January 20: Barack Obama becomes the 44th U.S. president. January 20: Joe Biden becomes the 47th U.S. vice president. January – The worst month of the Great Recession sees nearly 800,000 jobs lost; the unemployment rate rises to 7.8%, the highest since June 1992.
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42 24 Oct 2009: First International Day of Climate Action. 43 25 Oct 2009: Baghdad Bombings killed hundreds. 44 28 Oct 2009: NASA launched the Ares-I X mission.
The Great Recession was a sharp decline in economic activity from 2007 to 2009 and was the largest economic downturn since the Great Depression.