Year '1909' ('
MCMIX') was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Thursday
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
The number ''1909'' is a
hyperperfect number, because the sum of its proper
divisors (23 and 83) is a divisor of ''n''-1 (18
★ 106 = 1908). The next year to be a hyperperfect number will be 2041, but then not again until ''3901''.
Nineteen 09 is also the name of a designhouse in the UK.
[1]
1909 is also the name of a clothing company in Southern California.
[2]
Events of 1909
January
★ January - The
Old Age Pensions Act 1908 comes into force in
Britain.
★
January 1 - Drilling begins on the
Lakeview Gusher.
★
January 5 -
Colombia recognizes the independence of
Panama.
★
January 16 -
Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic
South Pole.
★
January 27 - The
Young Left is founded in
Norway.
★
January 28 -
United States troops leave
Cuba after being there since the
Spanish-American War.
February
★
February 12 - The
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
★
February 23 - The
Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in
Canada and the
British Empire.
★
February 24 - The
Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
March
★
March 4 - End of term for
Theodore Roosevelt, 26th
President of the United States. He is succeeded by
William Howard Taft.
★
March 10 -
Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 signed in
Bangkok.
★
March 18 -
Einar Dessau uses a
short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first radio broadcaster.
★
March 23 -
Theodore Roosevelt leaves
New York for a post-presidency
safari in
Africa. The trip is sponsored by the
Smithsonian Institution and
National Geographic Society.
★
March 31
★
★
Serbia accepts
Austrian control over
Bosnia-Herzegovina.
★
★
Titanic laid down.
April
★
April 6 -
Robert Peary,
Matthew Henson, and four
Eskimo explorers allegedly reach the
North Pole.
★
April 27 -
Sultan of the
Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother,
Mehmed V. He was sent to the Ottoman port city of
Thessaloniki (Selanik) next day.
May
★
May - ''Choosing a vocation'' by
Frank Parsons (d.
1908) is published.
June
★
June 1 - The
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in
Seattle.
★
June 2 -
Alfred Deakin becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
★
June 9 -
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, for fifty-nine days she drives a
Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles, from
Manhattan, New York to
San Francisco, California.
★
June 15 - Representatives from
England,
Australia and
South Africa meet at
Lord's and form the
Imperial Cricket Conference.
★
June 22 - Construction begins on the
Cape Cod Canal, which would separate
Cape Cod from mainland
Massachusetts,
United States.
July
★
July 13 -
Gold discovered near
Cochrane, Ontario.
★
July 16 - A
revolution forces
Mohammad Ali Shah,
Persian Shah of the
Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son
Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds in leaving
Persia for
Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of
Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne.
★
July 25 -
Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the
English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
★
July 26 - Work on the anti-aircraft gun commences.
August
★
August 8 - Launching of
The Rosicrucian Fellowship at
Seattle, Washington.
★
August 12 - The first event is held at
Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
September
★
September 9 -
Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate.
★
September 10-
21 -
Hurricane sweeps over
Louisiana and
Mississippi , killing 350.
★
September 25 -
Auroras seen in
Singapore.
October
★ October - The Trade Boards Act, a form of
Minimum wage legislation, is passed in the UK.
★
October 8 - The first
rugby football match played in
Twickenham
★
October 13 - Agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland giving the Germans and Italians access to the
St. Gotthard Railway tunnel
★
October 26 -
An Jung-geun, Korean nationalist, assassinates Japanese leader,
Ito Hirobumi, in protest at the
Japanese annexation of Korea.
November
★ November - First edition of
Max Heindel's ''magnum opus'' ''
The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception''.
★
November 2 -
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at
Boston University.
★
November 11 -
US Navy founds a navy base in
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
★
November 13 -
Ballinger-
Pinchot scandal begins: ''
Collier's magazine'' accuses US Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in
Alaskan
coal fields.
★
November 18 - Two
United States warships are sent to
Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of dictator
Jose Santos Zelaya.
December
★
December 4
★
★ The
Montreal Canadiens Hockey Club is founded.
★
★ The
University of Bristol is founded and receives its
Royal Charter.
★
December 17 -
Leopold II of Belgium dies and is succeeded by his nephew
Albert I of Belgium.
★
December 31 -
Manhattan Bridge opens.
Undated
★
William Dickson Boyce, a
United States businessman visiting
London,
England is introduced to members of the
Scouting movement. The following year, Boyce becomes founder of the
Boy Scouts of America.
★
Karl Landsteiner develops system of
blood grouping.
★ Opening of
Leon's, the famous
Canadian furniture store.
★ The laboratory of
Paul Ehrlich creates the
Salvarsan treatment for
syphilis.
★
Mohorovicic discontinuity is discovered.
★ Centennial anniversary is held for
Miami University (Ohio).
