2009 in Spain

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Events in the year 2009 in Spain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Juan Carlos I
• Prime Minister – José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

Events

The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest reflecting telescope, is inaugurated on July 24

• March 1 – The Basque Nationalist Party wins a plurality of seats in Spain's Basque Country's parliamentary elections.^[1]
• May 18 – Italian Camorra leader Raffaele Amato is arrested in Marbella, Spain.^[2]
• June 19 – A bomb explodes near Bilbao in the Basque region of Spain, killing one policeman.^[3]
• July 10 – One person is killed by a bull, the first such fatality in 14 years, during the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, Spain.^[4]
• July 21 – Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos becomes the first Spanish government official to visit Gibraltar in 300 years.^[5]
• July 24 – The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest reflecting telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.^[6]
• July 29 – 2009 Burgos bombing: A car bomb explodes outside a police barracks in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, injuring dozens of people.^[7]
• July 30 – 2009 Palmanova bombing: At least two people are killed in a car bomb explosion at a Guardia Civil barracks in Palma Nova on the Spanish island of Mallorca.^[8]
• August 9 – Three bombs explode on the island of Majorca, Spain.^[9]
• November 17 – The Spanish ship Alakrana and its crew of 36 are released after a US$3.5 million ransom is paid.^[10]

Popular culture

Film

• February 22 – Penélope Cruz wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, the first Spanish actress to win an Academy Award.
• September 28 – Spain's Pablo Pineda wins the best actor award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the first actor with Down's syndrome to win an international film award.^[11]

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2009 in Spain

Rank	Title	Nation	Gross
1	Up	United States	€23,957,870
2	Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs	United States	€21,197,890
3	Agora	Spain	€18,532,500
4	Angels & Demons	United States	€15,518,330
5	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince	United Kingdom/ United States	$13,633,800
6	Gran Torino	United States	$12,747,330
7	New Moon	United States	$12,646,590
8	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	United States	$12,168,450
9	Slumdog Millionaire	United Kingdom	$10,569,130
10	Inglourious Basterds	Germany/ United States	$10,416,820

Notable deaths

Daniel Jarque

• January 6 – Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, 113, Spanish supercentenarian, verified oldest person in Europe.^[13]
• February 14 – Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist.^[14]
• March 1 – Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer.^[15]
• April 6 – Mari Trini, 61, Spanish pop singer and actress.^[16]
• April 11 – Corín Tellado, 81, Spanish novelist, heart failure.^[17]
• April 13 – Ángel Miguel, 79, Spanish professional golfer.^[18]
• May 12 – Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia.^[19]
• May 20 – María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger.^[20]
• June 19 – Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist.^[21]
• June 27 – Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes.^[22]
• July 1 – Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.^[23]
• July 11 – Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.^[24]
• August 5 – Jordi Sabater Pi, 87, Spanish ethologist, discovered albino gorilla Snowflake.^[25]
• August 8 – Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[26]
• August 11 – José Ramón García Antón, 61, Spanish engineer and politician in Valencian Community.^[27]
• August 27 – Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, 96, Spanish politician.^[28]
• September 1 – Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma, 84, Spanish royal (House of Bourbon-Parma), daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma.^[29]
• September 19 – Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.^[30]
• September 25 – Alicia de Larrocha, pianist (born 1923)
• September 30 – Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.^[31]
• October 16 – Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.^[32]
• October 18 – Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).^[33]
• October 26 – Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.^[34]
• November 2 – José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness.^[35]
• November 3 – Francisco Ayala, novelist (born 1906)
• November 12 – Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish judge, Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice.^[36]
• November 30 – Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director, pancreatic cancer.^[37]
• December 5 – Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, 78, Spanish diplomat.^[38]
• December 11 – Francisco Piquer Chanza, 87, Spanish actor.^[39]
• December 17 – Albert Ràfols-Casamada, 86, Spanish artist.^[40]
• December 30 – Ivan Zulueta, 66, Spanish designer and film director.^[41]

References

See also

• List of Spanish films of 2009

External links

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