The Top 10 Everything of 2009

TIME charts the highs and lows of the past year in 50 wide-ranging lists

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5. Miraculous

The miracle on the Hudson

Steven Day / AP

Airline passengers stand on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York City after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines on Jan. 15.

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