In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

However, recent classifications have abandoned Mon – Khmer as a taxon, either reducing it in scope or making it synonymous with the larger family ( Diffloth 2005, Sidwell 2009 ).

* Bertrand Russell, ( 1779 – 2009 ) Why I Am Not a Christian, ISBN 0-671-20323-1

* 2009 – A 6. 3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L ' Aquila, Italy, killing 307.

* 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as their official currency.

* 1925 – Joe Bowman, American and marksman and boot-maker ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

* 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

* 2009 – Terror act in Azerbaijan state oil academy: 13 students died.

* 2009 – The Burmese military junta and ethnic armies begin three days of violent clashes in the Kokang Special Region.

* 1947 – Peter Krieg, German director, producer, and writer ( d. 2009 )

From January – September 2010, bilateral trade with the United States measured approximately $ 150 million, on track for about a 30 percent increase over 2009.

The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

* 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian ( d. 2009 )

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Pat Crawford, Australian cricketer ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek army officer ( b. 1919 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

In March 2009, Neil joined brother Tim on stage with son Liam Finn at Melbourne's charity Sound Relief concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in support of the 2009 Victorian Bushfires.

On 14 March 2009, Gibb teamed with Olivia Newton-John to present the one-hour finale performance at a star-studded 12-hour live concert at Sydney's Sydney Cricket Ground, part of Sound Relief, a fundraiser to aid victims of the February 2009 Victorian Bushfires that devastated large tracts of heavily wooded and populated south-eastern Australia, where the Gibb family once lived.

* 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission (" Black Saturday Royal Commission "), ( 2009 – 2010 ) investigating the events and conditions surrounding the 2009 Victorian bushfires

The Bushfires of late February and early March 2009 caused destruction to much of the grassland and forrested areas of the Yarra Valley.

Nixon was called to appear before the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission concerning her actions as Chief Commissioner during the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009.

* I Am Australian Complete lyrics, including new ones added for the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires memorial.

The Australian state of Victoria maintained, until 2009, provisions for a grand jury in the Crimes Act 1958 under section 354 Indictments, which had been used on rare occasions by individuals to bring other persons to court seeking them to be committed for trial on indictable offences.

The Oakleigh Motel in Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia, constructed using Googie architecture during the 1956 Summer Olympics as one of the first motels in the state, was added to the Victorian Heritage Register in 2009.

The performers included: Laura Benanti, Matt Cavenaugh, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Jenn Colella, Jason Danieley, Alexander Gemignani, Joanna Gleason, Nathan Gunn, George Hearn, Patti LuPone, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald, John McMartin, Donna Murphy, Karen Olivo, Laura Osnes, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Bobby Steggert, Elaine Stritch, Jim Walton, Chip Zien, the 2009 Broadway revival cast of West Side Story and a ballet performed by Blaine Hoven and Maria Riccetto set to Stephen Sondheim's score of Warren Beatty's Reds.

As at June 2009 10 TAFE colleges ( mainly in Victoria, but also Western Australia, ACT, and Queensland ) now confer their own degree-level awards and post graduate diplomas, though not beyond the level of Bachelor degree.

According to Neilsen in 2009 Victoria Bitter was claimed to be Australia's only billion dollar retail beer brand, selling the equivalent of one slab every second.

* The Black Saturday bushfires – the deadliest bushfires in Australian history took place across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday February 7, 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in 173 people killed and, more than 500 injured and around 7, 500 homeless.

In February 2009, a series of highly destructive bushfires started in Victoria, Australia, lasting into the next month.

The ATAR was only introduced in 2009 ( in NSW ), and previously each state calculated its own final high school rank, such as the Universities Admission Index ( UAI ) in NSW and Equivalent National Tertiary Entrance Rank ( ENTER ) in Victoria.

In the 2009 period drama " The Young Victoria ", Viscount Melbourne asks The Queen in Westminster Abbey prior to her coronation if she is familiar with the Stone.

During the Black Saturday Fires ( February 2009 ) throughout Victoria, Wilsons Prom had been struck by lightning, which then led to the loss of up to 50 % of the park through extensive fire damage.

* Robert Janás, " Stuckism International: The Stuckist Decade 1999-2009 ", Victoria Press, 2009, ISBN 0-907165-28-1.

A summer heat wave in Victoria, Australia, created conditions which fuelled the massive bushfires in 2009.

For the 2009 legislative elections, former President Kirchner ran himself as a candidate to National Deputy on top of the Front for Victory ( Frente para la Victoria, FPV ) party in the Province of Buenos Aires.

Image: War Memorial Leicester, Summer 2009. jpg | War Memorial, Victoria Park, Leicester

In recent years, Haringey Council has become the subject of nationwide criticism over its handling of the welfare of young children in connection with the murder of Victoria Climbie and the death of Baby P. In March 2009, Haringey Council's performance was placed by the Audit Commission in the bottom four of the country and the worst in London.

Prior to the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, the park was renowned for being home to the tallest tree in Victoria.

Sarah had a producing role ( credited as " Sarah Ferguson ") in the 2009 Jean-Marc Vallée film The Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and featured a background player role for Sarah's daughter Princess Beatrice.

In 2009 his successor, Boris Johnson, promised to reinstate the wider view, though also approving a development at Victoria Station which will obscure its right-hand corner.

ABC News reported on 17 June 2009 that a study has been carried out by environmental scientist Professor Brendan Mackey of the Australian National University which identified that mountain ash forests in Victoria ’ s Central Highlands as the best in the world at locking up carbon.

* Where to See Birds in Victoria, edited by Tim Dolby ( 2009 ), features places in Victoria for seeing birds.

In 2009 Burke also put on his record label hat when his label, The One Entertainment Systems, which is headed by his daughter Victoria, who also was the label's A & R person, signed Clarence Fountain and Sam Butler and their most recent project, Stepping Up And Stepping Out.

St. John ’ s most recent boxing match was held on April 4, 2009 in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico with Chicagoan Brooke Dierdorff.

The band continued to tour through the summer of 2009 with shows in Buffalo, New York, Providence, Rhode Island, Asbury Park, New Jersey, Seattle, Washington, San Francisco, California, Anaheim, California, Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and Victoria, British Columbia where they performed at the Victoria Ska Fest with Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Slackers and Chris Murray.