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| 2009 January 3 |
| | | Israel escalates its war against Hamas by launching a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip | |
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| 2009 January 15 |
| | | The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 lands his plane on Manhattan's Hudson River with no loss of life among his 155 passengers and crew | |
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| 2009 January 20 |
| | | Amid unprecedented international enthusiasm Barack Obama is inaugurated as the fourteenth President of the USA | |
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| 2009 January 21 |
| | | Israel completes a military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, nearly three weeks after launching its invasion of the territory | |
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| 2009 January 22 |
| | | One of President Obama's first acts in office is to sign an order that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp is to be closed within a year (a promise that fails to be fulfilled) | |
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| 2009 January 26 |
| | | The prime minister of Iceland, Geir Haarde, resigns after the collapse of his country's banking system | |
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| 2009 February 1 |
| | | In the Icelandic crisis Johanna Siguroardottir becomes prime minister and forms a new government | |
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| 2009 February 2 |
| | | Iran launches a satellite into orbit on an Iranian-built rocket | |
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| 2009 February 11 |
| | | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes prime minister of Zimbabwe, six months after agreeing to share power with Robert Mugabe | |
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| 2009 February 17 |
| | | President Obama, applying Keynesian economics, announces a massive stimulus package for the US economy (its eventual cost turns out to be $862 bn) | |
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