2009
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2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is the Bicentennial of the births of Louis Braille, Charles Darwin, Edward Fitzgerald, William Gladstone, Maxim Gorki, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Abraham Lincoln, Felix Mendelssohn, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
- Is the year of the Ox in Chinese Astrology.
Predicted events
January
- January 1 - Bulgaria and Slovakia are set to adopt the Euro
- 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 UK). Road signs in the UK are unaffected (road signs in all other member states will already be in metric units).
- January 20 - The next President of the United States (elected November 4 2008) will be inaugurated.
- January 26 Annular solar eclipse.
February
- February 1 - Super Bowl XLIII will be in Tampa Bay, Florida.
- February 1 - The International COSPAS-SARSAT program is scheduled to stop monitoring for Class B EPIRB maritime emergency signals.
- February 13 - A celebration is expected as the Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC
- February 17 - Analog television broadcasts are scheduled to end in the United States, requiring all stations to send their signals digitally.
March
- March - Second version of World Baseball Classic expected to occur.
- March 3 - Square root day, the first one in over five years.
April
- April - New Shea Stadium scheduled to open
- April - New Yankee Stadium scheduled to open.
- April 4 to April 6 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
- April 11 - Neptune will return to the same degree and minute as when it was discovered, 163 years previously. (September 23, 1846)
May
- May 25 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 24' south. First conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
June
- Mid-June - Elections to the European Parliament. In the UK, they will be held on June 11. This is also a possible date for the next UK general election.
July
- July 13 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 37' south. Second conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
- July 15-July 26 - Summer Universiade in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
- July 22 - Total solar eclipse (Longest lasting total eclipse of the 21st century)
August
- August 4 - O UTC: Jupiter occults 45 Capricorni, a star of 5.9 mag.
September
October
the Montreal Canadiens are going to be celebrating their 100 anniversary and reportedly are going to try to host the National Hockey League All-Star Game
November
December
- December 20 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
- December 31 - The European Union's directive banning non-SI markings on any goods imported into the European Union goes into effect. This applies to all markings on products, enclosed directions and papers, packaging, and advertisements.
Unknown dates
- The ban on castration of piglets becomes effective in Norway.
- The Cadillac S-Class is scheduled to be released this year. It will be the production version of the Cadillac Sixteen concept car. A coupe version is planned.
- Completion of Freedom Tower.
- A U.S. aircraft carrier named the USS George H. W. Bush will be launched.
- Conan O'Brien is scheduled to replace Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show.
- The Simpsons is expected to reach its 20th anniversary, making it the longest running sitcom in American television history.
- The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Granada, HTV West, Grampian Television and Scottish Television.
- Rhodri Morgan expects to retire as First Minister of Wales.
- Boeing's 747-8 expected to achieve entry into service (EIS).
- Opening of Tseung Kwan O South Line, MTR, Hong Kong.
- Winter Universiade in Harbin, People's Republic of China
- Decision of the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Thirteenth Olympic Congress, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Singapore will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
- Completion of the East L.A. Gold Metro Expansion in Los Angeles, California.
- Completion of the Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico, U.S.A.
- Completion of The Three Gorges Dam in China
- NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of Mercury before entering orbit around the planet in 2011.
- Completion of the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, North Carolina
- The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair is expected to begin production.
- First flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial manned orbital spacecraft.
- Eligible for induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:
Fiction
- In the Macross anime series (adapted outside Japan as the first part of Robotech), the alien Zentradi arrive at Earth on February 7, 2009 (February 9 in Robotech), triggering the devastating Space War I or First Robotech War.
- In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the Plant chapter occurs on April 29 and April 30, 2009 causing devastation to New York city from its coast to Federal Hall when Arsenal Gear crash lands into it.
- On the TV show Charmed, Phoebe Halliwell was executed on February 12, 2009 by burning at the stake for murdering a man with her powers.
- The events of the cyberpunk-dystopian science-fiction film Freejack take place.
- The Atari game Fahrenheit is set in 2009.