2009 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2009?
- January 1, 2009 – 66 die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
- January 15, 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
- January 26, 2009 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 7, 2009 – Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia’s history.
- February 13, 2009 – At 23:31:30 UTC the Unix system time (time_t) number reaches 1234567890 seconds.
- March 22, 2009 – Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
- April 7, 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
- April 12, 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.
- April 30, 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- June 1, 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
- June 19, 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
- July 24, 2009 – The MV Arctic Sea, reportedly carrying a cargo of timber, is allegedly hijacked in the North Sea by pirates, but much speculation remains as to the actual cargo and events.
- August 10, 2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia’s history.
- September 24, 2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
- September 28, 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
- October 25, 2009 – The 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
- December 3, 2009 – A suicide bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia, claims the lives of 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
- December 25, 2009 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
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