2009
- This article is about the year. For the film, see 2009 Lost Memories.
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Template:Year D 2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.
Predicted and scheduled events
January
- January 1 - Slovakia is scheduled to adopt the Euro as the nation's official currency.
- 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 1 - U.S. Mint will start re-minting the Washington Quarter.
- January 3 - 50th anniversary of Alaskan statehood
- January 3 - 111th Congress begins in the United States
- January 20 - The person elected in the 2008 presidential election will be inaugurated to the office at Noon Eastern Time. Assuming President Bush serves out his entire term, this person would be the 44th President of the United States.
- January 26 Annual solar eclipse.
February
- February - 2009 Winter Universiade in Harbin, China.
- February 1 - The International Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System is scheduled to stop monitoring for 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz (Class B) distress signals from EPIRBs and other emergency beacons.
- February 1 - Super Bowl XLIII will be held in Tampa, Florida.
- February - Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 in Val d'Isère, France.
- February 13 - 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, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all stations to send their signals digitally.
March
- March - Second version of World Baseball Classic expected to occur.
April
- April - Opening day at the new Yankee Stadium expected to occur.
- 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)
- April 11 - Albert Escuain and Marta Rodriguez's wedding day, in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz - Spain).
May
- May - Champions League Final to be held in Stadio Olimpico, Rome.
- May - The 54th Eurovision Song Contest will be held.
- 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.
- Late June - expected opening of the tallest man-made structure, the Burj Dubai in Dubai
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
- 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.
- August 21 - Hawaii celebrates its 50th anniversary of statehood
September
- September 29 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of Mercury, decreasing velocity enough for an orbital capture in 2011.
October
November
December
- December - Presidential election in Chile.
- 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,
- December 31 - In Italy, possibly the last day of analog TV transmission (VHF, UHF). After 54 years, the country should switch completely to Digital terrestrial television.
Unknown dates
- International Year of Astronomy
- The Cadillac XTS is scheduled to be released this year. It will be the production version of the Cadillac Sixteen concept car. A coupe version is planned.
- A U.S. aircraft carrier named the USS George H. W. Bush will be launched.
- The Completion of the Sound Transit System Link Light Rail in Seattle
- The United Kingdom plans to continue 5-year process to cease analog television broadcasts region-by-region, with Granada, HTV Wales and Westcountry Television [1].
- 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.
- Thirteenth Olympic Congress, in Copenhagen, Denmark including decision of the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- Singapore will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum.
- Completion of the East L.A. Gold Metro Expansion and the Expo Line in Los Angeles, California.
- Completion of the Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico, U.S.A.
- Completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China.
- First flight of the SpaceX Dragon commercial manned orbital spacecraft.
- Next award of the Sylvester Medal.
- The Space Shuttle Discovery will be retired from service.
- Possible start of unmanned test flights of the Ares I rocket and the new Crew Exploration Vehicle.
- The Compact of Free Association between the United States and Palau expires.
- Canada's commitment in Afghanistan expires.
- Possible start of construction for a fixed-guideway mass transit system for Honolulu.
- Tesla Motors will mass produce the White Star, its second Electric Car.
Major religious holidays
- April 12 - Easter.
- December 25 - Christmas.
2009 in fiction
Computer and video games
Set in 2009:
- Abuse (1996)
- Dino Crisis (1999)
- Fahrenheit (also known as Indigo Prophecy)
- Incoming (1998)
- Mega Man 3 (1990)
- Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005): Set in 2009 or 2010.
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001), the Plant chapter occurs on April 29 and April 30, causing devastation to New York City from its coast to Federal Hall when Arsenal Gear crash lands into it.
- Splinter Cell Double Agent
Films
- Children of Men (2006): All the women in the world mysteriously become infertile.
- Over the Hedge (2006) It's over that Hedge time is expected in over the hedge 2.
- Set in 2009:
- 2009 Lost Memories (2002)
- Freejack (1992)
Television
- Bertrum, Old Slow Coach return to Thomas the Tank Engine in 2009
- Charmed ("Morality Bites," 1999) Phoebe Halliwell is executed on February 12 by burning at the stake for murdering a man with her powers.
- Macross (adapted outside Japan as the first part of Robotech): The alien Zentradi arrive at Earth on February 7 (February 9 in Robotech), triggering the devastating Space War I or First Robotech War.
- The West Wing ("The Ticket," 2005): Former President Jed Bartlet opens his presidential library in New Hampshire and chats with some of his former staffers.
- Set in 2009:
- Family Matters: In a 1994 episode, Carl Winslow sleeps for 15 years and wakes up in the year 2009 where main characters Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow are married with three children.
- Noir (2001)
Radio
- According to the last episode of series 2 of Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music, England and Wales will go to war at some point in 2009, which only Rick Wakeman can stop.