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Events from the year 2009 in the United States.

Incumbents

Events

January

Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the U.S.

February

2009 U.S. penny commemorating 200th anniversay of Lincoln's birth
  • February 1 - The Pittsburgh Steelers win their sixth Super Bowl, defeating the Arizona Cardinals, 27-23.[11]
  • February 10 - A privately owned American satellite and a Russian military satellite collide over Siberia, scattering space debris in orbits 300 to 800 miles above Earth, potentially threatening satellites in nearby orbits.[12]
  • February 12 - To honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Mint launches a series of pennies that commemorate four stages in Lincoln's life.[13]
  • February 12 - Continental flight 3407 crashes in Clarence Center, New York, killing 49 passengers including a 9/11 widow, and one man who was in his house.[14]
  • February 17 - Peanut Corp, a peanut butter processor implicated in nine deaths and more than 600 poisonings due to salmonella, files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy just days after its CEO uses the Fifth Amendment to avoid questioning by Congress.[15]
  • February 18 - President Obama orders the deployment of 17,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan.[16]
  • February 19 - President Obama makes Canada the site of his first international visit, restoring a tradition that had been altered by President George W. Bush.[17]
  • February 24 - The Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a new $278 million NASA satellite designed to precisely measure carbon dioxide levels for global warming research, crashes near Antarctia just after launching.[18]
  • February 24 - President Obama addresses Congress defending the bailouts as necessary to economic recovery, and vowing economic recovery, stricter regulation of financial institutions, and health care reform. He also warns that future bailouts may be necessary.[19][20]
  • February 25 - James Nicholson, the manager of an unregistered hedge fund, Westgate Capital Management, is arrested and charged in federal court with defrauding hundreds of investors in a Ponzi type scheme.[21]

March

Kepler space telescope launch
  • March 2 - Failing insurance giant AIG reports nearly $62 billion in losses during the 2008 fourth quarter of 2008, and the US government gives it $30 billion more in aid in a new bailout.
  • March 3 Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke says AIG took huge, irresponsible risks.[22]
  • March 7 - NASA launches Kepler Mission, a space photometer which searches for planets in the Milky Way that could be similar to earth and habitable by humans.[23][24]
  • March 9 - President Obama overturns a Bush-era policy that limited federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, while promising that human cloning will be banned.[25]
  • March 9 - Exactly 17 months after its all time high of 14,164 on October 9, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Average bottoms out at 6,547 during the Late-2000s recession and begins to rise quickly.
  • March 13 - A report by the Federal Reserve says that U.S. families lost a record 18% of their wealth in 2008.[26]
  • March 15 - AIG announces it will pay $450 million in bonuses to top executives despite its central role in the global financial meltdown and despite receiving a $173 billion government bailout. A massive public outcry follows, with Obama calling AIG greedy and reckless.[27][28]
  • March 17 - The Seattle Post Intelligencer ends publication, just two weeks after the Rocky Mountain News of Denver, Colorado shuts down.[29]
  • March 18 - New Mexico becomes the 15th state to abolish the death penalty.[30]
  • March 21 - Four Oakland police officers are killed in a shoot out[31]
  • March 22 - After emitting steam and volcanic ash for weeks, Alaska's Mount Redoubt erupts explosively for the first time in 20 years.[32]

April

Iowa and Vermont legalize same-sex marriage in April, stirring a nationwide debate. One month later, same-sex marriage in Maine is legalized, but the action is repealed by voters in November.[33]

May

  • May 11 - An army sergeant opens fire at a military stress counseling clinic at a US military base in Baghdad, killing five fellow soldiers and wounding one.[42]
  • May 11 - Defense Secretary Robert Gates removes the top US commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, replacing him with Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. Gates states a new approach is needed in Afghanistan. McKiernan is the first general to be dismissed from a combat command since Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.[43]
  • May 13 - A tornado outbreak devastates the north and northeastern Missouri towns of Green City, Novinger, and Kirksville, killing three. Tornadoes are also reported in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Illinois[44][45][46]
  • May 14 - Federal transportation officials reveal that low pay leading to sleep deprivation, and failure to pass flight certification tests were factors leading to the crash of Continental flight 3407 near Buffalo that killed 50 people.[47]
  • May 19 - President Obama announces vehicle emissions and mileage requirements. Under the new federal rules, vehicles will use 30 percent less fuel and emit one third less carbon dioxide by 2016. The changes will add $1300 to the cost of each new vehicle.[48]
  • May 21 The Senate passes a bill to impose new regulations on the credit card industry, curbing some fees and interest hikes and requiring more transparent disclosure of account terms.[49]

June

Carrie Prejean Miss California

July

Sarah Palin resignation speech
  • July 3 - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin unexpectedly announces her resignation, effective July 26, 2009, citing the costs and distractions of battling frivolous ethics investigations launched against her,[58] and prompting several media outlets to speculate that she is preparing for a presidential run in 2012.
  • July 7 – A public memorial service is held for musician Michael Jackson. It is called one of the most prominent funerals of all time.[59][60][61]
  • July 7 - After an eight month recount battle, Al Franken is sworn in as the junior senator of Minnesota, giving Democrats a majority of sixty seats.

August

Protesters at a health care reform town hall meeting in West Hartford, Connecticut

September

Participants in the 9/12 protests in Washington, DC
  • September 2 – The Justice Department announces the largest health care fraud settlement in history, $2.3 billion, involving Pfizer.[66]
  • September 8 – President Obama gives a speech to students across America encouraging good study habits and stressing the importance of a good education. The showing of speech had been highly criticized by some conservatives who said they feared the president would be indoctrinating schoolchildren with political propaganda.[67]
  • September 9 – President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress on the importance of healthcare reform. Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouts, "You lie!" as Obama says illegal immigrants would not be covered under his healthcare proposal. The heckling was a first in US politics and received widespread media attention for many days.[68]
  • September 12 – The first 9/12 Project protest event is held in Washington, DC, with attendance being estimated from hundreds of thousands to as many as 2 million people.[69] Numerous other tea party protests occurred nationwide as well.[70]
  • September 24 – President Obama becomes the first US President to preside over the UN Security Council. Also at the United Nations, Obama outlines stances that his administration will take on climate change,[71] multilateralism, and nuclear proliferation and disarmament.[72][73]
  • September 24 – RAINN Day, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network's annual campaign to stop sexual assault is held on college campuses.
  • September 24–25 – The G20 summit takes place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[74]
  • September 25 – At the G-20 Pittsburgh summit, world leaders announce that the G-20 will assume greater leverage over the global economy, replacing the role of the G-8, in an effort to prevent another global financial crisis like the one that started in 2007.[75]
  • September 27 – Polish-French film director Roman Polanski is arrested in Switzerland on a United States arrest warrant.[76]
  • September 29 – An 8.3-magnitude earthquake triggers a tsunami near the Samoan Islands. Many communities and harbors in Samoa and American Samoa are destroyed, and at least 189 are killed.

October

November

December

  • December 1 - Virginia's smoking ban for most restaurants and bars goes into effect. The bill had broad public support.[96].[97][98]
  • December 25 - Videos surface of missing GI, Bowe Bergdahl, being held by Taliban forces in Afghanistan since June. The videos are not considered proof he was still living because they appeared to be several months old.[99]
  • December 25 - As Northwest Airlines Flight 253 approaches its final destination of Detroit Michigan, Nigerian Al Qaeda member Abdulfarouk Umar Muttalab attempts to detonate plastic explosives concealed in his underwear. He is subdued by passengers and crew and arrested when the plane lands. The following day, he is charged in federal criminal court in Detroit, Michigan.

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

See also

References

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