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.
- February 12, 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- March 30, 1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- March 31, 1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- April 6, 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- April 9, 1909 – The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
- April 14, 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
- May 13, 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
- May 31, 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the NAACP, convenes for the first time.
- June 6, 1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
- 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 24, 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- September 20, 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.
- 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 4, 1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- December 14, 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed 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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