See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
January 5 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American
War.
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 18 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming the first to broadcast
as a ham radio operator.
March 23 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa.
The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
March 31 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
April 6 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
April 27 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother,
Murat V.
June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and
form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
July 13 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a
heavier-than-air craft.
September 9 - Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate.
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.
Change of US president from Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) to William Howard
Taft (1909-1913).
Albert I of Belgium succeeds Leopold II.
The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal.
Karl Landsteiner develops system of blood groups.
Leon's, a Canadian furniture chain is first opened.
Britain introduces Minimum Wage Laws.
Year in topic:
1909 in
aviation:
Sophie Tucker first appears in the Ziegfeld Follies.
1909 in
film:
Thomas Edison formed the Motion Picture Patents Company.
Mary Pickford first appears in a film (The Lonely Villa).
Births:
January 1 -
Barry Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998).
January 3 -
Victor Borge, Danish entertainer (d. 2000).
January 5 -
Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994).
January 8 -
Willy Millowitsch, actor (d. 1999).
January 15 -
Gene Krupa, drummer (d. 1973).
January 16 -
Ethel Merman, singer, actress (d. 1984).
January 20 -
Adriaan Johan van den Houten.
January 22 -
U Thant, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974).
January 22 -
Ann Sothern, actress (d. 2001).
January 25 -
Hendrika van den Boogaard.
February 3 -
Simone Weil, philosopher (d. 1943).
February 9 -
Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (d. 1994).
February 9 -
Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (d. 1955).
February 11 -
Joseph Mankiewicz, filmmaker (d. 1993).
February 11 -
Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor (d. 1959).
February 13 -
Tona Pieternella Vijverberg.
February 15 -
Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football player (d. 1966).
February 15 -
Miep Gies (Hermine Santrouschitz), Anne Frank friend, biographer.
February 24 -
August Derleth, American writer (d. 1971).
February 26 -
King Talal, King of Jordan (d.1972).
March 1 -
David Niven, actor (d. 1983).
March 2 -
Mel Ott, Baseball Hall of Famer.
March 4 -
Harry Helmsley, real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997).
March 6 -
Pieter (Piet) van der Burgh.
March 19 -
Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1985).
March 22 -
Gabrielle Roy, author (d. 1983).
March 24 -
Clyde Barrow, half of American criminal duo (d. 1934).
March 27 -
Golo Mann, historian and publicist (d. 1994).
March 30 -
Geertruida Jansen.
April 13 -
Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish/American mathematician (d. 1984).
April 25 -
Antje Schol.
April 30 -
Juliana of the Netherlands.
May 7 -
Edwin H. Land, inventor and founder of Polaroid (d. 1991).
May 10 -
Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician.
May 15 -
James Mason, British actor (d. 1984).
May 17 -
Johanna Mastenbroek.
May 19 -
Bruce Bennett, actor.
May 30 -
Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (d. 1986).
June 8 -
Cornelis van den Houten.
June 17 -
Elmer Lee Andersen, governor of Minnesota.
June 20 -
Errol Flynn, Australian actor (d. 1959).
July 4 -
Apolonia Boudewina van den Houten.
July 18 -
Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan president (d. 1978).
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, lawyer, diplomat (d. 1944).
August 25 -
Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (d. 1993).
August 26 -
Jim Davis, actor (d. 1981).
September 14 -
Peter Scott, British ornithologist and painter (d. 1989).
September 21 -
Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanian politician (d. 1972).
September 26 -
Agnes Pepetua Wunnink.
September 28 -
Al Capp, American cartoonist (d. 1979).
October 14 -
Bernd Rosemeyer, race car driver (d. 1938).
October 28 -
Francis Bacon, British painter (d. 1992).
November 4 -
Skeeter Webb, Professional Baseball Player (d. 1986).
November 10 -
Pawel Jasienica, Polish historian (d. 1970).
November 13 -
Abraham Jacob Hage.
November 18 -
Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (d. 1976).
November 20 -
Dina van den Houten.
November 24 -
Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician (d. 1945).
December 6 -
Teuntje Suzanna Ketting.
December 23 -
Barney Ross, American boxing champion (d. 1967).
Giulio Racah, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1965).
Deaths:
January 12 -
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician.
January 14 -
Arthur William a Beckett, British journalist.
March 15 -
Jacob Vreeswijk.
March 19 -
Nicolaas Jacobus van den Houten.
April 12 -
Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet.
May 19 -
Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer.
June 10 -
Maarten van den Houten.
June 19 -
Sara Jozina Scheele.
July 13 -
Jan Jacobus van den Houten.
August 3 -
Johannes van (den) Houten.
August 27 -
Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist.
October 7 -
Catharina de Jong.
November 4 -
Bregtje (Bertha) van Houten.
November 18 -
Marinus Noteboom.
December 17 -
Leopold II of Belgium.
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