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1909

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s - 1900s - 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s

Years: 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 - 1909 - 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914

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.
July 25 - Louis Bleriot is the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft

Change of US president from Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) to William Howard Taft (1909-1913)
Albert I of Belgium succeeds Leopold II.
Foundation of the Boy Scouts of America

Art, Culture & Fashion

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 (+ 195)
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 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
Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian
Giulio Racah, Italian mathematician and physicist
Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan president

Deaths:

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

Nobel Prizes:

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