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70 unusual facts about 2009


1990s Post-Soviet aliyah

In the Israeli elections of 2009, Yisrael Beiteinu gained 15 Knesset members its highest ever.

5x10 All the Best! Clips 1999–2009

#"Hadashi no Mirai"

#"Kotoba Yori Taisetsu na Mono"

Abel Guerra

In 2009 he tried to be PRI candidate to the 2009 Nuevo León gubernatorial election but instead he was designated the PRI candidate to the Monterrey municipal presidency election.

Ana Mae Diaz

Endara ran for president again in 2004 and in 2009, placing second and a distant third, respectively.

Arashi discography

According to Oricon, Arashi Anniversary Tour 5x10 has the highest first week music DVD sales as of April 2010, overtaking the first week sales of Arashi's own 5x10 All the Best! Clips 1999–2009 DVD of 428,000 copies.

Ayaka's History 2006–2009

Ayaka's History 2006–2009 is Ayaka's first compilation album, released on September 23, 2009.

Best Fiction Tour 2008–2009

Filmed during her tour of the same name, the video captures her dates in June at the Taipei Arena in Taiwan.

Betty Little

After the appointment of Kirsten Gillibrand to the United States Senate in January 2009, Little expressed interest in running for U.S. Congress in New York's 20th congressional district and announced her intention to seek the Republican nomination for the special election for the seat.

Bill Bolling

Running as a Republican, he was elected twice to the position by defeating his Democratic opponent in both the 2005 and 2009 general elections.

Censorship by Google

Approximately 6 weeks before the 2009 New York City mayoral election, YouTube also suspended the account of New York City artist and citizen journalist Suzannah B. Troy, who posted videos criticizing the controversial change in term limits law that enabled Michael Bloomberg to run for a third mayoral term in 2009.

Chaldean Syriac Assyrian Popular Council

In the January Iraqi governorate elections of 2009, the party was part of a coalition that won the Assyrian reserved seats in Baghdad and Ninawa.

Chegemskaya Pravda

Inal Khashig accused the government of being behind the action with the upcoming 12 December 2009 presidential election in mind.

Claire Denis Film Scores 1996–2009

Released in 2011, the albums compiles the soundtrack music scored by the band to six films by Claire Denis.

Cokelat

In 2009, they released the single "Lima Menit untuk Lima Tahun" in order to socialize the 2009 Indonesian legislative election.

Daniela Dahn

Along with Christa Wolf, with whom she has collaborated in the past, Dahn was seen as a possible choice by Die Linke as their candidate for President of Germany in the 2009 presidential election.

Daylight Saving for South East Queensland

The party contested the March 2009 Queensland State election with 32 candidates.

Eckart von Klaeden

Eckart Peter Hans von Klaeden (born 18 November 1965 in Hanover, Lower Saxony) is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union, serving as Minister of State at the German Chancellery since 28 October 2009 (after the German federal election, September 2009, Angela Merkel formed a black-yellow coalition and her Cabinet Merkel II).

Electrico

Electrico wrote the theme song What Do You See? for the Singapore National Day Parade, 2009, held on 9 August 2009 at The Float at Marina Bay to commemorate Singapore's 44th year of independence, and performed the song at the event.

Elke Altmann

Following the 2009 state elections in Saxony, she lost her mandate and was forced to leave the parliament.

Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee

Three members of Safka unsuccessfully run in European Parliament election in 2009.

Frank J. Esposito

In the 2009 New Jersey gubernatorial race, Esposito was named by independent candidate Christopher Daggett as his ticket's candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Gavin Short

Gavin Phillip Short (born 1962) is a Falkland Islands politician who has served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Stanley constituency since the 2009 general election, winning re-election in 2013.

Hans-Christian Ströbele

Given his local reputation, other parties tried to counter him with creative campaigns (notably Vera Lengsfeld "we have more to offer") for the federal elections of 2009 but again Ströbele won the direct mandate, now by 46.8% of the vote and again with 39.9% in 2013.

