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[[File:2009 Events Collage V2.png|Clockwise from top-left: [[Air France Flight 447]] crashes in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] leaving no survivors; [[Barack Obama]] becomes the [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|first]] [[African American]] to become [[President of the United States]]; [[2009 Iranian presidential election protests|protests]] erupt over the [[2009 Iranian presidential election]]; [[US Airways Flight 1549]] crash-lands in the [[Hudson River]] with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; the "King of Pop" [[Michael Jackson]] [[Death of Michael Jackson|dies]] by acute propofol intoxication; [[Bitcoin]] is initially launched by the [[pseudonymous]] name [[Satoshi Nakamoto]]; an [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake|earthquake]] strikes central [[Italy]], killing 308; the [[H1N1]] [[virus]] was responsible for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|swine flu pandemic]].|300x300px|thumb|right]]
[[File:2009 Events Collage V2.png|Clockwise from top-left: [[Air France Flight 447]] crashes in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] leaving no survivors; [[Barack Obama]] becomes the [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|first]] [[African American]] to become [[President of the United States]]; [[2009 Iranian presidential election protests|protests]] erupt over the [[2009 Iranian presidential election]]; [[US Airways Flight 1549]] crash-lands in the [[Hudson River]] with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; the "King of Pop" [[Michael Jackson]] [[Death of Michael Jackson|dies]] by acute propofol intoxication; [[Bitcoin]] is initially launched by the [[pseudonymous]] name [[Satoshi Nakamoto]]; an [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake|earthquake]] strikes central [[Italy]], killing 308; the [[H1N1]] [[virus]] was responsible for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|swine flu pandemic]].|300x300px|thumb|right]]
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* [[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 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 [[2009 Malagasy political crisis|coup d'état]], following a month of unrest in [[Antananarivo]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|title=Madagascar president forced out|date=March 17, 2009|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=March 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319061800/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|archive-date=March 19, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 17]] – The President of [[Madagascar]], [[Marc Ravalomanana]], is overthrown in a [[2009 Malagasy political crisis|coup d'état]], following a month of unrest in [[Antananarivo]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|title=Madagascar president forced out|date=March 17, 2009|work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=March 17, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319061800/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7948196.stm|archive-date=March 19, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref>
* March 23 – A [[McDonnell Douglas MD-11]] operated by [[FedEx Express Flight 80|Fed Ex suffers a bounced landing at Narita international airport resulting in the loss of 2 lives]]
* March 31 – [[Rachel Crandall Crocker]] founds the [[International Transgender Day of Visibility]].


=== April ===
=== April ===
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* [[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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/nkorea.worldreax/?iref=mpstoryview|title=U.N. Security Council to meet on N. Korea launch|date=April 5, 2009|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=April 5, 2009|archive-date=August 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805035025/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/nkorea.worldreax/?iref=mpstoryview|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/nkorea.worldreax/?iref=mpstoryview|title=U.N. Security Council to meet on N. Korea launch|date=April 5, 2009|publisher=[[CNN]]|access-date=April 5, 2009|archive-date=August 5, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110805035025/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/04/05/nkorea.worldreax/?iref=mpstoryview|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake|A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes]] near [[L'Aquila]], Italy, killing 308 and injuring more than 1,500.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7986727.stm|title=BBC: Italian rescuers work into night|work=BBC News|date=April 7, 2009|access-date=August 23, 2010|archive-date=April 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420234155/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7986727.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 6]] – [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake|A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes]] near [[L'Aquila]], Italy, killing 308 and injuring more than 1,500.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7986727.stm|title=BBC: Italian rescuers work into night|work=BBC News|date=April 7, 2009|access-date=August 23, 2010|archive-date=April 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420234155/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7986727.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] - [[April 2009 Moldovan parliamentary election protests]]. 4 persons died and 270 injured people
* [[April 21]] – [[UNESCO]] launches The [[World Digital Library]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042001324.html?hpid=sec-world|title=U.N. Launches Library Of World's Knowledge|date=April 21, 2009|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 21, 2009|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107215643/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042001324.html?hpid=sec-world|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[April 21]] – [[UNESCO]] launches The [[World Digital Library]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042001324.html?hpid=sec-world|title=U.N. Launches Library Of World's Knowledge|date=April 21, 2009|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=April 21, 2009|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107215643/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/20/AR2009042001324.html?hpid=sec-world|url-status=live}}</ref>


