August 1909 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1909 British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
• 02 Aug 1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
• 05 Aug 1909 US Senate confirms A. Piatt Andrew as Mint Director.
• 06 Aug 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
• 07 Aug 1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
• 10 Aug 1909 Algemeene Netherlands Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
• 11 Aug 1909 Liner Arapahoe is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
• 15 Aug 1909 A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
• 18 Aug 1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
• 19 Aug 1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
• 26 Aug 1909 Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day
• 29 Aug 1909 AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m.
• 30 Aug 1909 Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
• 31 Aug 1909 A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball

Famous Birthday

• Lester Young

  American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1959).

• Michael Rennie

  England, United Kingdom -- Actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still).

• Sylvère Maes

  Belgian road cyclist racer, he won twice the Tour de France, in 1936 and 39, and once Paris-Roubaix race.

• Carmen Carven

  Chatellerault EXecutives.

• Jim Davis (actor)
• Pierre Guillaumat

  La Fl?che Military man.

• Boris Shapiro
• Gaston Litaize

  French organist, composer and teacher.

• Thyrza Escobar-Jones

  American astrologer and author of "Essentials of Natal Interpretation," "Side-Lights of Astrology" and "144 Doors of the Zodiac.

• Douglas Dillon
• Marguerite Maeght
• John Beal

  Joplin, Missouri -- Actor (10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D).

• Maurice Heath

  Air Marshal.

• Jean Lancaster

  Director (WRNS).

• Brian Easdale

  Composer.

• Hugo Buchthal

  Art historian.

• Gaston Gilbert Litaize

  Composer.

• John Baur

  Museum director / author (American Paintings in 19th Century).

• Arwel Hughes

  Composer.

• Mohammed V ibn Yusuf

  King of Morocco (1953, 1955-61).

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Famous Deaths

• Richard Hoffman

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure

  Lawyer / 1st-Member of parliament.

• Emil C Hansen

  Danish physiologist.

• Euclides da Cunha

  Brazilian writer and sociologist (Born 1866).

• Emil Christian Hansen

  Danish fermentation physiologist (Born 1842).

• Madan Lal Dhingra

  Indian Revolutionary (Born 1883).

• Henry Radcliffe Crocker

  British dermatologist (Born 1846).

• Mary MacKillop

  Australian nun and saint co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (d. 1909).

• William Stanley

  English engineer and philanthropist (d. 1909).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Cal Stewart & Len Spencer - Uncle Josh's Trip to Coney Island
2. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Isn't Love a Grand Old Thing?
3. Ada Jones & Victor Light Opera Co. - The Yama Yama Man
4. Harvey Hindermyer - Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares
5. Will Oakland - Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares