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| Born : | 06/26/1909 | "Col Tom" Parker, Elvis Presley's manager |
| Born : | 02/14/1909 | A Moses Klein, Montr‚al, poet (Hath Not a Jew...) |
| Born : | 04/01/1909 | Abner Biberman, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Imhook-Kodiak) |
| Born : | 12/24/1909 | Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime/premier (1897-1901) |
| Born : | 09/28/1909 | Al Capp, New Haven Ct, cartoonist (Li'l Abner) |
| Born : | 11/20/1909 | Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74) |
| Born : | 11/08/1909 | Alberto Erede, Italian conductor |
| Born : | 04/05/1909 | Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, NYC, film producer (James Bond) |
| Born : | 07/04/1909 | Alec Templeton, Cardiff Wales, pianist/composer (Concertino Lirico) |
| Born : | 11/28/1909 | Aleksandar Rankovic, Yugoslavic partisan/vice-premier |
| Born : | 07/05/1909 | Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/18 NS] |
| Born : | 07/18/1909 | Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President (1985-89) [7/5 OS] |
| Born : | 03/14/1909 | Andr‚ Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin) |
| Born : | 01/22/1909 | Ann Sothern, [Harriette Lake], ND, actress (Lady in a Cage) |
| Born : | 01/24/1909 | Ann Todd, Hartford England, actress (Paradine Case, 7th Veil) |
| Born : | 07/14/1909 | Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz) |
| Born : | 09/11/1909 | Anne Seymour, Engld, actress (Gemini Affair, Empire, Tim Conway Show) |
| Born : | 12/--/1909 | Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out) |
| Born : | 06/12/1909 | Archie Bleyer, Corona NY, orch leader (Arthur Godfrey) |
| Born : | 12/12/1909 | Armand H F Boni, [de Goede], Flemish screenwriter/writer=- |
| Born : | 02/24/1909 | August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) |
| Born : | 12/23/1909 | Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934) |
| Born : | 01/01/1909 | Barry Goldwater, (Sen-R-Az, 1953-65, 69- /Pres candidate (R) 1964) |
| Born : | 02/12/1909 | Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, singer (Your Hit Parade) |
| Born : | 03/27/1909 | Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist |
| Born : | 05/30/1909 | Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, "King of Swing" |
| Born : | 10/14/1909 | Bernd Rosemeyer, German auto racer (Indy 500) |
| Born : | 04/24/1909 | Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany) |
| Born : | 06/26/1909 | Betty Askwith, author |
| Born : | 10/08/1909 | Bill Hewitt, NFL end (Chicago Bears, Phila Eagles) |
| Born : | 12/28/1909 | Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows) |
| Born : | 05/19/1909 | Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara) |
| Born : | 06/14/1909 | Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) |
| Born : | 08/21/1909 | C Dillon Douglas, Geneva Switz, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65) |
| Born : | 10/06/1909 | Carol Lombard, actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only) |
| Born : | 05/16/1909 | Charles Wislon, Principal (Glasgow University) |
| Born : | 03/26/1909 | Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, opera singer |
| Born : | 11/04/1909 | Ciro Alegr¡a, Peru, novelist (Golden Serpent) |
| Born : | 03/08/1909 | Claire Trevor, actress (Murder My Sweet, Marjorie Morningstar) |
| Born : | 03/24/1909 | Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) |
| Born : | 10/17/1909 | Crozy [William] Cole, US jazz drummer |
| Born : | 07/30/1909 | Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress) |
| Born : | 01/01/1909 | Dana Andrews, Collins Miss, actor (Battle of the Bulge, Laura) |
| Born : | 06/25/1909 | Daniel Fuchs, US writer (Summer in Williamsburg) |
| Born : | 03/01/1909 | David Niven, Kirriemuir Scotland, actor (Casino Royale) |
| Born : | 09/22/1909 | David Riesman, US sociologist (Lonely Crowd) |
| Born : | 02/09/1909 | Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69) |
| Born : | 04/09/1909 | Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio |
| Born : | 11/15/1909 | Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King) |
| Born : | 12/09/1909 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story) |
| Born : | 09/12/1909 | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., US, actor/producer (Ghost Story) |
| Born : | 07/03/1909 | Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz |
| Born : | 04/01/1909 | Eddie Duchin, Mass, society pianist/bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch) |
| Born : | 02/25/1909 | Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy) |
| Born : | 12/14/1909 | Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958) |
| Born : | 05/17/1909 | Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant |
| Born : | 05/23/1909 | Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat |
| Born : | 05/07/1909 | Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid)) |
| Born : | 09/07/1909 | Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire) |
| Born : | 01/15/1909 | Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars) |
| Born : | 02/27/1909 | Elisabeth Welsh, singer |
| Born : | 09/17/1909 | Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London |
| Born : | 06/28/1909 | Eric Ambler, detective writer (Epitaph for a Spy) |
| Born : | 06/20/1909 | Errol Flynn, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood, Against All Flags) |
| Born : | 04/13/1909 | Eudora Welty, US novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973) |
| Born : | 12/17/1909 | Ferdinand H Aus der Fnten, German war criminal (Breda 4) |
| Born : | 09/25/1909 | Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973- ) |
| Born : | 02/02/1909 | Franc Albertson, US, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams) |
| Born : | 10/28/1909 | Francis Bacon, British painter |
| Born : | 08/26/1909 | Frank Gasparro, Phila Pa, US chief engraver (1965-81) |
| Born : | 05/18/1909 | Fred Perry, Stockport England, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1934-36) |
| Born : | 06/28/1909 | French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist |
| Born : | 03/22/1909 | Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist (Tin Flute) |
| Born : | 01/15/1909 | Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman, drummer (Sing Sing Sing) |
| Born : | 12/21/1909 | George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state |
| Born : | 02/21/1909 | George G F van Renesse, pianist/music director |
| Born : | 08/10/1909 | George W Crockett Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1980- ) |
| Born : | 03/10/1909 | Gerard Croiset, paragnost |
| Born : | 03/13/1909 | Gilbert Inglefield, Burgemeister London (1967-68) |
| Born : | 08/04/1909 | Glenn Cunningham, US middle distance runner in the 1930's |
| Born : | 03/27/1909 | Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German historian (Of Anti semitism) |
| Born : | 05/24/1909 | Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) |
| Born : | 05/21/1909 | Guy de Rothschild, banker |
| Born : | 02/21/1909 | Hans Erni, Switz, painter/sculptor |
| Born : | 07/17/1909 | Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II) |
| Born : | 03/04/1909 | Harry Helmsley, NYC, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) |
| Born : | 02/09/1909 | Heather Angel, Oxford England, actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans) |
| Born : | 11/09/1909 | Hendrik van Randw˜k, author/founder "Vr˜ Netherland" |
| Born : | 10/13/1909 | Herblock (Herbert L Block), political cartoonist |
| Born : | 07/02/1909 | Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times) |
| Born : | 11/24/1909 | Hotze de Rose, youth book author (chameleon) |
| Born : | 05/04/1909 | Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776) |
| Born : | 02/16/1909 | Hugh Beaumont, Lawrence Ks, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver) |
| Born : | 06/06/1909 | Isaiah Berlin, philosopher |
| Born : | 11/27/1909 | James Agee, American author (The African Queen, Death in Family) |
| Born : | 10/04/1909 | James B Pritchard, US, theologist/archaeologist |
| Born : | 05/15/1909 | James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil) |
| Born : | 11/03/1909 | James Reston, columnist (NY Times) |
| Born : | 03/25/1909 | Jay Blackton, NYC, orch leader (Inside USA with Chevrolet) |
| Born : | 01/05/1909 | Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) |
| Born : | 02/16/1909 | Jeffrey Lynn, Auburn Mass, actor (My Son Jeep, Roaring Twenties) |
| Born : | 08/19/1909 | Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds) |
| Born : | 06/07/1909 | Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included) |
| Born : | 08/30/1909 | Joan Blondell, NYC, actress (Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides) |
| Born : | 07/12/1909 | Joey Faye, NYC, comedian (Joey Faye's Follies) |
| Born : | 12/27/1909 | Johan[nes B] Schmitz, actor/reciter (Match, MacBeth) |
| Born : | 05/20/1909 | John Arkell, director of BBC administration |
| Born : | 08/09/1909 | John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century) |
| Born : | 08/13/1909 | John Beal, actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D) |
| Born : | 09/16/1909 | John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal |
| Born : | 11/18/1909 | Johnny Mercer, Savannah Ga, lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic) |
| Born : | 02/11/1909 | Joseph L Mankiewicz, film writer/director (Sleuth) |
| Born : | 11/14/1909 | Joseph R McCarthy, (Sen-R-Wisc), anti-communist lunatic |
| Born : | 01/14/1909 | Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director (Damned, Accident) |
