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 27, 1909 – The Young Left is founded in Norway.
- February 12, 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 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 4, 1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
- 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 23, 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
- March 30, 1909 – The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
- April 6, 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- April 13, 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
- April 18, 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 19, 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
- 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.
- 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.
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