1909 in the United States
| 1909 in the United States | |
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| Years: | 1906 1907 1908 – 1909 – 1910 1911 1912 |
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 46 stars (1908–12) | |
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Timeline of United States history
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Events from the year 1909 in the United States.
Incumbents
William Howard Taft, President from March 4
Federal Government
- President: Theodore Roosevelt (R-New York) (until March 4), William Howard Taft (R-Ohio) (starting March 4)
- Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks (R-Indiana) (until March 4), James S. Sherman (R-New York) (starting March 4)
- Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (Illinois)
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon (R-Illinois)
- Congress: 60th (until March 4), 61st (starting March 4)
Events
January–March
January 1: Lakeview Gusher
February 24: Hudson founded
- January 1 – Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
- January 28 – United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War.
- January 1 to 31 – Torrential rains in California see Helena Mine record 71.54 inches (1,817.1 mm) of precipitation for the month, the highest official monthly total in the contiguous US.[1]
- February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
- February 22 – The Great White Fleet returns to Hampton Roads, Virginia having circumnavigated the globe.
- February 24 – The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
- March 4 – William Howard Taft succeeds Theodore Roosevelt as the 27th President of the United States.
- March 23 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.[2]
April–June
- June 1 – The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
- June 9 – Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. In 59 days, she drove a Maxwell automobile 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York to San Francisco, California with three female companions, none of whom could drive.
- June 22 – Construction begins on the Cape Cod Canal, which would separate Cape Cod from mainland Massachusetts.
July–September
- August 2 – The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchases the world's first military airplane. They buy the Wright Military Flyer from the Wright Brothers.
- August 8 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship is launched at Seattle, Washington.
- August 12 – The first event is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
October–December
Indianapolis Motor Speedway first season poster
- November 2 – The Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity is founded at Boston University.
- November 6 – The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated in Baltimore.
- November 11 – The U.S. Navy founds a navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- November 13 – Ballinger–Pinchot scandal begins: Collier's Magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields.
- November 18 – Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including 2 Americans) are executed by order of dictator José Santos Zelaya.
- December 31 – The Manhattan Bridge opens.
Undated
- The centennial anniversary of Miami University (Ohio) is celebrated.
- The American Issue Publishing House of the Anti-Saloon League is incorporated.
Ongoing
- Progressive Era (1890s–1920s)
- Lochner era (c. 1897–c. 1937)
- Great White Fleet voyage (1907–1909)
Births
- January 1 – Dana Andrews, film actor (died 1992)
- January 2 – Barry Goldwater, U.S. Senator from Arizona from 1953 to 1965 and from 1969 to 1987 (died 1998)
- January 2 – J. R. Simplot, businessman, founded the Simplot Company (died 2008)
- January 5 – Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (died 1994)
- February 11
- Max Baer, boxer (died 1959)
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, filmmaker (died 1993)
- January 30 – Saul Alinsky, community organizer (died 1972)
- February 9 – Dean Rusk, politician (died 1994)
- February 18 – Warren Elliot Henry, African American physicist (died 2001)
- February 24 – August Derleth, writer and anthologist (died 1971)
- March 4 – Harry Helmsley, real estate entrepreneur (died 1997)
- March 24 – Clyde Barrow, outlaw (died 1934)
- April 13 – Eudora Welty, fiction writer (died 2001)
- May 7 – Edwin H. Land, camera inventor (died 1991)
- May 15 – J. Caleb Boggs, U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1961 to 1973 (died 1993)
- May 27 – Dolores Hope, born Dolores L. DeFina, singer and philanthropist (died 2011)
- May 30 – Benny Goodman, jazz clarinetist and bandleader (died 1986)
- June 3 – Ira D. Wallach, businessman and philanthropist (died 2007)
- June 12 – Archie Bleyer, song arranger and bandleader (died 1989)
- June 14 – Burl Ives, folk singer (died 1995 in the United States)
- July 29 – Chester Himes, fiction writer (died 1984)
- August 1 – Sibyl M. Rock, mathematician (died 1981)
- August 10 – Leo Fender, guitar inventor and manufacturer (died 1991)
- September 28 – Al Capp, cartoonist (died 1979)
- October 1 – Everett Sloane, character actor (died 1965)
- October 13 – Herblock, editorial cartoonist (died 2001)
- November 18 – Johnny Mercer, songwriter (died 1976)
- November 20 – Alan Bible, U.S. Senator from Nevada from 1954 to 1974 (died 1988)
- November 27 – James Agee, writer (died 1955)
- December 9 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., film actor (died 2000)
- December 14 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)
Deaths
- January 10
- John Conness, Ireland-born U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869 (born 1821)
- Charles Vernon Culver, politician (born 1830)
- April 9 – Francis Marion Crawford, novelist (born 1854)
- April 21 – David Turpie, U.S. Senator from Indiana in 1863 and from 1887 to 1899 (born 1828)
- April 28 – Frederick Holbrook, 27th Governor of Vermont from 1861 to 1863 (born 1813)
- May 17 – Helge Alexander Haugan, Norwegian-born banking executive (born 1847)
- June 24 – Sarah Orne Jewett, writer (born 1849)
- August 21 – George Cabot Lodge, poet (born 1873)
- September 4 – Clyde Fitch, dramatist (born 1865)
- October 15 – William Lindsay, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1893 to 1901 (born 1835)
- December 10 – Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Chief (born 1822)
- December 20 – William Harris, U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1897 to 1903 (born 1841)
- December 26 – Frederic Remington, cowboy artist and sculptor (born 1864)
- Date unknown – Gideon T. Stewart, educator and politician (born 1824)
See also
References
- ↑ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Weather Extremes for the Western States
- ↑ "Theodore Roosevelt's Africa Expedition". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
External links
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