On January 1, 2009, the Red Wings played the Chicago Blackhawks in the third NHL Winter Classic at Chicago's Wrigley Field, beating them 6-4.

These jerseys were also worn for their final 2009 regular season home game, again against the Chicago Blackhawks.

The Blackhawks finished the 2008 – 2009 regular season in second place in their division, with a record of 46-24-12, putting them in fourth place in the Western Conference with 104 points.

The Blackhawks welcomed their one millionth fan of the season at the United Center before game six of the Western Conference semi-finals on May 11, 2009.

Chicago skyline with the CNA Center showing the Blackhawks logo, the Smurfit-Stone Building saying Go Hawks and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower saying Hawks win the night after the 2009 – 10 Chicago Blackhawks season | 2009 – 10 Chicago Blackhawks won the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, viewed from the Petrillo Music Shell lawn in Grant Park ( Chicago ) | Grant Park

Prior to the 2009 – 10 NHL season, the Blackhawks made another major free agent purchase, signing Marian Hossa to a 12-year contract worth 62. 8 million dollars.

On July 14, 2009, The Blackhawks demoted Tallon to the position of Senior Adviser.

The Blackhawks re-signed Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews to contract extensions worth $ 31. 5 million over 5 years, and Duncan Keith to a 13 year extension worth $ 72 million on December 1, 2009.

For the 2009 Winter Classic, the Blackhawks wore jerseys based on the design worn in the 1936-37 season.

On April 8, 2009, the Columbus Blue Jackets secured the first Stanley Cup Playoff berth in the franchise's eight-year history with a 4-3 shootout win over the Chicago Blackhawks.

In the 2009 playoffs, the Canucks swept their first round series against the St. Louis Blues ( the first four-game sweep in franchise history ), but were defeated in six games by the Chicago Blackhawks in the second round.

During the 2009 NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, as the Chicago Blackhawks hosted the Detroit Red Wings on New Year's Day 2009, former Blackhawks players Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, and Denis Savard and former Cubs players Ryne Sandberg and Ferguson Jenkins sang a hockey-themed version of the seventh-inning stretch ; " Take Me Out to the Hockey Game " used lines such as " Root, root, root for the Blackhawks " and " One, two, three pucks, you're out.

Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch, who also owns the Tigers, has wanted Detroit to host the Winter Classic ever since 2009 ( when the Wings faced the Chicago Blackhawks at Wrigley Field ).

On January 17, 2008 Adams was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks for a conditional pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.

The Atlanta Falcons wore 1966 throwback jerseys for 2 home games in 2009 – against the Carolina Panthers on September 20 and against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on November 29.

The University of Illinois marching band, the Marching Illini, wore two baldrics as a part of their uniform until 2009, with one over each shoulder.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

Dallas wore this alternate uniform on October 11, 2009 as part of one of the NFL's AFL Legacy Weekends when they traveled to Kansas City to play the Chiefs who were sporting their AFL Dallas Texans ' uniforms.

On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins ; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20 – 16.

The Red Wings wore alternative " Retro " jerseys for the 2009 NHL Winter Classic in Chicago.

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

In 2009, all uniformed personnel ( players, managers, coaches, and umpires ) wore number 42 on April 15.

In 2009, Eminem wore the Cotton Twill Army Cap Kangol hat on his Beautiful video.

An October 2009 cabinet meeting was held underwater ( ministers wore scuba gear and communicated with hand signals ) to publicise to the wider world the threat of global warming on the low-lying islands of the Maldives.

In 2009, the Saints wore the black pants only once, a 28-23 win at St. Louis.

From Opening Day through July 26, 2009, the Phillies wore 2008 World Champions patches on the right sleeve of their home uniforms.

While inspecting the earthquake damage during a 28 April 2009 visit to the Aquila, Pope Benedict XVI visited Celestine's remains in the badly damaged Santa Maria di Collemaggio and left the woolen pallium he wore during his papal inauguration in April 2005 on his glass casket as a gift.

In 2009, in honor of their 50th anniversary as one of the eight original AFL teams, the Chargers wore their 1960 throwback uniforms for three games.

The team has usually worn all blue at home and all white on the road since 2003, but late in the 2009 season, the Seahawks wore the white jersey-blue pants combo.

In 2009, the Seahawks once again wore the white jersey and blue pants combination for road games against the Minnesota ( November 22 ), St. Louis ( November 29 ), Houston ( December 13 ) and Green Bay ( December 27 ).

