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.

In a March 2009 brief, the American Dental Association said " the available evidence does not support a connection between oral cancer and alcohol-containing mouthrinse ".

* 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

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

* 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 )

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )

* 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1910 – Lonny Frey, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

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

* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor ( The Jackson 5 ) ( d. 2009 )

* 1911 – Lester Rodney, American journalist ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, American Media was taken over by its bondholders to keep it out of bankruptcy.

* 2009 – Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1914 )

* 1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons ( b. 1947 )

On October 24, 2009, North American company Super Fighter Team released Zaku, an all new, all original horizontal shooter for the Lynx developed by PenguiNet.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.

* 2009 – An accident at the Sayano – Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.

From 1966 to 2009, this power lay with the House of Lords, granted by the Practice Statement of 1966.

purchasing power parity: $ 10, 900 ( 2009 )

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

The EU's budget ( which is around 116. 4 billion euro ) is subject to a form of the ordinary legislative procedure with a single reading giving Parliament power over the entire budget ( prior to 2009, its influence was limited to certain areas ) on an equal footing to the Council.

For example, Helmut Kohl's CDU governed for years in coalition with the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder's SPD was in power with the Greens and from 2009 Angela Merkel, CDU / CSU was in power with the FDP.

In 2009, Dublin was listed as the fourth richest city in the world by purchasing power and 10th richest by personal income.

In November 2009, Ecuador faced an energy crisis that led to power rationing across the country.

Sources of electricity in the U. S. in 2009 Fossil fuel power plant | fossil fuel generation ( mainly coal ) was the largest source.

With a per capita income of about $ 36, 850 Purchasing power parity ( in 2009 ), Germany is a broadly middle class society.

Historians estimate his estate was worth about $ 1 million in 1799 dollars, equivalent to about $ 18 million in 2009 purchasing power.

On 5 May 2009, President Moussa Dadis Camara, who seized power in a bloodless coup which followed the 22 December 2008 death of President Lansana Conté, announced the recall of 30 of Guinea's ambassadors to other countries.

Following the Saarland state election of August 2009, The Greens held the balance of power after a close election where no two-party coalitions could create a stable majority government.

The liberal conservative LDP was in power from 1955 to 2009, except for a very short-lived coalition government formed from its opposition parties in 1993 ; the largest opposition party was the social liberal Democratic Party of Japan in the late 1990s and late 2000s.

The country's per capita income in 2009 was estimated to be $ 2, 700 on a purchasing power parity-basis.

GDP: purchasing power parity-$ 14. 2 billion ( 2009 est.

Before LG Enhanced IPS was introduced in 2009, the additional transistors resulted in blocking more transmission area, thus requiring a brighter backlight and consuming more power, making this type of display less desirable for notebook computers.

In 2009 Kent demonstrated the use of a ChLCD to cover the entire surface of a mobile phone, allowing it to change colors, and keep that color even when power is cut off.

However, in a popular uprising in 2009 the last elected president Marc Ravalomanana was made to resign and presidential power was transferred in March 2009 to Andry Rajoelina in a move widely viewed by the international community as a coup d ' état.

Opposition leader and then-mayor of Antananarivo, Andry Rajoelina, led a movement in early 2009 in which Ravalomanana was pushed from power in an unconstitutional process widely condemned as a coup d ' état.

The last presidential election was held on 3 December 2006 and resulted in the re-election of Marc Ravalomanana, from whom executive power was unconstitutionally transferred to Andry Rajoelina in March 2009.