1909

Events

   * January 5 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
   * January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South
     Pole.
   * January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since
     the Spanish-American War.
   * February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored
     People (NAACP) is founded.
   * February 24 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
   * March 18 - Einar Dessau uses a short-wave radio transmitter becoming
     the first to broadcast as a ham radio operator.
   * March 23 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency
     safari in Africa. The trip was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution
     and National Geographic Society.
   * March 31 - Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia-Herzegovina.
   * April 6 - Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
   * April 27 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is
     succeeded by his brother, Murat V.
   * June 1 - The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
   * July 13 - Gold discovered near Cochrane, Ontario.
   * July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English
     Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
   * September 9 - Comet Halley first becomes visible on a photographic
     plate.
   * Change of US president from Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) to William
     Howard Taft (1909-1913).
   * Albert I of Belgium succeeds Leopold II.
   * The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
   * Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal.
   * Karl Landsteiner develops system of blood groups.

Births

   * January 1 - Barry Goldwater, American politician
   * January 3 - Victor Borge, Danish entertainer
   * January 5 - Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician
   * January 8 - Willy Millowitsch, actor (+ 1999)
   * January 15 - Gene Krupa, drummer (+ 1973)
   * January 16 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (+ 1984)
   * January 22 - U Thant, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (+ 1974)
   * January 22 - Ann Sothern, actress (+ 2001)
   * February 3 - Simone Weil, philosopher (+ 1943)
   * February 9 - Dean Rusk, United States Secretary of State (+ 1994)
   * February 9 - Carmen Miranda, actress, singer (+ 1955)
   * February 11 - Joseph Mankiewicz
   * February 11 - Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer/actor
   * February 15 - Guillermo Gorostiza Paredes, Spanish football player
   * February 15 - Miep Gies, Anne Frank friend, biographer
   * February 24 - August Derleth, American writer
   * March 1 - David Niven, actor (+ 1983)
   * March 2 - Mel Ott, Baseball Hall of Famer
   * March 4 - Harry Helmsley, real estate entrepreneur (+ 1997)
   * March 19 - Louis Hayward, actor (+ 1985)
   * March 22 - Gabrielle Roy, author (+ 1983)
   * March 24 - Clyde Barrow, half of American criminal duo (+ 1934)
   * March 27 - Golo Mann, historian and publicist (+ 1994)
   * April 13 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish/American mathematician
   * April 30 - Juliana of the Netherlands
   * May 7 - Edwin H. Land, inventor and founder of Polaroid
   * May 10 - Mother Maybelle Carter, country musician
   * May 15 - James Mason, British actor
   * May 19 - Bruce Bennett, actor
   * May 30 - Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
   * June 20 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor
   * July 28 - Malcolm Lowry, British novelist
   * July 30 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author
   * August 25 - Ruby Keeler, singer, actress (+ 1993)
   * September 14 - Peter Scott, British painter
   * September 21 - Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanian politician
   * September 28 - Al Capp, American cartoonist
   * October 28 - Francis Bacon, British painter
   * November 18 - Johnny Mercer, American songwriter
   * November 24 - Gerhard Gentzen, German mathematician
   * Pawe? Jasienica, Polish historian
   * Giulio Racah, Italian mathematician and physicist
   * Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan president

Deaths

   * January 12 - Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
   * January 14 - Arthur William a Beckett, British journalist
   * April 12 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, British poet
   * May 19 - Isaac AlbŽniz, Spanish composer
   * August 27 - Emil Christian Hansen, Danish fermentation physiologist
   * December 17 - Leopold II of Belgium

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Guglielmo Marconi, Carl Ferdinand Braun
   * Chemistry - Wilhelm Ostwald
   * Medicine - Emil Theodor Kocher
   * Literature - Selma Lagerlšf
   * Peace - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert and Paul Henribenjamin Balluet
     D'estournelles De Constant, Baron De Constant De Rebecque

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