Editing 2009 (section)

=== September ===
* [[September 21]] – [[2009 swine flu pandemic in Asia|China]] becomes the first country to succeed a completed clinical trial by a company for the [[2009 swine flu pandemic vaccine|2009/H1N1 vaccine]] in the world during the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|swine flu pandemic]].
* [[September 22]] – [[WikiLeaks]] exposes the contents of [[Kaupthing Bank]]'s internal documents prior to the [[2008-2011 Icelandic financial crisis|Icelandic Financial Crisis]]. These documents showed suspicious amounts of money were [[loan]]ed to bank owners, and [[debts]] being written off.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-08-09|title=Miklar hreyfingar rétt fyrir hrun {{!}} Ríkisútvarpið vefur|url=http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|access-date=2021-03-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809051437/http://www.ruv.is/frett/miklar-hreyfingar-rett-fyrir-hrun|archive-date=August 9, 2011}}</ref>
* [[September 23]] – [[Korba chimney collapse]]: At least 45 workers are killed when lightning strikes a chimney under construction in [[Korba, Chhattisgarh|Korba, Chhattisgarh, India]], causing it to collapse.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/3-Chinese-techies-held-for-Balco-mishap/H1-Article1-496274.aspx |last=Kaiser |first=Ejaz |title=Balco chimney mishap: Three Chinese officials arrested in Korba |date=11 January 2010 |access-date=25 July 2021 |work=[[Hindustan Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115082506/http://www.hindustantimes.com/3-Chinese-techies-held-for-Balco-mishap/H1-Article1-496274.aspx |archive-date=15 January 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[September 26]] – [[Typhoon Ketsana]], PAGASA Name: Ondoy, makes [[landfall]] in [[The Philippines]], killing hundreds in [[Metro Manila]] and [[flooding]] in [[Huế, Vietnam]].
* [[September 28]] – At least 157 demonstrators [[2009 Guinea protest|are massacred]] by the [[Military of Guinea|Guinean military]] at the [[Stade du 28 Septembre]] during a protest against the government that came to power in a [[2008 Guinean coup d'état|coup d'état]] the previous year.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/africa/30guinea.html|title=Guinea's Capital Fades Into a Ghost Town After Soldiers' Rampage|last=Nossiter|first=Adam|date=2009-09-29|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2017-01-14|archive-date=July 26, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190726043924/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/africa/30guinea.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – A 8.1 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami|earthquake strikes Samoa]], with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VII (''Very strong''), leaving at least 192 people dead.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5387874.stm|title=Samoa quake 'triggered tsunami'|work=BBC News|access-date=2006-09-28|archive-date=February 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223164655/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5387874.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 30]] – A 7.6 {{M|w|link=y}} [[2009 Sumatra earthquakes|earthquake strikes Sumatra, Indonesia]], with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of VIII (''Severe''), leaving at least 1,115 people dead.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8284208.stm|title=Indonesia quake deaths pass 1,000|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-01-14|archive-date=October 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211013114252/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8284208.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>