2009, Year OTT Union Time Line

 Year 2009 OTT

 Year -978 NUT

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Civilian Events
North Korea removed references to communism from the country's constitution.

Final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission completed.

Stephen Hawking stepped down as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge.

NASA's Kepler spacecraft launched on 7 March.

Cattle became the 1st livestock animal to have a fully mapped genome.

Military Events
 Somali Civil War began in early February in southern Somalia.

30 June – U.S. troops completed their withdrawal from Iraqi cities, including Baghdad, and transferred the responsibility of securing the cities to Iraqi troops.