* 1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer ( d. 2009 )

* 1922 – José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1921 – José Arraño Acevedo, Chilean writer and historian ( d. 2009 )

On 1 February 2009, the FARC-EP proceeded with the release of the four security force members, Juan Fernando Galicio Uribe, José Walter Lozano Guarnizo, Alexis Torres Zapata and William Giovanni Domínguez Castro.

* 1915 – José Nicomedes Grossi, Brazilian bishop ( d. 2009 )

However, in the Uruguayan general election, 2009, the Broad Front won an absolute majority in Parliamentary elections, and José Mujica of the Broad Front defeated Luis Alberto Lacalle of the Blancos to win the presidency.

In 2009, former Tupamaro and agriculture minister José Mujica, was elected president, subsequently succeeding Vázquez on March 1, 2010.

** Philip José Farmer, American writer ( d. 2009 )

* 2009: José Mujica, Uruguay

* Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante ( 1992 ), University of Huelva, Universidad Camilo José Cela ( 2002 ) and Universidad Europea de Madrid ( 2009 )

The 2009 meeting participants in Greece included: Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis ; Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen ; Sweden foreign minister Carl Bildt ; United States Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg ; U. S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ; World Bank president Robert Zoellick ; European Commission head José Manuel Barroso ; Queen Sofia of Spain ; and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Recent productions include performances at La Scala in 2002 ( Plácido Domingo and Borodina ), the Royal Opera House in 2004 ( Denyce Graves and José Cura ), Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 2008 ( Julia Gertseva and Andrew Richards ), the National Theatre ( Prague ) in 2008, the Royal Swedish Opera in 2008 ( Anna Larsson and Lars Cleveman ) and the Vlaamse Opera in 2009 ( Marianna Tarasova and Torsten Kerl ).

Pierre Charles José Marie Harmel, Count Harmel ( 16 March 1911 – 15 November 2009 ) was a Belgian lawyer, Christian Democratic politician and diplomat.

It was announced in early January 2009 that Bonaduce would box against retired baseball player José Canseco at a charity event in the Philadelphia area.

** Philip José Farmer, science fiction writer ( died 2009 )

* In 2009, Portuguese writer José Saramago wrote a novel entitled Cain, which tells an alternative version of the murder of Abel and the life of Cain afterwards.

The church became a cathedral in 1958, shortly after the Tapachula diocese was established but that status has since been ceded to the San José Cathedral, consecrated in 2009.

The 5 euro entry fee is anticipated to generate around 2 million euros a year if the Valley of the Fallen once again attracts 500, 000 visitors annually, the approximate number of annual visitors before closure of the monument in 2009 by the Socialist Party government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

In 2009, during the campaign to the legislative election of 2009, the leader of Socialist Party, José Sócrates, promised a new referendum to the administrative regions and therefore, the abolition of districts, if he gained the election.

The Basque Government promotes jai alai as " the fastest sport in the world because of the balls " and once held the world record for ball speed with a 125g – 140g ball covered with goatskin that traveled at, performed by José Ramón Areitio at the Newport Jai Alai, Rhode Island, until it was broken by Canadian long drive champion Jason Zuback on an episode of Sport Science in July 2009 with a golf ball speed of.

Between 1985 and 1997, the union's General Secretary was Antonio Gutiérrez ; he was followed by José María Fidalgo ( 1997 – 2009 ), often criticized by the left wing of the union.

In 2008, Mr Kofi Annan launched the first annual lecture, followed by Ms Sadako Ogata in 2009, by Mr. Bernard Kouchner in 2010, and by Mr. José Manuel Durão Barroso in 2011.

He replaced José Manuel Orengo of the ( PSPV-PSOE ) who had been Mayor since 2009.

Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Fernando Lugo in Paraguay, Néstor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, Tabaré Vázquez and José Mujica in Uruguay, the Lagos and Bachelet governments in Chile, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, Manuel Zelaya in Honduras ( although deposed by the 28 June 2009 coup d ' état ), and Rafael Correa of Ecuador are all part of this wave of left-wing politicians who also often declare themselves socialists, Latin Americanists or anti-imperialists.

The Front retained its majority and the presidency in the 2009 election with José Mujica elected as president.

Based on phylogenetic research, the latest ( 2009 ) revision of the APG classification groups together the former families Hemerocallidaceae, Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu stricto and Asphodelaceae as the Xanthorrhoeaceae.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

In 2009, HP sold part of Compaq's former headquarters to the Lone Star College System.

Danish is a mandatory subject in school in the Danish crown territories of the Faroe Islands ( where it is also an official language after Faroese ) and Greenland ( where, however, the only official language since 2009 is Kalaallisut ), as well as the former crown holding of Iceland.

The throwback uniform became the team's permanent alternate jersey in 2009, replacing the former black alternate.

According to Wikileaks CableGate documents ( reference ID " 09LONDON1156 "), in a calculated move planned in 2009, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a " marine reserve " with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands.

Winer was born on May 2, 1955, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Eve Winer, Ph. D., a school psychologist, and Leon Winer, Ph. D., a former professor of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business who died October 3, 2009.

" In August 2009, with Bainimarama still controlling the government as prime minister and the constitution abrogated, Epeli Nailatikau a former military commander was appointed acting president on the retirement of Iloilo.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier, former foreign affairs minister, was the Social Democrat candidate for chancellor in 2009

In 2009 Point Salines International Airport was renamed Maurice Bishop International Airport in tribute to the former Prime Minister.

In February 2009, the Polish paper Polska wrote that over one third of the Federation top officials were former Nazi activists, and based this on an article published by the German magazine Der Spiegel in 2006.

In 2009, the United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Al-Hariri reportedly found evidence linking Hezbollah to the murder.

On October 7, 2009, a bronze statue of Helen Keller was added to the National Statuary Hall Collection, as a replacement for the State of Alabama's former 1908 statue of the education reformer Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry.

A former Intel official reported that the Itanium business had become profitable for Intel in late 2009.

She then crushed Veselin Topalov, a former world champion and ranked No. 1 in the world in 2009, 3½ – ½ to win the tournament.

The 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats stars Ewan McGregor as a reporter named Bob Wilton who follows a former soldier ( George Clooney ) who claimed to be a " Jedi warrior ", a nickname for psychic spies in the US military.

In a letter released on September 11, 2009, Voight accused his former Coming Home co-star, Jane Fonda, of " aiding and abetting those who seek the destruction of Israel ".

In 2009, the term was applied by many commentators to former Senate Majority Leader and then-Obama cabinet appointee Tom Daschle for failing to pay back taxes and interest on the use of a limousine service.

* IBM announced in January 2009 that it was opening its first U. S. programming center in the former MSU Federal Credit Union headquarters in East Lansing for application software for governments, universities, etc.

On October 5, 2009, the Vikings hosted the Green Bay Packers as Favre played his former team for the first time.

In 2009 Dennis retired as team principal of McLaren handing the former role to longtime McLaren employee Martin Whitmarsh.

Along with Collins and Aldrin, Armstrong was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon ; in 1978, President Jimmy Carter presented Armstrong the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978 ; he and his former crewmates received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009.

On May 2, 2012 it was announced that four players who played for the team between 2009 and 2011 would receive suspensions for their alleged participation in " Bountygate ": Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma ( 16 games ), Saints defensive lineman Will Smith ( 4 games ), former Saints / current Browns linebacker Scott Fujita ( 3 games ), and former Saints / current Packers defensive lineman Anthony Hargrove ( 8 games ).