Haylands

Haylands forms part of the local electoral ward of Havenstreet, Ashey and Haylands and at the Isle of Wight Council election in 2009 elected Independent councillor Vanessa Churchman.

Helmut Brandt

In the 2009 federal elections, he won a seat for the district of Aachen (which includes the communities around Aachen, but not the city itself) with 40.2 percent of the primary vote.

Howard Wolfson

He was a senior strategist for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's 2009 re-election campaign.

Hungarian parliamentary election, 2010

Following the EU elections of 2009, trends showed the rise of right-wing parties and particularly the far right.

Independent Greens of Virginia

The party did not nominate candidates for statewide office in the 2009 state elections, but had attempted to draft Washington Capitals hockey team owner Ted Leonsis as the gubernatorial candidate.

John Fritchey

Fritchey was one of many candidates who ran for former US Representative Rahm Emanuel's seat in Illinois's 5th congressional district special election, 2009.

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

In 2009, she sought again to win a constituency seat in her state, this time Gotha – Ilm-Kreis; she still could not gain a constituency-based seat but once again got re-elected on the state list.

Kevin McGrath

He was a candidate for the European Parliament 2009 elections;a candidate for the North East Hampshire constituency at the 2005 General Election; for Ealing Council in the 2006 London Council Elections, and for the London Assembly in the 2012 London Elections.

Khanaqin

In the Iraqi governorate elections, 2009 the Kurdistan Alliance Bloc won more than 55,000 votes, leaving the rest of the opposition parties with less than 1,000 together.

Klaus Uwe Benneter

He contested the Steglitz-Zehlendorf seat again at the 2009 election.

Line of succession to the Danish throne

The bill was voted through two successive parliaments, and submitted to a referendum, ensuring that, in future, the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark would be the monarch's first-born child.

Louis Manzo

In December 2008, Manzo announced that he would wage an uphill campaign for mayor of Jersey City against incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy.

Luke Torian

In February 2009, Republican Party of Virginia chair Jeff Frederick announced that he would not run for reelection to the Virginia House of Delegates.

Maine Question 1

Maine Question 1, 2009, a 2009 voter referendum to repeal the same-sex marriage law

Maurice Ahern

On the same day, he also lost his council seat in the 2009 local elections.

Mick Finnegan

Finnegan also unsuccessfully contested the 1999 Irish local elections, polling 3.4% of the vote and the 2009 local elections in the Lucan electoral area, polling 4.6% of the vote.

Mike Rendell

Michael Rendell (born 1944) is a British-born Falkland Islands politician and former Royal Marine who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2005 until 2009.

Rendell was elected to the Legislative Council at the 2005 general election, but did not stand for re-election in the 2009 general election.

Modern Whig Party

In its first authentic electoral test, Gene L. Baldassari sought a seat in the New Jersey Assembly, representing its Fourteenth District, in the November 2, 2009 general election.

Natalia Morar

On April 6 (part of the 2009 Moldova civil unrest), Morar and other activists organized a protest in front of the Parliament of Moldova, in relation to the Moldovan parliamentary election, 2009.

Night bus lines in Israel

The Night bus lines in Israel are a project of the Ministry of Transport, intended to supply safe and easy public transport to the night entertainment places, for normal bus fares, which operated since 2009.

Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador

On September 29, 2009, Newfoundland and Labrador held municipal elections in its municipalities.

Peter Harry Carstensen

After the Elections of 27 September 2009 Carstensen was reelected on 27 October 2009.

Peter Tinley

Upon the resignation of former Premier Alan Carpenter from the safe Labor state seat of Willagee, Tinley was preselected to run for Labor at the resulting by-election on 28 November 2009.

Phil Cox

Prior to joining the RGA, Phil served as campaign manager for current Governor Bob McDonnell's successful campaign in the Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009.

