Notable Historical Events - 1909
1909 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4) |
Jan 1 |
Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher. |
Jan 1 |
In Great Britain, the Old Age Pension Law is finally instituted, providing pensions for every British subject over 70 with low income |
Jan 2 |
1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
Jan 5 |
Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
Jan 9 |
Ernest Shackleton as part of the British Nimrod Expedition reaches a record farthest South latitude (88°23' south) |
Jan 14 |
Coöp. Far. Central Management forms |
Jan 16 |
British explorers David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition |
Jan 19 |
Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in NYC |
Jan 22 |
Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich |
Jan 23 |
1st radio rescue at sea |
Jan 25 |
Richard Strauss' premier of "Elektra" in Dresden |
Jan 27 |
The Young Left is founded in Norway. |
Jan 28 |
US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
Feb 1 |
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
Feb 1 |
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel Gomez becomes president; ensuing political instability will bring a threat of US intervention in 1912 |
Feb 2 |
Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
Feb 8 |
France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
Feb 9 |
1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
Feb 9 |
1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio |
Feb 12 |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
Feb 12 |
Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop) |
Feb 12 |
Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) |
Feb 16 |
1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) |
Feb 16 |
Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
Feb 18 |
Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps |
Feb 20 |
Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. |
Feb 21 |
John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London |
Feb 22 |
Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va |
Feb 23 |
Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet |
Feb 24 |
The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded. |
Feb 26 |
Austria and Turkey conclude an agreement in which Turkey recognizes Austria's 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is to receive compensation |
Mar 1 |
1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn |
Mar 2 |
Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
Mar 3 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3 |
Mar 4 |
President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm |
Mar 4 |
US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
Mar 6 |
Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda" premieres in Vienna |
Mar 10 |
Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title |
Mar 12 |
Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill |
Mar 14 |
Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
Mar 18 |
Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
Mar 18 |
Russia and Bulgaria reach an agreement in which late 19th century Russian financial claims are cancelled to meet compensation due to Turkey from Bulgaria |
Mar 21 |
Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) |
Mar 21 |
Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy |
Mar 26 |
August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm |
Mar 26 |
In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz |
Mar 30 |
Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens |
Mar 31 |
Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years |
Mar 31 |
Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time |
Mar 31 |
In a diplomatic note to Austria, Serbia recognizes the the Bosnian annexation and promises to maintain friendly relations with Austria |
Apr 6 |
1st credit union forms in US |
Apr 6 |
North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson |
Apr 9 |
The US Congress pass the Payne-Aldrich bill, raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States |
Apr 12 |
Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens |
Apr 13 |
In Constantinople, the primarily Albanian First Army Corps seizes the parliament building and telegraphs offices, forcing the Ottoman statesman Hilmi Pasha to resign |
Apr 14 |
Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London |
Apr 15 |
NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers |
Apr 19 |
13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8 |
Apr 19 |
Joan of Arc receives beatification |
Apr 19 |
A convention with Turkey recognizes Bulgarian independence |
Apr 24 |
Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
Apr 27 |
Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown |
May 1 |
Netherlands begins unity with Belgium |
May 2 |
Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs |
May 3 |
35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2 |
May 7 |
Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv) |
May 8 |
Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6) |
May 8 |
Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31) |
May 10 |
Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning |
May 12 |
34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8 |
May 13 |
Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands |
May 13 |
The first Giro d'Italia takes place in Milan: Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna is the winner. |
May 17 |
White firemen on Georgia lroad strike to protest against hiring blacks |
May 19 |
Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title |
May 22 |
1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched |
May 24 |
Bristol University granted Royal Charter |
May 29 |
Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run |
May 30 |
National Conference on the Negro is held |
May 30 |
Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv |
May 31 |
1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) |
Jun 1 |
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
Jun 2 |
43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan riding Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6 |
Jun 2 |
Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. |
Jun 7 |
Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens |
Jun 7 |
Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16. |
Jun 9 |
Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the USA, driving a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days with three non-driving female companions. |
Jun 12 |
"Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1 |
Jun 15 |
Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference. |
Jun 16 |
1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
Jun 16 |
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 18 |
Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
Jun 20 |
1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring) |
