MultiEducator · The 21st Century Almanac
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2009
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2009

Major Events · Sports · Music · Screen · Prizes

Barack Obama took office amid economic wreckage as governments mounted vast bailouts and stimulus, the H1N1 swine flu swept the globe, and the King of Pop Michael Jackson died suddenly at fifty.

A Year in Review
Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire
Nobel · Literature
Herta Müller "Who
World Series
No. 1 Song
1 Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow 2 Lady G
Top TV
Academy · Actor

Major Events of 2009

3 events
Obama InauguratedGM BailoutTroop Surge

Sports Highlights

Champions of 2009

Champions

MLB2009 World Series New York Yankees win 4-2 against the Philadelphia Phillies - Oct 28& x2026; Philadelphia 6 at New York 1 - Oct 29& x2026; Philadelphia 1 at New York 3 - Oct 31& x2026; New York 8 at Philadelphia 5 - Nov 1& x2026;New York 7 at Philadelphia 4 - Nov 2& x2026; New York 6 at Philadelphia 8 -Nov 4& x2026; Philadelphia 3 at New York 7
NFLSuper Bowl XLIII Pittsburgh Steelers win 27-23 against the Arizona Cardinals -Super Bowl Box Score: Pittsburgh& x2026; 3 14 3 7= 27 Arizona& x2026;& x2026;0 7 0 16= 23 Professional Golf Men's Majors winners - The Masters: Angel Cabrera& x2026; 68-68-69-71=276 -
US OpenLucas Glover& x2026; 67-65-70-76=278 - British Open: Stewart Cink& x2026; 4-3-4-3=14 in the playoffs - PGA Championship: Yang Yong-eun& x2026;73& 150;70& 150;67& 150;70=280 Women's Majors winners - Kraft Nabisco Championship: Brittany Lincicome& x2026; 66-74-70-69= 279 - US Women's Open: Eun-Hee Ji& x2026;284 - LPGA Championship: Anna Nordqvist& x2026;273 - Weetabix Women's British Open: Catriona Matthew& x2026;285

Top Music of 2009

The year on the charts

Top Songs

  1. 1 Black Eyed Peas Boom Boom Pow 2 Lady Gaga Poker Face 3 Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis Just Dance 4 Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling 5 Taylor Swift Love Story 6 Flo Rida Right Round 7 Jason Mraz I'm Yours 8 Beyonce Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) 9 Kanye West Heartless 10 All-American Rejects Gives You Hell

Screen & Television

At the box office & on the air

Top Movies

  1. Avatar Fox $2,749,064,328[2]
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Warner Bros. $934,416,487
  3. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Fox / Blue Sky $886,686,817
  4. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Paramount / DreamWorks $836,303,693
  5. 2012 Columbia $769,679,473
  6. Up Disney / Pixar $731,342,744
  7. The Twilight Saga: New Moon Summit $709,711,008
  8. Sherlock Holmes Warner Bros. $524,028,679
  9. Angels & Demons Columbia / Imagine $485,930,816
  10. The Hangover Warner Bros. / Legendary $467,483,912 50th Grammy Awards Record of the Year: “Please Read the Letter”- Robert Plant and Allison Kraus Song of the Year: “Viva la Vida”- Coldplay Album of the Year: River: Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Allison Kraus Best New Artist: Adele

Academy Awards

Honoring 2009
Best Picture
Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director
Danny Boyle for Slumdog Millionaire Best actor in a leading role: Sean Penn for Milk Best actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet for The Reader Best actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger for Dark Knight Best actress in a supporting role: Penelope Cruz for Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Nobel & Pulitzer Prizes

The year in letters & science

Nobel Prizes

Peace
Barack H. Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” •
Physiology or Medicine
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak "for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase" • Economic Sciences: Elinor Ostrom "for her analysis of economic governance, especially
Chemistry
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz and Ada E. Yonath "for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" •
Literature
Herta Müller "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"

Pulitzer Prizes

Public Service
The Washington Post • Breaking News Reporting: Staff of The Washington Post • Investigative Reporting: Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker, The New York Times; Staff of Chicago Tribune • Explanatory Reporting: Amy Harmon, New York Times • Local Reporting: David Umhoefer, Milwaukee Journal • National Reporting: Jo Becker and Barton Gellman, The Washington Post • International Reporting: Steve Fainaru, The Washington Post • Feature Writing: Gene Weingarten, The Washington Post • Commentary: Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post • Criticism: Mark Feeny, The Boston Globe • Editorial Writing: no award • Editorial Cartooning: Micahel Ramierz, Investor’s Business Daily • Breaking News Photography: Adrees Ltif, Reuters • Feature Photography: Preston Gannaway, Concord (NH) Monitor •
Fiction
The Brief Wondorus Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz •
Drama
“August: Osage County”, Tracy Letts •
History
"What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848" by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press) • Biography or Auto
biography
"Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father" by John Matteson (W. W. Norton) •
Poetry
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins) and Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt) •
General Nonfiction
The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 by Saul Friedländer (HarperCollins)
Music
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