**2009 in photos**

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2009 in photos

The year 2009 is now coming to a close, and it's time to take a look back over the past 12 months

 

through photographs. Historic elections were held in Iran, India and the United States, some wars

 

wound down while others escalated, China turned 60, and the Berlin Wall was remembered 20 y

 

ears after it came down. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2009.

 

This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please watch for part 2 and part 3

 

tomorrow and the next day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barack H. Obama is sworn in as the 44th president of the United States as his wife Michelle Obama

 

 holds the Bible and their daughters Malia Obama and Sasha Obama look on, on the West Front of

 

the Capitol January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Chuck Kennedy-Pool/Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

 

Vertie Hodge, 74, weeps during an Inauguration Day party near Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Hous

 

on on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009 after President Barack Obama delivered his speech after taking the

oath of office, becoming the first black president in the United States. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle,

 

Mayra Beltran) #

 

 

 

 

 

A group of Common Cranes gather in dawn light, on their night-roost on a lake in the German state

 

of Brandenburg, close to Berlin September 26, 2009. From September to November tens of thousand

 

s of Cranes use the rural area close to the German Capital for a stopover during their migration

 

from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe to their wintering quarters in Spain. (REUTERS/Thomas

 

Krumenacker) #

 

 

 

 

Soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase

 

Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar

 

Province, in this May 11, 2009 file photo. Spc. Zachery Boyd of Fort Worth, TX, far left was wearing

 

"I love NY" boxer shorts after rushing from his sleeping quarters to join his fellow platoon members.

 

From far right is Spc. Cecil Montgomery of Many, LA and Jordan Custer of Spokane, WA, center. (AP

 

 Photo/David Guttenfelder) #

 

 

 

Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely

 

ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a flock of birds knocked out both

 

its engines on January 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Steven Day, File) #

 

 

 

A student receives a H1N1 vaccine injection at a hospital in Suining, Sichuan province November

 

11, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

 

 

 

 

A Iranian riot-police officer sprays tear-gas at a supporter of defeated Iranian presidential

 

candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi attacking him with a police stick during riots in Tehran on June

 

13, 2009. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

A frame grab from YouTube shows a woman identified as Neda Agha-Soltan lying on the ground

 

after being shot in the chest in Tehran, Iran June 20, 2009. Iranians on social networking sites

 

called for mourning for "Neda", a young woman shot dead on Saturday. (REUTERS/YouTube) #

 

 

 

 

Fishermen row a boat in the algae-filled Chaohu Lake in Hefei, Anhui province, China on June 19,

 

2009. China invested 51 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) towards the construction of 2,712 projects for the

 

treatment of eight rivers and lakes in 2009, Xinhua News Agency reported. (REUTERS/Jianan Yu) #

 

 

 

 

The moon passes between the sun and the earth, nearing a total solar eclipse, as seen in

 

Changsha, Hunan province, China on July 22, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

 

 

 

 

A girl displaced from her home by a huge tidal wave caused by Cyclone Aila, stands in front of her

 

temporary shelter on a river dam in Satkhira in southwestern Bangladesh June 2, 2009. (REUTERS/

 

Andrew Biraj) #

 

 

 

 

A cone of moisture surrounds part of the Ares I-X rocket during lift off Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on

 

a sub-orbital test flight from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

 

(AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) #

 

Riot police contain supporters of Mozambique's national soccer team after their World Cup 2010

 

qualifying soccer match against Kenya in Maputo, September 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Grant Lee

 

Neuenburg) #

 

 

 

 

Chicago White Sox pitcher Scott Linebrink delivers a pitch against the Chicago Cubs during the fifth

 

inning of a spring training baseball game in Las Vegas, in this March 5, 2009 photo. (AP Photo/

 

Isaac Brekken, File) #

 

 

 

 

A man walks his dog through Observatory Hill near Sydney on September 23, 2009 as Australia's

 

biggest city is shrouded in an eerie blanket of red dust. Sydney's cars and buildings turned

 

orange as strong winds blew desert dust across the city, snarling commuter and air transport and

 

prompting a warning for children and the elderly to stay indoors. (GREG WOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

 

 

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Claire Williams, right, and Cori Giroux kiss as they wed at the stroke of midnight in South Burlington

 

/Vermont, on September 1, 2009 - the first day that Vermont's marriage equality law went into effect.

 

(AP Photo/Karen Pike) #

 

 

 

 

Brazilian Formula One driver Felipe Massa of Scuderia Ferrari is carried from his car after being

 

struck in the head by a piece of bodywork that fell from another car during the qualifying session at

 

the Hungaroring race track in Mogyorod near Budapest on July 25, 2009. Massa was airlifted to

 

hospital and underwent surgery on his fractured skull. (TAMAS KOVACS/AFP/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

French aerobatic team "Cartouche Dore" flies in formation near Aix-en-Provence, southern France.

 

(JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

The sun shines on the skin of a hippo in its enclosure in the Zoo in Berlin, Friday, April 3, 2009.

