in Europe staged demonstrations in several cities against working hours. 6 Oct 2009 - An "industry-wide phishing scheme" targeted sites such as Google, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL, with passwords posted online and more than a quarter of a million accounts at risk. 9 Oct 2009 - General Motors finalized a deal to sell Hummer to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company. 12 Oct 2009 - Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for Economics. 22 Oct 2009 - The Microsoft operating system Windows 7 went on retail sale worldwide. Education including particular schools, educational organization, cultural institutions, teaching, and research can be connected. Families including particular familes, kinship, parenting, and marriage can be connected. 8 Oct 2009 - DNA analysis revealed the identity of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Culture including behavioral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be connected. 5 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine went 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". 12 Oct 2009 - Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for Economics. 9 Oct 2009 - U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.” 6 Oct 2009 - The fictional worldwide blackout occurred on this date in ABC's television series FlashForward, in which everyone around the world saw a vision of their future for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds. 6 Oct 2009 - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize. 8 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the Romanian-German novelist Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". She became the twelfth woman to win the literature prize and the fourth female Nobel Laureate of 2009, a record year for female achievers. 13 Oct 2009 - A previously unrecognized painting, La Bella Principessa, was attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on fingerprint evidence. 18 Oct 2009 - Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula One World Championship in Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil, by finishing fifth in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. Germany and Israel complained about a Bangkok museum billboard depicting a salute by Adolf Hitler beside the slogan "Hitler is not dead". 22 Oct 2009 - The Olympic Flame was lit during a ceremony in Olympia,Greece to start the 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay. 23 Oct 2009 - A universal mobile phone charger that works with any handset was approved by the International Telecommunication Union. 23 Oct 2009 - Jean Todt defeated Ari Vatanen in an election to become the new head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, replacing former head Max Mosley, who held the position for 16 years. 24 Oct 2009 - Morrissey, ex-frontman of The Smiths, was hospitalized after collapsing on stage while performing "This Charming Man" during his world tour. 25 Oct 2009 - It was revealed that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. 30 Oct 2009 - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved plans to allow non-Latin web addresses for the first time. 18 Oct 2009 - Hurricane Rick strengthened to a Category 5 storm, becoming the strongest hurricane in a decade in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Anthropology including particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demography, and social foundations can be connected. 1 Oct 2009 - Paleontologists announced the discovery of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. Personal studies including biography, psychology, and the human body can be connected. 8 Oct 2009 - DNA analysis revealed the identity of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Science including biology, earth science, astronomy, chemistry, and physics can be connected. 21 Oct 2009 - A report on the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum, measuring around 70cm long, was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. 7 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome". 7 Oct 2009 - The discovery of a new ring around Saturn was announced. 9 Oct 2009 - In an attempt to determine the extent of lunar ice, NASA crashed two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon's south pole. 6 Oct 2009 - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for the achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.

Other history

Connections to early history through classical and medieval times are weak. Connections to modern history through the 19th century are also weak. This is weakly connected to most of the 20th century through the late 20th century. It is weakly connected to the early 2000s. It is weakly connected to the second quarter 2009 It is being treated as part of the third quarter 2009, and is immediately preceded by September 2009.

It is followed by November 2009 and December 2009.

It is closely connected to the future. The near future including next month including the remainder of December 2009 and January 2009, next quarter, and next year can be considered. Connections to the middle future and the far future are less clear.

3 Oct 2009 - Archaeologists discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Stonehenge, dubbed as "Bluehenge", named after the hue of the 27 stones that formed it.

Links to other sites
Note: Section beginning with Content is adapted from 2009- Wikipedia
More details are given in October 2009- Wikipedia

Sociology

As with history in general, modern history, the 20th century, the early 21st century, and the late 2000s, the examination of peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change gives weight and substance to studies of October 2009.

Institutions

Religion including particular religions, religious organization, religious practice, and religious belief can be connected.

4 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI opened a three-week synod of African bishops with a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

8 Oct 2009 - A new study revealed one in four people are Muslim, with the global Muslim population standing at 1.57 billion.

11 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints: Father Damien, Rafael Arnáiz Barón, Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski, Francisco Coll Guitart, and Jeanne Jugan.

14 Oct 2009 - Korean founder and leader of the worldwide Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon, held a mass wedding ceremony for some 1,000 couples near Seoul.

20 Oct 2009 - In a set of canon laws, the Vatican welcomed groups of Anglicans as "personal ordinariates" into the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI announced.

22 Oct 2009 - Sweden's Lutheran Church decided to conduct same-sex marriages, becoming the first major church to do so.

23 Oct 2009 - At the end of their three-week synod in the Vatican, more than 200 African Roman Catholic bishops issued a 12-page document urging what they call corrupt political leaders on the continent to repent their sins or resign and criticising multinational companies who exploit and destroy the earth.

23 Oct 2009 - Bernard Fellay, Superior General of the Society of St. Pius X, said that the Vatican was considering the possibility of converting the Lefebvrist group into a personal prelature.

27 Oct 2009 - Pope Benedict XVI appointed Cardinal Peter Turkson of Cape Coast, Ghana, to serve as the new head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

27 Oct 2009 - The Church of Scientology in France was convicted of organised fraud.

Government including particular governments, government activity, government structure, and law can be connected.

1 Oct 2009 - The Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom were sworn into office, replacing the Law Lords as the final court of appeal in the country.

2 Oct 2009 - A bid to force publication of an internal BBC review of its Middle East coverage, EastEnders and Top Gear was rejected in the British High Court of Justice.

2 Oct 2009 - It was revealed that the British security services kept a file on their former Prime Minister Harold Wilson throughout his time in office.

