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Gregorian Year 2009 (MMIX) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium, the 9th year of
the 21st century,
and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade. 2009 was designated as: ·
International
Year of Astronomy[1][2] ·
International
Year of Natural Fibres[3] ·
International
Year of Reconciliation ·
Year
of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO) Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 20: Barack Obama, 44th President of the United
States ·
Austria,
Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Uganda assume their seats on the United
Nations Security Council. ·
Asunciσn, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American
Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz become
the European
Capitals of Culture. ·
Slovakia adopts the euro as
its national currency, replacing the Slovak koruna.[4] ·
Sixty-six
people die in a nightclub fire in
Bangkok, Thailand. ·
January 14 The first block of the
blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was
established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto. ·
January 15 US Airways Flight
1549 ditches in the Hudson River in an accident that is known
to be the Miracle on the Hudson. Over 155 people on board are rescued. ·
January 18 Gaza War:
Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces offer of a ceasefire,
ending the conflict. ·
A
protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009
Icelandic financial crisis protests start. ·
Barack Obama is sworn in as the
44th President
of the United States, becoming the first African-American to hold the office.[5] ·
January 21 Israel withdraws from
the Gaza Strip, officially ending a three-week war it
had with Hamas.[6]However, intermittent air strikes by both sides continue in
the weeks to follow.[7][8][9] ·
The
first trial at the International
Criminal Court is held. Former Union of
Congolese Patriots leader Thomas Lubanga is accused of
training child soldiers to
kill, pillage, and rape.[10] ·
The Icelandic government and banking
system collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns.[11] February[edit] ·
Patriarch
Kirill of Moscow is enthroned as the Patriarch of
the Russian Orthodox
Church following the death of his predecessor, Alexy II in
2008.[12] ·
Jσhanna
Sigurπardσttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister
of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly lesbianhead of government.[13] ·
February 26 Former Serbian president Milan
Milutinović is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia regarding war crimes during the Kosovo War.[14] March[edit] ·
March 2 The President of Guinea-Bissau, Joγo Bernardo Vieira,
is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.[15] ·
March 4 The International
Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against
humanity in Darfur. al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC
since its establishment in 2002.[16] ·
March 7 NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer that will search for extrasolar planets in
the Milky Way galaxy, is launched
from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. ·
March 17 The President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana,
is overthrown in a coup
d'ιtat, following a month of unrest in Antananarivo.[17] April[edit] ·
April 1 Albania and Croatia are admitted to NATO,
becoming the newest members of the organization.[18] ·
April 4 Three Pittsburgh Police Officers
are shot
and killed responding to a domestic dispute in the Stanton
Heights (Pittsburgh) section of the city. ·
April 5 North Korea launches a rocket from
its Tonghae
Satellite Launching Ground, which it says is carrying the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite, prompting an emergency meeting of
the United
Nations Security Council.[19] ·
April 6 A 6.3 magnitude
earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 308 and injuring more
than 1,500.[20] ·
April 21 UNESCO launches The World Digital
Library.[21] May[edit] ·
May 18 Following more than a
quarter-century of fighting, the Sri Lankan Civil War ends
with the total military defeat of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[22][23] ·
May 25 North Korea announces that it has
conducted a second successful nuclear
test in North Hamgyong
Province. The United
Nations Security Council condemns the reported test.[24] June[edit] "June
2009" redirects here. For the album by Toro Y Moi, see June 2009 (album). ·
June 1 Air France Flight
447, en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, crashes into
the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 on board. ·
June 11 The outbreak of
the H1N1
influenza strain, commonly referred to as "swine flu",
is deemed a global pandemic.[25] ·
June 13 Mass
protests erupt across Iran following a disputed
presidential election in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejadwas
reelected president, the largest demonstrations in the country since
the Iranian Revolution.[26] ·
June 18 NASA launches the Lunar
Reconnaissance Orbiter / LCROSS probes to the Moon, the first
American lunar mission since Lunar Prospector in 1998. ·
June 28 The Military of Honduras ousts Honduran President Manuel Zelaya in a coup d'ιtat,[27] which is condemned worldwide.[28] ·
June 30 Yemenia Flight 626 crashes
off the coast of Moroni, Comoros,
killing all but one of the
153 passengers and crew.[29] July[edit] ·
July 15 Caspian
Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran,
killing all 168 on board. ·
July 16 Iceland's national parliament, the Althingi, votes to pursue
joining the EU.[30] ·
July 22 The longest
total solar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting up to 6 minutes
and 38.8 seconds, occurs over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean. ·
July 26 The Islamic extremist
group Boko Haram initiates an uprising in
Bauchi State, Nigeria and quickly spreads throughout the northern part of the
country.[31] August[edit] ·
August 3 Bolivia becomes the first South
American country to declare the right of indigenous people to govern
themselves.[32] ·
August 7 Typhoon Morakot hits Taiwan, killing 673 and stranding more than
1,000 via the worst flooding on the island in half a century.[33] ·
August 14 The United Kingdom
imposes direct rule on
the Turks and Caicos
Islands after an inquiry that found evidence of government
corruption.[34] September[edit] ·
September 28 At least 157
demonstrators are massacred by
the Guinean military at
the Stade du 28
Septembre during a protest against the government that came to
power in a coup d'ιtat the
previous year.[35] ·
September 30 A 7.6 Mw earthquake
strikes Sumatra, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving at least 1,115
people dead.[36] October[edit] ·
October 1 Paleontologists announce the discovery
of an Ardipithecus ramidus fossil
skeleton, deeming it the oldest remains of a human ancestor yet found.[37] ·
Ireland holds
a second referendum on the EU's Lisbon Treaty. The amendment is approved by
the Irish electorate,[38][39][40][41][42] having been rejected in the Lisbon I referendum held last year. ·
The International
Olympic Committee awards Rio de Janeiro the right to host
the 2016 Summer Olympics.[43] ·
October 25 Two suicide
attacks in Baghdad, Iraq,
kill 155 people and injure at least 721 people.[44] November[edit] ·
The
Czech Republic becomes the final member-state of
the European Union to
sign the Treaty of Lisbon,
thereby permitting that document's initiation into European law.[45] ·
The Prime Minister
of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy,
is designated the first permanent President
of the European Council,[46] a position he takes up on December 1, 2009.[47][48][49] ·
November 13 Having analyzed the data
from the LCROSS lunar impact, NASA announces
that it has found a "significant" quantity of water in the Moon's Cabeuscrater.[50][51] ·
November 23 In the Philippines, at least 58 people are
abducted and killed in the province of Maguindanao, in what the Committee
to Protect Journalists called the single deadliest attack on
journalists in history.[52] December[edit] ·
December 1 The Treaty of Lisbon comes into force.[53] ·
December 718 The UNFCCC's 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is
held in Copenhagen, Denmark.[54] ·
December 8 A series
of attacks in Baghdad, Iraq kill
at least 127 people and injure at least 448 more.[55] ·
December 10 James Cameron's Avatar,
has since been the highest-grossing film of all time, premieres in the United
Kingdom. ·
December 16 Astronomers discover GJ 1214 b, the first-known exoplanet on which water could
exist.[56] Births[edit] ·
May 4 Prince
Henrik of Denmark ·
November Lee Go-eun, South Korean actress[disputed discuss] Deaths[edit] Main article: Deaths in 2009 January[edit] ·
Nizar Rayan, Palestinian military and
political leader (b. 1959) ·
Johannes Mario
Simmel, Austrian writer (b. 1924) ·
Helen Suzman, South African activist and
politician (b. 1917) ·
January 3 Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924) ·
Claude Berri, French film director (b. 1934) ·
Arne Nζss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912) ·
January 13 Patrick McGoohan, American-born British
actor (b. 1928) ·
January 14 Ricardo Montalbαn,
Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920) ·
January 16 Andrew Wyeth, American painter (b. 1917) ·
January 20 Stιphanos II Ghattas,
Egyptian Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 1920) ·
January 22 Chau Sen Cocsal
Chhum, 21st Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1905) ·
January 25 Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal
(b. 1910) ·
John Updike, American writer (b. 1932) ·
R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India
(b. 1910) ·
January 30 Ingemar Johansson,
Swedish boxer (b. 1932) February[edit] ·
February 6 James Whitmore, American actor (b. 1921) ·