Politics of the European Union

The latest elections were in 2009 The turnout has fallen in every EU election since the first.

President of Kyrgyzstan

He was re-elected in 2009, but large riots in April 2010 forced him to resign and flee the country.

Prince Vincent of Denmark

In 2009, the Danish constitution was altered, granting absolute primogeniture to the Danish throne, meaning that the eldest child, regardless of gender, takes precedence in the line of succession.

Republican Party of Virginia

All three candidates won handily in the November elections, in a victory for Republicans that was seen as a rebuke of the Democratic Party's policies in the White House and Congress.

Risto Penttilä

In the 2009 European Parliament election, he was a National Coalition Party candidate.

Rodrigo Ávila

He stood as the then ruling political party ARENA candidate for the presidency of El Salvador in the March 2009 presidential election.

Sharon Halford

Sharon Halford (born 27 November 1953) is a Falkland Islands politician who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for the Camp constituency from 2009 until 2013.

Stephanie Miner

Stephanie Ann Miner (born April 30, 1970) is an attorney, Democratic politician, and current mayor of Syracuse, NY.

Tassara

Tassarra was the site of an electoral conflict during the Nigerien parliamentary election, 2009, an election later annulled by the February 2011 coup d'état government.

The Left North Rhine-Westphalia

In 2009, the Left Party participated in its first municipal and federal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, and after the state elections in May 2010, they entered the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia with 5.6% of the vote.

Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel

He lost his bid for the office of minister-president of Hesse in the January 2009 Hessian state election, where he had challenged incumbent Roland Koch (CDU).

He was re-elected in the 2008 Landtag election and in the 2009 special election; however he was elected as part of the party list and not on a direct mandate, as he lost his local race to the CDU candidate.

Tiruppattur, Vellore

Tirupattur's population and land area are good enough to have political representations in the state legislature of Tamil Nadu (Member of the Legislative Assembly), and part of Thiruvannamalai constituency for the central/federal legislature of India (Member of Parliament as of 2009 elections).

Unionist Movement of the Republic of Moldova

Its president, Ilie Bratu, has stated that it would run in the parliamentary elections 2009.

Vladimir Voronin

In the snap parliamentary election in July 2009, the PCRM won 44.69% of the vote, which is more votes than any other individual party, and gained 48 seats, but it lost its parliamentary majority to a coalition of opposition parties which has 53 seats.

Willi van Ooyen

He was again the Linke party's candidate for minister-president in the 2009 Landtag election in Hesse, where his party again won 6 seats.

Wolfgang Wodarg

He was a representative for the directly elected Bundestag seat for the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency from 1994 but lost his mandate in the 2009 German federal election.

Yanba Dam

In September 2009, the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) announced the cancellation of the dam construction, keeping to their campaign promise for the 2009 general election.

Your History Is Mine: 2002–2009

Recorded at Mighty Atom Studios, Swansea (disc one, track 1), Chapel Studios, Lincolnshire (disc one, tracks 2–6), Rak Studios and Miloco Studios (disc one, tracks 3–6), Studio X and Studio Litho, Seattle (disc one, tracks 7–9), Outhouse Studios, Reading (phone voice, disc one track 7) and Long Wave Studio, Cardiff (disc one, track 12)

Zaur Ardzinba

Zaur Ardzinba is a businessman from Abkhazia who unsuccessfully ran for President in the 2009 election.

Zodiak Broadcasting Station

It became the official broadcaster of Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the 2009 elections due to its neutral coverage.


2009 Scottish League Cup Final

A highlights package was also broadcast late on 15 March 2009 on BBC One Scotland also on Sportscene.

2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships

The 2010 NCRHA Division I Collegiate Roller Hockey National Championships involved 21 schools playing in a round robin followed by a single elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCRHA Division I college roller hockey.

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect

A Classic Case of Cause and Effect is the second album by English rock band Laruso, released in May 2009 on Autonomy Recordings.

