- This article is about the year. For the film, see 2009 Lost Memories.
2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
2009 has been designated as:
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January - Republic of Ireland bans the sale of incandescent light bulbs.[4]
- January - The final Nimitz class aircraft carrier, named the USS George H. W. Bush, will be commissioned.
- January - The United States Mint will follow the 50 State Quarters program by minting quarters in honor of Washington, D.C. Coins for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands[5] will follow every eight weeks throughout the year.[6]
- January 1 - Czech Republic takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from France.
- January 1 - Slovakia will adopt the Euro as the nation's official currency.[7]
- 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 United Kingdom). Road signs in the UK are unaffected (road signs in all other member states are already in metric units).
- January 1 - The Swedish pharmacy monopoly will end.[8]
- January 1 - Norway will legalize same-sex marriage, and Hungary will recognize registered partnerships.[9]
- January 1 - The European small claims procedure comes into force throughout the European Union, other than Denmark. The small claims procedure is applicable to cross-border legal claims under the Brussels Regime with value up to 2,000 EUR.[10]
- January 1 - The 2009 NHL Winter Classic will be held at the Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois.[11]
- January 3 - 111th United States Congress begins. A new delegate will be added for the Northern Mariana Islands.
- January 8 - The BCS National Championship Game 2009 will be held in Miami Gardens, Florida.[12]
- January 15 - International Year of Astronomy 2009 Opening Ceremony at UNESCO HQ, Paris, France.[13]
- January 20 - The 44th elected President of the United States will be inaugurated at 12:00 noon EST (17:00 UTC), ending President George W. Bush's 8-year term as the 43rd President of the United States.
- January 25 - The 57th NHL All-Star Game will be held in Montreal, Quebec.
- January 26 - Annular solar eclipse.[14]
February
- February - On STS-125, the Space Shuttle Atlantis will conduct the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. It will be one of the most advanced missions in space.[15][16][17]
- February - The NASA's Dawn spacecraft will flyby Mars for data and gravitational assist en route to Vesta and Ceres.[18]
- February 1 - The International Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System will stop monitoring for 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz (Class B) signals from distress radiobeacons.[19]
- February 1 - The Super Bowl XLIII will take place in Tampa, Florida.[20]
- February 2–15 - The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 will take place in Val-d'Isère, France.[21]
- February 8 - The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
- February 12 - Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday in the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a series of events in Washington, D.C.
- February 12 - Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Events are already being planned at the London Natural History Museum.
- February 12 - On STS-119, the Space Shuttle Discovery will deliver and install the fourth starboard truss segment on the International Space Station.[22]
- February 13 - The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC.
- February 14 - Lithuania will celebrate the millennium of its name.
- February 15 - The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
- February 17 - Analog television broadcasts will mostly end in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all full power stations to send their signals digitally.[23]
- February 18–28 - The 2009 Winter Universiade will be held in Harbin, China.[24][25]
- February 22 - The 81st Academy Awards will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California.[26]
March
There will be an Special dissusing her death on both Spanish Channel's Univsion, and Telemundo at 7:00p.m until 10:00p.m.
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Unknown dates
- Albania and Croatia will join NATO.
- Completion of the Metro Gold Line (LACMTA) Expansion and the Expo Line in Los Angeles, California.
- Completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China.
- Completion of the Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico, United States.
- East African Community to implement a common currency called the East African shilling.
- First flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial manned orbital spacecraft.
- Intel plans to release as many as five new microprocessor variants of the Nehalem microarchitecture throughout the year. The Beckton variant may have as many as eight cores.
- New Zealand will stop the sales of incandescent light bulbs.
- Next award of the Sylvester Medal.
- Opening of Tseung Kwan O South Line, MTR, Hong Kong.
- Possible launch of the KEO satellite time capsule. If it is not launched in 2009, it will be launched in 2010.
- Possible start of construction for a fixed-guideway mass transit system for Honolulu.
- RFSA's Phobos-Grunt, sample return from Phobos.
- Tesla Motors will mass produce the Tesla Model S, its second electric car.
- The completion of the Sound Transit Central Link Light Rail system in Seattle.
- The Boeing 747-8 will achieve entry into service (EIS).
- The Compact of Free Association between the United States and Palau expires.
