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This article lists some of the events that took place in the Netherlands in 2009.

Incumbents

10: The Postbank completely mergers into the ING Bank.
25: Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 crashed during its approach to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

29: KLM stops flying to Aruba. Subsidiary Martinair takes over the 4 flights a week.

1: Adolescence, a work of Salvador Dalí is stolen from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

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.

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.

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.

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.