On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The following day, on 26 June 2009, the patriarch announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that instead he could attest to its current status.

A news story appeared in April 2009 claiming that the CNP had reformed following a conference in Bodmin, however it did not contest any elections that year.

* He appeared via satellite to the UK, as a panelist on BBC's Newsnight on January 20, 2009, following Barack Obama's Inauguration.

Thirty years later, on March 6, 2009, Philips received an IEEE Milestone award with the following citation: " On 8 March 1979, N. V. Philips ' Gloeilampenfabrieken demonstrated for the international press a Compact Disc Audio Player.

In 2009, the Panthers finished with an 8 – 8 record, before finishing 2010 with a record of 2 – 14 ; following the 2010 season, Jerry Richardson decided not to re-sign John Fox, whose contract had expired.

The following table shows annual production of cereals, in 1961, 2008, 2009, and 2010 ranked by 2010 production.

In 1996 Weston had been acquitted of the murder of Vikki Thompson at Ascott-under-Wychwood on 12 August 1995, but following the discovery of compelling new evidence in 2009 — Thompson's blood on Weston's boots — he was arrested and tried for a second time.

Meanwhile the parties in the ED subgroup were growing restless and finally left following the 2009 elections, when the Czech Civic Democratic Party and United Kingdom Conservatives formed their own European Conservatives and Reformists group on 22 June 2009, abolishing the ED subgroup from that date.

), however, they are currently banned by the FIE, following a 2009 incident in which a visor was pierced during the European Junior Championship competition.

Before the 2008 season, Fenway Park's capacity was increased to 37, 373, where it remains following additional renovations for the 2009 season, making its total capacity the fourth smallest, ahead of Marlins Park, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and Tropicana Field.

On 28 September 2009, in what became known as the ' Bloody Monday ' massacre / 2009 Guinea protest, Amnesty International said that Guinea security forces killed more than 150 people and raped over 40 women during and following the protests.

In June 2010, in the first state election following the victory of the CDU / CSU and FDP in the 2009 federal election, the " black-yellow " CDU-FDP coalition in North Rhine-Westphalia under Jürgen Rüttgers lost its majority.

In 2009, Lineker and his wife Danielle hosted a series of the BBC's Northern Exposure, following on from Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen from the previous year in visiting and showcasing locations throughout Northern Ireland.

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook ().< ref name =" CIA_20110303 ">< sup >†</ sup > note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS ; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected < sup >‡</ sup > note: the preliminary 2011 numbers differ significantly from those of 2010, which were strongly influenced by the demographic effect of the January 2010 earthquake ; the latest figures more closely correspond to those of 2009 </ ref >

See the article 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis regarding claims regarding legitimacy and illegitimacy of the event, and events preceding and following the removal of Zelaya from Honduras.

* Article 6 of Act No. 76 of 2009 regulating publicity and advertising in municipal areas states: ( a ) The following shall be deemed an infringement of this regulation: ( i ) The inclusion in publicity or advertisements of material that offends national or religious sentiment or public morals or that is prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.

Jim Caldwell was hired as head coach of the team following Dungy, and would lead the team during the 2009 season.

Internazionale, following their achievements in the 2009 – 10 season, became the first Italian team to have achieved The Treble.

* 2009 – In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.

* 2009 – The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.

Lynch issued the following statement after the announcement of the award in 2009:

The most recent elections to the House of Representatives were held on 12 March 2009.

On the parliamentary elections in 2009 the newly established personalistic party of Boyko Borisov-Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria ( GERB ) won the elections, securing 116 seats out of 240, which enabled it to form a cabinet alone.

The next congressional elections are scheduled for December 2009.

Labour further increased its number of councillors at the 2009 local elections and currently has the largest number of TD's from the city ( 10 out of 22 ).

The last union-wide elections were the 2009 Parliamentary Elections.

The elections in 2009 saw a significant drop in some areas in support for Eurosceptic parties, with all MEPs from Poland, Denmark and Sweden losing their seats.

Many French people are uninterested in such matters: only 40 % of the French electorate voted in the 2009 European Parliament elections.

