April 09 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays
Tuesday, 04 August 2026
1909 Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio. 

1909 Charles Conder, artist, dies. 

1910 Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct). 

1911 Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train) 

1912 Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200. 

1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard). 

1913 Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0 

1914 inaugural full color film shown "The World, The Flesh and the Devil" (London). 

1914 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway main line is completed between Winnipeg, Melville, Edmonton, Jasper and Prince Rupert. 

1914 US and Columbia sign a treaty concerning the Panama Canal Zone. 

1914 "World, the Flesh and the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London 

1914 Richard Young, CEO (Boosey and Hawkes). 

1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer, dies at 62. 

1917 Battle of Arras begins. 

1917 In this year, Capt. Thain Wendell MacDowell (Cdn. 38th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France 

1917 In this year, Lance-Sargent Ellis Wellwood Sifton (Cdn. 18th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France. 

1917 In this year, Pvt. William Johnstone Milne (Cdn. 16th Cdn. Infantry Batt.) claims the Victoria Cross at Vimy Ridge France. 

1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops. 

1917 Johannes Bobrowski, writer 

1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I. 

1918 Latvia proclaims independence. 

1918 Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House). 

1919 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC) 

1920 Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle). 

1921 Frankie Thomas, NYC, actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet). 

1922 Carl Amery, writer. 

1923 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin. 

1923 Bruno Kiefer, composer. 

1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies 

1924 Harald Heilmann, composer. 

1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital 

1927 Italy and US anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti given death sentences 

1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil" 

1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena 

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