 

(AP Photo/Franka Bruns) 12natural #

 

 

 

 

AP photographer Emilio Morenatti takes pictures as he is carried on a stretcher out of the University

 

of Maryland Medical Center's R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center to be transferred to the

 

Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital in Baltimore, Tuesday Aug. 25, 2009. Morenatti,

 

whose left foot was amputated after a bomb blast in Afghanistan, was transferred Tuesday to a

 

rehabilitation hospital in Baltimore, where he will be fitted for a prosthesis. (AP Photo/Enric Marti) #

 

 

 

 

 

A rescuer holding a two-year-old child tries to close a window on the girl's suicidal father who is

 

trying to jump from the eighth floor of an apartment block in Chengdu, Sichuan province, July 7,

 

2009. Rescuers managed to distract the man while another snatched the girl and brought her to

 

safety. The man, who later tested positive for drugs, was arrested and taken into custody,

 

according to China Daily. (REUTERS/China Daily) #

 

 

 

 

 

Blood and bullet holes are seen on a car door after an unidentified man was murdered in Tijuana,

 

northern Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Guillermo Arias) #

 

 

 

 

 

Demonstrators charge through a street in London during protests to coincide with Thursday's G20

 

summit meeting April 1, 2009. Demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in

 

Britain's financial centre on Wednesday ahead of a G20 meeting in protest against a system they

 

said had robbed the poor to benefit the rich. (REUTERS/Dylan Martinez) #

 

 

 

 

 

Australian surfer Mark Visser surfs an 11 m (36 ft) wave at Cow Bombie, near the West Australian

 

town of Gracetown, 280km (174 mi) south of Perth, Australia in this photograph obtained September

 

28, 2009. The organisers claim that Visser had caught one of the biggest waves in Australia for

 

2009. (REUTERS/Calum Macauley/Handout) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rows of 7.62 mm bullets are shown, ready to be shot by Afghan National Army recruits as part of

 

their daily training at the Kabul Military Training Center in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 19, 2009.

 

A massive effort is underway to train thousands of new troops to join the fight against the vicious

 

Taliban-led insurgency. But the task is hobbled by the lack of mentors and high levels of illiteracy

 

among the recruits. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

A woman shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Sonapur, about

 

50 km (31 miles) from Guwahati, the major city of India's northeastern state of Assam April 23, 2009.

 

Millions of Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, voted in the largest democratic

 

election in the world. (REUTERS/Utpal Baruah) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

Residents stand on electric wires to stay on high ground while others wade in neck-deep flood

 

waters caused by Typhoon Ondoy in Cainta Rizal, east of Manila September 27, 2009. (REUTERS/

 

Erik de Castro) #

 

 

 

A Dog belonging to Rhonda O'Hearn of Sandown, New Hampshire waits before the start of a

 

60-mile race at the Can-Am Crown sled dog races in Fort Kent, Maine on Saturday, February 28,

 

2009. (Yoon S. Byun/Globe Staff) #

 

 

 

 

 

A view of Santa Maria Paganica church, severely damaged after an earthquake on April 7, 2009 in

 

the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila, Italy. (FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

Handout picture released June 8, 2009 by the Brazilian Navy showing divers recovering a huge part

 

 of the rudder of the Air France A330 aircraft lost in midflight over the Atlantic ocean June 1st. At the

 

time, seventeen bodies had been recovered from the Atlantic where an Air France jet came down.

 

(AFP/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Pakistani displaced boy from Swat valley sleeps under a mosquito net outside his tent at the

 

Jalozai refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, May 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Emilio

 

Morenatti) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) sailors march pass Tiananmen Square during the

 

celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1,

 

2009 in Beijing, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

The body of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran is carried on

 

a stretcher through a group of Sri Lankan soldiers at Nanthikadal lagoon, near the town of Mullaittivu

 

in northern Sri Lanka May 19, 2009. Sri Lanka's army chief said Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran's

 

body was found on Tuesday, and Sri Lankan TV stations aired video of what appeared to be his

 

corpse, with the top of its head blown off. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

 

 

 

An explosion is seen as missiles fired from an Israeli aircraft fall towards a target in the northern

 

Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, Thursday, Jan. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Gil Nechu

 

shtan) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

A mental patient named Totok reacts as he is given a shower at the Galuh foundation house in East

 

Bekasi, outskirt of Jakarta, Indonesia on October 23, 2009. The Galuh foundation house has housed

 

more than 285 underprivileged mental patients since it was founded in 1982 by Gendu Mulatip. (REU

 

TERS/Beawiharta) #

 

 

 

 

 

A recently constructed section of the controversial US-Mexico border fence expansion project

 

crosses previously pristine desert sands at sunrise on March 14, 2009 between Yuma, Arizona

 

and Calexico, California. The new barrier between the US and Mexico stands 15 feet tall and sits

 

on top of the sand so it can lifted by a machine and repositioned whenever the migrating desert

 

dunes begin to bury it. The almost seven miles of floating fence cost about $6 million per mile to

 

build. (David McNew/Getty Images) #

 

 

Military and forensic experts inspect the body of a man who was killed outside a nightclub in the

 

border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on August 31, 2009. A man was handcuffed to a fence and

 

shot several times by drug hitmen outside a nightclub, according to local media. The assailants

 

also left a warning message, known as "narco mensaje", at the site of the shooting. (REUTERS/

 

Alejandro Bringas) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

A view taken from the International Space Station of the Sarychev Volcano on the Kuril Islands in an

 

early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. (AFP/Getty Images/NASA) #

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sixteen-month-old Aubrey Melton reaches for her father SSG Josh Melton as she views his

 

 remains with her mother Larissa before his funeral service June 27, 2009 in Germantown, Illinois.

 

SSG Melton, who was serving in Afghanistan with the Illinois National Guard, was killed in Kandahar

 

during an IED attack June 19. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) #

 

 

Young revellers run from the "Fire Bull", a man carrying a metal structure loaded with fireworks,

 

at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, Spain on July 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Eloy Alonso) #

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