February 9 Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in
right-to-die case (b. 1970) ·
February 18 Kamila Skolimowska,
Polish hammer thrower (b. 1982) ·
February 25 Philip Josι Farmer,
American writer (b. 1918) ·
February 26 Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943) ·
February 27 Manea Mănescu, 50th Prime Minister of
Romania (b. 1916) March[edit] ·
March 2 Joγo Bernardo Vieira,
2nd President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939) ·
March 14 ·
Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter and
actor (b. 1947) ·
Edith Lucie Bongo,
First Lady of Gabon (b. 1964) ·
March 15 Ron Silver, American actor and political
activist (b. 1946) ·
March 18 Natasha Richardson,
English actress (b. 1963) ·
March 20 Abdellatif Filali,
13th Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1928) ·
March 25 Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (b. 1937) ·
March 28 Janet Jagan, 6th Prime Minister and 6th
President of Guyana (b. 1920) ·
March 29 Maurice Jarre, French composer and conductor
(b. 1924) ·
March 31 Raϊl Alfonsνn,
49th President of Argentina (b. 1927) April[edit] ·
April 12 ·
Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic
actress (b. 1952) ·
Eve Kosofsky
Sedgwick, American social theorist (b. 1950) ·
April 14 Maurice Druon, French novelist (b. 1918) ·
April 19 J. G. Ballard, English novelist (b. 1930) ·
April 22 ·
Ken Annakin, English film director (b. 1914) ·
Jack Cardiff, English cinematographer
(b. 1914) ·
April 25 Bea Arthur, American actress and singer
(b. 1922) ·
April 26 Pupuke Robati, 4th Prime Minister of Cook
Islands (b. 1925) ·
April 28 ·
Buddy Rose, American professional wrestler
(b. 1952) ·
Ekaterina Maximova,
Russian ballerina (b. 1939) May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director
(b. 1931) ·
Jack Kemp, American politician and football
player (b. 1935) ·
May 4 Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian
(b. 1933) ·
May 9 Chuck Daly, American basketball coach
(b. 1930) ·
May 11 Abel Goumba, Prime Minister of the Central
African Republic (b. 1926) ·
May 13 Achille Compagnoni,
Italian mountaineer (b. 1914) ·
May 17 Mario Benedetti, Uruguayan writer (b. 1920) ·
May 18 ·
Wayne Allwine, American voice actor
(b. 1947) ·
Velupillai
Prabhakaran, Sri Lankan militant (b. 1954) ·
May 19 Robert F. Furchgott,
American scientist (b. 1916) ·
May 23 Roh Moo-hyun, 16th President of South Korea
(b. 1946) ·
May 27 Clive Granger, British economist (b. 1934) ·
May 30 ·
Luνs Cabral, 1st President of Guinea-Bissau
(b. 1931) ·
Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of Israel
(b. 1916) ·
Gaafar Nimeiry, 4th President of the Sudan
(b. 1930) ·
May 31 Kamala Surayya, Indian poet (b. 1934) June[edit] Prince
Pedro Luiz of Orlιans-Braganza ·
June 1 ·
Fatma Ceren
Necipoğlu, Turkish harpist and university lecturer for piano
and harp (b. 1972) ·
Silvio Barbato, Italian-Brazilian opera
conductor and composer (b. 1959) ·
Prince
Pedro Luiz of Orlιans-Braganza, heir to the line of succession in
Brazil (b. 1983) ·
June 2 David Eddings, American author (b. 1931) ·
June 3 ·
David Carradine, American actor (b. 1936) ·
Koko Taylor, American musician (b. 1928) ·
June 6 Jean Dausset, French Nobel immunologist
(b. 1916) ·
June 8 Omar Bongo, 2nd President of Gabon (b. 1935) ·
June 9 Michael Roof, American actor and comedian
(b. 1976) ·
June 12 Fιlix Malloum, 3rd President of Chad
(b. 1932) ·
June 13 Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional
wrestler (b. 1962) ·
June 17 Ralf Dahrendorf, German-British social
theorist and politician (b. 1929) ·
June 25 ·
Farrah Fawcett, American actress (b. 1947) ·
Michael Jackson, American performer and
recording artist (b. 1958) ·
June 30 Pina Bausch, German choreographer (b. 1940) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Alexis Argόello,
Nicaraguan boxer and politician (b. 1952) ·
Karl Malden, American actor (b. 1912) ·
July 4 Allen Klein, American businessman (b. 1931) ·
July 6 ·
Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist (b. 1932) ·
Robert McNamara, 8th United States Secretary
of Defense (b. 1916) ·
July 13 Amin al-Hafez,
22nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1926) ·
July 17 ·
Meir Amit, Israeli general and politician
(b. 1921) ·
Walter Cronkite, American newscaster
(b. 1916) ·
Leszek
Kołakowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1927) ·
July 19 ·
Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (b. 1930) ·
Henry Surtees, British racing driver
(b. 1991) ·
July 26 Merce Cunningham, American choreographer
(b. 1919) ·
July 31 Bobby Robson, English footballer and manager
(b. 1933) August[edit] ·
August 1 Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the
Philippines (b. 1933) ·
August 5 Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter
(b. 1914) ·
August 6 ·
John Hughes,
American film director and writer (b. 1950) ·
Willy DeVille, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1950) ·
Savka