| Born : | 01/08/1909 | Jos‚ Ferrer, Santurce PR, oscar winning actor (Cyrano de Bergerac) |
| Born : | 06/30/1909 | Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63) |
| Born : | 04/30/1909 | Juliana, Queen of Netherlands (1948-80) |
| Born : | 08/10/1909 | Julio A Abraham, president (Democratic Party Bonaire) |
| Born : | 05/01/1909 | Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm |
| Born : | 11/08/1909 | Katharine Hepburn, Ct, actress (African Queen, On Golden Pond) |
| Born : | 09/17/1909 | Kenneth Darling, Commander-in-chief Allied Forces, Northern Europe |
| Born : | 09/17/1909 | Kwame Nkrumah, PM (Ghana) |
| Born : | 09/21/1909 | Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana (1958-66) |
| Born : | 09/09/1909 | Kwame Nkrumah, communist/premier Gold Coast/president Ghana (1960-66) |
| Born : | 06/29/1909 | Leroy Anderson, US, composer (Syncopated Clock) |
| Born : | 08/27/1909 | Lester W "Pres" Young, US jazz saxophonist |
| Born : | 01/22/1909 | Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962) |
| Born : | 04/20/1909 | Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser |
| Born : | 08/02/1909 | Lord Benson, accountant |
| Born : | 05/10/1909 | Lord Collison, British agriculture worker's leader |
| Born : | 03/19/1909 | Louis Hayward, Johannesburg S Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors) |
| Born : | 12/25/1909 | Louis Van Band, Belgian painter |
| Born : | 10/10/1909 | Luc van Brabant, Flemish writer/erotic screenwriter |
| Born : | 07/01/1909 | Madge Evans, Manhattan NYC, TV panelist (Masquerade Party) |
| Born : | 07/28/1909 | Malcolm Lowry, English novelist (Under the Volcano) |
| Born : | 01/13/1909 | Marinus van der Lubbe, communist |
| Born : | 02/17/1909 | Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannh„user) |
| Born : | 02/18/1909 | Matti Jarvinen, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1932) |
| Born : | 08/12/1909 | Maurice Heath, air marshal |
| Born : | 02/11/1909 | Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35) |
| Born : | 02/24/1909 | Max Zwart, British/Americans philosopher (analytical philosophy) |
| Born : | 05/10/1909 | Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show) |
| Born : | 08/22/1909 | Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants) |
| Born : | 03/02/1909 | Mel Ott, 1st NLer to hit 500 HRs, hall of famer (NY Giants) |
| Born : | 08/25/1909 | Michael Rennie, actor (The Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still) |
| Born : | 12/25/1909 | Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls) |
| Born : | 06/22/1909 | Mike Todd, [Avrom Goldbogen], US director (80 days) |
| Born : | 06/24/1909 | Milton Katims, NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC) |
| Born : | 08/10/1909 | Mohammed V, ibn Joesoef, King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61) |
| Born : | 12/18/1909 | Mona Barrie, England, actress (Dawn on Great Divide) |
| Born : | 04/27/1909 | Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (That Infidel Place) |
| Born : | 05/29/1909 | Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds) |
| Born : | 03/28/1909 | Nelson Algren, US, novelist (Man with the Golden Arm) |
| Born : | 06/26/1909 | Nicholas Polunin, environmentalist |
| Born : | 08/01/1909 | Nigel Henderson, admiral |
| Born : | 11/23/1909 | Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce) |
| Born : | 03/06/1909 | Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83) |
| Born : | 02/28/1909 | Olan Soule, La Harpe Ill, actor (My 3 Sons, Arnie) |
| Born : | 06/19/1909 | Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human) |
| Born : | 03/17/1909 | Patrick Reilly, British diplomat |
| Born : | 06/04/1909 | Paul Nordoff, Philadelphia, composer (Frog Prince) |
| Born : | 11/13/1909 | Paul de Vree, Flemish author (Between Doubt & Tears) |
| Born : | 07/08/1909 | Petar Segedin, Croatian (The saint devil) |
| Born : | 06/07/1909 | Peter W Rodino, (Rep-D-NJ, 1949- )/chaired Watergate council |
| Born : | 12/14/1909 | Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting |
| Born : | 10/25/1909 | Philleo Nash, US Bureau of Indian Affairs (1961-67) |
| Born : | 04/22/1909 | Ralph Byrd, Dayton Ohio, actor (Dick Tracy TV Show) |
| Born : | 09/10/1909 | Raymond Scott, Bkln NY, orch leader (Your Hit Parade) |
| Born : | 05/26/1909 | Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger) |
| Born : | 10/19/1909 | Robert Beatty, actor (Amorous Mr Pawn) |
| Born : | 02/04/1909 | Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe) |
| Born : | 04/09/1909 | Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer |
| Born : | 11/11/1909 | Robert Ryan, Chicago, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day) |
| Born : | 10/15/1909 | Robert Trout, Wake County NC, newscaster (ABC) |
