WHAT HAPPENED IN 2009.
Look what happened the 2009.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253 (25. December 2009)

Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators. (27. December 2009)

Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura. (28. December 2009)

A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River. (30. December 2009)

A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan. (30. December 2009)

Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. (31. December 2009)