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.

From left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 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 died in 2009; Bitcoin is initially launched by the pseudonymous name Satoshi Nakamoto; the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake strikes central Italy; The H1N1 virus was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

Ricardo Montalbán

Ingemar Johansson

João Bernardo Vieira

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Natasha Richardson

Janet Jagan

Bea Arthur

Dom DeLuise

Nguyễn Bá Cẩn

Roh Moo-hyun

David Carradine

Omar Bongo

Farrah Fawcett

Michael Jackson

Karl Malden

Amin al-Hafez

Walter Cronkite

Bobby Robson

Corazon Aquino

Kim Dae-jung

Ted Kennedy

Norman Borlaug

Patrick Swayze

Mercedes Sosa

Al Martino

Vitaly Ginzburg

Samak Sundaravej

Paul Samuelson

Jennifer Jones

Brittany Murphy

Rafael Caldera

Abdurrahman Wahid