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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 ...
Feb 12 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people. Feb 13 The Dutch Statistics agency confirms the Netherlands are in recession. Feb 13 Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).
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2009 was a pretty wild year, a year of new beginnings but also a year where things came to an end. The year began with Barack Obama being sworn in as the first African American US President and ended with Sony selling their floppy disk for the last time. Both Farmville and Grindr debuted in 2009, and Avatar was released to cinemas worldwide ...
- January. January 1. Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda assume their seats on the United Nations Security Council. Asunción, the capital of Paraguay, becomes the American Capital of Culture and Vilnius and Linz become the European Capitals of Culture.
- February. February 1. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow is enthroned as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church following the death of his predecessor, Alexy II in 2008.
- March. March 2 – The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau. 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.
- April. April 1 – Albania and Croatia join NATO. 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.
According to Chinese Zodiac, 2009 is the year of the Ox. And it is the Earth year based on Chinese Five Elements. Therefore, people born in 2009 are the Earth Ox. As Chinese zodiac is based on lunar calendar, the Earth Ox are born from January 26, 2009 to February 13, 2010; those who born from January 1 to January 25 in 2009 are Earth Rat.
Events from the year 2009 in the United States . The year started with the inauguration of Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the 44th and 47th president and vice president respectively. The nation, still recovering from the 2007–2008 financial crisis, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and similar ...
