2009

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2009 (MMIX) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

1 Predicted and scheduled events

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Predicted and scheduled events

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January-April

January 1 - Bulgaria is to introduce the euro as its official currency, replacing the Bulgarian lev (BGN).
January 1 - Deadline by which goods in all member states of the European Union must be sold in metric units (this has already been completed everywhere, except in the UK). Road signs in the UK are unaffected (i.e. road signs in all other member states are already in metric units).
January 20 - The forty-fourth President of the United States of America (elected November 4, 2008) will be inaugurated.
January 26 Annular solar eclipse.
February 1 - Super Bowl XLIII will be in Tampa Bay.
February 1 - The International COSPAS-SARSAT program is scheduled to stop monitoring for Class B EPIRB maritime emergency signals.
February 13 a celebration is expected as the Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC
March 3 - Square root day, the first one in over five years.
April - New Shea Stadium scheduled to open
April - New Yankee Stadium scheduled to open.
April 4 to April 6 - NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four to be held at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan.
April 11 - Neptune will return to the same degree and minute as when it was discovered.

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May-December

May 25 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 24' south. First conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
Mid-June - Elections to the European Parliament. In the UK, they will be held on June 11. This is also a possible date for the next UK general election.
July 13 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 37' south. Second conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.
July 22 - Total solar eclipse (Longest lasting total eclipse of the 21st century)
Unknown date - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its final flyby of Mercury before entering orbit around the planet in 2011.
December 20 - Conjunction between Jupiter and Neptune, Jupiter 34' south. Third conjunction of triple conjunction Jupiter/Neptune.