★
American Issue Publishing House of
Anti-Saloon League is incorporated.
★ Building of the modern city of
Tel Aviv,
Israel, begins; it is known initially as
Ahuzat Bayit.
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Barry Goldwater, American politician (d.
1998)
★
January 3 -
Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d.
2000)
★
January 4 -
J. R. Simplot, American businessman
★
January 5 -
Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d.
1994)
★
January 8 -
Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d.
1999)
★
January 9 -
Anthony Mamo, Maltan President (1974-1976)
★
January 13 -
Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting fire to the Reichstag (d.
1934)
★
January 15
★
★
Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d.
1939)
★
★
Gene Krupa, American drummer (d.
1973)
★
January 16 -
Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d.
1994)
★
January 19 -
Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d.
2003)
★
January 21 -
Todor Skalovski, Macedonian composer (d.
2004)
★
January 22
★
★
Ann Sothern, American actress (d.
2001)
★
★
U Thant, Burmese
United Nations Secretary General (d.
1974)
★
January 24 -
Martin Lings, British Islamic scholar (d.
2005)
★
February 1 -
George Beverly Shea, American gospel singer and Songwriter
★
February 3 -
Simone Weil, French philosopher (d.
1943)
★
February 9
★
★
Carmen Miranda, Portuguese-born actress and singer (d.
1955)
★
★
Dean Rusk,
United States Secretary of State (d.
1994)
★
★
Harald Genzmer, German composer
★
February 11
★
★
Max Baer, American boxer and actor (d.
1959)
★
★
Joseph Mankiewicz, American filmmaker (d.
1993)
★
February 15
★
★
Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish footballer (d.
1966)
★
★
Miep Gies, Dutch friend and biographer of
Anne Frank
★
February 18 -
Wallace Stegner, American writer (d.
1993)
★
February 19 -
Enrico Donati, Italian-born American painter
★
February 21 -
Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor
★
February 24 -
August Derleth, American writer (d.
1971)
★
February 26 - King
Talal of Jordan (d.
1972)
March-April
★
March 2 -
Mel Ott, baseball player (d.
1958)
★
March 4 -
Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d.
1997)
★
March 9 -
Daryl E. Shreve, Founder and President of Ambus bus drivers union (d. 1984)
★
March 19 -
Louis Hayward, South African-born actor (d.
1985)
★
March 22 -
Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (d.
1983)
★
March 27 -
Golo Mann, German historian (d.
1994)
★
April 7 -
Robert Charroux, French writer (d.
1978)
★
April 13 -
Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-born mathematician (d.
1984)
★
April 22 -
Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
★
April 25 -
William Pereira, American architect (d.
1985)
★
April 30
★
★ Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands (d.
2004)
★
★
F. E. McWilliam, Northern Irish sculptor (d.
1992)
May-June
★
May 6 -
Loyd Sigmon, American
amateur ("ham") radio broadcastor (d.
2004)
★
May 7 -
Edwin H. Land, American camera inventor (d.
1991)
★
May 10 -
Mother Maybelle Carter, American musician (d.
1978)
★
May 15 -
James Mason, British actor (d.
1984)
★
May 18 -
Fred Perry, English tennis player (d.
1995)
★
May 19 -
Nicholas Winton, British humanitarian
★
May 20 -
Matt Busby, Scottish football manager (
Manchester United) (d.
1994)
★
May 23 -
Hugh E. Blair, American linguist (d.
1967)
★
May 24 -
Victoria Hopper, Blonde Canadian stage and film actress and singer (d.
2007)
★
May 27 -
Dolores Hope, American singer, wife of
Bob Hope
★
May 30 -
Benny Goodman, American musician (d.
1986)
★
June 3 -
Ira D. Wallach, American businessman and philanthropist (d.
2007)
★
June 6 -
Isaiah Berlin, Russian historian of ideas (d.
1997)
★
June 7 -
Jessica Tandy, English actress (d.
1994)
★
June 12 -
Archie Bleyer, American song arranger & band leader (d.
1989)
★
June 14 -
Burl Ives, American singer (d.
1995)
★
June 17 -
Elmer Lee Andersen, Governor of Minnesota (d.
2004)
★
June 20 -
Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d.
1959)
★
June 26 - Colonel
Tom Parker, Dutch-born celebrity manager (d.
1997)
July-August
★
July 3 -
Earl Butz, Former U.S.
Secretary of Agriculture under
Nixon and
Ford. Oldest living former cabinet official.
★
July 11 -
Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (d.
1999)
★
July 18 -
Mohammed Daoud Khan,
President of Afghanistan (d.
1978)
★
July 23 -
John William Finn, World War II hero
★
July 28 -
Malcolm Lowry, British novelist (d.
1957)
★
July 30 -
C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author (d.
