1909 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1909?
- January 9, 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
- January 22, 1909 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- February 26, 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
- March 10, 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.
- March 30, 1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- April 13, 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
- April 14, 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
- May 31, 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the NAACP, convenes for the first time.
- June 15, 1909 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord’s and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
- July 16, 1909 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
- August 19, 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
- August 28, 1909 – A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
- 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 26, 1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
- 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 – 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.
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