World Player of the Year of 2009
Time: Monday Dec 21, 2009
Place: Kongresshaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Details: Lionel Messi was announced as the World Player of the Year with a record points total.
‹ Earlier in historyCitizenship in Canada2009 Later in history ›A Friendly game against ArgentinaTuesday Dec 22, 2009
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Tuesday May 28, 2002 - FIFA headquarters, Zurich, Switzerland
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Wednesday Jun 5, 1985 - Zurich, Switzerland
Sepp Blatter-The 65th FIFA Congress In Zürich
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1973 - Spreitenbach, Switzerland
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The Burning of Medical Books by Paracelsus
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Holy Roman Empire-Golden Bull of Sicily
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Shimon Peres-Mapai delegation
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Muhammad Ali of Egypt-Battle of Konya
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Armenian Genocide-Trabzon
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Walt Disney-Releasing Snow White
Tuesday Dec 21, 1937 - Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Sunday Dec 21, 1941 - Yugoslavia
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Friday Dec 21, 1962 - Havana, Cuba
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Carlos the Jackal-OPEC Attack
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Tuesday Dec 21, 1976 - U.S.
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Wednesday Dec 21, 1977 - Amiens, France
Prince Harry-Baptism
Friday Dec 21, 1984 - St George's Chapel, The Cloisters, Windsor, UK
Plane Accidents-Pan Am Flight 103
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Invasion of Panama-Marriott hostages
Thursday Dec 21, 1989 - Panama City, Panama
Croatian War of Independence-The SAO Krajina
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Lionel Messi-First Ballon d'Or awarded
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Bank of America-Bank of America announced it would repay the entire $45 billion it received in TARP and exit the program
Wednesday Dec 2, 2009 - U.S.
Kobe Bryant-One of the luckiest shots
Friday Dec 4, 2009 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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Friday Dec 11, 2009 - U.S.
Kobe Bryant-Avulsion fracture
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Zlatan Ibrahimović-Winning The 2009 FIFA Club World Cup
Saturday Dec 19, 2009 - Abu Dhabi (ZSC), Saif Ghobash Street, Zayed Sports City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Johan Cruyff-A Friendly game against Argentina
Tuesday Dec 22, 2009 - Barcelona, Spain
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Monday Dec 21, 2009 - U.S.
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Thursday Dec 31, 2009 - U.S.
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Marvel Studios-Marvel attempted to hire a team of writers to help come up with creative ways to launch its lesser-known properties
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Papa John's Pizza-Schnatter reacquired the Camaro back
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Warren Buffett-The World's Greatest Money Maker
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American Sniper: Christopher Scott Kyle-Post-military life
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Marvel Studios-Sony returned all Spider-Man television rights
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Kobe Bryant-Youngest player to 25,000 point
2009 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Android-2009 market share
2009 - Mountain View, California, U.S.
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Google LLC-Google Joined The PRISM Program
2009 - Mountain View, California, U.S.
Bank of America-Bank of America purchased Merrill Lynch
Thursday Jan 1, 2009 - New York City, New York, U.S.
Bitcoin-The genesis block
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Monday Jan 5, 2009 at 03:24:00 PM - New York, U.S.
Prince Harry-The Royal Household
Tuesday Jan 6, 2009 - England
Bitcoin-Finney received ten bitcoins from Nakamoto
Monday Jan 12, 2009 - U.S.
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Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 - Milan, Italy
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Qasem Soleimani-Meeting in Iraq
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US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Evacuation
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US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Landing Decesion
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US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Post-Evacuation
Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 03:00:00 PM - Hudson River, New York, U.S.
US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Flight Details
Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 03:24:00 PM - New York, U.S.
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 03:24:00 PM - New York, U.S.
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 03:31:00 PM - Hudson River, New York, U.S.
US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Rescue
Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 03:55:00 PM - Hudson River, New York, USA
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Thursday Jan 15, 2009 at 04:05:00 PM - Hudson River, New York, U.S.
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Friday Jan 16, 2009 - U.S.
Bank of America-Massive Losses
Friday Jan 16, 2009 - U.S.
US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Investigation
Saturday Jan 17, 2009 - Hudson River, New York, USA
Galileo Galilei-Plan to erect a statue of Galileo on the grounds of the Vatican had been suspended
Jan, 2009 - Vatican City
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - Washington D.C., U.S.
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US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-Crew awards and honors
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - U.S.
Joe Biden-First term (2009–2013)
Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - U.S.
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Tuesday Jan 20, 2009 - U.S.
US Airways Flight 1549: Sully-NTSB foundings
Wednesday Jan 21, 2009 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Donald Trump-Back to the Republicans
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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan-The relationship between Israel and Turkey worsened
Wednesday Jan 28, 2009 - Davos, Switzerland
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Wednesday Jan 28, 2009 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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Colombian conflict-Releasing 6 Hostages
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Richard Branson-Branson's Virgin organization was reported as bidding to buy the former "Honda Formula One" team
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Financial crisis of 2007–2008-American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Friday Feb 13, 2009 - U.S.
Financial crisis of 2007–2008-Congress approved the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Friday Feb 13, 2009 - U.S.
Hugo Chávez-Referendum to abolish The Two-term Limit For all Public Offices
Sunday Feb 15, 2009 - Caracas, Venzuela
IKEA-UNICEF announcement at The ECOSOC Event
Monday Feb 23, 2009 - New York, U.S.
Nancy Pelosi-Pelosi was re-elected speaker
2009 - U.S.
Shaquille O'Neal-O'Neal scored 45 points and grabbed 11 rebounds
Friday Feb 27, 2009 - Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Lula da Silva-G-20 summit
2009 - London, England
Colombian conflict-Releasing The Swedish Hostage
Mar, 2009 - Colombia
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Mar, 2009 - Lynnwood, Washington, U.S.
Diego Maradona-Italian officials announced that Maradona still owed the Italian government
Mar, 2009 - Italy
Shaquille O'Neal-O'Neal was outscored by Magic center Dwight Howard
Tuesday Mar 3, 2009 - Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Financial crisis of 2007–2008-The Dow Jones hit its lowest level of 6,443.27
Friday Mar 6, 2009 - U.S.
Uber-Uber was originally founded as Ubercab
Mar, 2009 - San Francisco, California, U.S.
Kim Jong-un-The Rubber stamp parliament of North Korea
Sunday Mar 8, 2009 - North Korea
Mass Shootings in the United States-Geneva County Massacre
Tuesday Mar 10, 2009 - Geneva County, Alabama, U.S.
Carlos Slim-the world's third-richest person 2009
Wednesday Mar 11, 2009 - U.S.
Robin Williams-Heart problems
Friday Mar 13, 2009 - California, U.S.
Ciro Immobile-Seria A
Saturday Mar 14, 2009 - Turin, Italy
PlayStation-The PlayStation 3 "slim" model
2009 - Tokyo, Japan
Bank of America-Bank of America received an additional $5.2 billion in government bailout money according to The New York Times
Sunday Mar 15, 2009 - New York City, New York, U.S.
Plague-Plague is reported in Libya
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Friday Mar 27, 2009 - Russia
Richard Branson-It was announced that Virgin would be sponsoring the new Brawn GP team
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Saturday Mar 28, 2009 - Argentina
Magdi Yacoub-The Aswan Heart Center
Apr, 2009 - Aswan, Egypt
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Apr, 2009 - Espoo, Finland
Colombian conflict-The Colombian Armed Forces launched strategic leap
Apr, 2009 - Arauca, Colombia
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2009 - U.S.