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t. e. 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 ...
April 19 – Ak Bars Kazan win 2009 Gagarin Cup. May 10 – Russia defeats Canada 2–1 to win the 2009 IIHF World Championship. May 24 – Windsor Spitfires win 2009 Memorial Cup Canadian junior championship. June 12 – Pittsburgh Penguins defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the 2009 Stanley Cup.
Triathlon. Volleyball. This article contains an overview of the year 2009 in athletics. The major competition of the year was the 2009 World Championships in Athletics. At the event, Usain Bolt reaffirmed himself as one of the world's foremost athletes with world records in the 100 and 200 metres. Caster Semenya won 800 m gold at the ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history. For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history. For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history.
July 13: Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated and reinstated as a major in the French Army; the Dreyfus affair ends. August 16: An earthquake in Valparaíso, Chile, magnitude 8.2, kills 20,000. September 28: The US begins the Second Occupation of Cuba. October 23: Brazilian inventor Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off and flies his 14-bis to a crowd in Paris.
t. e. Events from the year 2009 in the United States. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president, occurred on January 20. The nation, still recovering from the Great Recession, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits.
This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from October 2009. Around 150 Venezuelan students end a weeklong hunger strike protesting against alleged human rights abuses in Venezuela, after Organization of American States officials agree to meet the students and one of their leaders is released.
2009 in science. 22 July 2009: the longest-lasting total solar eclipse of the 21st century occurs. The year 2009 involved numerous significant scientific events and discoveries, some of which are listed below. 2009 was designated the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations. [1]