In the 2009 European Parliament elections, Debout la République obtained 1. 77 % of the national vote, and Libertas 4. 8 %.

They include the Parti de Gauche and the French Communist Party, which formed the Front de Gauche for the 2009 European Parliament elections and obtained 6. 3 % of the votes.

The Citizen and Republican Movement, a left-wing eurosceptic and souverainist party, did not participate in the 2009 elections.

It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.

The FDP retained their seats in the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was held six months after the federal election, but out of the seven state elections that have been held since 2009, the FDP have lost all their seats in five of them due to failing to cross the 5 % threshold.

At the 2009 Local elections held on 5 June 2009, Fine Gael won 556 seats, surpassing Fianna Fáil which won 407 seats, and making Fine Gael the largest party of local government nationally.

At 2009 European Parliament election held on the same day as the Local elections, which saw a reduction in the number seats from 13 to 12 for Ireland, the party won four seats, retaining the largest number of seats of an Irish party in the European Parliament.

Fianna Fáil joined the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party on 16 April 2009, and has sat in its associated Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections.

In the 2009 federal elections, the party won 10. 7 % of the votes and 68 out of 622 seats in the Bundestag.

In the 2009 elections however, PASOK became the majority party in the Parliament and George Papandreou became Prime Minister of Greece.

* Condemn Iran for state-sponsored persecution of Baha ' i. ( Feb 2009 )

* Haghshenas, Seyyed Ali, " social and political structure of Lebanon and its influence on appearance of Amal Movement, " Iran, Tehran. 2009

* Green Movement, in Iran from 2009

* 2009 – A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.

* 2009 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashes in northwestern Iran, killing all 153 aboard.

Following this reaction and apparent closeness with Iran the 2009 Arab League summit in Doha was met with further controversy although Qatar was seen as emerging further with the follow-up Arab-Latin American ( Latam ) summit.

However, following the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict, Qatar hosted an emergency conference of Arab states and Iran to discuss the conflict.

In 2009, RAWA and other women's rights groups strongly condemned a " Shia Family Code " which is claimed to legalise spousal rape within Northern Afghan Shia Muslim communities, as well as endorsing child marriage, purdah ( seclusion ) for married women, which was passed by President Hamid Karzai to garner support for his coalition government from hardline elements within the aforesaid communities, as well as the neighbouring Shia-dominated Islamic Republic of Iran.

* 2009 – U. S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.

The U. S. Director of National Intelligence said in February 2009 that Iran would not realistically be able to a get a nuclear weapon until 2013, if it chose to develop one.

* 2009 Iranian election protests – The 2009 Iranian presidential election sparked massive protests in Iran and around the world against alleged electoral fraud and in support of defeated candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

In a September 2009 interview with The Daily Beast, Brzezinski replied to a question about how aggressive President Obama should be in insisting Israel not conduct an air strike on Iran, saying: " We are not exactly impotent little babies.

Between 2008 to 2009 Iran leaped to 28th from 69th place in annual industrial production growth.

* From March 22, 2009 until September 22, 2009 over 3 million tons of goods worth some $ 11. 3 billion were transited through Iran.

In September 2009, Iran formally joined the Transport Corridor Europe – Caucasus – Asia ( TRACECA ) programme, also known as the " new Silk Road.

This may have been a result of the anti-Shah bias in BBC Radio's influential Persian broadcasts into Iran: a BBC report of 23 March 2009 explains that many in Iran saw the broadcaster and the government as one, and interpreted the bias for Khomeini as evidence of weakening British government support for the Shah.

: Bahrain ( 1996 – 2000 ); Iran ( 1948 – 1951, 1953 – 1979 ); Iraq ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ( 1996 – 2000 ); Qatar ( 1996 – 2009 ); Saudi Arabia ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; and Yemen.

* Chung Min Lee, " The Evolution of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: Implications for Iran ", Proliferation Papers, Paris, Ifri, Winter 2009

In 2009 Tannoz Bahremand Foruzanfar, who was born in Iran, became the first Persian woman to be ordained as a cantor in the United States.

* 2009 Inge Morath: Iran.