Page 5: Historical Events In 1909

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

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   In the year 1909 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 in the year 1909.   

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   On this day in history 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   In the year 1909 the first credit union established in US   

Apr 06   In the year 1909 the North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary   

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

Apr 09   Charles Conder, artist, dies on this day in history.   

Apr 09   On this day in history domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio   

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

Apr 10   Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

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

Apr 12   Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens on this day in history.   

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 in the year 1909.   

Apr 15   On this day in history mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo   

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 on this day in history.   

Apr 19   13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8 in the year 1909.   

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

Apr 21   On this day in history rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will)   

Apr 22   On this day in history a Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva   

Apr 22   In the year 1909 ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)   

Apr 23   Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant in the year 1909.   

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   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   In the year 1909 birth of dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura)   

Jan 01   On this day in history birth of stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (d. 1959)   

Jan 02   In the year 1909 birth of rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais)   

Jan 03   Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker)   

Jan 05   Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile was born on this day in history.   

Jan 12   Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864) died on this day in history.   

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

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   Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83 in the year 1909.   

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

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

Feb 08   On this day in history edouard Silas, composer, dies at 80