Important Historical Events of the year 1909, Year 1909 in History

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Date	Event
January 4, 1909	Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.
January 9, 1909	Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
January 16, 1909	Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
January 20, 1909	Newly formed automaker General Motors (GM) buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, which later becomes GM's long-running Pontiac division.
January 23, 1909	RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
January 25, 1909	Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
January 28, 1909	United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 2, 1909	The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
February 12, 1909	The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 12, 1909	New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 15, 1909	The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
February 20, 1909	Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
February 22, 1909	The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
February 23, 1909	The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
February 26, 1909	Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 4, 1909	U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
March 10, 1909	By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
March 23, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
March 31, 1909	Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 6, 1909	Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
April 9, 1909	The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
April 11, 1909	The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
April 13, 1909	The 31 March Incident leads to the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
April 14, 1909	Muslims in the Ottoman Empire begin a massacre of Armenians in Adana.
April 18, 1909	Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
April 27, 1909	Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
May 31, 1909	The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first time.
June 2, 1909	Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 26, 1909	The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
July 16, 1909	Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
July 25, 1909	Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
August 7, 1909	Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 19, 1909	The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing. Wilfred Bourque and his mechanic are killed during the first day's events.
August 24, 1909	Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
August 28, 1909	A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
August 30, 1909	Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 7, 1909	Eugène Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first aviator in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
September 30, 1909	The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
October 16, 1909	William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
October 26, 1909	Japanese occupation of Korea: An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
November 18, 1909	Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
December 4, 1909	In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
December 4, 1909	The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
December 10, 1909	Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 14, 1909	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.