1909 Calendar
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1909 Historical Event(s)
January 22, 1909
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
January 28, 1909
– United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
February 12, 1909
– New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 15, 1909
– The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
April 14, 1909
– A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
April 18, 1909
– Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
June 26, 1909
– The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
August 7, 1909
– Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York City to San Francisco.
September 7, 1909
– Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first ‘pilot’in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
November 2, 1909
– Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
Who Were Born On 1909?
January 3, 1909
– Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000)
February 9, 1909
– Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
February 12, 1909
– Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (d. 1945)
March 24, 1909
– Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
April 30, 1909
– Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
June 26, 1909
– Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager (d. 1997)
July 20, 1909
– Eric Rowan, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1952 (d. 1993)
October 20, 1909
– Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
November 10, 1909
– Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970)
December 4, 1909
– Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)