Today in History for Year 1909

Months in Year 1909: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 170

Jan 1st - Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
Jan 1st - Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
Jan 2nd - 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
Jan 5th - Colombia recognizes Panama's independence
Jan 9th - Ernest Shackleton reaches 88°23' south
Jan 14th - Coöp. Far. Central Management forms
Jan 16th - British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
Jan 16th - David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
Jan 19th - Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC
Jan 22nd - Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich
Jan 23rd - 1st radio rescue at sea
Jan 25th - Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden
Jan 27th - The Young Left is founded in Norway.
Jan 28th - US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
Feb 1st - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
Feb 2nd - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
Feb 8th - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
Feb 9th - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
Feb 9th - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
Feb 12th - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
Feb 12th - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
Feb 12th - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
Feb 16th - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
Feb 16th - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
Feb 18th - Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
Feb 20th - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
Feb 21st - John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
Feb 22nd - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
Feb 23rd - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
Feb 24th - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
Mar 1st - 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn
Mar 2nd - Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
Mar 3rd - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
Mar 4th - President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
Mar 4th - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
Author and Nobel Laureate Gerhart Hauptmann Mar 6th - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
Mar 10th - Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
Mar 14th - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
Mar 18th - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
Mar 21st - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
Mar 26th - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
Mar 30th - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
Mar 31st - Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
Mar 31st - Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time
Apr 6th - 1st credit union forms in US
Apr 6th - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
Apr 9th - The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
Apr 12th - Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
Apr 14th - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
Apr 15th - NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
Apr 19th - 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8
French National Heroine Joan of Arc Apr 19th - Joan of Arc receives beatification
Apr 24th - Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
Apr 27th - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
May 1st - Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
May 2nd - Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
May 3rd - 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
May 7th - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
May 8th - Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
May 8th - Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
May 10th - Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning
May 12th - 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
May 13th - Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
May 13th - The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner.
May 17th - White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
May 19th - Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
May 22nd - 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
May 24th - Bristol University granted Royal Charter
May 29th - Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
May 30th - National Conference on the Negro is held
May 30th - Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
May 31st - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
Jun 1st - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
Jun 2nd - 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
Jun 2nd - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
Jun 7th - Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
Jun 7th - Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
Jun 9th - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
Jun 12th - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
Jun 15th - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
Jun 16th - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe Jun 16th - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
Jun 18th - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
Jun 20th - 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
Jun 23rd - Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
Jun 24th - 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
Jun 25th - George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
Jun 26th - 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
Jun 26th - Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
Jun 27th - 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
Jun 27th - Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
Jun 28th - 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
Jun 30th - Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
Jul 8th - 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
Jul 12th - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
Jul 14th - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
Jul 15th - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
Jul 16th - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
Jul 19th - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
Jul 24th - Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 496

Jan 1st - Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)
Jan 1st - D D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46)
Jan 1st - Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)
Jan 1st - Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)
Jan 2nd - Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)
Jan 3rd - Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
Jan 5th - Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile
Jan 5th - Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions)
Jan 6th - Johannes H Moesman, Dutch surrealist painter (Rumor)
Jan 6th - Keith Davis, voice tutor/author
Jan 8th - Bruce Mitchell, cricketer (South African bat, their top run-scorer (3471))
Jan 8th - Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999)
Jan 8th - Evelyn Wood, American educator (d. 1995)
Jan 9th - Herva Nelli, soprano
Jan 10th - Grace Mitchell, educator
Jan 10th - Rudolf Kubin, composer
Jan 11th - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer
Jan 11th - Marguerite Kelsey, English model/painter (Haunting)
Jan 12th - Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor (Atomic Blonde, Road Agent)
Jan 13th - Danny Barker, jazz guitarist
Jan 13th - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist
Jan 14th - Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident)
Jan 15th - Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
Jan 15th - Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
Jan 15th - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
Jan 15th - Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939)
Jan 19th - Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003)
Jan 21st - Todor Skalovski, composer
Jan 22nd - Ann Sothern, [Harriette Lake], ND, actress (Lady in a Cage)
Jan 22nd - Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962)
Jan 22nd - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72)
Jan 22nd - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
Jan 23rd - Norman Fulton, composer
Jan 24th - Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil)
Jan 24th - Tiny Winters, musician
Jan 28th - Lionel KP "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II-George Medal)
Jan 29th - Alan Marshal, Sydney Aust, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
Jan 29th - Tonypandy, Viscount
Jan 30th - Mihaly Hajou, composer
Jan 30th - Richard Hearne, Norwich England, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower)
Jan 30th - Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis)
Jan 31st - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
Jan 31st - Miron Grindea, literary editor
Feb 1st - George Beverly Shea, Winchester, Ontario, American gospel singer
Feb 1st - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
Feb 1st - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
Feb 2nd - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
Feb 3rd - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
Feb 3rd - Simone Weil, Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter (WW II)
Feb 4th - Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
Feb 4th - Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
Feb 5th - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
Feb 6th - Israel Citkowitz, composer
Feb 7th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
Feb 7th - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
Feb 8th - Henry Roth, writer
Feb 9th - Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
Feb 9th - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
Feb 9th - Harald Genzmer, composer
Feb 9th - Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
Feb 9th - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
Feb 10th - Lord Milne
Feb 11th - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth)
Feb 11th - Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
Feb 11th - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
Feb 12th - Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
Feb 14th - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
Feb 15th - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
Feb 15th - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
Feb 16th - Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
Feb 16th - Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties)
Feb 16th - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
Feb 17th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
Feb 17th - Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
Feb 18th - Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
Feb 18th - Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
Feb 19th - Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
Feb 21st - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
Feb 21st - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
Feb 21st - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
Feb 22nd - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
Feb 23rd - Frank Ward, cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
Feb 24th - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
Feb 24th - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
Feb 24th - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
Feb 24th - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
Feb 25th - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
Feb 25th - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
Feb 26th - Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
Feb 26th - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
Feb 27th - Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
Feb 28th - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
Feb 28th - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)
Mar 1st - Richard de Guide, composer
Mar 1st - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
Mar 1st - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
Mar 2nd - Hanoch Jacoby, composer
Mar 2nd - Jan Fabricius, Dutch playwright
Mar 2nd - Mel Ott, American baseball player, 1st NLer to hit 500 home runs, hall of famer (NY Giants) (d. 1958)
Mar 3rd - Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 2

