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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.
2001 — September 11 attacks; 19 terrorists hijack four planes and crash them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people and injuring over 6,000. All civilian air traffic is suspended for three days, the first time an unplanned suspension had occurred in U.S. history.
Fiji is suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations, only the second full suspension in the organization's history. (Times of India) Alain Robert scales Tower Two of the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, using no safety equipment. (New Straits Times) The unemployment rate across the Eurozone reaches a ten-year high of 9.5%.
Iranian students at the University of Tehran demonstrate against the government on the first day of the new academic year. (New York Times) (Reuters India)Opponents of the Treaty of Lisbon question the European Commission on deliberate interference in the Irish referendum campaign in order to secure its desired "Yes" vote, suggesting that the Commission has broken the law.
In rugby union, South Africa defeat New Zealand 32-29 to win the 2009 Tri Nations Series. (Sport24) (IOL) [ permanent dead link ] The Guatemalan Army is accused of abducting over 300 children during the 1960–1996 Civil War and selling them for adoption.
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The death toll from an earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan Islands region in the South Pacific rises to at least 113. ()A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes western Indonesia, killing at least 75 and trapping thousands of people under rubble.