3 Oct 2009 - Presidency of the European Council: Tony Blair's former chief-of-staff, Jonathan Powell, had been touring European capital cities, including Brussels, Paris and Prague, in an undercover move to make him the first President of the European Council. Blair is supported by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. William Hague said Blair as EU president would be the worst option for Britain, saying "most people would be extremely annoyed" and that his appointment would "underline the lack of accountability and democracy that is our objection to the Lisbon treaty".

9 Oct 2009 - U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

9 Oct 2009 - A United Nations plane from Uruguay attached to MINUSTAH monitoring the Haiti–Dominican Republic border crashed near Fonds-Verrettes, killing at least 11 people from Jordan and Uruguay.

10 Oct 2009 - More than 40 people were arrested after clashes between anti-Islamic and anti-racist demonstrations in Manchester, England.

10 Oct 2009 - Over 300 British MPs were to be asked to repay or explain expenses after controversy earlier this year.

11 Oct 2009 - Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a suspect wanted for the 1968 hijacking of Pan Am Flight 281, was captured after more than 40 years.

14 Oct 2009 - The United Nations warned that malnutrition is getting worse.

15 Oct 2009 - The U.N. General Assembly elected Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Gabon, Lebanon and Nigeria to the U.N. Security Council as non-veto-holding members.

16 Oct 2009 - The United Nations Human Rights Council endorsed the Goldstone report on the Gaza War, accussing both Israel and Hamas of war crimes.

16 Oct 2009 - The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon announced plans to establish a commission into the killing of unarmed protestors in Guinea last month.

24 Oct 2009 - The International Day of Climate Action occured worldwide in prelude to the United Nations Climate Change Conference of 2009, with over 5,400 actions to raise awareness of the assertion that 350 ppm is the maximum safe level of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, and call for mitigation of global warming before Earth reaches a climatological tipping point.

27 Oct 2009 - The Church of Scientology in France was convicted of organised fraud.

29 Oct 2009 - Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said a deal at a UN climate change summit in December was unlikely.

30 Oct 2009 - European Union leaders agreed on a climate aid deal to help developing countries adapt to global warming.

Economics including economic systems, companies, and economic activities can be connected.

1 Oct 2009 - The International Monetary Fund said the global economy is "recovering faster than expected", raising its forecast for global growth to 3.1% for 2010, up from 2.5%.

4 Oct 2009 - The British and French governments announce a "historic" £2.5 billion allocation to the International Monetary Fund to help less wealthy countries.

5 Oct 2009 - Airline pilots in Europe staged demonstrations in several cities against working hours.

6 Oct 2009 - An "industry-wide phishing scheme" targeted sites such as Google, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL, with passwords posted online and more than a quarter of a million accounts at risk.

9 Oct 2009 - General Motors finalized a deal to sell Hummer to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company.

12 Oct 2009 - Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

22 Oct 2009 - The Microsoft operating system Windows 7 went on retail sale worldwide.

Education including particular schools, educational organization, cultural institutions, teaching, and research can be connected.

Families including particular familes, kinship, parenting, and marriage can be connected.

8 Oct 2009 - DNA analysis revealed the identity of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Culture including behavioral culture, conceptual culture, and material culture can be connected.

5 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine went 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".

12 Oct 2009 - Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson won the Nobel Prize for Economics.

9 Oct 2009 - U.S. president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

6 Oct 2009 - The fictional worldwide blackout occurred on this date in ABC's television series FlashForward, in which everyone around the world saw a vision of their future for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds.

6 Oct 2009 - Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

8 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature went to the Romanian-German novelist Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". She became the twelfth woman to win the literature prize and the fourth female Nobel Laureate of 2009, a record year for female achievers.

13 Oct 2009 - A previously unrecognized painting, La Bella Principessa, was attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on fingerprint evidence.

18 Oct 2009 - Jenson Button won the 2009 Formula One World Championship in Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil, by finishing fifth in the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix. Germany and Israel complained about a Bangkok museum billboard depicting a salute by Adolf Hitler beside the slogan "Hitler is not dead".

22 Oct 2009 - The Olympic Flame was lit during a ceremony in Olympia,Greece to start the 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay.

23 Oct 2009 - A universal mobile phone charger that works with any handset was approved by the International Telecommunication Union.

23 Oct 2009 - Jean Todt defeated Ari Vatanen in an election to become the new head of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, replacing former head Max Mosley, who held the position for 16 years.

24 Oct 2009 - Morrissey, ex-frontman of The Smiths, was hospitalized after collapsing on stage while performing "This Charming Man" during his world tour.

25 Oct 2009 - It was revealed that composer Andrew Lloyd Webber had been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

30 Oct 2009 - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved plans to allow non-Latin web addresses for the first time.

18 Oct 2009 - Hurricane Rick strengthened to a Category 5 storm, becoming the strongest hurricane in a decade in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

Anthropology including particular groups, human geography, human ecology, physical anthropology, demography, and social foundations can be connected.

1 Oct 2009 - Paleontologists announced the discovery of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil skeleton, deeming it the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor.

Personal studies including biography, psychology, and the human body can be connected.

8 Oct 2009 - DNA analysis revealed the identity of the "cursed blood" disorder that afflicted the British Royal Family in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Science including biology, earth science, astronomy, chemistry, and physics can be connected.

21 Oct 2009 - A report on the discovery of a new species of dinosaur, Fruitadens haagarorum, measuring around 70cm long, was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

7 Oct 2009 - The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome".

7 Oct 2009 - The discovery of a new ring around Saturn was announced.

9 Oct 2009 - In an attempt to determine the extent of lunar ice, NASA crashed two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon's south pole.

6 Oct 2009 - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for the achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication and for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor.