Page 5: Historical Events In 1909

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

Mar 30   In the year 1909 queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens   

Mar 31   In the year 1909 baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years   

Mar 31   Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time in the year 1909.   

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

Apr 01   In the year 1909 abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, director/actor (Imhook-Kodiak)   

Apr 02   In the year 1909 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   Commander Robert E. Peary &Matthew Henson reports reaching the North Pole on this day in history.   

Apr 06   The first credit union established in US in the year 1909.   

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

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

Apr 09   In the year 1909 charles Conder, artist, dies   

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

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

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

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   On this day in history anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London   

Apr 15   In the year 1909 mien Wenneker, Dutch prince Henry's lover, weds Uncle Cornelis Abbo   

Apr 16   In the year 1909 herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian   

Apr 17   In the year 1909 alain Emile Louis Marie Poher, politician   

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 in the year 1909.   

Apr 20   Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman on this day in history.   

Apr 21   Rollo May, US, psychologist, Love & Will) on this day in history.   

Apr 22   In the year 1909 a Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva   

Apr 22   On this day in history ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show)   

Apr 23   Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant on this day in history.   

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

Apr 24   Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds on this day in history.   

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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   D D Hindlekar, cricketer (Indian batsman & wicket-keeper 1936-46) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 01   Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura) was born in the year 1909.   

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

Jan 02   Rene Etiemble, French literature historian (Parlez-vous Franglais) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 03   On this day in history birth of victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian   

Jan 05   Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) was born on this day in history.   

Jan 05   On this day in history birth of simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile   

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

Jan 14   In the year 1909 sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60   

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

Jan 17   In the year 1909 death of sir Francis Smith, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1819   

Jan 22   Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83 in the year 1909.   

Feb 02   Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73 on this day in history.   

Feb 03   Johann Georg Herzog, composer, dies at 86 in the year 1909.   

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