Apr 15th - Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
Oct 2nd - American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (20) marries 1st wife Kathleen Jenkins

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 76 of 76

Jan 12th - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)
Jan 14th - Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
Jan 15th - Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
Jan 15th - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
Jan 15th - Arnold Janssen missionary (b. 1837)
Jan 17th - Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819
Jan 22nd - Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83
Feb 2nd - Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73
Feb 3rd - Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86
Feb 8th - Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80
Feb 8th - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32
Feb 17th - Geronimo [one who yawns], Apache chief, dies at 79
Mar 12th - Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
Mar 12th - Joe Petrosino, NYPD lieutenant (b. 1860)
Mar 16th - George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85
Mar 22nd - Gyula Erkel, composer, dies at 66
Mar 24th - John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
Mar 25th - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
Mar 26th - Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
Apache Leader Geronimo (Feb 17th) Apr 3rd - Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71
Apr 9th - Charles Conder, artist, dies
Apr 9th - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
Apr 10th - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
Apr 12th - Hermann Kotzchmar, composer, dies at 79
Apr 13th - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
May 5th - Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
May 8th - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
May 10th - Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
May 18th - George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies at 81
May 20th - Ernest Hogan, blackface comedian and musician (b. 1859)
Jun 1st - Giuseppe Martucci, composer, dies at 53
Jun 10th - Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
Jun 18th - Learmont Drysdale, composer, dies at 42
Jun 22nd - Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65
Jun 24th - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
Jun 28th - Israel Durham, Phillies president dies
Jul 5th - Emil Bohn, composer, dies at 70
Jul 8th - Gaston AA marquis de Gallifet, Fren min of War (1899-1900), dies at 79
Jul 9th - Kasimir Felix Badeni, Premier of Polish/Austria (1895-97), dies at 62
Jul 10th - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies
Jul 11th - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74
Jul 22nd - D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65
Jul 23rd - Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65
Jul 23rd - Zygmunt Noskowski, composer, dies at 63
Aug 15th - Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian writer and sociologist (b. 1866)
Aug 17th - Richard Hoffman, composer, dies at 78
Aug 19th - Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
Aug 29th - Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies
Sep 7th - Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
Sep 9th - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 1848)
Oct 6th - Dudley Buck, US organist/composer, dies at 70
Oct 13th - Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed
Oct 14th - Johann Gottfred Matthison-Hansen, composer, dies at 76
Oct 16th - Jakub Bart-Ćišinski, Sorbian writer (b. 1856)
Oct 17th - Nicola Spinelli, composer, dies at 44
Oct 18th - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies
Oct 19th - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies
Oct 26th - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
Nov 2nd - Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist, dies at 81
Nov 8th - Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
Nov 8th - Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
Nov 10th - Ludvig Schytte, composer, dies at 61
Nov 10th - Renee Vivien, American poet (b. 1877)
Nov 10th - George Essex Evans, Australian poet (b. 1863)
Nov 13th - Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
Nov 16th - Francis Thome, composer, dies at 59
Nov 30th - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
Dec 4th - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies at 60
Dec 10th - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies
Dec 11th - Innokenty Annensky, Russian poet (b. 1855)
Dec 13th - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 [OS 11/30]
Dec 14th - Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
Dec 15th - Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer, dies at 57
Dec 20th - Benjamin Ipavec, composer, dies at 79
Dec 24th - Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80
Dec 26th - Frederic Remington, American artist (b. 1861)