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*[[Air France Flight 447]] crashes in the  [[Atlantic Ocean]] leaving no survivors; 
*[[Barack Obama]] becomes the [[First inauguration of Barack Obama|first]] [[African American]] to become [[President of the United States]]; 
*[[2009 Iranian presidential election protests|protests]] erupt over the [[2009 Iranian presidential election]]; 
*[[US Airways Flight 1549]] crash-lands in the [[Hudson River]] with no fatalities, with the event becoming known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"; 
*the "King of Pop" [[Michael Jackson]] [[Death of Michael Jackson|dies]] by acute propofol intoxication; 
*[[Bitcoin]] is initially launched by the [[pseudonymous]] name [[Satoshi Nakamoto]]; 
*an [[2009 L'Aquila earthquake|earthquake]] strikes central [[Italy]], killing 308; the [[H1N1]] [[virus]] was responsible for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|swine flu pandemic]].
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'''2009''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MMIX]]''') was a [[common year]] that [[common year that started on Thursday|started on a Thursday]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]].  It was the 2009th year of the [[Common Era]] or the [[Anno Domini]] designation, the 9th year of the [[2nd millennium]] and the 21st century, and the 10th and last of the [[2000s (decade)|2000s decade]]. -->
  
2009 was designated as the [[International Year of Astronomy]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://iau.org/public_press/news/release/iau0606/|title=News Release – IAU0606: The International Astronomical Union announces the International Year of Astronomy 2009|date=October 27, 2006|publisher=International Astronomical Union|access-date=2008-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919162557/http://www.iau.org/public_press/news/release/iau0606|archive-date=September 19, 2008|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://astronomy2009.org |title=The International Year of Astronomy 2009 |publisher=IYA2009 |access-date=2008-11-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081103045057/http://www.astronomy2009.org/ |archive-date=November 3, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> by the [[United Nations]] to coincide with the 400th anniversary of [[Galileo Galilei]]'s first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of [[Astronomia Nova]] by [[Johannes Kepler]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0702/ | title=International Astronomical Union {{pipe}} IAU | access-date=November 11, 2022 | archive-date=November 11, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221111231940/https://www.iau.org/news/pressreleases/detail/iau0702/ | url-status=live }}</ref> It was also declared as the [[International Year of Natural Fibres]]<ref>{{UN document |docid=A-RES-61-189|type=Resolution|body=General Assembly|session=61|resolution_number=189 |accessdate=2008-07-15|date=December 20, 2006|title=International Year of National Fibres, 2009}}</ref> by the [[United Nations General Assembly]], as well as the International Year of Reconciliation and the Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO).<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.cms.int/en/campaign/year-gorilla | title = Year of the Gorilla | year = 2009 | website = [[Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals]] | access-date = 2023-01-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140914030546/https://www.cms.int/en/campaign/year-gorilla | archive-date = 2014-09-14}}</ref>
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