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Events on the year of 1909 in history

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01 Jan 1909 Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)
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01 Jan 1909 Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
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02 Jan 1909 1st official Dutch 11 city skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50)
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09 Jan 1909 Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
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14 Jan 1909 Co
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16 Jan 1909 Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
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16 Jan 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
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16 Jan 1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole
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19 Jan 1909 Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way" premieres in New York City NY
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22 Jan 1909 Vassily Kandinsky forms K
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23 Jan 1909 RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
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23 Jan 1909 1st radio rescue at sea
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25 Jan 1909 Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
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25 Jan 1909 Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden
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27 Jan 1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
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28 Jan 1909 United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
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28 Jan 1909 US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time
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01 Feb 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
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02 Feb 1909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
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05 Feb 1909 Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
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08 Feb 1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco
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09 Feb 1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
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09 Feb 1909 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
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12 Feb 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.
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12 Feb 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
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12 Feb 1909 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
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12 Feb 1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
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15 Feb 1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
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16 Feb 1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)
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16 Feb 1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
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18 Feb 1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps
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20 Feb 1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
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22 Feb 1909 The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
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22 Feb 1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia
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23 Feb 1909 The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
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23 Feb 1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
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26 Feb 1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
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01 Mar 1909 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
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02 Mar 1909 Gr Brit, France, Germ and It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands
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03 Mar 1909 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Montreal Wanderers, 8-3
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04 Mar 1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th President during 10" snowstorm
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04 Mar 1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
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04 Mar 1909 U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
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10 Mar 1909 By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
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10 Mar 1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
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14 Mar 1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
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18 Mar 1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast
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21 Mar 1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) win Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
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23 Mar 1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
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26 Mar 1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premieres in Stockholm
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30 Mar 1909 The Queensboro Bridge in New York City opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
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30 Mar 1909 Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
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31 Mar 1909 Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
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31 Mar 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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31 Mar 1909 Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years
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31 Mar 1909 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his 1st time
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06 Apr 1909 1st credit union forms in US
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06 Apr 1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
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06 Apr 1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
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09 Apr 1909 The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
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11 Apr 1909 The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
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12 Apr 1909 Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens
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13 Apr 1909 The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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14 Apr 1909 A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
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14 Apr 1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
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15 Apr 1909 New York Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers
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15 Apr 1909 Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo
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18 Apr 1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
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18 Apr 1909 Joan of Arc declared a saint
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19 Apr 1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8
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19 Apr 1909 Joan of Arc, declared a saint
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24 Apr 1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100 meter 3-legged race in 11 seconds
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27 Apr 1909 Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
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27 Apr 1909 Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown
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01 May 1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
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02 May 1909 Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs
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03 May 1909 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2
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07 May 1909 Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
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08 May 1909 Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)
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08 May 1909 Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
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10 May 1909 Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 innings
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12 May 1909 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8
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13 May 1909 Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in the Netherlands
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13 May 1909 The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
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17 May 1909 White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
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19 May 1909 Jack Johnson fights Jack O'Brien to no decision in 6 for boxing title
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22 May 1909 1st San Fransisco fireboat, David Scannell, launched
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24 May 1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
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26 May 1909 Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon (2:42:31)
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29 May 1909 Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career homerun
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30 May 1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
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30 May 1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
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31 May 1909 The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
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31 May 1909 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
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01 Jun 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
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02 Jun 1909 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
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02 Jun 1909 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
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06 Jun 1909 French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
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07 Jun 1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
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07 Jun 1909 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
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12 Jun 1909 "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
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15 Jun 1909 Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
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16 Jun 1909 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
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16 Jun 1909 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
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17 Jun 1909 A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar
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18 Jun 1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
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20 Jun 1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
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23 Jun 1909 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
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24 Jun 1909 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood Golf Club - New Jersey
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24 Jun 1909 Best 72 holes of golf at US open (George Sargent-290)
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25 Jun 1909 George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
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26 Jun 1909 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach (60 61)
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26 Jun 1909 Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London
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26 Jun 1909 The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
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27 Jun 1909 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
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27 Jun 1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in the Netherlands (Belg count De Lambert)
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28 Jun 1909 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens
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30 Jun 1909 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
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08 Jul 1909 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights
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12 Jul 1909 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
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15 Jul 1909 Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
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16 Jul 1909 Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
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16 Jul 1909 Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
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16 Jul 1909 AL's longest scoreless game, Senators & Tigers 0-0 in 18
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19 Jul 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
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19 Jul 1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play
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23 Jul 1909 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia
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24 Jul 1909 Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
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25 Jul 1909 Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes.
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25 Jul 1909 France's Louis Bl
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27 Jul 1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
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30 Jul 1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
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30 Jul 1909 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
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30 Jul 1909 US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane
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01 Aug 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
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02 Aug 1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
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02 Aug 1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
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07 Aug 1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
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07 Aug 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, New York to San Francisco, California.
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10 Aug 1909 Algemeene Netherlands Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
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11 Aug 1909 Liner "Arapahoe" is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
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11 Aug 1909 SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
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11 Aug 1909 Warren Bardsley (136 & 130) 1st to get twin tons in a Test
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19 Aug 1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
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19 Aug 1909 1st race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway
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24 Aug 1909 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
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26 Aug 1909 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day
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27 Aug 1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
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28 Aug 1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
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29 Aug 1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m
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29 Aug 1909 World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins
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30 Aug 1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
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31 Aug 1909 A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
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31 Aug 1909 Thure Johnstown wins Stockholm marathon (2:40:34.2)
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02 Sep 1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
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06 Sep 1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier
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07 Sep 1909 Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
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09 Sep 1909 Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
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13 Sep 1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR (all inside-the-park)
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20 Sep 1909 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony.
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23 Sep 1909 The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
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25 Sep 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in New York
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27 Sep 1909 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
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02 Oct 1909 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
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08 Oct 1909 Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennant
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09 Oct 1909 Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
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14 Oct 1909 Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
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16 Oct 1909 Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Oct 1909 William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
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16 Oct 1909 Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series
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18 Oct 1909 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m
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26 Oct 1909 Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
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02 Nov 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
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04 Nov 1909 Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich)
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07 Nov 1909 Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama
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11 Nov 1909 Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
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13 Nov 1909 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois
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13 Nov 1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
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16 Nov 1909 EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
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18 Nov 1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
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19 Nov 1909 Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
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20 Nov 1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
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23 Nov 1909 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)
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23 Nov 1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
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23 Nov 1909 18.2 cm (7.17") of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record)
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28 Nov 1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.
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01 Dec 1909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pennsylvania
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01 Dec 1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
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04 Dec 1909 In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
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04 Dec 1909 The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
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07 Dec 1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite)
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08 Dec 1909 Bird banding society found
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09 Dec 1909 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
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10 Dec 1909 Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
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11 Dec 1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York NY
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11 Dec 1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000
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14 Dec 1909 New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
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15 Dec 1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
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16 Dec 1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office
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16 Dec 1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jos
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17 Dec 1909 Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels
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21 Dec 1909 1st junior high school established (Berkeley, California)
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21 Dec 1909 University of Copenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
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21 Dec 1909 Clyde Fitch's "City" premieres in New York NY
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23 Dec 1909 Albert becomes king of Belgium
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