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 ).

* 1913 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation ( d. 2009 )

Jack Owen, 2009

* Birner, Jack ( 2009 ).

* 2009: Rover's Day Out by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman

JPL has been recognized four times by the Space Foundation: with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award, which is given annually to an individual or organization that has made significant contributions to public awareness of space programs, in 1998 ; and with the John L. " Jack " Swigert, Jr., Award for Space Exploration on three occasions – in 2009 ( as part of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander Team ), 2006 and 2005.

A 2009 Cook's Illustrated comparison between top-selling maple and imitation syrups consistently rated the real maple brands ( Maple Grove Farms, Highland Sugarworks, Camp Maple, Spring Tree, and Maple Gold ) above the imitation brands tested ( Eggo, Aunt Jemima, Mrs. Butterworth's, Log Cabin, and Hungry Jack ).

* In F. Paul Wilson's 2009 Repairman Jack novel Ground Zero, the recurring character of The Lady is revealed to be a manifestation of the Noosphere whose function is that of a " beacon " which informs a higher intelligence (" the Ally ") that sentient life exists in the area where she appears.

* 2009: The third volume of Jack Whyte's Templar Trilogy, " Order in Chaos ", is largely set in Scotland during the rise of The Bruce.

* 1914 – Jack Cardiff, English director, cinematographer, and photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1910 – Jack Dunham, American animator and producer ( d. 2009 )

* April 7 – Jack Lawrence, American composer ( d. 2009 )

* July 11 – Jack Wrangler, American porn star ( d. 2009 )

** Jack Manning, American film, stage and television actor ( d. 2009 ).

** Jack Kemp, American football player and U. S. Vice Presidential candidate ( d. 2009 )

* Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt ( Subterranean Press, February 2009 ), ISBN 978-1-59606-195-8

The show recommenced on 15 June 2009 with Lyttelton being replaced by a trio of hosts: Stephen Fry, Jack Dee and Rob Brydon.

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, and Jack Szostak were awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase.

For spring training in 2009, the Somerset Patriots became the first Atlantic League team to hold its spring training in its own locale, at the Jack Cust Baseball Academy in nearby Flemington, instead of the traditional site in Lakeland, Florida.

Atlanta based " flower punk " rock band the Black Lips recorded a song on their 2009 album 200 Million Thousand called " Big Black Baby Jesus of Today " which features the lyric " You can't be the Jack Johnson of Today / Big Black Baby Jesus on the way.

It includes audio commentary featuring director Bob Rafelson and interior designer Toby Rafelson, Soul Searching in “ Five Easy Pieces ,” a 2009 video piece with Rafelson, BBStory, a 2009 documentary about the BBS era, with Rafelson, actors Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, and Ellen Burstyn, and directors Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom, among others, and audio excerpts from a 1976 AFI interview with Rafelson.

* Declan J Foley ( 2009 ), editor, Letters of John Butler Yeats to his son Jack B. Yeats Lilliput Press Dublin ISBN 978-1-84351-155-7.