2009

**2009 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	2009; MMIX
Ab urbe condita	2762
Armenian calendar	1458; ԹՎ ՌՆԾԸ
Bahá'í calendar	165 – 166
Berber calendar	2959
Buddhist calendar	2553
Burmese calendar	1371
Byzantine calendar	7517 – 7518
Chinese calendar	戊子年十二月初六日; (4645/4705-12-6) — to — 己丑年十一月十六日; (4646/4706-11-16)
Coptic calendar	1725 – 1726
Ethiopian calendar	2001 – 2002
Hebrew calendar	5769 – 5770
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2064 – 2065
- Shaka Samvat	1931 – 1932
- Kali Yuga	5110 – 5111
Holocene calendar	12009
Iranian calendar	1387 – 1388
Islamic calendar	1430 – 1431
Japanese calendar	Heisei 21; (平成21年)
Korean calendar	4342
Thai solar calendar	2552
Unix time	1230768000 – 1262303999
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	Jan - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun; Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec
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	Politics
	Elections - Int'l leaders - Politics - State leaders - Sovereign states
	Science and technology
	Archaeology - Aviation - Birding/Ornithology - Meteorology - Rail transport - Science - Spaceflight
	Sports
	Sport - Athletics (Track and Field) - Australian Football League - Baseball - Football (soccer) - Ice Hockey - Motorsport - Tennis - National Rugby League
	By place
	Argentina - Australia - Canada - European Union - France - Germany - India - Iraq - Ireland - Japan - Kenya - Luxembourg - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Norway - Pakistan - Philippines - Singapore - South Africa - Sri Lanka - United Kingdom - United States - Zimbabwe
	Other topics
	Awards - Games - Law - Religious leaders - Video gaming
	Birth and death categories
	Births - Deaths
	Establishments and disestablishments categories
	Establishments - Disestablishments
	Works and introductions categories
	Works - Introductions v • d • e

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Centuries:	20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s
Years:	2006 2007 2008 - 2009 - 2010 2011 2012

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2009 (MMIX) is the current year of the Anno Domini/Common Era in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It is a common year starting on Thursday and the last year of the 2000s decade.

2009 has been designated as the:

[edit] Events

[edit] January

January 1 – Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council.
January 1 – The Czech Republic takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from France.
January 1 – At least 61 people are killed in a fire in Bangkok during New Year celebrations.
January 1 – Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz become the European Capitals of Culture.
January 1 – Slovakia adopts the Euro as its national currency, replacing the Slovak koruna.
January 2 – The Sri Lankan Army captures Kilinochchi, de facto administrative capital of the LTTE.
January 3 – Israel launches a ground invasion of Gaza.

January 7 – Russia shuts off all gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin publicly endorses the move and urges that international observers be brought into the energy dispute.^[4]
January 12 – The Electronic System for Travel Authorization becomes mandatory for participating travelers from Visa Waiver Program countries in advance of travel to the United States.^[5]
January 13 – Ethiopian military forces begin pulling out of Somalia, where they have tried to maintain order for nearly two years.^[6]
January 15 – US Airways Flight 1549, en route to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport from New York's LaGuardia Airport, ditches in the Hudson River off Manhattan. All 155 passengers and crew are evacuated and taken to safety. The plane is apparently brought down by a flock of Canada Geese.^[7]
January 17 – Israel declares a unilateral cease-fire against Hamas militants and puts an end to attacks after 22 days of violence in Gaza.
January 20 – Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African-American, President of the United States.^[8]

An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza during the 2008–2009 Israel–Gaza conflict
January 22 – U.S. President Barack Obama signs an order to close Guantanamo Bay detention camp within one year.^[9]
January 22 – Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda is captured by Rwandan forces after crossing over the border into Rwanda.
January 23 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches the world's first-ever Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, "Ibuki", from Tanegashima Space Center.^[10]
January 26 – The first-ever 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.^[11]
January 26 – The Icelandic government and banking system collapse; Prime Minister Geir Haarde immediately resigns.^[12]
January 29 – An Israeli Defense Forces air raid injures nine people in the Gaza Strip in response to continued militant rocket fire.

[edit] February

February 1 – Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow is enthroned as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.^[13]
February 1 – Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly gay head of government.^[14]
February 2 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has launched its own satellite, "Omid", into orbit on an Iranian-built rocket.^[15]
February 7 – The deadliest bushfires in Australian history begin; they kill 173 people, injure 500 more, and leave 7,500 homeless. The fires come after Melbourne records the highest-ever temperature (46.4°C, 115°F) of any capital city in Australia. The majority of the fires are ignited by either fallen or clashing power lines or deliberately lit.
February 8 – The Taliban releases a video which shows Polish geologist Piotr Stańczak, whom they had abducted a few months earlier, being beheaded. It is the first killing of a Western hostage in Pakistan since American journalist Daniel Pearl was beheaded in 2002.^[16]
February 10 – A Russian and an American satellite collide over Siberia, creating a large amount of space debris.^[17]
February 11 – Morgan Tsvangirai is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe following the power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe signed in September, 2008.^[18]
February 12 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a home in Clarence Center, a suburb of Buffalo, New York, killing 49 on the plane and one on the ground.^[19]^[20]
February 16 – The trial of former Khmer Rouge leader Kang Kek Iew begins in Phnom Penh, 30 years after Cambodian leader Pol Pot was overthrown.^{[citation needed]}
February 17 – The JEM rebel group in Darfur, Sudan sign a pact with the Sudanese government, planning a ceasefire within the next 3 months.^[21]
February 25 – Turkish Airlines Flight 1951, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 135 passengers on board, crashes into a field outside Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, killing nine and injuring 84.^[22]
February 25 – Members of the Bangladesh Rifles paramilitary force begin mutinying. Over 80 are killed.
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.^[23]

