September is the ninth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with 30 days.
In
Latin, septem means "seven" and septimus means "seventh"; September was
in fact the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 153 BC, when
there was a calendar reform from the month of the Ides of March to the
Kalends, or January 1. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the
meteorological autumn is 1 September. September marks the beginning of
the ecclesiastical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church.It is the start
of the academic year in many countries in the Northern Hemisphere.
September 1, 2009, Release of Juliette Lewis Album Terra Incognito
September 1, 2009, Former heavyweight world champion boxer Muhammad Ali visits the birthplace of his great-grandfather in Ennis, Ireland. (RTÉ)
September 1, 2009, Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using no safety equipment. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, European leaders remember the victims of World War II at ceremonies marking the start of the conflict 70 years ago. (RTÉ)
September 1, 2009, The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, The European Union bans the manufacture or import of 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, beginning a phase-out in favour of energy-saving compact fluorescent lamps. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, only the second full suspension in the organization's history. (BBC)
September 1, 2009, 91 countries agree to the first ever global treaty focused specifically on the problem of IUU fishing. (MercoPress)
September 2, 2009, (Drudge Report)
September 2, 2009, (Drudge Report)
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September 2, 2009, (Drudge Report)
September 2, 2009, UN chief visits 'doomsday' seed vault in Arctic.(BreitBart)
September 2, 2009, The 66th Venice International Film Festival gets underway. (BBC)
September 2, 2009, Charles Gibson announces he will step down as anchor of World News and retire from ABC in January 2010. Diane Sawyer will replace him at ABC World News. (ABC News)
September 2, 2009, British energy company BP says it has drilled to one of the lowest depths ever in the oil and gas industry as it made a "giant" discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. (MarketWatch)
September 2, 2009, Two American journalists held by North Korea for illegal entry admit to crossing the border but claim North Korean guards arrested them on the Chinese side of the border and dragged them back into the country. (Reuters)
September 2, 2009, The death certificate of American pop star and entertainer Michael Jackson is amended to reflect his cause of death as homicide via "injection by another". (BBC)
September 2, 2009, Two British boys planning to create a massacre "Project Rainbow" in a high school in Manchester are on trial after wanting to emulate the Columbine High School massacre (BBC News)
September 2, 2009, A 3,700-year-old wall is discovered in east Jerusalem. (BBC)
September 3, 2009, American pop star and entertainer Michael Jackson is laid to rest at a private ceremony during a sunset service in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles, USA. (The Syndey Morning Herald)
After the burial, the closest the public will be able to get to Jackson's vault is a portion of the mausoleum that displays "The Last Supper Window," a life-size stained-glass re-creation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.
September 3, 2009, Research indicates the Andromeda Galaxy appears to have expanded by digesting stars from other galaxies. (BBC)
September 4, 2009, Release of The Entrance band album The Entrance band.
September 4, 2009, Release of Extract.
September 4, 2009, Release of Gamer
September 4, 2009, Release of All About Steve
September 4, 2009, Ryan Tubridy takes over as host of The Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show. (Irish Examiner)
September 4, 2009, North Korea announces it is in the final stage of uranium enrichment, as Russia, South Korea, Japan and the United States express concern. (RIA Novosti)
September 4, 2009, The International Monetary Fund grants Zimbabwe a US$ 500 million loan, its first to the country in 10 years. (The Herald)
September 5, 2009, The G-20 finance ministers outline plans for banking reform, including tougher regulation of financial institutions. (MarketWatch)
September 5, 2009, An oil deal and trade concerns with Libya were at one point considered as factors in the Lockerbie bomber's release, British Justice Secretary Jack Straw says in an interview. (CNN)
September 7, 2009, Scientists working in Papua New Guinea announce the discovery of over forty new species, including a giant rat weighing approximately 1.5kg. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of Sons of Anarchy
September 8, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of 90210
September 8, 2009, Release of Phish album Joy
September 8, 2009, A colossal statue of Apollo is discovered at a UNESCO World Heritage Site at Hierapolis, Turkey. (Discovery Channel)
September 8, 2009, Mobile network operators T-Mobile and Orange agree to merge their British businesses. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, Police in Milwaukee, USA, arrest a man in suspicion of being the notorious North Side Strangler, believed to have killed at least seven women between 1986 and 2007. (MSNBC)
September 8, 2009, A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes northern Georgia. (BBC)
September 8, 2009, 35 people are killed and 44 remain missing after an explosion in a coal mine in Pingdingshan, China. (BBC)
September 9, 2009, Release of 9
September 9, 2009, "Beatles Day" is celebrated worldwide as The Beatles release remastered versions of their albums, as well as The Beatles: Rock Band. (Newsday)
September 9, 2009, Hubble photographs a butterfly
September 9, 2009, September 9, 2009 was 09/09/09, next date with three nines will be September 9, 2109. After this there is only 3 triple number days left this century... Oct 10, 2010, Nov. 11, 2011, Dec 12, 2012.
