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2009

2009 (MMIX) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5769 and 5770 in the Hebrew Calendar and 1430-1431 in the Islamic Calendar. It is the Bicentennial of the births of Louis Braille, Charles Darwin, Edward Fitzgerald, William Gladstone, Maxim Gorki, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Template:2009 by topic

2009 - Events

2009 - January-April

• January 1 - Bulgaria and Slovakia are set to adopt the Euro
• January 1 - Deadline by which goods in all member states of the European Union must be sold in metric units (this has already been completed everywhere, except in the UK). Road signs in the UK are unaffected (road signs in all other member states will already be in metric units).
• January 20 - The next President of the United States (elected November 4, 2008) will be inaugurated.
• January 26 Annular solar eclipse.
• February 1 - Super Bowl XLIII will be in Tampa Bay, Florida.
• February 1 - The International COSPAS-SARSAT program is scheduled to stop monitoring for Class B EPIRB maritime emergency signals.
• February 13 - A celebration is expected as the Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC
• February 17 - Analog television broadcasts are scheduled to end in the United States, requiring all stations to send their signals digitally.
• March 3 - Square root day, the first one in over five years.
• April - New Shea Stadium scheduled to open
• April - New Yankee Stadium scheduled to open.
• April 4 to April 6 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
• April 11 - Neptune will return to the same degree and minute as when it was discovered.

2009 - May-December

• May 25 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 24' south. First conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
• Mid-June - Elections to the European Parliament. In the UK, they will be held on June 11. This is also a possible date for the next UK general election.
• July 13 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 37' south. Second conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
• July 15-July 26 - Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
• July 22 - Total solar eclipse (Longest lasting total eclipse of the 21st century)
• Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of Mercury before entering orbit around the planet in 2011.
• August 4 - O UTC: Jupiter occults 45 Capricorni, a star of 5.9 mag.
• December 20 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.

2009 - Unknown dates

• The ban on castration of piglets becomes effective in Norway.
• The Cadillac S-Class fighter is scheduled to be released this year. It will be the production version of the Cadillac Sixteen concept car. A coupe version is planned.
• Completion of Freedom Tower.
• A U.S. aircraft carrier named the USS George H. W. Bush will be launched.
• Conan O'Brien is scheduled to replace Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show.
• The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Granada, HTV West, Grampian Television and Scottish Television.
• Rhodri Morgan expects to retire as First Minister of Wales.
• Boeing's 747-8 sees entry into service (EIS).
• Opening of Tseung Kwan O South Line, MTR, Hong Kong.
• Winter Universiade in Harbin, People's Republic of China
• Decision of the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Location TBA.
• Thirteenth Olympic Congress, location TBA.
• Singapore will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
• Completion of the East L.A. Gold Metro Expansion in Los Angeles, California.
• Completion of the Virgin Atlantic Spaceport in New Mexico, U.S.A.

2009 - 2009 in Fiction

• In the Macross anime series (adapted outside Japan as the first part of Robotech), the alien Zentradi arrive at Earth on February 7, 2009 (February 9 in Robotech), triggering the devastating Space War I or First Robotech War.

• In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Plant chapter occurs on April 30, 2009 causing devastation to New York city from its coast to Federal Hall when Arsenal Gear crash lands into it.

• On the TV show Charmed, Phoebe Halliwell was executed on February 12, 2009 by burning at the stake for murdering a man with her powers.

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