Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Books in Canada First Novel Award: Rick Salutin, A Man of Little Faith See 1989 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards. Geoffrey Bilson Award : Martyn Godfrey , Mystery in the Frozen Lands , and Dorothy Perkyns , Rachel's Revolution
Larry Drebes (born April 20, 1967) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Janrain, Four11 Corporation, and Desktop.com.He was also an early leader of the OpenID initiative, which was widely supported by Google, Yahoo!, and other providers of online identity.
Get breaking news and the latest headlines on business, entertainment, politics, world news, tech, sports, videos and much more from AOL
Canada finishes ninth in the medal count. May 17 – The Kamloops Blazers win their first Memorial Cup by defeating the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds 5 to 4. June 1 – Montreal's Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins wins his second consecutive Conn Smythe Trophy; July 25–August 9 – Canada competes in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada. October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country. October 12 – The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
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.
Following the establishment of nytimes.com, The New York Times retained its journalistic hesitancy under executive editor Joseph Lelyveld, refusing to publish an article reporting on the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal from Drudge Report. nytimes.com editors conflicted with print editors on several occasions, including wrongfully naming security guard Richard Jewell as the suspect in the Centennial ...
March 13 – A treaty between Canada and Denmark is ratified, establishing the maritime border between Ellesmere Island (Canada) and Greenland (Denmark). Measuring approximately 1,449.4 nautical miles (2,684.3 km; 1,667.9 mi), it is the longest negotiated international continental shelf boundary.