Jun 23 |
Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections |
Jun 24 |
15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ |
Jun 25 |
George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament |
Jun 26 |
23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1) |
Jun 26 |
Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London |
Jun 27 |
23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (6-0 6-1) |
Jun 27 |
Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert) |
Jun 28 |
1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens |
Jun 30 |
Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title |
Jul 3 |
26th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Dora Boothby beats A Morton (6-4 4-6 8-6) |
Jul 3 |
33rd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Arthur Gore beats J Ritchie (6-8 1-6 6-2 6-2 6-2) |
Jul 8 |
1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights |
Jul 12 |
16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes) |
Jul 14 |
Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns |
Jul 15 |
Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs |
Jul 16 |
Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings |
Jul 19 |
Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play |
Jul 24 |
Bkln Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates |
Jul 25 |
France's Louis Bleriot, makes 1st airplane flight across English Channel |
Jul 27 |
Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s |
Jul 30 |
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
Jul 30 |
Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army |
Jul 31 |
Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th |
Aug 1 |
British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed |
Aug 2 |
1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
Aug 2 |
Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
Aug 4 |
Ump Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call, this leads to Hurst's banishment |
Aug 6 |
Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip. |
Aug 7 |
US issues 1st Lincoln penny |
Aug 10 |
Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
Aug 11 |
SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC |
Aug 11 |
Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test |
Aug 18 |
Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River. |
Aug 19 |
Indianapolis 500 race track opens |
Aug 24 |
Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal |
Aug 26 |
Frank Tarrant scores cricket 145 & 13-67 for Middlesex v Gloucs |
Aug 26 |
Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn & 31 in a single day |
Aug 27 |
Jack Chesbro's final Higlander game |
Aug 29 |
AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
Aug 29 |
World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins |
Aug 30 |
Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. |
Aug 31 |
A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball |
Aug 31 |
Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2) |
Sep 2 |
King Edward VII signs South Africa Act |
Sep 6 |
Word received that Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
Sep 7 |
Eugene Lefebvre (1878-1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. |
Sep 9 |
Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title |
Sep 11 |
Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
Sep 13 |
Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park) |
Sep 17 |
Denis Peyrony and Louis Capitan discover the skull of an adult male Neanderthal (La Ferrassie 1) during excavations in a rock shelter near La Ferrassie, France |
Sep 18 |
Largest paid baseball attendance (35,409), A's beat Tigers, 2-0 in Det |
Sep 20 |
The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages |
Sep 25 |
Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY |
Sep 27 |
29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (6-1 6-2 5-7 1-6 6-1) |
Sep 27 |
US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes |
Oct 2 |
1st rugby match (Twickenham) |
Oct 8 |
Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant |
Oct 9 |
Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game |
Oct 14 |
Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series |
Oct 16 |
Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Oct 16 |
Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
Oct 18 |
Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
Oct 24 |
Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans |
Oct 26 |
Itō Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, and former Japanese Prime Minister, shot and killed by Korean nationalist in Harbin, China |
Nov 4 |
Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich) |
Nov 7 |
Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922 |
Nov 11 |
Construction of US navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, begins |
Nov 11 |
J M Synge's "Tinker's Wedding" premieres in London |
Nov 12 |
Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Minister of Labour |
Nov 13 |
259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois |
Nov 13 |
Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
Nov 13 |
Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields. |
Nov 16 |
EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms |
Nov 18 |
US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya |
Nov 19 |
Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption |
Nov 20 |
Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game |
Nov 23 |
7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec) |
Nov 23 |
Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes |
Nov 26 |
Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men. |
Nov 30 |
9th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Sydney (5-0) |
Nov 30 |
The British House of Lords rejects the 'People's Budget' prepared by David Loyd George; the budget tries to shift the tax burden to the wealthy |
Dec 1 |
1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa |
Dec 1 |
1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef |
Dec 4 |
1st CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Parkdale, 26-6 |
Dec 7 |
Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) |
Dec 8 |
Bird banding society found |
Dec 9 |
1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY) |
Dec 11 |
Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC |
Dec 11 |
Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000 |
Dec 15 |
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
Dec 16 |
A conservative revolution and US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos from office |
Dec 17 |
Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels |
Dec 21 |
1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) |
Dec 21 |
Clyde Fitch' "City" premieres in NYC |
Dec 21 |
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
Dec 23 |
Albert I becomes the third King of the Belgians |
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