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1909

1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar).

Events

January – March

  • 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 4 - End of term for Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States. He is succeeded by William Howard Taft.
  • 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 – June

  • April 6 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
  • April 27 - Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Muhammad V. He leaves the country the next day.
  • June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
  • June 2 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
  • June 9 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, became the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, for fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California.
  • June 15 - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lords and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
  • June 22 - Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts, United States.

    July – September

  • July 13 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
  • July 16 - A revolution forces Mohammad Ali Shah, Persian Shah of the Qajar dynasty to abdicate in favor of his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. He proceeds in leaving Persia for Imperial Russia, reportedly seeking the assistance of Nicholas II of Russia in regaining the throne.
  • July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
  • August 8 - Launching of The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Seattle (Washington). Later, in October 28 1911, its international headquarters and Healing Temple, till today, were physically launched at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside (California).
  • September 9 - Comet Halley first recorded on a photographic plate.
  • September 10-21 – Hurricane sweeps over Louisiana and Mississippi - 350 dead
  • September 25 – Auroras seen in Singapore.

    October – December

  • October 2 - The first rugby football match played in Twickenham
  • November 11 - US Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
  • 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 José Santos Zelaya.
  • November - First edition of Max Heindel's magnum opus The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception.
  • December 17 - Leopold II of Belgium dies and is succeeded by his nephew Albert I of Belgium.


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