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 years 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.
1.Barack Obama as the 44th U.S. president swears on
the Bible, which holds his wife, Michelle Obama, at the Capitol on Jan.
20, 2009 in Washington, DC. Nearby are their daughters – Malia and
Sasha Obama
2.Vertie
Hodge, 74, weeps during an Inauguration Day party near Martin Luther
King, Jr. Blvd. in Houston 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.
3.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 thousands 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.
4.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.
5.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.
6.A student receives a H1N1 vaccine injection at a hospital in Suining, Sichuan
province November 11, 2009.
8.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.
8.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.
9.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.
10.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.
11.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.
12.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.
13.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.
14.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.
15.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.
16.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.
17.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.
18.French aerobatic team "Cartouche Dore" flies in formation near
Aix-en-Provence, southern France.
19.The
sun shines on the skin of a hippo in its enclosure in the Zoo in
Berlin, Friday, April 3, 2009.
20.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.
21.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.
22.Blood
and bullet holes are seen on a car door after an unidentified man was
murdered in Tijuana, northern Mexico, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009.
23.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.
24.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.
25.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.
26.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.
27.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.
28.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.
29A
view of Santa Maria del Suffragio church, severely damaged after an
earthquake on April 7, 2009 in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila, Italy.
30.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.
31.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.
32.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.
33.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.
34.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.
35.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.
36.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.
37.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.
38.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.
39.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.
40.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.
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