1909 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1909?
- 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 27, 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- 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 30, 1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- 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.
- June 6, 1909 – French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire.
- 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 24, 1909 – Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
- August 30, 1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
- 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 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.
- December 31, 1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.
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