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 ).

* Netherwood Hughes, World War I veteran, died in 2009, aged 108

In the 2000s, the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars released two concept albums, 30 Seconds to Mars ( 2002 ) and This Is War ( 2009 ).

: Watchmen ( 2009 ) ( set in an alternative version of history in which Richard Nixon went up for a third term and the United States won the Vietnam War due to the intervention of superheroes )

* 2009 – William Frederick " Bill " Stone, British World War I veteran ( b. 1900 )

* 2009 – Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israeli Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.

* John Brown, Jr. ( Navajo ) ( 1921 – 2009 ), American Navajo Code Talker during World War II

Trahair and Robert Miller, Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations, 2009, published by Enigma Books, New York.

* Guerrilla Tactics – How the Tamil Tigers Were Beaten in an ' Unwinnable ' War Article appeared on The Times, 19 May 2009

* 2009 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.

A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA ’ s Secret Cold War Experiments ( 2009 ) ISBN 0-9777953-7-3

In 2009 Bolivian President Evo Morales and Paraguayuan President Fernando Lugo signed an agreement settling a border dispute, which led to the Chaco War in the 1930s.

* Harry Patch ( 1898 – 2009 ), British veteran of World War I

Eckstein, Arthur M. Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome University of California Press ( 1 April 2009 ) ISBN 978-0-520-25992-8, p. 167.

** Darfur peace process, an attempt to resolve the War in Darfur, finilized in 2009

Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds is the story of a group of guerrilla U. S. soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846 – 1848 ( 2009 ) and text search

The third installment of this series, The Romulan War: Beneath the Raptor's Wing, was released in October 2009.

Samoa was a German colony until occupied by New Zealand at the beginning of the First World War, until September 2009 it maintained the German practice of driving on the right-hand side of the road.

The Sri Lankan Civil War began in 1983, including an armed youth uprising in 1987 – 1989, with the 25 year-long civil war ending in 2009.

( 2009 ) Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War of 1139 – 53.

The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe ( 2009 ) pp 215 – 48

* Apocalypse: The Second World War ( 2009 ), a six-part French documentary by Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke about World War II

* Hearts of Iron III-( Paradox Interactive, 2009 )-a complex and realistic grand strategy wargame that allows the player to take control of almost any nation that existed or even plausibly could have existed during the period of 1936 – 1948, guiding it through World War II.