Adelaide Gay

In 2009, Gay played for the Pali Blues in the W-League and helped the team win the 2009 W-League Championship.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Aldo Donelli

In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009).

Alejandro Goic

In November 2009, Goic expressed concern at the emergence of same-sex couples in party political broadcasts for the presidential election of that year, particularly in advertisements for the candidates Eduardo Frei and Sebastián Piñera; the latter was criticized for this issue even within his own coalition, the conservative Independent Democrat Union.

Boxbomb

The band plans to release the EP, titled Run Rabbit Run (Tragic Hero Records) in early 2009.

Brown-backed Solitaire

One singing bird was found in Miller Canyon, in the Huachuca Mountains of Southeastern Arizona, and documented by the youth birding Victor Emanuel Nature Tours' Camp Chiricahua in July 2009.

Cameron King

In December 2009 he won the Val Lembit Memorial Trophy for the most outstanding sportsman in NSW, awarded by the Combined High Schools, joining previous winners such as olympic swimmer Ian Thorpe and first grade rugby league player Blake Green.

ClientEarth

Employees of ClientEarth include Professor Ludwig Kramer and CEO James Thornton environmentalist; the latter was named by the New Statesman in 2009 as one of "ten people who could change the world".

Dounia TV

Earlier in 2009, the CSC warned that Dounia TV could be closed for showing film of Nigerien Police forcefully dispersing supporters of jailed former Prime Minister of Niger Hama Amadou during a Niamey protest.

Dramatiska Institutet

A merger proposal between Dramatiska Institutet and the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting was announced in April 2009.

Elin Phillips

Immediately on graduation in Summer 2009, she gained the lead role in the BBC Wales-commissioned Tony Jordan-produced hospital drama Crash as Doctor Rhian Matthews.

Grant Potter

Potter was the Gold medalist of the 2010 Worlds Masters Stage Race, 2009 U.S. Masters National Champion, 2010 UCI Worlds top 5 finisher, 2010 Deutschlandsberg Worlds TT winner among many other titles.

Harsh Mayar

The film was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and he worked with debut director- Nila Madhab Panda and with veteran actor Gulshan Grover and comic actor Pitobash Tripathy.

Human trafficking in Benin

Gendarmes in the village of Porga arrested suspected traffickers trying to cross the Benin-Burkina Faso border en route to Ivory Coast with five children in April 2009, and delivered them to the court at Natitingou.

Impact Index

It was conceived by Jaideep Varma in March 2009 and unveiled in July that same year at the ICC Centenary Conference at Oxford.

James Sewell Ballet

She was also named a City Pages "Artist of the Year" in 2009 for her work in the Minneapolis dance community.

James Skillen

In 2009, he signed a public statement encouraging all Christians to "read, wrestle with, and respond to Caritas in Veritate" the social encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI.

John Connelly

John E. Connelly (1926–2009), Pittsburgh casino and riverboat owner

Joshua Kadison

It peaked at #19 on the U.S. Billboard charts, and Filipino actor/singer Jericho Rosales recorded and released a version of it on his own 2009 album Change. Painted Desert Serenade went platinum in the US and Germany, and went multi-platinum in Australia and New Zealand.

K02RB-D

On May 6, 2009, the station was switched to an analog translator of KHIZ-DT 44 in Barstow, California.

Kara Lindsay

In 2009, Lindsay appeared as Laura in a musical-theatre production at the Paper Mill Playhouse of Little House on the Prairie with Melissa Gilbert as Ma.

Kołakowski

Leszek Kołakowski (1927–2009), Polish philosopher and historian of ideas

Lezhnevsky

Lezhnevsky (rural locality), a former rural locality (a settlement) in Chulymsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast; abolished in November 2009

Libertas Germany

In March 2009 the foundation of Libertas Germany was disclosed at a press conference in Berlin.

Loretta A. Preska

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani - On June 9, 2009, Judge Preska heard the plea of the first detainee brought from Guantanamo Bay Military Prison to stand trial in a U.S. civilian court.

