What was the biggest news story of 2009?

In a Facebook poll of 204 respondents, 20.6% chose “Michael Jackson dies”. How we count

Michael Jackson dies
20.6%
Economy struggles, job woes
19.1%
Health care reform
14.7%
Obama sworn in, confronts challenges
14.2%
'Sully' lands plane in Hudson
12.3%
H1N1 pandemic and vaccine
9.8%
GM, Chrysler bankruptcy
3.4%
Afghanistan war, troop surge
2%
Iran election protests
2%
Maddoff's Ponzi scheme exposed
2%
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