Dec 09 The birth of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., American actor

Dec 07 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers NY, patents first thermosetting plastic

Dec 09 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. born.

Dec 16 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President Jose Santos Zelaya from office

Dec 09 First US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island NY)

Dec 08 Bird banding society found

Aug 24 Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal

Aug 02 The first Lincoln head pennies minted

Aug 29 World's first air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins

Aug 02 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers

Aug 27 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game

Aug 29 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m

Aug 01 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes first delivery from Wright Brothers

Aug 11 SOS first used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC

Aug 01 The first Lincoln head pennies minted

Aug 19 First race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway

Aug 08 R S Falkiner of Moonbria sheep station in NSW demonstrates first electric sheep-shears.

Aug 05 Canadian Pacific completes the Kicking Horse grade relocation on the main line between Hector and Field, B.C. by substituting two spiral tunnels and lengthened line on a grade of 2.2% compensated, for the old "Big Hill" straight grade of 4.5%.

Oct 28 The birth of Francis Bacon, British artist

Oct 18 Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m

Jul 12 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)

Jul 30 US Army accepts delivery of first military airplane

Jul 03 Cobalt Ontario a forest fire in Porcupine District leaves one-third of Cobalt's 6,000 residents homeless.

Jul 25 Louis Bleriot becomes the first man to cross the Channel (between England and France) by plane

Jul 30 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League

Jul 23 M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia

Jul 25 France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes first airplane flight across Engl Channel

Jul 11 Simon Newcomb celestial mechanics authority, dies

Jul 29 The Buick Motor Company acquired the Cadillac Motor Company on behalf of General Motors for $4.5 million on this day in 1909.

Jul 27 Orville Wright tests first US Army airplane, flying 1h12m

Mar 10 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title

Mar 04 President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm

Mar 04 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds

Mar 31 Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time

Mar 13 Donald Alexander Smith, Lord Strathcona 1820-1914 sets up Strathcona Trust, a fund for military training and cadet corps in schools.

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