September 9, 2009, Obama Health Care speech to Congress.
September 9, 2009, Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, Quintana Roo, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport. (BBC News)
September 9, 2009, Google plans new mirror for cheaper solar power.(Reuters)
September 10, 2009, Series Premiere of Vampire Diaries
September 10, 2009, Dubai's Metro System, the first mass transit system of the Arabian Peninsula, officially opens to the public as its first metro line is partially operational. (Al Bawaba)
September 10, 2009, Greek militant group Revolutionary Struggle threatens to attack the "golden boys" it blames for the economic crisis as it claims responsibility for the Athens stock market bombing. (RTÉ)
September 10, 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown apologises for the post-war treatment of celebrated WWII code-breaker Alan Turing, who was chemically castrated for having homosexual relations(Downing St)
September 11, 2009,
September 11, 2009, Release of I can do bad all by myself
September 11, 2009, Release of Whiteout
September 11, 2009, Release of the Blueprint 3
-Jay Z also sponsors a concert at the Madison Square Garden on 9/11.
September 11, 2009, Panic on the Potomac.(ABC)
September 11, 2009, The oldest person in the world, Gertrude Baines, dies in Los Angeles aged 115. (Associated Press)
September 11, 2009, Michael Jordan, John Stockton, David Robinson and Jerry Sloan are elected to the NBA Hall of Fame.
September 11, 2009, NASA's space shuttle Discovery lands at the Edwards air force base in California, USA. (BBC)
September 11, 2009, Venezuelan Hugo Chávez announces the discovery of a vast gas field off the coast of his country, one of the world's largest finds. (BBC)
September 12, 2009, A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in Venezuela, injuring many people. (Daily Press)
September 12, 2009, Lebanon wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. (Reuters)
September 12, 2009, 10 Warhol paintings dating from the late 1970s are stolen from the private collection of Richard Weisman in Los Angeles, USA. (BBC)
September 13, 2009, MTV VMA Awards
September 13, 2009, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva heavily criticises the "rich countries", the G8 and other international bodies over the global economic crisis. (BBC)
September 13, 2009, Teeth and bones from a range of animals, including hyenas, deer and rhinos, are discovered by archaeologists inside a cave in Devon, England. (BBC)
September 14, 2009, Patrick Swayze dies
September 15, 2009, Release of Dan Brown book Lost Symbol
September 15, 2009, Release of Muse album The Resistance
September 15, 2009, Release of Megadeth Album Endgame
September 15, 2009, Release of Beastie Boy album Hot Sauce Committee Pt.1
September 15, 2009, Release of Kid Cudi – Man on the Moon: The End of Day
September 15, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke says the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s is likely to end, while warning that growth may not be strong enough to quickly reduce the unemployment rate. (Bloomberg)
September 15, 2009, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accuses the United States of "blocking" Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. (CNN)
September 15, 2009, President and CEO of investment manager Rockefeller & Co. found dead in Mass.(Fox)
September 15, 2009, Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'(Telegraph)
September 15, 2009,NASA names target for water hunt at moon's south pole.(LA)
September 16, 2009, President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games.
September 16, 2009,
September 16, 2009, New documents disclose that novelist J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for His Majesty's Government in the run up to World War II. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 16, 2009, The World Meteorological Organisation says the hole in the Ozone layer is smaller than in 2008. (AFP)
September 16, 2009, Kenya begins moving the first residents out of slums in the capital Nairobi, as part of a plan to clear all shanty towns over the next two to five years. (BBC)
September 16, 2009, The TEAMS cable system, providing high speed broadband to East Africa for the first time, is poised to go live. (BBC)
September 17, 2009, Series Premiere of Community
September 17, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of Fringe
September 17, 2009, Season 5 premiere of Bones
September 17, 2009, The President of France Nicolas Sarkozy says European Union leaders agree to impose a cap on banker pay. (AP via Google News)
September 17, 2009, Colombia says it would consider quitting UNASUR if the bloc does not agree to debate issues related to drug trafficking, terrorism and arms purchases. (MercoPress)
September 18, 2009, Release of the Informant
September 18, 2009, Release of Splice
September 18, 2009, Release of Jennifer's Body
September 18, 2009, Release of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
September 18, 2009, Talk like a Pirate day
September 18, 2009, Hong Kong sentences former Morgan Stanley managing director Du Jun to seven years in prison for his insider trading conviction in its most high-profile case. (BBC)
September 18, 2009, The first ever Irish Global Economic Forum, modelled on Switzerland's World Economic Forum, begins in Farmleigh in Dublin's Phoenix Park. (The Belfast Telegraph)
September 18, 2009, 30,000 Ivory Coast residents seriously affected by the dumping of toxic waste by Trafigura, which, according to the United Nations, has killed at least 15 people, say an undisclosed compensation deal offered by a London-based oil firm is not enough. (BBC)
September 18, 2009, The Raptorex kriegsteini, a smaller version of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is discovered in northeastern China. (The Daily Telegraph)
September 18, 2009, The African Union says a twin bombing that killed 17 peacekeepers on its base in Mogadishu, Somalia, was conducted in UN marked cars. (CNN)
September 19, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of Merlin
September 19, 2009, Obama Says Financial Regulations Must Be Strengthened Globally(Bloomberg)
September 19, 2009, Former three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer Muhammad Ali writes to the people of Ennis in Ireland, thanking them for the reception they gave him and his wife Lonnie during their recent visit in search of his roots. (The Irish Times)
September 20, 2009, Trafigura oil trading firm agrees to pay more than $46 million compensation to more than 30,000 people in Côte d'Ivoire who say they were made ill by dumped waste in 2006. (BBC)
September 20, 2009, Series Premiere of Bored to Death
September 21, 2009, Season 3 Premiere of The Big Bang Theory
September 21, 2009, Season 4 Premiere of Heroes
September 21, 2009, Season 6 Premiere of House
September 20, 2009, Season 7 Premiere of Curb Your Enthusiasm
September 21, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of Castle
September 21, 2009, HG Wells Birthday.(Wiki)
September 21, 2009,
September 21, 2009, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world's longest-serving monarch, is admitted to the hospital after suffering from fever and fatigue. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin spent his retirement in a "golden cage", his phone tapped and the Kremlin controlling visitors, a colleague reveals. (The Irish Times)
September 21, 2009, Argentina’s Economy minister Amado Boudou announces he is to meet with his French counterpart Christine Lagarde for the resumption of negotiations with the Paris Club. (MercoPress)
September 21, 2009, Most of the world's major river deltas are sinking, including Colorado, Nile, Pearl, Rhone and Yangtze, increasing the flood risk faced by ½ a billion people, scientists report. (BBC)
September 21, 2009, Adidas and Puma end their 60-year-old feud. (BBC)
September 22, 2009, Autumnal Equinox.
Autumn (also known as fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in March (southern hemisphere) or September (northern hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier.
September 22, 2009, Series Premiere of The Goodwife
September 22, 2009, Series Premiere of Cougar Town.
September 22, 2009, Season 7 Premiere of NCIS
September 22, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama calls for the resumption of the Middle East peace process in meetings with the Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and the President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas. (Voice of America)
September 22, 2009, Chinese President Hu Jintao tells a U.N. summit on climate change that China will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase reliance on clean energy sources in coming years. (CNN)
September 22, 2009, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for menthol cigarettes. (The New York TImes)
September 22, 2009, #17 Plaxico Burress is sent to Jail for shooting himself.(CNN)
September 22, 2009, G-20 summit gives Pittsburgh a chance to update rust belt image(CNN)
September 23, 2009, Release of Capitalism: A Love Story.
September 23, 2009, Series Premeire of Eastwick.
