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Earth Hour 2009 was from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. local time, March 28, 2009. The campaign was titled "Vote Earth" and was dubbed "the world's first global vote" with one billion votes was the stated aim for Earth Hour 2009, [23] in the context of the pivotal 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
Current events/2009 March 28. Millions of people worldwide recognize Earth Hour by deactivating unnecessary lighting. (RTÉ) (BBC) Demonstrators in London, England, demand that the G20 combat poverty, climate change, and unemployment. (BBC)
Timeline of the protests Put People First march; 28 March 28 March 2009 35,000 people joined the peaceful "March for Jobs, Justice and Climate" in central London, which was organised by Put People First, a civil-society coalition of more than 160 development non-governmental organisations, trade unions and environmental groups, organised in response to the London summit .
March 28 is the 87th day of the year (88th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 2009 – Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana (b. 1920) [274]
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from March 2009. The Basque Nationalist Party wins a plurality of seats in Spain 's Basque Country 's parliamentary elections. (CNN) Canada 's Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute discovers a new method to create embryonic-like stem cells that could cure spinal-cord injuries and ...
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 2007–2008 financial crisis, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits.
2009 ( MMIX) 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. 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy [ 1][ 2] by the United ...
The US bear market of 2007–2009 was a 17-month bear market that lasted from October 9, 2007 to March 9, 2009, during the financial crisis of 2007–2009. The S&P 500 lost approximately 50% of its value, but the duration of this bear market was just below average. The bear market was confirmed in June 2008 when the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...