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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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US Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) interrupts President Barack Obama's health care speech to the Congress with an audible shout of "You lie!" (New York Times)Aeroméxico Flight 576, a Boeing 737 carrying 104 people, is hijacked shortly after take-off from Cancún, and forced to land at Mexico City International Airport.
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern 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%.
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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