December 1909 calendar

Events

• 04 Dec 1909 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26 : 6.
• 07 Dec 1909 Leo Baekeland, Yonkers New York, patents first thermosetting plastic (Bakelite).
• 08 Dec 1909 Bird banding society found.
• 11 Dec 1909 Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000.
• 14 Dec 1909 New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signed the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
• 16 Dec 1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President JosT Santos Zelaya from office.
• 17 Dec 1909 Karl Landsteiner develops a system of blood grouping.
• 21 Dec 1909 1st junior high school established
• 23 Dec 1909 Albert becomes king of Belgium.
• 31 Dec 1909 Manhattan Bridge opens.

Famous Birthday

• Franz Bardon
• André Jarrot

  French motorbike racer and politician.

• Douglas Fairbanks Jr
• Charles Moulin

  French actor (French Tarzan).

• Isa Pola
• Louis-Thomas Jurdant
• Bobbie Heine
• Karen Morley

  American actress and singer (d. 2003).

• Oldřich Nejedlý
• André Malterre

  French union activist, secretary general and president of the General Confederation of Executives (French: Confédération générale des...

• Mike Mazurki

  Tarnopal, Austria -- Actor / wrestler (Centerfold Girls).

• Douglas Fairbanks Jr New York City

  New York; actor (Ghost Story).

• Mona Barrie [Smith] London England

  actress (Dawn on the Great Divide).

• Vagn Holmboe

  composer.

• Kenneth Watkins

  woodland conservationist.

• Alan Carney [David Boughal]

  Brooklyn, New York -- Actor (Zombies on Broadway).

• Edward L Tatum

  United States -- Molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958).

• Jan Koplowitz

  writer.

• Gratien Gelinas

  French-Canadian playwright and producer (d. 1999).

• Nikola J Vaptsarov

  Bulgaria -- Poet (Subrani Sutsjinenija).

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Famous Deaths

• Red Cloud

  Sioux indian chief.

• Paul-Albert Besnard French painter/graphic artist (Elle)

  dies at age 60.

• Leopold II king of Belgium

  dies.

• Francisco Tarrega y Eixea composer

  dies at age 57.

• Benjamin Ipavec composer

  dies at age 79.

• Nicolaas G Pierson director Suriname/Dutch Bank

  dies at age 80.

• Spencer Trask

  American financier (Born 1844).

• Innokenty Annensky

  Russian poet and critic (d. 1909).

• Frederic Remington

  American painter sculptor and illustrator (d. 1909).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Haydn Quartet - Lonesome
2. Billy Murray - Dixie Land, I Love You
3. Haydn Quartet - Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
4. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet - The Hat My Father Wore on St. Patrick's Day
5. Frank Stanley & Elise Stevenson - It's Hard to Kiss Your Sweetheart (When the Last Kiss Means Good-Bye)