Historical Events In 1909

Mar 30   Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens on this day in history.  

Mar 30   Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens in the year 1909.  

Mar 31   Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years on this day in history.  

Mar 31   Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time on this day in history.  

Mar 31   Pieter Jongeling, Dutch MP (GVP)/editor (Neth Daily) on this day in history.  

Apr 01   Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak) on this day in history.  

Apr 02   On this day in history jean Kurt Forest, composer  

Apr 03   Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71 in the year 1909.  

Apr 05   Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond) on this day in history.  

Apr 06   In the year 1909 1st credit union forms in US  

Apr 06   On this day in history commander Robert E. Peary &Matthew Henson reports reaching the North Pole  

Apr 06   On this day in history the first credit union established in US  

Apr 06   The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary on this day in history.  

Apr 08   On this day in history george Dixon, trumpet/sax  

Apr 09   Charles Conder, artist, dies in the year 1909.  

Apr 09   Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio in the year 1909.  

Apr 09   The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act in the year 1909.  

Apr 10   In the year 1909 algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72  

Apr 12   On this day in history hermann Kotzchmar, composer, dies at 79  

Apr 12   Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens in the year 1909.  

Apr 13   In the year 1909 eudora Welty, Jackson Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973)  

Apr 14   Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London on this day in history.  

Apr 15   Mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo on this day in history.  

Apr 16   On this day in history herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian  

Apr 17   Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician on this day in history.  

Apr 18   Joan of Arc declared a saint in the year 1909.  

Apr 19   13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8 on this day in history.  

Apr 20   On this day in history guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman  

Apr 21   Rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will) in the year 1909.  

Apr 22   A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva in the year 1909.  

Apr 22   Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show) in the year 1909.  

Apr 23   On this day in history thomas Padmore, senior civil servant  

Apr 24   Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany) in the year 1909.  

Apr 24   In the year 1909 harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds  

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Jan 01   On this day in history birth of barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964)  

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of d D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46)  

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)  

Jan 01   Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 02   On this day in history birth of rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)  

Jan 03   In the year 1909 birth of victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian  

Jan 05   In the year 1909 birth of jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker)  

Jan 05   In the year 1909 birth of simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile  

Jan 12   On this day in history death of hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864)  

Jan 14   Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60 in the year 1909.  

Jan 15   Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85 on this day in history.  

Jan 17   Sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819 died on this day in history.  

Jan 22   On this day in history richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83  

Feb 02   In the year 1909 adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73  

Feb 03   On this day in history johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86  

Feb 08   In the year 1909 edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80