In January 2003, the Smithsonian announced that Cristián Samper, a Costa Rican with an M. Sc.

* 1974 – Cristián de la Fuente, Chilean model and actor

* 1986 – Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer

* Cristián Larroulet ( Minister of General Secretariat to the Presidency, 2010 – present )

The 2011 – 12 season continued in much the same fashion, even though Udinese lost three key players to larger clubs — Alexis Sánchez to FC Barcelona, Gökhan Inler to Napoli, and Cristián Zapata to Villarreal CF.

* Cristián Montecinos ( 1990 – 92, 1994, 2006 )

They were replaced by Manuel Meriño ( from Entrama ), Cristián González and Juan Flores.

MP Cristián Monckeberg ( RN ), stated there is no law obligating Piñera to do otherwise and thus this decision is legally legitimate .'.

The Ernesto Samper administration ( 1994 – 98 ) emphasized social welfare policies which targeted Colombia's lower income population.

* Pérez Samper, M A: ( Barcelona, 2003 ), pp 387 – 397

The Colombian government also considered that it had to patch up a bilateral relationship that had heavily deteriorated during the previous administration of President Ernesto Samper ( 1994 – 1998 ).

* Ernesto Samper, president of Colombia ( 1994 – 1998 )

On 4 July 1857 he married Agripina Samper Agudelo, a poet and member of a literary and influential family, and out this marriage were born Roberto ( b. 1858 ), Pablo ( b. 1859 ), Inés ( b. 1860 ), Jorge ( b. 1862 ), and Manuel ( b. 1865 ).

Other dignitaries that attended this event were General Ramón González Valencia ( former Vice-President of the country ), General Alfredo Vásquez Cobo ( presidential candidate ), Antonio Samper ( president of S. A. C.

A few months later, along with the News Show, he started a new program “ América Habla con Raul Peimbert ” a one-on one interview show that has allowed him to be one of the few Hispanic journalists that has interviewed more than 40 Latin American presidents, among them: Felipe Calderon Hinojosa ( Mexico ), Vicente Fox Quezada ( México ), Carlos Salinas de Gortari ( México ), Ernesto Zedillo ( México ), Carlos Saúl Menem ( Argentina ), Alberto Fujimori ( Perú ), César Gaviria ( Colombia ), Ernesto Samper ( Colombia ), Eduardo Frei ( Chile ), Ernesto Pérez Balladares ( Panamá ), Armando Calderón Sol ( El Salvador ), Rafael Caldera ( Venezuela ), Jaime Paz Zamora ( Bolivia ), Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada ( Bolivia ), Juan Carlos Wasmosy ( Paraguay ), Carlos Roberto Reina ( Honduras ), José López Portillo ( México ), Miguel De la Madrid ( México ), Joaquín Balaguer ( República Dominicana ), Antonio Saca ( El Salvador ), Daniel Ortega ( Nicaragua ), Hugo Chávez ( Venezuela ), Leonel Fernadez ( República Dominicana ), William Clinton ( USA ).

Samper stepped down to return to his position as Director of the National Museum of Natural History.

In May 2007, Robert Sullivan, the former associate director in charge of exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History, charged that Samper and Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science David Evans ( Samper's supervisor ) ordered " last minute " changes in the exhibit " Arctic: A Friend Acting Strangely " to tone down the role of human beings in the discussion of global warming, and to make global warming seem more uncertain than originally depicted.

In January 2012, Samper said he was stepping down from the National Museum of Natural History to become president and chief executive officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Samper ( who holds dual citizenship with Colombia and the United States ) founded the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute and ran the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute after 2001.

Samper was appointed Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian on March 27.

Samper denied that he knew of any scientific objections to the changes, and said that no political pressure had been applied to the Smithsonian to make the changes.

In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

* 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.

* 1925 – Joe Bowman, American and marksman and boot-maker ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

* 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

* 2009 – Terror act in Azerbaijan state oil academy: 13 students died.

* 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

* 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian ( d. 2009 )

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army officer ( b. 1919 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).