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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.
Events from the year 2009 in the United States. The inauguration of Barack Obama as the president, occurred on January 20. The nation, still recovering from the Great Recession, received various economic stimuli through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and similar legislation, which most notably gave Americans tax credits.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature goes to the Romanian-German novelist Herta Müller, "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed". She becomes the twelfth woman to win the literature prize and the fourth female Nobel Laureate of 2009, a record year for female achievers.
A bomb in Afghanistan kills four American soldiers, making 2009 the deadliest year for foreign troops since the 2001 invasion. A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi, China, kills at least 14 people. (China Daily) The United States budget deficit for 2009 will reach $1.6 trillion, the highest ever recorded.
2009 marked another year of unforgettable occurrences in entertainment, politics and current events. Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first African-American president of the United States.
Earthquakes in 2009 resulted in 1,853 fatalities. The 2nd Sumatra earthquake caused an estimated 1,117 deaths to that island, while other majors events struck Italy or Costa Rica . Also notable, the 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami registered an 8.1 on the moment magnitude scale , the most powerful earthquake in 2009.
Kim Clijsters of Belgium defeats Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark to win the 2009 US Open Women's Singles. (New York Times) Cork beat Kilkenny in the final of the All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship 2009. Police arrest more than 550 people in connection with two days of riots in Uganda's capital Kampala, as the death toll rises to 14.
2009 Beledweyne bombing The National Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was killed along with nineteen others after he was targeted by an insurgent suicide car bomb. Dozens of others were injured. [12] June 20 73 185 Taza, Iraq. June 2009 Taza bombing A truck bomb exploded near a mosque, killing 73 people and leaving about 185 others injured. [13]