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* [[May 12]]–[[May 16|16]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 2009]] takes place in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]], and is won by [[Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest|Norwegian]] entrant [[Alexander Rybak]] with the song "[[Fairytale (Alexander Rybak song)|Fairytale]]".
* [[May 12]]–[[May 16|16]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 2009]] takes place in [[Moscow]], [[Russia]], and is won by [[Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest|Norwegian]] entrant [[Alexander Rybak]] with the song "[[Fairytale (Alexander Rybak song)|Fairytale]]".
* [[May 15]] – [[France–Pakistan Atomic Energy Framework]] bilateral energy treaty is signed.<ref name="BBC Pakistan, 2009">{{cite news|last=Staff reports|title=Pakistan in 'French nuclear deal'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8052587.stm|accessdate=17 September 2012|newspaper=BBC Pakistan, 2009|date=15 May 2009|archive-date=June 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620160337/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8052587.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 15]] – [[France–Pakistan Atomic Energy Framework]] bilateral energy treaty is signed.<ref name="BBC Pakistan, 2009">{{cite news|last=Staff reports|title=Pakistan in 'French nuclear deal'|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8052587.stm|accessdate=17 September 2012|newspaper=BBC Pakistan, 2009|date=15 May 2009|archive-date=June 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180620160337/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8052587.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[May 17]] – [[Minecraft]] gets its first update by [[Mojang Studios]].
* [[May 18]] – Following more than 25 years of fighting, the [[Sri Lankan Civil War]] ends with the total military defeat of the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1605285 |title=Sri Lanka's long war reaches end, Tigers defeated |author=C. Bryson Hull and Ranga Sirilal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110115170258/http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1605285 |archive-date=January 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 31, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[May 18]] – Following more than 25 years of fighting, the [[Sri Lankan Civil War]] ends with the total military defeat of the [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1605285 |title=Sri Lanka's long war reaches end, Tigers defeated |author=C. Bryson Hull and Ranga Sirilal |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110115170258/http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1605285 |archive-date=January 15, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=May 31, 2009 }}</ref>
* [[May 19]] - [[RB Leipzig]] is formed in [[Leipzig]] by [[Red Bull GmbH]] and are admitted by the [[Northeastern German Football Association]] to the [[NOFV-Oberliga Süd (V)]].
* [[May 25]] – [[North Korea]] announces that it has conducted a second successful [[2009 North Korean nuclear test|nuclear test]] in [[North Hamgyong Province]]. The [[United Nations Security Council]] condemns the reported test.<ref>{{cite news|title=UN Security Council Condemns North Korea Nuclear Test (Update1)|publisher=Bloomberg|date=May 25, 2009|access-date=May 31, 2009|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=aOoNPErMuqyg}}</ref>
* [[May 25]] – [[North Korea]] announces that it has conducted a second successful [[2009 North Korean nuclear test|nuclear test]] in [[North Hamgyong Province]]. The [[United Nations Security Council]] condemns the reported test.<ref>{{cite news|title=UN Security Council Condemns North Korea Nuclear Test (Update1)|publisher=Bloomberg|date=May 25, 2009|access-date=May 31, 2009|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=aOoNPErMuqyg}}</ref>


