February 1909 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 1909 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens.
• 02 Feb 1909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris.
• 08 Feb 1909 France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco.
• 12 Feb 1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6).
• 15 Feb 1909 The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
• 16 Feb 1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary.
• 18 Feb 1909 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at age 41, to Cleveland Naps.
• 20 Feb 1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
• 22 Feb 1909 Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.
• 23 Feb 1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet.
• 26 Feb 1909 Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

Famous Birthday

• Simone Weil

  French mystic, social philosopher and religious apologist who completed many brilliant studies in literature, philosophy and logic.

• Carmen Miranda

  Portuguese-American actress known as "the Brazilian Bombshell," flamboyant over-the-top but with an irresistible force of personality.

• Carmen Miranda

  Portuguese-American actress known as "the Brazilian Bombshell," flamboyant over-the-top but with an irresistible force of personality.

• André Cayatte

  French film director, screenwriter, poet, novelist, lawyer who used filmmaking as means of criticizing french legal system; also journalist,...

• Max Baer

  Omaha, Nebraska -- Heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35).

• Max Baer

  Omaha, Nebraska -- Heavyweight boxing champ (1934-35).

• Dom Helder Camara
• Miep Gies

  Dutch Humanitarian, discoverer of Anne Frank's diary (Born 1909).

• Jean Rigaux

  Paris 9éme Actor.

• Jean Marin

  French military officer in the navy, 1930-38 and reporter, from 1939.

• Douglas Harding
• Joseph L Mankiewicz

  US writer/director/producer (All about Eve), dies at age 83 (born 1909).

• Henri Alekan

  French cinematographer (Born 1909).

• Max Lejeune

  French politician, who died on 23 November 1995 in Abbeville.

• Rob-Vel

  French cartoonist, known as Rob-Vel, his pen-name.

• George Beverly Shea

  Canadian singer.

• August Derleth

  American editor, anthropologist; publisher and horror fantasy writer.

• Josephine Stevens

  American mystic, with her husband, Norman, she wrote a book, "The Rainbow Bridge," which gives a method for building a channel of light...

• Shin Saburi
• Hugh Beaumont

  American actor and director (d. 1982).

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Famous Deaths

• Geronimo

  Apache leader (Born 1829).

• Adolf Stoecker German anti-semite/prime minister

  dies at age 73.

• Johann Georg Herzog composer

  dies at age 86.

• Edouard Silas composer

  dies at age 80.

• Mieczyslaw Karlowicz composer

  dies at age 32.

• Carlo Acton

  Italian composer and concert pianist (Born 1829).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Haydn Quartet - Brown Eyes, Good-Bye
2. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - The Right Church, but the Wrong Pew
3. Sousa's Band - Under the Double Eagle
4. Billy Murray - Good Evening, Caroline
5. Harry Macdonough - There Never was a Girl Like You