[edit] March

March 2 – President of Guinea-Bissau João Bernardo Vieira is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.^[24]
March 3 – Gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Pakistan, killing six policemen and two civilians, injuring six team members, and critically injuring reserve umpire Ahsan Raza.^[25]
March 4 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan 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.^[26]
March 7 – NASA's Kepler Mission, a space photometer which 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'etat, following a month of rallies in Antananarivo. The military appoints opposition leader Andry Rajoelina as the new President.^[27]
March 19 – Josef Fritzl is sentenced to life imprisonment by an Austrian court for enslaving and raping his daughter for 24 years, and for murdering their infant child.^[28]
March 27 – Flash flooding and the Situ Gintung dam's failure kill at least 99 people in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia.^[29]

[edit] April

Train commuters in Mexico City wearing surgical masks due to the outbreak of swine flu

April 1 – Albania and Croatia join NATO.
April 2 – The second G-20 summit, involving state leaders rather than the usual finance ministers, meets in London. Its main focus is an ongoing global financial crisis.
April 3–4 – The 21st NATO Summit is held, 60 years after the founding of the organization. Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is appointed as the new Secretary General of NATO.
April 5 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passes over mainland Japan,^[30] prompting an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.^[31]
April 6 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 293^[32] and injuring more than 1,500.^[33]
April 7 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
April 10 – Fijian constitutional crisis: Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo suspends the Constitution of Fiji, dismisses all judges and constitutional appointees and assumes all governance in the country after the Court of Appeal rules that the government of Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is illegal.^[34]
April 11–12 – Thai political crisis: The Fourth East Asia Summit is postponed after Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declares state of emergency in Bangkok and surrounding areas.^[35]^[36]
April 17 – Thirty-four heads of state and government meet in Port of Spain, Trinidad for the 5th Summit of the Americas.
April 18 – Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American journalist, is sentenced to eight years in prison for espionage by an Iranian court.^[37] She is freed the following month, after an appeals court reduces and suspends her sentence.
April 21 – UNESCO launches The World Digital Library.^[38]
April 24 – The World Health Organization expresses concern at the spread of influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries.^[39]^[40]^[41] International cases and resulting deaths are confirmed.
April 29 – NATO expels two Russian diplomats from NATO headquarters in Brussels over a spy scandal in Estonia.^[42]

[edit] May

USGS image of the earthquake caused by the North Korean nuclear test.

May 4 – The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, holds peace talks with the Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger.^{[citation needed]}
May 5 – A military revolt occurs in Georgia, near the capital, Tbilisi.
May 9 – Chadian forces defeat a large column of advancing rebels.
May 11 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-125, the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
May 16 – Sri Lankan president, Mahinda Rajapaksa declares victory over the LTTE.
May 18 – The third C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group meets in Seoul.
May 18 – The Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the total military defeat of the LTTE.^[43]^[44]
May 19 – The Speaker of the British House of Commons Michael Martin announces his resignation in a scandal over expenses of Members of Parliament, becoming the first Commons Speaker since 1695 to be forced from office.^[45]
May 23 – Former President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun, under investigation for alleged bribery during his presidential term, commits suicide.^[46]
May 25 – North Korea announces that it has conducted a second successful nuclear test at an underground facility near Kilchu, North Korea.

[edit] Predicted and scheduled events

[edit] June

June 1 – Greenland will become a separate country within the Kingdom of Denmark. ^[47]^{[verification needed]}
June 4–7 – The European Parliament election will take place, the exact date varying by country.
June 7 – A referendum on changing the Act of Succession will be held in Denmark.
June 17 – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the LCROSS impactor will be launched to the Moon. Part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program (LPRP).

[edit] July

July 1 – Sweden takes over Presidency of the Council of the European Union from the Czech Republic.
July 11 – NASA will launch Ares I-X, a test flight intended to gather aerodynamic data that will support the development of the Ares I crew launch vehicle. Ares I-X will be the first test flight of a future human orbital launch vehicle by NASA since STS-1 in 1981.

[edit] September

September – The Burj Dubai in Dubai, United Arab Emirates will be completed. It is already the tallest man-made structure ever built.^[48]^[49]
September – The Large Hadron Collider will be restarted. The LHC was shut down on 19 September 2008 after problems with a magnet quench.
September 29 – NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will make its final flyby of Mercury, decreasing the velocity for orbital insertion.

[edit] October

October – NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory [1] will be launched to study the sun, delivering an unprecedented one terabyte of data to earth each day.
October – The British House of Lords is replaced by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom as the highest appellate court in the country.^[50]
October – RFSA's Phobos-Grunt, sample return from Phobos.
October 2 – The host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics will be announced at the 121st Session (which will also be the XIIIth Olympic Congress) of the International Olympic Committee to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

[edit] November

November – Singapore will host the 21st Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
November – NASA's WISE mission will be launched. It will survey the entire sky in the infrared with far greater sensitivity than any previous mission ever has: over hundreds of millions of astronomical objects will be cataloged.^[51]

[edit] December

December 7 – December 18 – The UNFCCC's COP15 Copenhagen 2009 conference will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.^[52]
December 10 – On STS-130, the Space Shuttle Endeavour will deliver and install the Node 3 and the Cupola on the International Space Station.
December 12 – The Oasis of the Seas cruise ship will make her maiden voyage. When completed she will be the largest passenger ship ever built, carrying 5,400 passengers.

[edit] Unknown dates

Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro, and possibly Ukraine and Georgia, will join Membership Action Plan, the last step before full membership in NATO.^{[citation needed]}
The East African Community will implement a common currency called the East African shilling.^{[citation needed]}
The first flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial manned orbital spacecraft will occur.