2009

Events

• January 16 - Arnoldo Alemán's corruption charges are overturned by the Nicaraguan Supreme Court, and he is subsequently released from prison.
• January 18 - End of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. Hamas agrees to a temporary ceasefire with Israel.
• January 21 - American Neo-Nazi Keith Luke kills two people and rapes another woman in Brockton, Massachusetts.
• January 23 - Dendermonde nursery attack
• January 29 - Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office on charges of corruption.
• March 2 - Nino Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau, is shot dead by a group of soldiers while fleeing from his private residence in Bissau.
• March 10 - Geneva County shootings
• March 11 - Winnenden school shooting
• March 19 - Josef Fritzl is sentenced to life in prison.
• March 31 - Benjamin Netanyahu is elected Prime Minister of Israel for the second time, succeeding Ehud Olmert.
• April 3 - Binghamton shootings
• April 3 - Najib Razak is elected Prime Minister of Malaysia.
• April 7 - Alberto Fujimori is found guilty of human rights abuses and is sentenced to 25 years in prison.
• April 16 - End of the Second Chechen War.
• April 30 - Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting
• May 6 - Cheyenne Cherry and the unidentified accomplice broke into her former roomate's apartment and killed her kitten.
• May 9 - Jacob Zuma is elected President of South Africa.
• May 18 - The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam surrender to the Sri Lankan government. End of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
• May 29 - Phil Spector is sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the 2003 murder of Lana Clarkson.
• June 5 - Zhang Yunliang sets fire to a bus in Chengdu, killing himself and 27 others.
• June 21 - The Yulin Dog Meat Festival is held for the first time.
• June 27 - The English Defence League is founded.
• June 29 - Bernard Madoff is sentenced to 150 years in federal prison for multiple counts of financial fraud.
• August 4 - Triad sub-boss Lee Tai-lung is ambushed and murdered by rival triad sub-boss Leung Kwok-chung.
• August 4 - 2009 Collier Township shooting
• August 14 - Lynette Fromme is released from prison.
• August 24 - Jaycee Dugard is recovered safe, at age 29, after spending 18 years in captivity.
• October 16 - Tomorrow's Pioneers is discontinued.
• October - Against Equality is founded by Yasmin Nair.
• November 5 – Fort Hood, Texas becomes the scene of the worst mass shooting at a U.S. military base when Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hassan opens fire, killing 13 and wounding dozens more.
• November 16 - Jamar Pinkney Sr. kills his son, Jamar Pinkney Jr. after finding out he sexually assaulted his 3 year old half-sister.

Births

Victim births

• August 11 or 14 - Jeremy Mardis

Deaths

Villain deaths

• March 2 - Nino Vieira
• March 10 - Michael McLendon
• March 11 - Tim Kretschmer
• April 3 - Jiverly Wong
• April 10 - Anthony Powell
• April 30 - Farda Gadirov
• May 18 - Velupillai Prabhakaran
• May 30 - Jaafar Nimeiry
• June 8 - Omar Bongo
• July 4 - Sahel Kazemi
• July 28 - Yukio Yamaji
• August 4 - George Sodini
• August 4 - Lee Tai-lung
• August 20 - Ryan Jenkins
• September 24 - Susan Atkins
• September 30 - John Couey
• October 12 - Bruno Beger
• October 19 - Howard Unruh
• November 5 - Evan Chandler
• November 10 - John Allen Muhammed
• December 24 - Cesar Barone

Victim deaths

• January 27 - Ana, Brittney , Jaszmin, Jassely , Christen, and Benjamin Lupoe
• March 27 - Sandra Cantu
• March 31 - Amanda and Sabrina DeVito
• April 5 - Bernice Novack
• April 10 - Asia McGowan
• April 15 - Sarah Ludemann
• May 1 - Brianna Hester
• May 31 - George Tiller
• June 14 - Abel Tador
• June 25 - Michael Jackson
• July 12 - Ben Novack Jr.
• August 7 - Marina Sabatier
• August 15 - Jasmine Fiore
• October 21 - Elizabeth Olten
• October 25 - Ashleigh Hall
• November 16 - Jamar Pinkney Jr.
• December 18 - Victor Helu