1993)
★
August 9 -
Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer and diplomat (d.
1944)
★
August 10 -
Leo Fender, One of the most influential people in the development of electrical instruments (d.
1991)
★
August 19 -
Jessie Mary Johnson, my beloved Nanna J. Died on her birthday 2007, age 98
★
August 25
★
★
Ruby Keeler, Canadian singer and actress (d.
1993)
★
★
Michael Rennie, English actor (d.
1971)
★
August 26 -
Jim Davis, American actor (d.
1981)
September-October
★
September 1 -
E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d.
1957)
★
September 7 -
Elia Kazan, Hungarian-born film director (d.
2003)
★
September 14 -
Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d.
1989)
★
September 15 -
Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (d.
1982)
★
September 17 -
Ernie Koy, former baseball player (d.
2007)
★
September 21 -
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician (d.
1972)
★
September 24 -
Carl Sigman, American songwriter (d.
2000)
★
September 28 -
Al Capp, American cartoonist (d.
1979)
★
October 5 -
Tony Malinosky, former baseball player
★
October 14 -
Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d.
1938)
★
October 19 -
Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d.
1981)
★
October 24 -
Bill Carr, American athlete (d.
1966)
★
October 27 -
Henry Townsend, American bluegrass musician (d.
2006)
★
October 28 -
Francis Bacon, British painter (d.
1992)
November-December
★
November 4 -
Skeeter Webb, baseball player (d.
1986)
★
November 9 -
Kay Thompson, American author and actress. (d.
1998)
★
November 10 -
Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d.
1970)
★
November 18 -
Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d.
1976)
★
November 23 -
Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and writer (d.
2000)
★
November 24 -
Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician (d.
1945)
★
November 26 -
Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born playwright (d.
1994)
★
November 27 -
James Agee, American writer (d.
1955)
★
December 14 -
Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1975)
★
December 16 -
Emil Mailho, former baseball player (d.
2007)
★
December 20 -
Vakkom Majeed, Indian
freedom fighter,
Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (d.
2000)
★
December 20 -
Vagn Holmboe, Danish composer (d.
1996)
★
December 22 -
Alan Carney, American actor (d.
1973)
★
December 23
★
★
Barney Ross, American boxer (d.
1967)
★
★
Donald Coggan,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
2000)
★
December 23 -
Giulio Racah, Israeli mathematician and physicist (d.
1965)
Deaths
January - June
★
January 8 -
Harry Seeley, palaeontologist (b.
1839)
★
January 10 -
Charles Vernon Culver, US politician (b.
1830)
★
January 12 -
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b.
1864)
★
January 14 -
Arthur William a Beckett, British journalist (b.
1844)
★
February 17 -
Geronimo, Apache leader (b.
1829)
★
March 16 -
Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Earl Egerton of Tatton, chairman of the Manchester Ship Canal (b.
1832)
★
April 10 -
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (b.
1837)
★
April 28 -
Frederick Holbrook, Vermont governor (b.
1813)
★
May 10 -
Futabatei Shimei, author and translator (b.
1864)
★
May 18 -
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (b.
1860)
★
June 24 -
Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b.
1849)
July - December
★
July 18 -
Carlos, Duke of Madrid (b.
1848)
★
July 19 -
Arai Ikunosuke, samurai (b.
1836)
★
August 5 -
Miguel Antonio Caro, Colombian political leader (b.
1843)
★
August 15 -
Euclides da Cunha, Brazilian author (b.
1866)
★
August 27 -
Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist (b.
1842)
★
September 2 -
Louis Delacenserie, Belgian architect (b.
1838)
★
September 4 -
Clyde Fitch, American dramatist (b.
1865)
★
September 27 -
Gyula Donáth, sculptor (b.
1850)
★
September 29 -
Vladimir Vidrić, poet (b.
1875)
★
October 26 - Prince
Ito Hirobumi, 1st
Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b.
1841)
★
November 9 -
William Powell Frith, painter (b.
1819)
★
December 10 -
Red Cloud
★
December 15 -
Francisco Tárrega, guitarist and composer (b.
1852)
★
December 17 -
Leopold II of Belgium (b.
1835)
★
December 26 -
Frederic Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor
★ ''date unknown'' -
Gideon T. Stewart, American educator and politician (b.
1824)
==
Nobel Prizes==
★
Physics -
Guglielmo Marconi,
Karl Ferdinand Braun for the development of wireless telegraphy (radio).
★
Chemistry -
Wilhelm Ostwald for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria, and reaction velocities.
★
Medicine -
Emil Theodor Kocher for his work on the physiology, pathology, and surgery of the thyroid gland.
★
Literature -
Selma Lagerlöf ("in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings").
★
Peace -
Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert and
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant.
See also
★ Related subjects:
automobile,
safari,
Suez Canal.
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