Raw returned to the Garden on a November 16, 2009 television episode, as well as a Raw house show on June 19, 2010 and a SmackDown house show on September 25, 2010 ; the latter of which featured the return of Bret Hart to the Garden after an absence of more than a decade.

On 14 January 2009, Bret Michaels unveiled plans to team up with fellow rockers Def Leppard for a summer 2009 tour-ending a bitter feud between the two groups, plus Cheap Trick.

However, in 2009 Bret Hart stated in an interview with Sky Sports that he will forgive Shawn Michaels, if Shawn apologizes first, saying " For me I don't really have much issue with it anymore.

On January 12, 2009, Bret Schundler dropped his bid for mayor citing financial difficulties due in part to the ongoing financial meltdown on Wall Street.

Boone was followed into the majors by son, Bob Boone, who was a catcher from 1972 – 1990 and grandsons Bret Boone, who played from 1992 to 2005, and Aaron Boone, who played 1997 to 2009.

A T-34C aircraft with two crewmen, Lieutenant John Joseph Houston, 29, of Houston, and Lieutenant Bret Travis Miller, 30, of East Troy, Wisconsin, from VT-28 on a training mission disappeared on October 28, 2009.

* Douglas R. Warrick, Bret W. Tobalske, Donald R. Powers ( 2009 ) Lift production in the hovering hummingbird, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol.

* Bret W. Tobalske, Jason W. D. Hearn and Douglas R. Warrick ( 2009 ) Aerodynamics of intermittent bounds in flying birds, Journal Experiments in Fluids Issue Volume 46, Number 5 / May, 2009

* Bret Iwan as Mickey Mouse ( 2009 – Present )

In February 2009, Shawn Michaels, who was under the kayfabe employment of John " Bradshaw " Layfield, interfered in a match and super kicked JBL in front of the referee in order to get his employer the win via " outside interference ".

It also hosted a live edition of WCW Monday Nitro on October 28, 1996 following WCW Halloween Havoc, a taped Smackdown / ECW on August 25, 2009, and on March 29, 2010, a live episode of RAW that saw Shawn Michaels give his farewell speech to the WWE the night after losing to The Undertaker in a Streak vs Career match at WrestleMania XXVI, and the July 1, 2011 edition of Friday Night SmackDown taped on the June 28, 2011 live episode of WWE NXT.

They would reform again on August 2009 during Shawn Michaels ' last year in the WWE.

During this year, D-Generation X would capture the Unified WWE Tag Team Championships at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs ( 2009 ) against Jericho and the Big Show, which would become the start of the first and only title reign for Triple H and Shawn Michaels as a tag team.

* Patrick Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Climate of extremes: global warming science they don't want you to know, Cato Institute, 2009

After a teased reunion in 2002, DX reformed in June 2006 as the duo of Triple H and Shawn Michaels for the remainder of the year and again in August 2009 until March 2010, shortly before Michaels ' retirement.

In April 2009, Michaels took a hiatus from WWE after losing to The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXV.

On the August 10, 2009 episode of Raw, video segments aired in which Triple H met with Michaels at an office cafeteria in Texas where he was working as a chef ; throughout the segments, Triple H would try to convince Michaels return to WWE from hiatus.

The December 21, 2009 edition of WWE Raw in Tampa, Florida featured a parody skit called the " Little People's Court ", in which Degeneration X members Triple H and Shawn Michaels had to appear before a mock makeshift court of dwarves to testify about their continued mistreating of Hornswoggle.

* The Essays of Leonard Michaels 2009, ISBN 978-0-374-14880-5

" Sound of Madness " was also used as a song for WWE Wrestlemania 25 review aired on NBC on August 30, 2009 for the Shawn Michaels / The Undertaker match.

On the August 24, 2009 edition of Monday Night RAW, Vince would realign with Triple H, along with original D-Generation X member Shawn Michaels, to once again take on The Legacy.

In 2009, he made a one-night appearance at Deaf Wrestlefest 2009 to team with " Beef Stew " Lou Marconi and " Handsome " Frank Staletto in a six-man tag team match against " Franchise " Shane Douglas, Dominic Denucci and Cody Michaels.

