page_title: 2009 in the United States
section_title: February
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 in the United States / Events / February
caption_attribution_description: English: The second of four designs for the reverse of the 2009 Lincoln cent in celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth
context_page_description: Events from the year 2009 in the United States.
context_section_description: February 1 – The Pittsburgh Steelers win their sixth Super Bowl, defeating the Arizona Cardinals, 27–23. The Steelers became the first NFL team to win six Super Bowl titles.
  February 10 – A privately owned U.S. satellite and a Russian military satellite collide over Siberia, scattering space debris in orbits 300 to 800 miles (480 to 1,290 km) above Earth, potentially threatening satellites in nearby orbits.
  February 12
  To honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Mint launches a series of pennies that commemorate four stages in Lincoln's life.
  Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes in Clarence Center, New York, killing 49 passengers including a 9/11 widow, and one man who was in his house.
  February 17 – Peanut Corp, a peanut butter processor implicated in nine deaths and more than 600 poisonings due to salmonella, files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy just days after its CEO uses the Fifth Amendment to avoid questioning by Congress.
  February 18 – President Obama orders the deployment of 17,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan.
  February 19 – President Obama makes Canada the site of his first international visit.
  February 24
  The Orbiting Carbon Observatory, a new $278 million NASA satellite designed to precisely measure atmospheric carbon dioxide levels for global warming research, crashes near Antarctica just after launching.
  President Obama addresses Congress defending financial bailouts as necessary to economic recovery, and vowing economic recovery, stricter regulation of financial institutions, and health care reform. He also warns that future bailouts may be necessary.
  February 25 – James Nicholson, the manager of an unregistered hedge fund, Westgate Capital Management, is arrested and charged in federal court with defrauding hundreds of investors in a Ponzi type scheme.
caption: February 12: 2009 U.S. penny commemorating 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth
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