THE YEAR I WAS BORN

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Jan 14, Canada’s Nortel Networks Corp, North America's biggest telephone equipment maker, filed for bankruptcy, hoping to save a once high-flying business whose decade-long decline has accelerated with the global economic crisis.

SubtA US jet carrying 155 people crashes on the Hudson River in New York, but the pilot manages to land it on its belly with no casualties.opic

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Stephen Harper

George W. Bush

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halloween II

Watchmen

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Smosh

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(CNN) -- Engineers didn't make huge improvements to technology in 2009. The year's big tech names -- Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon -- all existed before January.

At year's end, we're connected to each other and to the Internet like never before. In 2009, we carried tiny computers in our pockets, through which we fed the Internet constant real-time info about where we were and what we were doing.