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=== September ===
=== September ===
* [[September 9]] – [[StudioMini]], a multitrack audio recording app is first released.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.prosoundnews.com/blog/27852 |title=Pro Audio Software Enters the iPad Arena |author= |date= |publisher=Prosoundnews.com |accessdate=26 September 2010 |archive-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117102402/https://www.prosoundnews.com/blog/27852/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[September 21]] – [[2009 swine flu pandemic in Asia|China]] becomes the first country to succeed a completed clinical trial by a company for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic vaccine|2009/H1N1 vaccine]] in the world during the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|flu pandemic]].
* [[September 21]] – [[2009 swine flu pandemic in Asia|China]] becomes the first country to succeed a completed clinical trial by a company for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic vaccine|2009/H1N1 vaccine]] in the world during the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|flu pandemic]].
* [[September 22]] – [[WikiLeaks]] exposes the contents of [[Kaupthing Bank]]'s internal documents prior to the [[2008-2011 Icelandic financial crisis|Icelandic Financial Crisis]]. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were [[loan]]ed to bank owners, and [[debts]] being written off.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-08-09|title=Miklar hreyfingar rétt fyrir hrun {{!}} Ríkisútvarpið vefur|url=http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|access-date=2021-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809051437/http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|archive-date=August 9, 2011}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] – [[WikiLeaks]] exposes the contents of [[Kaupthing Bank]]'s internal documents prior to the [[2008-2011 Icelandic financial crisis|Icelandic Financial Crisis]]. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were [[loan]]ed to bank owners, and [[debts]] being written off.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-08-09|title=Miklar hreyfingar rétt fyrir hrun {{!}} Ríkisútvarpið vefur|url=http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|access-date=2021-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809051437/http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|archive-date=August 9, 2011}}</ref>
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* [[October 24]] – The [[2009 El Ayyat railway accident]] occurred in Giza, [[Egypt]], when a passenger train derailed due to stoppage of animals on the train tracks. 50 people were killed and 30 people were injured.<ref>{{cite web|title=Train collision kills at least 15 in Egypt|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/25/egypt.train.collision/index.html|access-date=September 12, 2023|archive-date=September 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902115816/https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/25/egypt.train.collision/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 24]] – The [[2009 El Ayyat railway accident]] occurred in Giza, [[Egypt]], when a passenger train derailed due to stoppage of animals on the train tracks. 50 people were killed and 30 people were injured.<ref>{{cite web|title=Train collision kills at least 15 in Egypt|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/25/egypt.train.collision/index.html|access-date=September 12, 2023|archive-date=September 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230902115816/https://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/25/egypt.train.collision/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] – [[October 2009 Baghdad bombings|Two suicide attacks]] in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]], kill 155 people and injure at least 721 people.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8325600.stm|title=BBC NEWS {{!}} Middle East {{!}} Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=October 26, 2009|access-date=2017-01-14|archive-date=February 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206215724/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8325600.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 25]] – [[October 2009 Baghdad bombings|Two suicide attacks]] in [[Baghdad]], [[Iraq]], kill 155 people and injure at least 721 people.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8325600.stm|title=BBC NEWS {{!}} Middle East {{!}} Baghdad bomb fatalities pass 150|website=news.bbc.co.uk|date=October 26, 2009|access-date=2017-01-14|archive-date=February 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206215724/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8325600.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] – [[Riot Games]] releases MOBA video game [[League of Legends]].


=== November ===
=== November ===

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Clockwise from top-left: Air France Flight 447 crashes in the Atlantic Ocean leaving no survivors; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; protests erupt over the 2009 Iranian presidential election; US Airways Flight 1549 crash-lands in the Hudson River with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson dies by acute propofol intoxication; Bitcoin is initially launched by the pseudonymous name Satoshi Nakamoto; an earthquake strikes central Italy, killing 308; the H1N1 virus was responsible for the swine flu pandemic.
Millennium: 3rd millennium
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2009 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2009
MMIX
Ab urbe condita2762
Armenian calendar1458
ԹՎ ՌՆԾԸ
Assyrian calendar6759
Baháʼí calendar165–166
Balinese saka calendar1930–1931
Bengali calendar1416
Berber calendar2959
British Regnal year57 Eliz. 2 – 58 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2553
Burmese calendar1371
Byzantine calendar7517–7518
Chinese calendar戊子年 (Earth Rat)
4706 or 4499
    — to —
己丑年 (Earth Ox)
4707 or 4500
Coptic calendar1725–1726
Discordian calendar3175
Ethiopian calendar2001–2002
Hebrew calendar5769–5770
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2065–2066
 - Shaka Samvat1930–1931
 - Kali Yuga5109–5110
Holocene calendar12009
Igbo calendar1009–1010
Iranian calendar1387–1388
Islamic calendar1430–1431
Japanese calendarHeisei 21
(平成21年)
Javanese calendar1941–1942
Juche calendar98
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4342
Minguo calendarROC 98
民國98年
Nanakshahi calendar541
Thai solar calendar2552
Tibetan calendar阳土鼠年
(male Earth-Rat)
2135 or 1754 or 982
    — to —
阴土牛年
(female Earth-Ox)
2136 or 1755 or 983
Unix time1230768000 – 1262303999

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 and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.

2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy[1][2] by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.[3] It was also declared as the International Year of Natural Fibres[4] by the United Nations General Assembly, as well as the International Year of Reconciliation and the Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO).[5]

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