Dabčević-Kučar, Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1923) ·
August 8 Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (b. 1983) ·
August 10 Urpo Korhonen, Finnish olympic cross-country
skier (b. 1923) ·
August 11 Eunice Kennedy
Shriver, American founder of the Special Olympics (b. 1921) ·
August 13 Les Paul, American musician and inventor
(b. 1915) ·
August 18 Kim Dae-jung, 15th President of South Korea
(b. 1924) ·
August 24 Toni Sailer, Austrian alpine ski racer
(b. 1935) ·
August 25 Ted Kennedy, American politician (b. 1932) ·
August 26 Abdul Aziz al-Hakim,
Iraqi politician and theologian (b. 1953) ·
August 27 Sergey Mikhalkov, Soviet-Russian author
(b. 1913) ·
August 28 DJ AM, American DJ (b. 1973) September[edit] ·
September 8 Aage Bohr, Danish Nobel physicist (b. 1922) ·
Juan Almeida,
Cuban revolutionary and politician (b. 1927) ·
Yoshito Usui, Japanese manga artist
(b. 1958) ·
Norman Borlaug, American Nobel agronomist
(b. 1914) ·
Jack Kramer, American tennis player and
promoter (b. 1921) ·
Keith Floyd, British cook and restaurateur
(b. 1943) ·
Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter
(b. 1935) ·
Patrick Swayze, American actor and dancer
(b. 1952) ·
September 16 Mary Travers, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1936) ·
September 17 Noordin Mohammad Top,
Malaysian Islamist militant (b. 1968) ·
September 18 Irving Kristol, American writer and
political commentator (b. 1920) ·
September 23 Ertuğrul Osman,
43rd Head of the Ottoman Dynasty (b. 1912) ·
September 25 Alicia de Larrocha,
Spanish pianist (b. 1923) ·
September 28 Guillermo Endara, 32nd President of Panama
(b. 1936) ·
September 29 Pavel Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1930) October[edit] ·
October 2 Marek Edelman, Polish political and social
activist (b. 1922) ·
Shōichi
Nakagawa, Japanese politician (b. 1953) ·
Gόnther Rall, German fighter pilot (b. 1918) ·
Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (b. 1935) ·
October 5 Israel Gelfand, Soviet-American
mathematician (b. 1913) ·
October 7 Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917) ·
October 10 Stephen Gately, Irish singer (b. 1976) ·
October 11 Joan Martν i Alanis,
64th Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1928) ·
October 13 Al Martino, American singer and actor
(b. 1927) ·
October 17 Carla Boni, Italian singer (b. 1925) ·
October 19 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918) ·
October 28 Taylor Mitchell, Canadian singer (b. 1990) ·
October 30 Claude Lιvi-Strauss,
French anthropologist (b. 1908) ·
October 31 Hsue-Shen Tsien, Chinese scientist (b. 1911) November[edit] ·
November 3 Francisco
Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906) ·
November 8 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian Nobel physicist
(b. 1916) ·
November 10 Robert Enke, German footballer (b. 1977) ·
Pavle, Serbian
Patriarch, Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church (b. 1914) ·
Pierre Harmel, 39th Prime Minister of
Belgium (b. 1911) ·
Antonio de Nigris,
Mexican footballer (b. 1978) ·
Edward Woodward, English actor and singer
(b. 1930) ·
November 20 Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer
(b. 1925) ·
November 21 Konstantin
Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926) ·
November 24 Samak Sundaravej, 25th Prime Minister of
Thailand (b. 1935) ·
November 30 Milorad Pavić, Serbian writer (b. 1929) December[edit] ·
December 3 Richard Todd, Irish-born British actor
(b. 1919) ·
Umaga, Samoan-American professional wrestler
(b. 1973) ·
Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Russian actor (b. 1928) ·
Jordi Solι Tura,
Spanish politician (b. 1930) ·
Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (b. 1928) ·
Otto Graf Lambsdorff,
German politician (b. 1926) ·
Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919) ·
Rodrigo Carazo Odio,
38th President of Costa Rica (b. 1926) ·
December 13 Paul Samuelson, American Nobel Prize-winning
economist (b. 1915) ·
Roy E. Disney, American businessman
(b. 1930) ·
Yegor Gaidar, Russian politician (b. 1956) ·
Amin al-Hafiz, President and Prime Minister
of Syria (b. 1921) ·
Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919) ·
Hussein-Ali
Montazeri, Iranian scholar and human rights activist (b. 1922) ·
Kim Peek, American savant (b. 1951) ·
December 20 Brittany Murphy, American actress (b. 1977) ·
December 21 Edwin G. Krebs, American Nobel biologist
(b. 1918) ·
December 23 Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme,
Tibetan politician (b. 1910) ·
December 24 Rafael Caldera, 54th and 60th President of
Venezuela (b. 1916) ·
December 26 Jacques Sylla, 12th Prime Minister of
Madagascar (b. 1946) ·
December 28 The Rev, American musician (b. 1981) ·
December 30 Abdurrahman Wahid,
4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940) ·
December 31 Rashidi Kawawa, 1st Prime Minister of
Tanzania (b. 1926) Nobel Prizes[edit] |
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