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The 2009 Pacific Mini Games opens in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. (Scoop.co.nz) Former world number 1 tennis player Justine Henin announces that she is ending her year-long retirement from the sport. (AP via ESPN) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for menthol cigarettes. (The New York Times)
2009 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.
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The 2009 Pacific Mini Games opens in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. (Scoop.co.nz) Former world number 1 tennis player Justine Henin announces that she is ending her year-long retirement from the sport. (AP via ESPN) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration bans the sale of flavored cigarettes, except for menthol cigarettes. (The New York Times)
Human Rights Watch urges world leaders to call on Sri Lanka to free hundreds of thousands of displaced people detained in camps since the island's civil war ended. (The Straits Times) A Polish court awards €7,400 damages to Alicja Tysiąc, likened to a child killer and Nazi war criminal by Catholic magazine Gość Niedzielny for wanting an ...
The 2009 G-20 Pittsburgh summit commences with two dozen world leaders in attendance. Sixteen members of al-Qaeda, five of whom have been sentenced to death, are at large after escaping from prison north of Baghdad. India's Chandrayaan-1 probe discovers large amounts of water on the Moon.
Palau is to create the world's first "shark sanctuary", banning all commercial shark fishing in its waters. (BBC) ( The Times ) (UPI) Paul G. Kirk, Jr. is sworn in as the interim U.S. Senator from Massachusetts , succeeding the late Ted Kennedy .