2009 in the Netherlands
 |
| |||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | |||||
This article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2009.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Beatrix
- Prime Minister: Jan Peter Balkenende
Events
[edit]January
[edit]February
[edit]- 10: The Postbank completely mergers into the ING Bank.
- 25: Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during its approach to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
March
[edit]April
[edit]May
[edit]- 1: Adolescence, a work of Salvador Dalí is stolen from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.
June
[edit]July
[edit]- 1: The air-tax that was introduced on 1 July 2008 is abolished.
- 30: 6 Dutch people die in a bus accident at Sant Pol de Mar, Spain. Dozens of other people are hurt.
August
[edit]- 19: A family tragedy takes place in Kampen, Overijssel. During a fire in a house 4 young children die. The remaining family members, amongst them 10 other children, find a way out of the house in time.
September
[edit]- 6: Dutch soldier Kevin van der Rijdt, corporal van het Corps Commando-troops, dies near Deh Rahwod. He's the 20th soldier to die since the beginning of the mission in Afghanistan.
- 6:The HSL-Zuid is officially opened.
- 7: The 21st soldier since the beginning of the mission in Afghanistan: Mark Leijsen, Sergeant-Major of the Pantsergenie, dies in Uruzgan in an assault with an improvised explosive.
October
[edit]- 19: The DSB Bank is declared bankrupt.
November
[edit]December
[edit]- 13: The Thalys starts driving on the Highspeed-line Schiphol - Antwerp.
- 25: Northwest Airlines Flight 253, a passengers-flight Amsterdam to Detroit, is the target of a failed bombing attempt.
Sport
[edit]- March 5–23: The Netherlands participated at the 2009 World Baseball Classic. The Netherlands lost to Puerto Rico in the Seeding game.[1]
- March 25–29 Netherlands at the 2009 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
- July 1–5 Netherlands at the 2009 European Road Championships
- The Netherlands won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
- Ellen van Dijk won gold in the Women's time trial and Chantal Blaak in the Women's road race
- August 15–23 Netherlands at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics
- September 23–27 Netherlands at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships
- October 18: Gilbert Yegon wins the Amsterdam Marathon
See also
[edit]See also
[edit]- Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009
- Netherlands in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009
- List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 2009
- 2009 in Dutch television
References
[edit]External links
[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2009 in the Netherlands.