- The final phase of the L.A. Live project will be completed, including a 54-story Ritz-Carlton/JW Marriott hotel and the 14-screen West Coast flagship theatre multiplex operated by the Regal Entertainment Group.
- The Dallas Cowboys New Stadium will be inaugurated.
- The Greenville Bridge will open to traffic.
- The United Kingdom will continue a 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Granada, HTV Wales and Westcountry Television.[57]
- The University of Greenland will move into a new research complex called llimmarfik.
- Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, is going to be the European Capital of Culture.
- Western Australia will vote on the controversial topic of daylight saving time.
- World Trade Center Tower 5 will have its groundbreaking ceremony in New York City.
Major religious holidays
2009 in fiction
Computer and video games
Set in 2009:
Music
- Tokyo Police Club's song "Citizens of Tomorrow" has a few lines as to what will (fictionally) happen in 2009, for "our robot masters will know how to clean this mess up and build a better world, for man and machine alike, for the boys and the girls who are slaves building spaceships at night in the fluorescent light".
Film
Television
Books
References
- ^ The International Astronomical Union announces the International Year of Astronomy 2009
- ^ The International Year of Astronomy 2009
- ^ United Nations General Assembly Resolution 189 session 61 International Year of National Fibres, 2009 on 20 December 2006
- ^ Ireland to ban incandescent lightbulbs
- ^ United States Mint. The District of Columbia and United States Territories Quarter Program. Accessed 2008-08-23. "In 2009, the United States Mint will mint and issue six quarter-dollar coins in honor of the District of Columbia and the five United States Territories: the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands."
- ^ Ganz, David. Voting Starts to Choose D.C. Quarter Design. Numismatic News, 2008-06-03. Accessed 2008-08-23. "Since there are six coins in 2009, the coins will be produced at an even greater pace, once every eight weeks or so."
- ^ Slovak euro exchange rate is set
- ^ Parliament votes to end pharmacy monopoly
- ^ Marriage and partnership rights for same-sex partners: country-by-country
- ^ European small claims procedure
- ^ Blackhawks, Red Wings meet in the great outdoors
- ^ Bowl Championship Series
- ^ Year of Astronomy Calendar
- ^ ECLIPSES DURING 2009
- ^ "Preparing to rescue Hubble".
- ^ "Last Mission to Hubble".
- ^ "NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions".
- ^ Between Mars and Jupiter
- ^ Cospas-Sarsat Phase-Out of 121.5/243 MHz Alerting Services
- ^ Future Super Bowl Locations
- ^ FIS Alpine World Ski Championship Val d'Isère 2009
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Broadcasters Prepare For DTV Transition
- ^ Harbin 24th Winter Universiade
- ^ 24th Winter Universiade
- ^ Key Dates Announced for 81st Academy Awards
- ^ US announces full participation in Trans-Pacific FTA
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Global Cornerstone Projects 100 Hours of Astronomy. Official website.
- ^ 2009: 71ST ANNUAL DIVISION I MENS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Elections BC
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Stockselius met 2009 organizers in Moscow
- ^ Microsoft gives up on Vista, Windows 7 to launch June 2009
- ^ World Air Games Turin 2009. Official website.
- ^ FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009
- ^ Universiade Belgrade 2009
- ^ The Official Site of The St. Louis Cardinals: News: St. Louis awarded 2009 All-Star Game
- ^ TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 2009 JULY 22
- ^ A SUMMARY OF THE 2009 JULY 22 ECLIPSE
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Burj Dubai completion delayed by another eight to nine months
- ^ Burj Dubai now a record 688 meters tall and continues to rise
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ APL's MESSENGER fact sheet
- ^ Written Statement of the Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary regarding the Supreme Court
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ Phase-out of inefficient incandescent light bulbs
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ COP15, United Nations Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen 2009
- ^ NASA's Shuttle and Rocket Missions
- ^ INNOVATION AND IMAGINATION ARE CORNERSTONES OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS ONBOARD ROYAL CARIBBEAN’S OASIS OF THE SEAS
- ^ Oasis of the Seas maiden voyage set for December 12, 2009
- ^ REAL-ID Act Deadline Extended by DHS
- ^ National ID requirements postponed under criticism
- ^ When is the Digital TV Switchover? The different regions and dates
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