Lossa

Since 1 July 2009, it is part of the municipality Finne.

Matt McGloin

After playing behind Daryll Clark and Kevin Newsome in 2009, he ended up third on the depth chart in early 2010 behind Rob Bolden, a true freshman from Detroit.

Megan Hauserman

Hauserman was featured in a photoshoot for Guitar World magazine's Holiday 2009 Review Guide, along with fellow reality television contestants Brandi "Hambone" Cunningham, Destiney Sue Moore, and Kristy Joe Muller.

Mosor

In April, 2009 speleologists discovered human remains in pits on the mountain, originally thought to be victims of the Yugoslav Partisans from World War II.

Music of Andorra

Andorra (through national broadcaster RTVA) has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest on only six occasions, each year from 2004 until 2009.

National Human Genome Research Institute

November 17, 2009 - NIH Appoints Eric D. Green, M.D., Ph.D. to be Director of The National Human Genome Research Institute.

Netral

In 2009, Netral released a song entitled "Garuda Di Dadaku" as part of a soundtrack for the film of the same name.

PNG Gas

Engineering, Construction and Procurement (EPC) company Clough Curtain Joint Venture (CCJV) was awarded the contract for liquefaction plant and upstream infrastructure work in June 2009 and September 2010 respectively.

Pumper Nic

Nic the hippo, is featured among the animals that escape from the Los Angeles Zoo during an earthquake that hits Los Angeles in the short animated Oscar winning film, Logorama (2009).

Queen of the Slipstream

It was a favorite song of actress Farrah Fawcett and was played during the opening credits for the documentary Farrah's Story shown on NBC on May 15, 2009.

Rati Urushadze

He had 41 caps for Georgia, from 1997 to 2009, scoring 5 tries, 25 points on aggregate.

Siemens Viaggio Light

In February 2009, Ynet reported serious problems with the Viaggio Light model, including a longer stopping distance when traveling north, narrow doors and corridors, and problems with the Trainlift TR 450 technology.

Simona Houda-Šaturová

She has since returned to the PSO as a guest artist as the title heroine in Lucia di Lammermoor (2004, 2008, and 2009), Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia (2005), Gilda in Rigoletto (2008–2009), Rosina (2009).

Swabian German

In 2009 Muggeseggele, literally referring to the scrotum of a male housefly, was elected in a readers survey of Stuttgarter Nachrichten, the largest newspaper in Stuttgart as most beautiful Swabian word, with a large lead on any other expression.

Talang 2009

Talang 2009 was the third season of the talent show Talang, the Swedish version of Got Talent.

Tannöd

A film adaptation of the novel with the same title Tannöd was released in cinemas in Germany on 19 November 2009, directed by Bettina Oberli, (Wüste-Film West) and starring Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu and Volker Bruch.

The Felix Culpa

After a long, quiet period, 2009 held the release of a digital EP called SoSo Remission. The release consisted of two re-worked songs and a previously unheard track and was offered up for free; the band also had a link to donate to their paypal if you felt so inclined; it was comparable to the model that Radiohead used for the release of their 7th album, In Rainbows.

Top Secret America

Matthew Aid, The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency, 432 pages, ISBN 978-1-59691-515-2, Bloomsbury Press (June 9, 2009)

Trenton Titans

The games were broadcast on radio during the first nine years of existence on WHWH, WBCB-AM, and WTSR, In 2008, the broadcasts switched to internet-only, and were handled by first-year play-by-play announcer Paul Roper, who was selected to broadcast the 2009 ECHL All-Star Game.

VBTP-MR Guarani

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defence Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?

Together with the movie producer Andreas Habermeyer she covered the hit from Rudi Carrell for the Oktoberfest 2009 in Munich.

World Football Insider

It was launched by Around the Rings, the number-one publication in the world covering the business and politics of the Olympic Movement, in June 2009.