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    2009 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.

    • Air France Flight 447

      Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) [b] was a scheduled...

    • Protests

      After incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared...

    • Film

      Film critic Philip French of The Guardian said that 2009...

    • January
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    • April
    • May
    • June
    • July
    • August
    • October
    • November
    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 – Slovakia uses the Euroas its money, instead of the Slovak koruna.
    January 3 – Israel invades Gazawith its army.
    February 1 – Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
    February 7 – The deadliest bushfires in Australian history begin; they kill 173, injure 500 more, and leave 7,500 homeless. The fires come after Melbournerecords the hottest-ever temperature (46.4...
    March 2 – The President of Guinea-Bissau, João Bernardo Vieira, is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau.
    March 3 – Gunmen attack a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, Pakistan, killing eight people and injuring several others.
    March 17 – The President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana, is overthrown in a coup d'état, following a month of rallies in Antananarivo. The military appoints opposition leader Andry Rajoelina as t...
    April 5 – North Korealaunches the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket, prompting an emergency meeting of—but no official reaction from—the United Nations Security Council.
    May 4 – The President of Niger, Tandja Mamadou, holds peace talks with the Tuareg rebel groups in north Niger.
    May 18 – The third C40 Cities Climate Leadership Groupmeets in Seoul.
    June 1 – An Air Franceplane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil, killing all of the 228 people on board.
    June 12 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected as the president of Iran. Over the following weeks, thousands of the opposition's supporters protest the results.
    June 25 – Music legend Michael Jackson dies in Los Angelesat the age of 50.
    June 28 – Honduran President Manuel Zelayais ousted in a coup.
    July 1 – Sweden assumes the presidency of the European Union.
    July 4 – The Organization of American States suspends Hondurasdue to the country's recent political crisis after its refusal to reinstate President Zelaya.
    July 5 – Over 150 are killed when a few thousand ethnic Uyghurs target local Han Chinese during major rioting in Ürümqi, Xinjiang.
    July 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes near Qazvin, Iran, killing all 168 on board.

    August 4 – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il pardons two American journalists, who had been arrested and imprisoned, for illegal entry earlier in the year, after the old U.S. President Bill Clintonme...

    October 2 – Rio de Janeiro is awarded the 2016 Olympic Games.
    October 9 – Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
    October 22 -- Microsoft release operating system Windows 7.
    November 20 – The Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerlandwas restarted.
    November 30 – The Large Hadron Colliderset a new energy record for a particle accelerator.
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  3. 2009. This page is a chronology of events in year 2009 directly related to Wikipedia and Wikipedians, both within Wikipedia and in the whole wide world. Wikipedia events and events in sister projects ( Wiktionary, Wikibooks, etc.) are listed as long as they are related to Wikipedia.

  4. Wikipedia, a free-content online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers known as Wikipedians, began with its first edit on 15 January 2001, two days after the domain was registered. [ 2 ] It grew out of Nupedia, a more structured free encyclopedia, as a way to allow easier and faster drafting of articles and translations.

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  7. Though the English Wikipedia reached 3 million articles in August 2009, the growth of the edition, in terms of the numbers of new articles and of editors, appears to have peaked around early 2007. [28] Around 1,800 articles were added daily to the encyclopedia in 2006; by 2013 that average was roughly 800.

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