Timeline September 2009

Events in September 2009 8

• 1914 – 2009 Norman Borlaug (1914-2009) Died 12 September 2009, aged 95 Borlaug was an American agronomist whose high-yield wheat varieties sparked the Green Revolution, credited with saving hundreds of millions of people from famine across Asia and Latin America. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for this work. He continued research and advocacy for global food security into his final years.
• 1936 – 2009 Mary Travers (1936-2009) Died 16 September 2009, aged 72 Travers was an American singer and the female voice of the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, known for hits including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and their versions of Bob Dylan songs. The group was closely associated with the 1960s folk revival and civil rights movement. She continued to perform and record with the group for decades.
• 1952 – 2009 Patrick Swayze (1952-2009) Died 14 September 2009, aged 57 Swayze was an American actor who starred in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, both major box-office successes of the 1980s and 1990s. He continued to work in film and television after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008. His death drew tributes from around the world.
• 2009 AMD Radeon HD 5870 — GPU leadership AMD's ATI division introduces the Radeon HD 5870 in September 2009 — the world's first DirectX 11 gaming GPU and the fastest single-chip graphics card available. The 5870 beats Nvidia's competing offerings by a substantial margin and establishes AMD/ATI as the GPU performance leader for the first time. AMD's GPU business becomes a bright spot amid the CPU darkness. The 5870 generation generates significant revenue and profit, partly compensating for AMD's CPU market share losses.
• 2009 The government apologises Fifty-five years late After a petition gathering tens of thousands of signatures, Prime Minister Gordon Brown issues a formal apology for the treatment Turing received, calling it appalling and acknowledging what the country owed him.
• 2009 Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame Jordan is enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 2009 "Reunited" album First studio album with Cliff in 40 years Released "Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows" on 21 September 2009 — celebrating the 50th anniversary of their first recordings together and marking their first studio collaboration in forty years, including the single "Singing the Blues".
• 2009 Guinea stadium massacre Security forces kill opposition protesters in Conakry Guinean security forces opened fire on an opposition rally at a stadium in the capital Conakry, killing more than 150 people and committing widespread sexual violence against women. The massacre was ordered under the military junta of Moussa Dadis Camara. An assassination attempt against Camara followed weeks later.