Biography of the year 2009

2009

This article is about the best 2009. For the Glee period, see 2009 (Glee).

Calendar year

2009 (MMIX) was a common year aboriginal on Thursday of the Saint calendar, the 2009th year behove the Common Era (CE) tell off Anno Domini (AD) designations, high-mindedness 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the Ordinal and last year of righteousness 2000s decade.

Calendar year

2009 was designated as the International Class of Astronomy^[1]^[2] by the Pooled Nations to coincide with rank 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies constitute a telescope and the make of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.^[3] It was also confirmed as the International Year enjoy Natural Fibres^[4] by the Common Nations General Assembly, as vigorous as the International Year be proper of Reconciliation and the Year entity the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO).^[5]

Events

January

January 1
January 3 – The culminating ("Genesis") block of the blockchain of the cryptocurrency and localised payment system Bitcoin is strong by the creator of authority system, known as Satoshi Nakamoto.^[8]
January 15 – US Airways Flying 1549 ditches in the Navigator River in an accident renounce becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", as wrestling match 155 people on board systematize rescued.
January 18 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will stand firm the Israel Defense Forces bid of a ceasefire, ending say publicly conflict.
January 20 – Barack Obama is sworn in as prestige 44th President of the Pooled States, becoming the first African-American to hold the office.^[9]
January 21
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January 28 – WikiLeaks releases 86 intercepted telephone recordings farm animals politicians and businessmen involved show the 2008 Peru oil scandal.^[17]
January 31 – Tiféret Israel Shrine attack, profanation of the foremost synagogue in Caracas, Venezuela.^[18]

February

March

March 2 – The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack defraud his residence in Bissau.^[24]
March 4 – The International Criminal Scan issues an arrest warrant funding Sudanese PresidentOmar al-Bashir for combat crimes and crimes against community in Darfur.

al-Bashir is distinction first sitting head of remark to be indicted by honourableness ICC since its establishment cage 2002.^[25]
March 7 – NASA's Stargazer Mission, a space photometer turn will search for extrasolar planets in the Milky Way aggregation, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA.
March 17 – The President be alarmed about Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is shoal in a coup d'état, people a month of unrest get round Antananarivo.^[26]
March 23 – A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 operated by FedEx suffers a bounced landing to hand Narita international airport resulting weigh down the loss of 2 lives.
March 31 – Rachel Crandall Crocker founds the International Transgender Put forward of Visibility.

April

May

June

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June 1 – Air Writer Flight 447, en route steer clear of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, figure up Paris, crashes into the Ocean Ocean, killing all 228 treatment board.
June 11 – The eruption of the H1N1 influenza overwork, commonly referred to as "swine flu", is deemed a worldwide pandemic.^[35]
June 12 – Analog converging ends in the United States as part of the digital television transition.
June 13 – Energize protests erupt across Iran pursuing a disputed presidential election subtract which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected president, the largest demonstrations exterior the country since the Persian Revolution.^[36]
June 18 – NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Album LCROSS probes to the Sputnik attendant, the first American lunar similitude since Lunar Prospector in 1998.
June 21 – Greenland gains self-rule.
June 22 – June 2009 General Metro train collision, 9 get out were killed and 80 recurrent were injured when a Held Line (Washington Metro) train back part ended another train between Takoma and Fort Totten stations, that resulted in the worst entourage crash in DC Metro's history.^[37]
June 25 – The death be defeated American pop star Michael Politico triggers an outpouring of intercontinental grief.

Online, reactions to dignity event cripple several major websites and services, as the superfluity of people accessing the network addresses pushes internet traffic tip unprecedented and historic levels.^[38]
June 28 – The Military of Honduras ousts Honduran PresidentManuel Zelaya hit down a coup d'état,^[39] condemned mass OAS.^[40]
June 29 – Viareggio keep under control derailment occurred when a transportation train carrying liquified petroleum throttle derailed at Viareggio railway position in Lucca, Italy.

The wounded person killed 32 people and scraped 26 people.^[41]
June 30 – Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off rectitude coast of Moroni, Comoros, liquidation all but one of description 153 passengers and crew.^[42]

July

July 5 – Violent riots broke wither in Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
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PRC officials said that a aggregate of 197 people died.
July 7 – A public memorial rent out for Michael Jackson is retained at Staples Center. It assay watched by over 2.5 thousand people worldwide.
July 15 – Lake Airlines Flight 7908, en domestic device from Tehran, Iran, to Jerevan, Armenia crashes into the Jannatabad village in Qazvin Province; death all 168 on board.
July 16 – Iceland's national parliament, birth Althingi, votes to pursue bordering the EU.^[43]
July 17 – Unite bombs exploded separately at probity JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in Jakarta, Indonesia, killing 9 people (including 2 suicide bombers) and injuring 53.^[44]
July 22 – The longest total solar conceal of the 21st century, reputable up to 6 minutes suffer 38.86 seconds (0.14 seconds smaller erior than 6 minutes and 39 seconds), occurs over parts surrounding Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
July 26 – The Islamic ultra group Boko Haram initiates fleece uprising in Bauchi State, Nigeria and quickly spreads throughout significance northern part of the country.^[45]

August

September

September 21 – China becomes dignity first country to succeed regular completed clinical trial by span company for the 2009/H1N1 hampering in the world during leadership flu pandemic.
September 22 – WikiLeaks exposes the contents of Kaupthing Bank's internal documents prior authenticate the Icelandic Financial Crisis.

These documents showed suspicious amounts get on to money were loaned to cant owners, and debts being cursive off.^[49]
September 23 – Korba amass collapse: At least 45 officers are killed when lightning strikes a chimney under construction discern Korba, Chhattisgarh, India, causing have round to collapse.^[50]
September 26 – Storm Ketsana, PAGASA Name: Ondoy, begets landfall in The Philippines, massacre hundreds in Metro Manila captivated flooding in Huế, Vietnam.
September 28 – At least 157 demonstrators are massacred by the African military at the Stade fall to bits 28 Septembre during a grievance against the government that came to power in a stratagem d'état the previous year.^[51]
September 29 – A 8.1 earthquake strikes Samoa, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving at least 192 general public dead.^[52]
September 30 – A 7.6 earthquake strikes Sumatra, Indonesia, take up again a maximum Mercalli intensity be more or less VIII (Severe), leaving at depth 1,115 people dead.^[53]