Billboard Top 10 Songs for the Week of May 26, 2009
- Boom Boom Pow-Black Eyed Peas
- Poker Face-Lady Gaga
- Blame It-Jaime Foxx featuring T-Pain
- Day 'N' Nite-Kid Cudi
- Halo-Beyonce
- Sugar-Flo Rida featuring Wynter
- Kiss Me Through the Phone-Soulja Boy Tell 'em featuring Sammie
- Don't Trust Me-3OH!3
- Right Round-Flo Rida
- The Climb-Miley Cirus
- Not Afraid-Eminem
- OMG-Usher featuring will.i.am
- Nothin' On You-B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars
- Break Your Heart-Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris
- Airplanes-B.o.B. featuring Eminem and Haley Williams
- Rude Boy-Rihanna
- Hey Soul Sister-Train
- Your Love is My Drug-Ke$ha
- My First Kiss-3OH!3 featruing Ke$ha
- Need You Now-Lady Antebellum
2010 Grammy Award WinnersAlbum of the Year-Fearless, Taylor Swift
Song of the Year-Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)-Beyonce
Top 5 Box Office Movies for the Week of May 26, 2009
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
- Terminator Salvation
- Star Trek
- Angels and Demons
- Dance Flick
Top 5 Box Office Movies for the Week of May 26, 2010- Shrek Forever After
- Iron Man 2
- Robin Hood
- Sex and the City 2
- Letters to Juliet
Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart
Best Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side
Headlines
May 26, 2009: Federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor is chosen by President Barack Obama as his Supreme Court nominee. she will be the first Hispanic to serve on the court.
May 29, 2009: Comedian Jay Leno ends a 17-year run with his final hosting of “The Tonight show.”
May 31, 2009: an Air France jet carrying 228 passengers and crew disappears in a thunderstorm over the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. A week later the first bodies and wreckage are found floating in the ocean; all are presumed lost, cause unknown.
June 1, 2009: General Motors files for bankruptcy protection and plans to close 14 plants nationwide (including one in Ohio), costing 10,000 workers their jobs and eliminating 2,000 dealerships.
June 11, 2009: the World Health Organization designates the swine flu as a global pandemic, with some 13,000 cases of H1N1 in the U.S. and 27 deaths so far.
June 29, 2009: Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, 71, who bilked investors out of $13.2 billion, is sentenced to 150 years in prison.
July 17, 2009: Famed CBS TV newscaster Walter Cronkite, once described as “the most trusted man in America,” dies at 92. and that’s the way it is.
Aug. 4, 2009: former President Bill Clinton visits North Korea and wins release of journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for illegally entering the country in March.
Aug. 6, 2009: the Senate confirms Sonia Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Aug. 15, 2009: Original Woodstock music groups and fans gather in Bethel, N.Y., for a concert to remember the epic rock festival on its 40th anniversary.
Aug. 20, 2009: the Scottish government releases a terminally ill Libyan man convicted for the 1988 bombing of Pan am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270. the man had served eight years of a life sentence. Sept. 9, 2009: During an address by President Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress, Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, of South Carolina, shouts, “You lie.”
Oct. 2, 2009: A CBS producer is arrested for trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million, forcing the late-night TV comic to admit, on-air, to having sex with some of the women who worked for him. Ratings for the show that night soar 38 percent.
Oct. 9, 2009: President Barack Obama wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Oct. 14, 2009: the Dow Jones industrial average tops 10,000 for the first time in a year, and folks off Wall Street start looking for the trickle-down effect.
Oct. 15, 2009: Viewers anxiously watch live TV coverage as a runaway homemade helium balloon, possibly carrying a 6-year-old boy, drifts 50 miles across the Colorado countryside before landing. Turns out the boy was back home all along, hiding in his garage attic. his parents later admit the whole thing was a hoax, plead guilty to criminal charges and get sent to jail.
Oct. 24, 2009: President Barack Obama declares the H1N1 flu a national emergency as the virus sweeps the nation and vaccine supplies fall short.
