2009

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.

The flu pandemic in 2009 begins in Mexico, soon spreading to the U.S. and then around the world.^{[citation needed]}

White phosphorus shelling by Israel during the Gaza War

Times Square jumbotron signifying New Years Day, 2009

Riots broke out in Xinjiang in July and September

Bea Arthur

Dom DeLuise

Roh Moo-hyun

David Carradine

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson

Karl Malden

Walter Cronkite

Bobby Robson

Corazon Aquino

Ted Kennedy

Norman Borlaug

Patrick Swayze

Mercedes Sosa

Al Martino

Vitaly Ginzburg

Samak Sundaravej

Paul Samuelson

Jennifer Jones

Brittany Murphy

Rafael Caldera

Abdurrahman Wahid