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1909 (film) .
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1909 (MCMIX )was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium , the 9th year of the 20th century , and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
January–February
January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama .
January 9 – The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole , led by Ernest Shackleton , arrives at the farthest south reached by any prior expedition, at 88°23' S, prior to turning back, due to diminishing supplies.[1]
January 16 – Shackleton's expedition claims to have found the magnetic South Pole [2] (but the location recorded may be incorrect).
January 24 – The White Star Liner RMS Republic sinks, the day after a collision with SS Florida . In the first recorded use of the CQD emergency radio signal for a large passenger vessel, one person, a male passenger, is lost on the Republic .[3]
January 28 – The last United States troops leave Cuba , after being there since the Spanish–American War of 1898 .
February 5 – Leo Baekeland announces the creation of bakelite hard thermosetting plastic .
February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York, New York .
March–April
March 4 – William Howard Taft is sworn in , as the 27th President of the United States.
March 10 – The Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 is signed in Bangkok .
March 18 – Einar Dessau uses a shortwave radio transmitter, becoming the first radio broadcaster.
March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Bahá'í Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa , at this time within the Ottoman Empire .
March 31 – Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina .
April 4 – The team Sport Club Internacional is founded in Porto Alegre , Brazil.
April 6 – Robert Peary , Matthew Henson , and four Inuit explorers, Ootah, Ooqueah, Seegloo, and Egigingwah, come within a few miles of the North Pole .[4]
April 11 – The city of Tel Aviv (known in its first year as Ahuzat Bayit ) is founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of Jaffa .
April 13 (March 31 by Eastern reckoning) – A countercoup begins in the Ottoman Empire.
April 14 – Adana massacre : Ottoman Turks kill 15,000–30,000 Armenian Christians, in the Adana Vilayet .
April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
April 19 – The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (modern-day BP ) is incorporated.
April 27 – Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown and succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V . He is sent to the Ottoman port city of Thessaloniki (Selanik) the next day.
May–June
July–August
September–October
November–December
November 18 – In Nicaragua , 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya . The United States responds by sending 2 warships.
December 4 – Montreal Canadiens , a well known professional ice hockey club in Canada , is founded.[6]
December 14 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 , formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth, to create the Australian Capital Territory.
December 19 – The team Borussia Dortmund is founded in Dortmund , Germany.
December 23 – King Albert I of Belgium succeeds his uncle, Leopold II (died December 17), on the throne.
December 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made at East London , by French aviator Albert Kimmerling , in a Voisin 1907 biplane .[7]
Undated
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