Howard captained Everton for the first time in a 3 – 3 draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on December 12, 2009.

On 31 July 2009, Keane captained Tottenham to winning the Premier League Asia Trophy in a pre-season competition in China.

Shakib Al Hasan captained Bangladesh during their historic Test series win against West Indies in 2009. In the ODI series which followed Bangladesh secured their first ever ODI win against the West Indies at the 14th attempt.

He captained the national team from 2009 to 2011, stepping down after the 2011 ICC World Cup final.

Between 2007 and 2009, Ashraful captained his country in 13 Tests, losing all but one which ended in a draw, and 38 One Day Internationals ( ODIs ) of which Bangladesh won eight.

Smith was made vice-captain for the 2009 – 10 season, but captained the team in almost every game due to Chris Hughton's preference of Smith to first choice captain Nicky Butt.

On 23 June, he captained the midweek side in a 13-13 draw against the Emerging Springboks, becoming the fourth Irishman to captain the Lions on the 2009 Tour.

On 5 April 2009, Nicholls captained Luton to a 3 – 2 victory over Scunthorpe United at Wembley Stadium in the Football League Trophy final, picking up the man-of-the-match award for his performance in the heart of midfield.

He captained West Ham through a difficult 2009 – 10 campaign in which he scored a goal in the opening game against Wolverhampton Wanderers and two more against Stoke City and Portsmouth.

On the opening day of the 2009 – 10 season he captained Blackburn for the first time against Manchester City but despite making some fine saves he could not prevent a 0 – 2 defeat.

He was appointed captain of the under-21 side on 5 September, having previously been vice-captain to Nigel Reo-Coker, and captained them to a place 2009 European Championships, playing in all qualifiers.

On 20 May 2009, he captained Shakhtar in the 2-1 victory over Werder Bremen in the UEFA Cup Final.

Jenkins captained Wales against Australia on 28 November 2009 following the withdrawal of regular captain Ryan Jones from the squad due to injury.

During the 2009 Four Nations tournament, in which Lockyer captained Australia to victory, he also broke records for most-capped Australian player and most games for Australia as captain.

On 21 April 2009, it was announced that O ' Callaghan was to be a member of the British and Irish Lions for the 2009 tour to South Africa, and captained the Lions against the Southern Kings on the 16 June in their final tour match before the first Test against South Africa.

More recently he captained the England U-21 team to a runner-up spot at the 2009 UEFA Under-21 Championship.

Vickerman captained Cambridge in the 2009 Match, in which McKeen and Rowe also played.

While at Hampshire he won the 2009 Friends Provident Trophy, and captained the county to victory in the 2010 Friends Provident t20.

He continued to be a regular in the Doncaster side throughout the 2009 / 10 season, and captained the side for a spell when regular captain Brian Stock was absent due to a back injury.

Mortaza captained his country in one Test and seven One Day Internationals ( ODIs ) between 2009 and 2010, however injury meant he was in and out of the side and Shakib Al Hasan was appointed captain in Mortaza's absence.

In the absence of club captain Geordan Murphy through injury, he has captained for spells in the 2009 – 10 season.

He is a right-handed batsman and bowls part-time right-arm medium pace and has twice captained Yorkshire, in the 2003 and 2009 seasons.

As of September 2009, Smit is one of South Africa's most successful captains ever, having led the Springboks to victory in 46 of the 64 games that he captained, a win percentage of 72 %.

* 1910 – Willy Ronis, French photographer ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Maurice Druon, French novelist ( b. 1918 )

* Florent Mothe portrays Salieri in the 2009 French musical " Mozart, l ' opéra rock ".

* 1930 – Yves Rocher, French businessman, founder of the cosmetics brand Yves Rocher ( d. 2009 )

The French High Council of Biotechnologies Scientific Committee reviewed the 2009 Vendômois et al.

* 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer ( d. 2009 )

DMT was one of the mainly used psychedelic drugs used in 2009 French movie, titled Enter The Void.

Déjà Vu is a 2009 radio play by Alexis Zegerman in French and English co-produced by BBC Radio 4 and ARTE Radio.

* Catherine Cathiard and David Zeitoun, group legal director, Unibail-Rodamco, " The European Company: advantages and opportunities ", DECIDEURS Stratégie Finance Droit n ° 108, sept. 2009 ( available in French and English, see External links hereunder ).

* Catherine Cathiard and Frédéric Lemos, managing director of Foncière LFPI, " First cross-border transfers of seat of European Companies in France: the experience of Foncière LFPI ", JCP E n ° 1, January 2009 ( available in French ).

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

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 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The French Revolution: A Beginner's Guide ( 2009 ), 192pp

Between March and April 2009, 150 artists exhibited 300 pieces of graffiti at the Grand Palais in Paris — a clear acceptance of the art form into the French art world.

In November 2009, a ground station for Galileo was inaugurated near Kourou ( French Guiana ).

French Stéphane Mifsud holds the record for Static Apnea at 11 minutes and 35 seconds ( June 2009 ).

* 1935 – Jeanne-Claude, French artist ( d. 2009 )

* 1934 – Claude Berri, French actor, director, and screenwriter ( d. 2009 )

The museum consequently returned in 2009 five Egyptian fragments of frescoes ( 30 cm x 15 cm each ) whose existence of the tomb of origin had only been brought to the authorities attention in 2008, eight to five years after their good-faith acquisition by the museum from two private collections and after the necessary respect of the procedure of déclassement from French public collections before the Commission scientifique nationale des collections des musées de France.

Morocco signed three loan agreements with the French Development Agency ( AFD ) in 2009, totalling up to 155 million euros.

* 1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Maurice Jarre, French composer ( b. 1924 )

The two towns Roosendaal and Bergen op Zoom announced in October 2008 that they would start closing all coffee shops, each week visited by up to 25000 French and Belgian drug tourists, with closures beginning in February 2009.