| Born : | 04/21/1909 | Rollo May, US, psychologist (Love & Will) |
| Born : | 08/29/1909 | Roy Reuther, Wheeling WV, labor leader |
| Born : | 08/25/1909 | Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer (Dames, 42nd Street) |
| Born : | 10/01/1909 | Sam Yorty, (Mayor-LA) |
| Born : | 01/30/1909 | Saul David Alinsky, Chic Ill, radical writer (John L Lewis) |
| Born : | 08/27/1909 | Sidney R Yates, (Rep-D-Illinois) |
| Born : | 02/03/1909 | Simone Weil, Paris, mystic/social philosopher/Resistance fighter |
| Born : | 09/12/1909 | Spud Chandler, baseball player (AL MVP 1943) |
| Born : | 07/03/1909 | Stavros Niachos, Greece, shippig magnate (Those Fabulous Greeks) |
| Born : | 02/28/1909 | Stephen Spender, England, poet/critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness) |
| Born : | 08/22/1909 | Stojan T Daskalov, Bulgaria, writer (Dvor Aone Farm) |
| Born : | 08/27/1909 | Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist |
| Born : | 06/01/1909 | Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch) |
| Born : | 03/01/1909 | Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo) |
| Born : | 11/22/1909 | Theodorus H J Zwartkruis, Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands |
| Born : | 04/23/1909 | Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant |
| Born : | 05/31/1909 | Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52) |
| Born : | 04/29/1909 | Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch) |
| Born : | 01/03/1909 | Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum] Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian |
| Born : | 05/14/1909 | Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950) |
| Born : | 02/18/1909 | Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic (Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose) |
| Born : | 10/25/1909 | Whit Bissel, NYC, actor (Time Machine, General Kirk-Time Tunnel) |
| Born : | 05/24/1909 | Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe |
| Born : | 06/16/1909 | Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert) |
| Born : | 06/24/1909 | William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb) |
| Born : | 09/11/1909 | William H Natcher, (Rep-D-Kentucky, 1953- ) |
| Born : | 05/01/1909 | Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet |
| Born : | 03/29/1909 | Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish writer (Gnome Patjoepelke) |
| Born : | 10/12/1909 | Zellig S Harris, US lingu‹st |
| Born : | 01/22/1909 | [Sithoe] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN sec-genl (1962-72) |
| Died : | 10/18/1909 | Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies |
| Died : | 04/10/1909 | Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72 |
| Died : | 10/19/1909 | Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies |
| Died : | 04/09/1909 | Charles Conder, artist, dies |
| Died : | 06/22/1909 | Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet, dies at 65 |
| Died : | 08/29/1909 | Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist, dies |
| Died : | 07/23/1909 | Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies |
| Died : | 09/07/1909 | Eugne Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft |
| Died : | 10/13/1909 | Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed |
| Died : | 05/08/1909 | Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies |
| Died : | 05/18/1909 | George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies |
| Died : | 03/16/1909 | George Thorndike Angell, lawyer (ASPCA), dies at 85 |
| Died : | 10/26/1909 | Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan is assassinated by a Korean |
| Died : | 05/18/1909 | Isaac [Manuel F] Alb‚niz, Spanish pianist/composer), dies at 48 |
| Died : | 06/28/1909 | Israel Durham, Phillies president dies |
| Died : | 05/10/1909 | Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies |
| Died : | 03/24/1909 | John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist & poet, dies |
| Died : | 12/17/1909 | Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies |
| Died : | 12/24/1909 | Nicolaas G Pierson, economist/head-director (Suriname), dies |
| Died : | 12/04/1909 | Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies |
| Died : | 05/05/1909 | Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies |
| Died : | 08/19/1909 | Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies |
| Died : | 01/22/1909 | Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies |
| Died : | 07/11/1909 | Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, dies |
| Died : | 01/14/1909 | Sinovi P Rostsjestvenski, Russian admiral, dies |
| Interest: | 07/27/1909 | [Ang] Commemoration of William Reed Huntington, priest |
| Special : | 07/12/1909 | 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes) |
| Special : | 12/01/1909 | 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa |
| Special : | 06/28/1909 | 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens |
| Special : | 12/04/1909 | 1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6) |
| Special : | 08/02/1909 | 1st Lincoln head pennies minted |
| Special : | 05/31/1909 | 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC) |
| Special : | 05/22/1909 | 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched |
| Special : | 06/16/1909 | 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000 |
| Special : | 12/09/1909 | 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY) |
| Special : | 03/01/1909 | 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn |
| Special : | 07/19/1909 | 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play |
| Special : | 04/06/1909 | 1st credit union established in US |
| Special : | 02/09/1909 | 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
| Special : | 01/02/1909 | 1st official Dutch Elfstedentocht skate (Minne Hoekstra in 13:50) |
| Special : | 07/08/1909 | 1st pro baseball game (minor league) played under lights |
| Special : | 01/23/1909 | 1st radio rescue at sea |
| Special : | 10/02/1909 | 1st rugby match (Twickenham) |
| Special : | 02/16/1909 | 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC) |
| Special : | 11/13/1909 | 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill |
| Special : | 11/23/1909 | 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec) |
| Special : | 01/18/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #677 Aaltje |
| Special : | 01/28/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #679 Pax |
| Special : | 04/22/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #680 Genoveva |
| Special : | 05/13/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #681 Gorgo |
| Special : | 06/17/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #682 Hagar |
| Special : | 08/08/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #684 Hildburg |
| Special : | 08/15/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #686 Gersuind |
| Special : | 09/21/1909 | A Kopff discovers asteroid #693 Zerbinetta |
| Special : | 08/29/1909 | AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m |
| Special : | 07/16/1909 | AL's longest scoreless game, Senators & Tigers 0-0 in 18 |
| Special : | 06/01/1909 | Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle |
| Special : | 12/23/1909 | Albert becomes king of Belgium |
| Special : | 08/10/1909 | Algemeene Netherland Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins |
| Special : | 03/14/1909 | Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
| Special : | 04/14/1909 | Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London |
| Special : | 08/02/1909 | Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers |
| Special : | 11/13/1909 | Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
| Special : | 06/24/1909 | Best 72 holes of golf at US open (George Sargent-290) |
| Special : | 12/08/1909 | Bird banding society found |
| Special : | 05/24/1909 | Bristol University granted Royal Charter |
| Special : | 01/16/1909 | British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole |
| Special : | 10/08/1909 | Chicago Cubs beat NY Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win NL pennent |
| Special : | 05/13/1909 | Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands |
| Special : | 06/07/1909 | Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens |
| Special : | 01/05/1909 | Colombia recognizes Panama's independence |
| Special : | 12/11/1909 | Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC |
| Special : | 10/18/1909 | Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m |
| Special : | 01/14/1909 | Co”p. Far. Central Management forms |
| Special : | 01/16/1909 | David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole |
| Special : | 03/18/1909 | Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast |
| Special : | 01/09/1909 | Ernest Shackleton reaches 88ø23' south |
| Special : | 06/27/1909 | Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belg count De Lambert) |
| Special : | 07/25/1909 | France's Louis Bl‚riot, makes 1st airplane flight across Engl Channel |
| Special : | 05/29/1909 | Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run |
| Special : | 06/25/1909 | George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament |
| Special : | 03/02/1909 | Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands |
| Special : | 02/22/1909 | Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va |
| Special : | 04/24/1909 | Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
| Special : | 09/09/1909 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Al Kaufman fight to no decision in SF |
| Special : | 05/19/1909 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Jack O'Brien fight to no decision |