Nov. 5, 2009: an Army psychiatrist goes on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 28 before being shot by a civilian police officer.
Dec. 1, 2009: President Barack Obama says he will send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan but pledges to start bringing U.S. forces home in mid-2011.
Dec. 24, 2009: the Senate passes a health care reform bill intended to provide greater medical coverage for Americans.
Dec. 25, 2009: Passengers on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam subdue a Nigerian man who tried to set off an explosive strapped to his body as the plane was landing in Detroit.
Jan. 4, 2010: The Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building is officially opened in Dubai and stands 2717 feet and took 6 years to build.
Jan. 12, 2010: The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing at least 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
Jan. 22, 2010: Conan O'Brien's last Tonight Show episode after a big controversy over the Tonight Show timeslot.
Feb. 7, 2010: In a riveting Super Bowl match-up, the New Orleans Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31–17. It was the first-ever appearance for the once beleaguered and ridiculed NFL team. Quarterback Drew Brees is named M.V.P. of the game.
Feb.13, 2010: China prepares to celebrate The Year of the Tiger with tens of millions of people travelling and fireworks anticipated.
Feb. 14, 2010: Alexandre Bilodeau scores first place in the men's freestyle skiing moguls, winning Canada's first ever Olympic gold medal on home soil.
Feb. 15, 2010: The Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is captured in Karachi, Pakistan in a secret joint operation by the American and Pakistani intelligence forces. American officials claim that Barader is the most significant human capture since the in Afghanistan began in 2001
Feb. 22, 2010: President Obama announces his detailed plan for a health-care reform bill. The plan closely follows the version currently in the Senate. Obama asks Republicans to submit their ideas or agree to his version of the bill.
Feb. 24, 2010: Toyota's President Akio Toyoda apologises to the United States Congress for safety problems that led to deaths and worldwide recalls of its vehicles.
Feb. 27, 2010: 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits Chile and triggers tsunami warnings in the Pacific Ocean. 521 lives are taken.
Feb. 28, 2010: Hosts Canada defeat the United States 3-2 in overtime to win the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.March 1, 2010: After refusing contributions from foreign governments, Chile officials change course and request help—including generators, water filtration equipment and field hospitals—from other countries. Chile was devastated by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake on February 28. About 750 people were killed in the quake, while over 1.5 million were displaced.
March 5, 2010: The unemployment rate remained steady in February, at 9.7 percent. The economy shed 36,000 jobs, fewer than forecasted. Most experts believe the economy is slowly starting to recover.
March 21, 2010: After many months of debate and many years of discussion, the House of Representatives passes a bill that will overhaul the American health-care system. The final vote, 219–212, approves legislation passed by the Senate in December 2009. The bill will be sent to President Obama to sign into law. Among other things, the bill will allow children to stay on their parents' health insurance plans until the age of 26, prevent insurance companies from denying coverage due to a patient's "pre-existing conditions," subsidize private insurance for low- and middle-income Americans, and require all Americans to have some sort of health insurance.
April 4, 2010: A 7.2 earthquake, centered in Mexico but felt for miles, shakes California and kills two. It is the strongest earthquake the state has experienced in 20 years. Though businesses and homes are reported damaged in cities and rural towns, because the epicenter was located in a remote area, most buildings remain standing.
April 5, 2010: Duke University's Blue Devils beat Butler University's Bulldogs 61–59 in the men's NCAA basketball championship game, ending Butler's 25-game winning streak and taking the title in the other university's hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana.
April 5, 2010: An explosion in a West Virginia coal mine kills at least 25 people and leaves 4 unaccounted for. Officials do not yet know what caused the explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine, located about 30 miles south of Charleston. (Apr. 9): After days of searching for the missing miners, no more survivors are found, bringing the death toll of the mine explosion to 29. It is the worst mining disaster in the U.S. since 1970. Massey Energy, the mine's operator, is under investigation for a long list of safety violations over the past several years. Federal regulators have cited the mine for major safety violations eight times since April 2009.