September 23, 2009, Season 5 Premiere of Criminal Minds
September 23, 2009, (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, The cities of Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia are covered by a dust storm, the worst in at least 70 years. Aviation in New South Wales is disrupted. (The Australian) (Drudge)
September 23, 2009, (Huffpost)
September 24, 2009, Series Premiere of Flash Forward
September 24, 2009, Season 2 Premiere of The Mentalist
September 24, 2009, Season 6 Premiere of Grey's Anatomy
September 24, 2009, Season 10 Premiere of CSI
September 24, 2009, (Drudge)
September 24, 2009, (Huffpost)
September 24, 2009, Police use a lachrymatory agent to disperse a riot at the 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit. (AP via Fox News)
September 24, 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 probe discovers large amounts of water on the Moon. (Press Trust of India)
September 24, 2009, Thailand announces a breakthrough of a HIV/AIDS vaccine, after trials find it can reduce infection by 31%. (Thai News Agency)
September 24, 2009, The United Kingdom's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure, a collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces comparable to the Book of Kells, is discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, Leaders of the world converge on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the opening of the G-20 Summit. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
September 24, 2009, The United Nations Security Council, headed by world leaders, unanimously approve Resolution 1887 to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, The multi-billion dollar King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, boasting one of the world's fastest supercomputers, opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia in an attempt to enable the country to compete in science and technology internationally. (BBC)
September 24, 2009, The 250th anniversary of the signing of a lease by Arthur Guinness for a brewery at St James's Gate in Dublin. Events organised by Diageo get underway in Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Lagos, New York and Yaoundé. (RTÉ)
September 24, 2009,Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts chooses former Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk, Jr. to replace former Senator Teddy Kennedy on a temporary basis, until elections can be held to choose a permanent replacement to fill the remainder of Kennedy's term. (Houston Chronicle)
September 25, 2009, Release of Pandorum
September 25, 2009, Release of Surrogates
September 25, 2009, Season 6 Premiere of Medium
September 25, 2009,
September 25, 2009,
September 25, 2009, Poland approves a law making chemical castration mandatory for paedophiles. (Reuters)
September 25, 2009, A group of Polish political bloggers appeal to Irish people to vote "No" to the Treaty of Lisbon in the country's October 2 referendum as "the EU is trying to pass the treaty without asking Europeans to vote on it" and it is "an attempt to establish a European superstate". (The Irish Times)
September 25, 2009, Iran reveals to the United Nations nuclear watchdog the existence of a second uranium enrichment plant, facing accusations of secret building projects from Gordon Brown, Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy. (BBC)
September 25, 2009, Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, succeeding the late Ted Kennedy. (Roll Call)
September 25, 2009, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects U.S. President Barack Obama's accusation about Iran's nuclear program. (CNN)
September 27, 2009, Series Premiere of The Cleveland Show.
September 27, 2009, Season 4 Premiere of Brothers and Sisters
September 27, 2009, Season 6 Premiere of Desperate Housewives
September 27, 2009, Season 6 Premiere of American Dad: In Country...Club.
September 27, 2009, Season 8 Premiere of Family Guy
September 27, 2009, Season 21 Premiere of Simpsons
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September 27, 2009, In Germany the Christian Democrats and the Liberals win the federal election and announce their intention to form a new government with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. The Social Democrats concede defeat. (Der Spiegel)
September 27, 2009, Second South America-Africa Summit (ASA) on Isla Margarita.
September 27, 2009, The Swiss multinational Nestlé is buying milk from a farm seized from its white owners and now owned by the wife of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, according to England's The Sunday Telegraph. (BBC)
September 27, 2009, American General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force, formally requests more troops for the War in Afghanistan. (BBC)
September 27, 2009, An award-winning essay written by Paul McCartney as a 10-year-old for the coronation of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is found after lying undiscovered in Liverpool's Central Library for more than 50 years. (BBC)
September 28, 2009,
September 28, 2009, Australia's 12 Apostles natural landmarks continue to crumble. (The Times)
September 28, 2009, A police officer who served at the G20 demonstrations in London in April 2009 is to face a charge of assaulting a woman with a baton after becoming involved in a confrontation at a vigil for Ian Tomlinson. (The Times)
September 28, 2009, Spain's Pablo Pineda wins the best actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the first actor with Down's syndrome to win an international film award. (BBC)
September 29, 2009, Release of Madonna Album Celebrations
September 29, 2009, Release of Mariah Carey Album Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.
September 29, 2009, Release of Paramore Album Brand New Eyes.
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September 30, 2009, The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. (The Age)
September 30, 2009, A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes western Indonesia, killing at least 75 and trapping thousands of people under rubble. (Reuters)
September 30, 2009, The final report of an international fact-finding mission concludes that Georgia started the 2008 South Ossetia war. (New York Times)
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