* Jason Michaels, Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Phillies ( 2001 – 2005 ), Cleveland Indians ( 2006 – 2008 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 2008 ), Houston Astros ( 2009 – Present )

Hammond teamed with Cris Collinsworth to call the secondary Saturday Wild Card playoff game for NBC each year, including Chiefs-Colts in January 2007, Redskins-Seahawks in 2008, and Falcons-Cardinals in 2009, but teamed with Joe Gibbs and Joe Theismann for the Jets-Bengals Wild Card playoff game in January 2010, as Cris Collinsworth partnered with Al Michaels in the 2009 season due to the retirement of John Madden after the 2008 season.

On the August 31, 2009, episode of Raw, Dusty Rhodes, Shawn Michaels, and Triple H were shown watching and discussing footage of the Hogan-Nash match backstage.

In 2009, Panettiere starred again as a cheerleader, this time as Beth Cooper in the film adaptation of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper.

In 2009, Bullock starred in two of the more financially successful films of her career, The Proposal and The Blind Side.

In November 2009, Bullock starred in The Blind Side, which opened at # 2 behind New Moon with $ 34. 2 million, making it her highest opening weekend ever.

Smith starred in and served as executive producer for the independent romantic comedy Waiting For Ophelia, which had its world premiere at the Phoenix Film Festival in April 2009.

Smith starred in and served as executive producer for the independent romantic comedy Waiting for Ophelia, which was released in 2009.

Professional wrestler Hulk Hogan, whose family starred in the reality series Hogan Knows Best and Brooke Knows Best, explains in his 2009 autobiography My Life Outside the Ring, that paying unionized camera crews to film subjects continuously until something telegenic or dramatic occurs would be prohibitively expensive, and that as a result, such shows are " soft-scripted ", and follow a tightly regimented shooting schedule that allows for typical work-related considerations such as lunch breaks.

Her next film in wide release, He's Just Not That into You, where she starred opposite Ben Affleck, opened in February 2009.

In 2009, she starred in My Sister's Keeper and The Box.

In 2009, she starred alongside Brittany Murphy in the horror film Deadline and appeared in Winter of Frozen Dreams.

Loren in Kenya while serving as Goodwill Ambassador in 1992In 2009, after five years off the set and fourteen years since she starred in a prominent US theatrical film, Loren starred in Rob Marshall's film version of Nine, based on the Broadway musical that tells the story of a director whose midlife crisis causes him to struggle to complete his latest film ; he is forced to balance the influences of numerous formative women in his life, including his deceased mother.

In 2009, Redgrave starred in the BBC remake of The Day of the Triffids, with her daughter Joely.

In 2009, Weaver starred as Mary Griffith in her first made-for-TV movie, Prayers for Bobby, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Givens starred in the 2009 stage play A Mother's Prayer, which also starred Johnny Gill, Shirley Murdock and Jermaine Crawford.

On 30 October 2009, as part of the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the BBC's world famous Maida Vale Studios, Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers starred in a special Radio 2 production of Brief Encounter, performed live from Maida Vale's studio 6 ( MV6 ).

Fiennes starred in the ABC science fiction series FlashForward, which debuted on 24 September 2009 and ran through 27 May 2010, as Mark Benford.

The 2009 film Whiteout starred Kate Beckinsale as Deputy US Marshal Carrie Stetko.

Kreuk starred in the 2009 film Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, in which she played the title character, Chun Li.

In 2009, he starred in the Chicago-based Steppenwolf Theatre Company's production of Superior Donuts, by Pulitzer Prize award-winning playwright Tracy Letts.

In December 2009, the duo guest starred in a 21st-season episode of The Simpsons that also featured Cooper, Peyton and Eli Manning.

In the Electric Mist, a movie based on one of Burke's novels, was filmed in New Iberia in 2009 and starred Tommy Lee Jones.

* Philip Carey ( 1925 – 2009 ), actor who starred in One Life to Live

It starred Bill Nighy and Laura Dos Santos directed by Kirsty Williams, and was a 90 minute play broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Boxing Day 2009.

* Nadine Lewington who starred in Holby City between 2007 and 2009 lived in Witham.