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 27, 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 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.
- February 20, 1909 – Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
- March 31, 1909 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 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.
- April 27, 1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
- 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 26, 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
- August 19, 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
- August 24, 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- August 30, 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 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.
- September 23, 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.
- 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.
- 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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