1909 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1909?
- January 5, 1909 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
- January 22, 1909 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- January 25, 1909 – Richard Strauss’ opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
- 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 20, 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- February 22, 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
- March 4, 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
- April 6, 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- April 13, 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
- April 18, 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- June 2, 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- June 7, 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
- July 25, 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover) in 37 minutes.
- 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.
- August 19, 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
- August 24, 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- November 18, 1909 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
- November 28, 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.
- December 31, 1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.
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