On September 27, 2009, the Seahawks wore lime green jerseys for the first time, paired with new dark navy blue pants in a game against the Chicago Bears.

On December 6, 2009, the Seahawks wore their Seahawks blue jersey with the new dark navy blue pants for the first time, in a game against the San Francisco 49ers.

The Titans wore white once at home in 2004 and 2007 against the Indianapolis Colts, and once in 2009 against the Houston Texans.

Also in 2009, the team honored former Quarterback Steve McNair, by placing a small navy blue disc on the back of their helmets, inside of the navy blue disk, a white number 9 ( 9 was the number McNair wore during his time with the Oilers / Titans ).

The Magic were also the only NBA team to wear black sneakers and socks in all their games, a tradition that began upon the hiring of Stan Van Gundy in 2007 ; however they wore white sneakers and socks at home in all of the 2008 – 09 season and early in the 2009 – 10 season before switching back to black sneakers and socks.

Converse re-released " The Weapon " classic ( which Kobe Bryant wore at least three times in 2002 and Andre Miller wore numerous times in 2002 from mid August to early September ) several times from 2001-2003 and after, " The Loaded Weapon " in 2003, " The Weapon 86 " in 2008, and " The Weapon EVO " in 2009.

Search and Rescue aircraft of the Brazilian Air Force in special markings for RIAT 2009.

Charles has played this role in all eight series, until 1999, and in the 2009 three-part special, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth, for channel Dave.

In the TV Series Doctor Who, the character in the 2009 Christmas special, Jackson Lake, suffers a fugue state after witnessing the death of his wife by a Cyberman attack.

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.

In July 2009, GM had shut down Hummer production of the H3, but the automaker had a special fleet order from Avis Rent a Car System.

According to the U. S. Department of Justice, all " special administrative measures " in place against Lindh expired on March 20, 2009, as part of a gradual easing of restrictions on him.

In 2009 Koenigsegg released information about a very special edition car called the " Trevita " of which only three will be made.

In 2009, it emerged that a British Special Air Service team were training Libyan special forces.

* In August 2009, Russian customs officers had imposed special customs on Lithuanian trucks, lining up more than 20 kilometres of trucks from the Republic of Lithuania.

On January 31, 2009, Paul Allen received a special merit award from the Oregon Sports Authority.

The 81 and 82 Turbos and the associated special variants are garnering interest in collector circles ; and while many still exist, excellent examples of the cars are quite scarce as of 2009.

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

They teamed up with Styx to record a new single entitled " Can't Stop Rockin '", released in March 2009, as well as for a full tour that includes special guest. 38 Special.

In 2009, Sarah Glass, curator of red pandas and special exhibits at the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee, was appointed as coordinator for the North American Red Panda Species Survival Plan.

Time magazine ran an article ' Rethinking Marx ' and put Karl Marx on the cover of its European edition in a special for the 28 January 2009 Davos meeting.

In 2009 the 2-disc special edition with a running time of 270 minutes was released on DVD.

Conservative talk show hosts also lent their unified support for Congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, a conservative third-party candidate who was running in New York's 23rd congressional district special election, 2009 against a liberal Republican ( Dierdre Scozzafava ) and a mainstream Democrat ( Bill Owens ).

TiVo also launched a special 2009 Christmas TiVo DVR that has a 320Gb hard Drive and comes with the HNP free.

In 2009, Macy's and Macy's ad agency JWT produced Yes, Virginia, a CGI animated Christmas special, after pitching and selling the idea to CBS.

The 2009 holiday season impacts from the " Yes, Virginia " special broadcast on the CBS television network on December 11, 2009, were: 1 ) " Yes, Virginia " reached more than 3. 7 million television viewers, 2 ) the associated public relations effort resulted in a substantial lift in overall exposure during Macy's most critical season with 1. 84 billion impressions generated, 3 ) On the night of the show on December 11, 2009, " Yes, Virginia " was Google's No. 1 and No. 4 hottest search terms, 4 ) " Yes, Virginia " made TV Guide's coveted Hot List.

The Second World Summit on the Knowledge Society, held in Chania, Crete, in September 2009, gave special attention to the following topics:

* Marxism and Missions / Missions et Marxisme, special issue of the journal Social Sciences and Missions, Volume 22 / 2, 2009

Although Zhou's ideas have not yet been broadly accepted, leaders meeting in April at the 2009 G-20 London summit agreed to allow $ 250 billion of special drawing rights to be created by the IMF, to be distributed globally.