* 2009 Nadolig Plentyn yng Nghymru / A Child's Christmas in Wales, 2009 BAFTA Best Short Film, animation, soundtrack in Welsh and English, Director: Dave Unwin.

* 1923 – Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth was finally lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones and Michael Palin alongside mayor Sue Jones-Davies ( who portrayed Judith Iscariot in the film ).

* 1915 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author ( d. 2009 )

* October 1 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author and poet ( d. 2009 )

* November 27 – John Maddox, Welsh science writer ( d. 2009 )

He sang " God Save the Queen ", the United Kingdom's national anthem, before the Floyd Mayweather Jr .- Ricky Hatton fight in 2007 ; he sang " Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau ", the Welsh national anthem, at the fight between fellow Welshman Joe Calzaghe and Bernard Hopkins in 2008 ; and he sang " God Save the Queen " before the Manny Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton fight in 2009.

In 2009 Jones took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.

Matthews returned in late 2009 as the first recording artist to release albums simultaneously in both Welsh and English ( Paid Edrych I Lawr and Don't Look Down, respectively ).

The Army Cadet Force in North Wales ( Clwyd and Gwynedd ACF ) is a set of amalgamated cadet force companies that were associated with The Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers, The Welsh Guards and The Royal Welch Fusiliers: notably the 4th Cadet Battalion ( Clwyd ACF ) and the 6th Cadet Battalion ( Gwynedd ACF ) before they were amalgamated in April 2009 to form ' Clwyd and Gwynedd ACF '.

Further west along the main road (" The Street "), there are an Indian restaurant, another pub, the Welsh Princess, the site of the former Rayne Iron foundry ( redeveloped for housing and offices in 2009 ), the Post Office stores, and another pub, The Cock.

In the summer of 2009, Pembrokeshire County Council warned bathers in its waters that the organisms had been sighted in Welsh waters.

In September 2009 Weston agreed to be President Elect of the Welsh Scout Council and was formally introduced at the Council's annual general meeting at Llandrindod Wells on 31 October 2009.

The gorge is also an important site for whitebeams and in 2009 a survey was carried out by botanists from the Welsh National Herbarium as part of a nationwide survey of whitebeams.

Cale represented Wales at the 2009 Venice Biennale, collaborating with artists, filmmakers, and poets, and focusing the artwork on his relationship with the Welsh language.

Up until 2009, S4C ran its own teletext service, Sbectel (, Welsh for " a peek " or " a glimpse ", and a reference to an S4C schedule insert formerly included in the TV Times issues for the HTV Wales region.

In 2008, there were performances by Elaine Paige, All Angels, and Alfie Boe ; in 2009, performances by Barbara Dickson, Sir Willard White, Blake, and Natasha Marsh, with a James Bond 007 spectacular, featuring the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, as the Sunday finale ; 2010 saw performances by Katherine Jenkins and Nigel Kennedy.

* Chicago's Wrigley Building lit in Welsh colours for St. David's Day 2009

Hywel Rhodri Morgan ( born 29 September 1939 ) is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009.

In July 2005, Morgan announced his intention to lead the Welsh Labour party into the 2007 general election, but retire as leader and First Minister sometime in 2009, when he would be 70.

* Grigg, Erik, 2009 ' ' Mole Rain ' and other natural phenomena in the Welsh annals: can mirabilia unravel the textual history of the Annales Cambriae?

In February 2009, the US State Department issued a travel alert directed at college students planning spring break trips to Acapulco.

*" Amazonas " ( 2009 ), directed by Tuomas Milonoff.

* Ayahuasca Diary ( 2009 ), directed by Christian Moran.

* Metamorphosis ( 2009 ), directed by Keith Aronowitz.

It was directed by Chung King Fai and Ko Tin Lung and ran from 14 to 21 March 2009.

These include Gérard Pirès ( Riders, 2002 ), Pitof ( Catwoman, 2004 ), Jean-François Richet ( Assault on Precinct 13, 2005 ), Florent Emilio Siri ( Hostage, 2005 ), Christophe Gans ( Silent Hill, 2006 ), Mathieu Kassovitz ( Babylon A. D., 2008 ), Louis Leterrier ( The Transporter, 2002 ; Transporter 2, 2005 ; Olivier Megaton directed Transporter 3, 2008 ), Alexandre Aja ( Mirrors, 2008 ), and Pierre Morel ( Taken, 2009 ).

On January 22, 2009, three executive orders were issued by President Obama, although only one of these orders explicitly deals with policy directed at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, which directs the camp's closure within one year.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

The film Vision-From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, premiered in Europe in 2009 and in the United States in 2010.

In January 2009, he directed the premiere of Joe Sutton's Complicit, with Richard Dreyfuss, David Suchet and Elizabeth McGovern.

In September, 2009, Trevor Nunn directed Spacey in a revival of Inherit The Wind.

She later directed Blanchett in A Streetcar Named Desire ( play ) at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia, which ran September through October 2009, and then continued from 29 October to 21 November 2009 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, where it won a

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

There have been two film versions, a 1972 film directed by Michael Anderson and a 2009 film adapted from Cross ' novel.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

However, when in February 2009 the Holy See declared that the change should have awaited completion of work on the Missal, the bishops conference appealed, with the result that those parishes that had adopted the new translation were directed to continue using it, while those that had not were told to await further instructions before doing so.

Most recently, Jonze directed Where the Wild Things Are, which opened in the United States on October 16, 2009.

The first all stop motion 3D feature is Coraline ( 2009 ), based on Neil Gaiman's best-selling novel and directed by Henry Selick.

* The Kingdom of Solomon ( 2009 )-Iranian production directed by Shahriar Bahrani

On 23 September 2009 he became the producer for the British supernatural thriller Refuge, which is directed by Corin Hardy and published by Mandate Pictures.

* 2009: Catherine Zeta-Jones performed the song in the role of Desirée in the 2009 / 2010 Broadway revival of A Little Night Music directed by Trevor Nunn

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, directed and co-written by Gilliam, was released in 2009.

* The 2009 horror film directed by David DeCoteau bears little resemblance to the original story but, like the 1961 version, utilizes the large swinging pendulum in the penultimate scene.