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

* 1908 – Rica Erickson, Australian artist, historian, and author ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, Lara was made an honorary Member of the Order of Australia ( AM ) for services to West Indian and Australian cricket.

In 2009, " Don't Dream It's Over " was ranked number fifty on the Triple J Hottest 100 of All Time, voted by the Australian public.

* 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist ( The Birthday Party ) ( b. 1959 )

Probably the most ambitious and perhaps significant work to date is Ingwe ( 2003 – 2009 ) by Georges Lentz ( written for Australian guitarist Zane Banks ), a 60-minute work for solo electric guitar, exploring that composer's existential struggles and taking the instrument into realms previously unknown in a concert music setting.

The 2009 campaign for Foster's contains two 40-second adverts, " Backpacker " and " Deep Sea "; both end with the slogan, " Foster's – get some Australian in you.

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.

In May 2009, there were thirteen European, two African, thirty-five North American, one Singaporean and two Australian institutions that kept Komodo dragons.

In a survey conducted by Monash University in December 2009, flybuys was ranked as " most worthwhile joining " among major Australian loyalty programs.

* 1927 – Ray Barrett, Australian actor ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – William Refshauge, Australian soldier and public health administrator ( b. 1913 )

The Academic Ranking of World Universities listed Macquarie as seventh among Australian Universities in its 2009 rankings.

According to the Good Universities Guide to Australian universities, starting salaries for Macquarie graduates have been ranked as the highest in Australia for ten consecutive years ( 1998 – 2007 ) and in 2009, the university received 5 star ratings in six different performance categories including non-government earnings, staff qualifications and toughness of admissions.

* The track " Power " from It's Tomorrow Already was used as bumper music during the 2009 Australian Open tennis tournament.

On 27 May 2009, Caltex Oil Australia Ltd. announced it would be acquiring 302 Mobil service stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, subject to approval of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

The Liberal National Party led by Lawrence Springborg went on to lose the March 2009 election to Anna Bligh's Australian Labor Party.

* 1896 – E. Beatrice Riley, Australian supercentenarian ( d. 2009 )

In the beginning of 2009, Crowe appeared in a series of special edition postage stamps called " Legends of the Screen ", featuring Australian actors.

( Rock in Peace )", a song by AC / DC that originally appeared on the Australian version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but was released internationally in the 2009 box set Backtracks

In 2007, he was inducted in the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame at the Allan Border Medal award evening and in 2009 he was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

On 15 September 2009, the Australian Government announced new plans to structurally separate Telstra into two separate entities ; a retail and wholesale arm.

The film was nominated for a Rose d ' Or, an Irish Film and Television Award, an Australian Film Institute Award and won an IF Award in 2009.

* 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.

Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer | MODIS Terra ( satellite ) | Terra satellite image of the dust storm over eastern Australia taken on 23 September 2009

* 2009: On March 11, a massive dust storm engulfed Riyadh in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, causing major traffic jams and all flights to be cancelled or diverted.

File: Haboob Ransom Canyon Texas 2009. jpg | Gust-front dust cloud moving across the Llano Estacado toward Ransom Canyon

Image: Dust Accelerates Snow Melt in San Juan Mountains_-_May 18, 2009. jpg | 2009 ( More dust )

On 1 October 2009, Swann Galleries auctioned a first edition in the scarce dust jacket of Mrs Dalloway, London, 1925, for $ 18, 000 — a record price for the book at auction.

Thirty-five years after her death, Barack Obama, in his inauguration speech as 44th President of the United States on January 20, 2009, echoed lyrics by Fields when he said, " Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America ".

Dryland farming caused a large dust storm in parts of Eastern Washington on October 4, 2009.

As of a storm in spring 2009, the sign is no longer there although the supporting posts are still visible.

On May 2, 2009, the Dallas Cowboys ' practice facility collapsed during a wind storm.

* 2009 – The storm Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France.

On November 10, 2009, transmission from the plant was totally disrupted, possibly due to a storm damaging up to three high-voltage distribution lines.

The effects of El Niño in 2009 were already being seen in the fall of 2009 as the remnants of Tropical Storm Ida strengthened into a powerful coastal storm.

On Sunday, March 29, 2009, a strong storm briefly swept through Ephrata.

In 2009 a major ice storm came across the northern part of Arkansas causing the village to lose electicity for a few weeks as well as other regions.

On June 30, 2009, a violent storm with winds of up to ravaged trees and damaged buildings.

In January 2009, a severe ice storm hit Madisonville.

* On January 26 – 27, 2009, the city of Sikeston and the surrounding area were hit with a devastating ice storm, the January 2009 Central Plains and Midwest ice storm.

Gemma Aguilar is an English singer-songwriter from Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire who has taken the live circuit by storm over the past 18 months following her performance at the finals of the 2009 Open Mic at Portsmouth Guildhall.

On the 6 May 2009 a well defined hook echo was noticed on local South African radars, along with satellite imagery this supported the presence of a strong supercell storm.

In 2009, the NHC made moves to eliminate pressure and storm surge ranges from the categories, transforming it into a pure wind scale, called the Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ( Experimental ).

* On 22 December 2009, American Airlines Flight 331 overshot the runway shortly after 10 PM during a heavy rain storm and resulted in the Boeing 737-800 breaking up into three pieces and finally coming to a stop approximately 15 – 20 feet from the sea.

* On February 9, 2009 the airport had to close for a few hours due to an ice storm, the first time since 1986 that the airport has shut down operations.