December 16,2009
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Pop Culture
-January 8, Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" hits #1 on the Bilboard Charts after 22 weeks.
-January 9, Popular TV show Spongebob Squarepants celebrates its 10 year anniversary.
-February 8, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' "Raising Sand" wins Album of the year at the 51st Grammy Awards.
-February 22, Slumdog Millionare wins best picture at the 81st Academy Awards.
-April 11, Susan Boyle becomes an overnight YouTube sensation through her performance of "I Dreamed a
Dream" on Britain's Got Talent.
-May 15, Eminem releases "Relapse," selling over 1,000,000 copies worldwide the first week
-May 19, Glee debuts on Fox.
-June 20, The Jonas Brothers kick off their American leg of the Jonas Brothers' World Tour in Dallas, Texas.
-September 9, Beatles Rock Band is released.
-September 13, Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift's acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Music Video Awards.
-September 15, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is released and remains number one on the New York Times
Bestseller List for six weeks.
-October 2, Beyonce Knowles is named Woman of 2009 by Billboard.
-November 19, Oprah Winfrey announces the end of her talk show in 2011.
-November 10, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released.
I-Review
Top Ten Box Office Hits
(Based on Worldwide Revenue)
1. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" ($929,323,118)
2. "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" ($878,802,649)
3. "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" ($833,229,011)
4. "2012" ($590,076,000)
5. "Up" ($506,979,556)
6. "Angels and Demons" ($485,900,330)
7. "New Moon" ($473,674,000)
8. "The Hangover" ($459,270,619)
9. "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" ($412,378>818)^
10. "Star Trek" ($384,953,671) ^ ^ ^ -
World Headlines
-January 15, US Airways FUght 1549 lands in the Hudson River after losing both engines. AU155 passangers survived.
-February 1, Johanna Siguroardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland, becomes the first lesbian world leader.
-February 7, Bushfires in Australia kill 173, injure 500, and leave 7,000 homeless.
-April 1, Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
-May 23, Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, under investigation for alleged bribery while in
office, commits suicide.
-May 25, North Korea announces a successful nuclear test followed by UN condemnation.
-June 11, The World Health Organization deems the HlNl influenza a global pandemic.
-June 20, Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian student shot during a protest, becomes an international symbol of
Iranian civil unrest following the presidental election.
-July 8, The G8 meets in L'Aquila, Italy. Issuess such as energy conservation, climate change, and the
development of Africa.
-Jime 28, The Supreme Court of Honduras orders the arrest and exile of President Manuel Zelaya under violation
of the constutition. Violence ensues, and the Organization of American States condems the coup d'etat.
-July 22, The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, occurs in Asia and the Pacific Ocean, making it
the most widely observed eclipse in history.
-October 2, The International Olympic Committee decides that the 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio de Janerio.
-November 13, NASA announces that it has found a significant quantity of water in the Moon's Cabeus crater.