April 10, 2010: The President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife are among the 96 people on board a flight from Poland to Smolensk, Russia that crashed while attempting to land in thick fog. Dozens of the top political and military leaders in Poland were also on board. The group was headed to a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, in which more than 20,000 elite Polish troops were killed by members of the Soviet secret police during World War II. A total of 96 people perished in the crash, including Poland's deputy foreign minister, 12 members of Parliament, the chiefs of the army and the navy, and the president of the national bank. The symbolism of the timing and location of the catastrophe cannot be ignored. The Katyn massacre remains a contentious issue between Poland and Russia. Just days earlier, Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin became the first Russian leader to honor the Polish victims.
April 11, 2010: Phil Mickelson wins his third Masters golf tournament with 16-under-par total score of 272. He is only the fifth golfer to win the Masters three times.
April 14, 2010: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake strikes China's Qinghai Province, killing at least 400 people and injuring another 10,000. Many buildings and homes have collapsed, though since the area is less densely populated than the Sichuan Province, where the devastating 2008 earthquake occurred, the death toll and overall damage is expected to be lower.
April 20, 2010: An explosion on a BP oil drilling rig off the coast of Lousiana kills 11 people and injurs 17. Experts estimate that 13,000 gallons of crude oil per hour are pouring into the gulf of Mexico. (Apr. 26): Authorites estimate that the amount of oil spilling from leaks in the oil rig is approximately 42,000 gallons of crude oil per hour. Remote-controlled robots are being used to try and seal off the oil well. (Apr. 30): The oil slick from the rig explosion reaches the Gulf Coast of Lousiana. For the first time, President Obama criticizes BP's handling of the crisis; he chatizes the company for not stemming the flow of oil and cleaning up the spill before it reached land.
April 23, 2010: The governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer (Rep.), signs into law the country's toughest immigration bill. It is designed to identify and deport illegal immigrants. Law enforcement officials are now allowed to ask those people suspected of being illegal immigrants for their proof of citizenship or visas.
April 30, 2010: The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 3.2% in the first quarter of 2010, the third quarter with a report of growth, rather than retraction. Though that rate is not rapid enough to make up for the losses during the recession, it does demonstrate that the economy is slowly improving.
May 2, 2010: After discovering a bomb in a smoking vehicle parked in Times Square, in New York City, police evacuated several blocks around the popular tourist spot. The bomb was made of propane, gasoline, and fireworks and did not explode. A T-shirt vendor in the area saw the smoking car and alerted the authorities
May 3, 2010: The chairmen of United Airlines and Continental Airlines announce their intent to merge, with United's purchase of Continental. The new enormous airline company will have 10 national hubs and will be bigger than the current leader, Delta Air Lines.
May 5, 2010: A Picasso painting sells for a record-breaking $106.5 million at a Christie's auction. The painting, "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," depicts Picasso's mistress and was painted in just one day in 1932. It was being sold by the estate of philanthropist Frances Lasker Brody.
May 10, 2010: President Obama selects Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee for the Supreme Court Justice position that will be vacated by Justice John Paul Stevens this summer. Kagen is a scholar and a lawyer, and was the first female dean of Harvard Law School, has served on all three branches of the Federal Government, and has been the Solicitor General in the Obama administration. She has no prior judicial experience however, a qualification that hasn't been lacking in a justice for forty years.
May 19, 2010: The United States and major world powers Russia, China, and others agree to impose a fourth set of sanctions on Iran's nuclear program, in an attempt to stop the country from enriching uranium. The agreement is revealed shortly after Iran announces its own deal with Turkey and Brazil to relinquish half of the country's stockpile of nuclear fuel for a year. None of the three previous sets of sanctions had any effect on Iran's program to enrich uranium nor its willingness to fully disclose actions to international inspectors.
May 26, 2010: In a stunning turnaround over the last decade, Apple passes Microsoft as the world's top technology company. Apple, the maker of the ubiquitous iPods, iPhones, and now iPads is headed by co-founder Steve Jobs; Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates, the creator of Windows and Office software, has dominated the technology industry for over 20 years.
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