Historical Events In 1909

Mar 30   On this day in history queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens  

Mar 30   On this day in history queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens  

Mar 31   Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years in the year 1909.  

Mar 31   On this day in history gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time  

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   Jean Kurt Forest, composer on this day in history.  

Apr 03   Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.  

Apr 05   On this day in history alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond)  

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

Apr 06   Commander Robert E. Peary &Matthew Henson reports reaching the North Pole in the year 1909.  

Apr 06   In the year 1909 the first credit union established in US  

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

Apr 08   George Dixon, trumpet/sax on this day in history.  

Apr 09   On this day in history charles Conder, artist, dies  

Apr 09   In the year 1909 domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio  

Apr 09   The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act on this day in history.  

Apr 10   Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 in the year 1909.  

Apr 12   Hermann Kotzchmar, composer, dies at 79 on this day in history.  

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

Apr 13   Eudora Welty, Jackson Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973) on this day in history.  

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 in the year 1909.  

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   In the year 1909 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 on this day in history.  

Apr 22   Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show) on this day in history.  

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

Apr 24   In the year 1909 bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)  

Apr 24   On this day in history harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds  

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Jan 01   Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- )/Pres candidate (R) 1964) was born on this day in history.  

Jan 01   In the year 1909 birth of d D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46)  

Jan 01   In the year 1909 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   Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile was born in the year 1909.  

Jan 12   Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864) died in the year 1909.  

Jan 14   Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60 on this day in history.  

Jan 15   In the year 1909 ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85  

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

Jan 22   In the year 1909 richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83  

Feb 02   Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 in the year 1909.  

Feb 03   In the year 1909 johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86  

Feb 08   Edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80 on this day in history.