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February 2009 is the second month of the current year. It will begin on a Sunday and will end after 28 days on a Saturday.

Scheduled Events

• February - The NASA's Dawn spacecraft will flyby Mars for data and gravitational assist en route to Vesta and Ceres.¹
• February 1 - The International Cospas-Sarsat Satellite System will stop monitoring for 121.5 MHz and 243 MHz (Class B) signals from distress radiobeacons.²
• February 1 - Super Bowl XLIII will take place in Tampa, Florida.³
• February 2–15 - The FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 2009 will take place in Val-d'Isère, France.⁴
• February 8 - The 51st Annual Grammy Awards will be held at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
• February 12 - Celebration of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday in the United States. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission has scheduled a series of events in Washington, D.C.
• February 12 - Darwin Day, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. Events are already being planned at the London Natural History Museum.
• February 12 - On STS-119, the Space Shuttle Discovery will deliver and install the fourth starboard truss segment on the International Space Station.⁵
• February 13 - The Unix time number reaches 1234567890 seconds at 23:31:30 UTC.
• February 14 - Lithuania will celebrate the millennium of its name.
• February 15 - The 2009 NBA All-Star Game will be held at the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
• February 15 - The 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will begin its 61st season with the 51st running of the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, FL.
• February 17 - Analog television broadcasts will mostly end in the United States, as the Federal Communications Commission will require all full power stations to send their signals digitally.⁶
• February 18–28 - The 2009 Winter Universiade will be held in Harbin, China.⁷⁸
• February 22 - The 81st Academy Awards will be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California.⁹

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