| Special : | 06/30/1909 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Tony Ross fight to no decision |
| Special : | 10/16/1909 | Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel |
| Special : | 09/25/1909 | Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY |
| Special : | 08/19/1909 | Indianapolis 500 race track opens |
| Special : | 02/02/1909 | Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
| Special : | 10/16/1909 | J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #690 Wratislavia |
| Special : | 12/11/1909 | J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #691 Lehigh |
| Special : | 11/07/1909 | J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #694 Ekard & #695 Bella |
| Special : | 10/15/1909 | J Helffrich discovers asteroid #2056 Nancy |
| Special : | 08/16/1909 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #687 Tinette |
| Special : | 08/25/1909 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #688 Melanie |
| Special : | 09/12/1909 | J Palisa discovers asteroid #689 Zita |
| Special : | 08/27/1909 | Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game |
| Special : | 11/20/1909 | Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game |
| Special : | 04/19/1909 | Joan of Arc, declared a saint |
| Special : | 07/30/1909 | John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League |
| Special : | 11/07/1909 | Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama |
| Special : | 12/07/1909 | Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic |
| Special : | 07/23/1909 | M Wolf discovers asteroid #683 Lanzia |
| Special : | 09/11/1909 | Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet |
| Special : | 04/15/1909 | Mien Wenneker, prince Hendrik lover, marries Uncle Cornelis Abbo |
| Special : | 03/21/1909 | Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin) |
| Special : | 04/15/1909 | NY Giant Red Ames 2nd no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Dodgers |
| Special : | 06/18/1909 | Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women |
| Special : | 02/12/1909 | National Association for Advancement of Colored People forms |
| Special : | 02/12/1909 | Netherland's SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wine) |
| Special : | 04/06/1909 | North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson |
| Special : | 11/04/1909 | Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" is produced (Munich) |
| Special : | 07/27/1909 | Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m |
| Special : | 01/16/1909 | P Melotte discovers asteroid #676 Melitta |
| Special : | 04/12/1909 | Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack Stadium) opens |
| Special : | 10/16/1909 | Pirates beat Tigers 4 games to 3 in 6th World Series |
| Special : | 03/04/1909 | President Taft sworn-in during 10" snowstorm |
| Special : | 03/30/1909 | Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens |
| Special : | 01/25/1909 | Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden |
| Special : | 02/23/1909 | Russian tsar Nicolas II disolves Finland |
| Special : | 08/11/1909 | SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC |
| Special : | 02/16/1909 | Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
| Special : | 04/27/1909 | Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown |
| Special : | 12/15/1909 | Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
| Special : | 12/21/1909 | U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
| Special : | 07/30/1909 | US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane |
| Special : | 02/01/1909 | US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
| Special : | 11/18/1909 | US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya |
| Special : | 01/28/1909 | US milt forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
| Special : | 12/16/1909 | US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office |
| Special : | 03/04/1909 | US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds |
| Special : | 01/22/1909 | Vassily Kandinsky forms Knstlerverein in Munich |
| Special : | 06/26/1909 | Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London |
| Special : | 01/22/1909 | W Lorenz discovers asteroid #678 Fredegundis |
| Special : | 08/12/1909 | W Lorenz discovers asteroid #685 Hermia |
| Special : | 05/17/1909 | White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks |
| Special : | 05/10/1909 | Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning |
| Special : | 09/06/1909 | Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier |
| Special : | 08/24/1909 | Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal |
| Special : | 08/29/1909 | World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtis (USA) wins |
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