Today in History for February 1909

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 16 of 16

1st - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
2nd - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
8th - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
9th - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
9th - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
12th - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
12th - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
12th - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
16th - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
16th - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
18th - Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
20th - Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
21st - John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London
22nd - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
23rd - Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
24th - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 50 of 50

1st - George Beverly Shea, Winchester, Ontario, American gospel singer
1st - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
1st - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
2nd - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
3rd - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
3rd - Simone Weil, Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter (WW II)
4th - Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
4th - Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
5th - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer
6th - Israel Citkowitz, composer
7th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
7th - Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
8th - Henry Roth, writer
9th - Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
9th - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69)
9th - Harald Genzmer, composer
9th - Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans)
9th - John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
10th - Lord Milne
11th - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre PA, film writer/director (Sleuth)
11th - Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35)
11th - Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
12th - Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
14th - A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
15th - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
15th - Miep Gies, Dutch biographer of Anne Frank
16th - Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
16th - Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties)
16th - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (d. 1998)
17th - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
17th - Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
18th - Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932)
18th - Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose)
19th - Charlie Walker, South Aust cricket wicket-keeper (toured but no Tests)
21st - George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director
21st - Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor
21st - Helen O Dickens, [Henderson], US physician/gynaecologist
22nd - Roderick Barclay, diplomat
23rd - Frank Ward, cricketer (Australian leggie late 30s)
24th - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
24th - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
24th - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
24th - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
25th - Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy)
25th - John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer
26th - Phyllis Fanny Primrose-Pechey Cradock, TV Chef
26th - King Talal of Jordan (d. 1972)
27th - Elisabeth Welch, singer (Song of Freedom, Over the Moon)
28th - Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie)
28th - Stephen Harold Spender, Engld, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 5 of 5

2nd - Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73
3rd - Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86
8th - Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80
8th - Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer, dies at 32
17th - Geronimo [one who yawns], Apache chief, dies at 79