September 1909 calendar

Events

• 02 Sep 1909 English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
• 04 Sep 1909 Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.
• 06 Sep 1909 Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole five months earlier.
• 07 Sep 1909 Eugene Lefebvre (1878 : 1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy, France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
• 09 Sep 1909 Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
• 13 Sep 1909 Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR
• 23 Sep 1909 The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantome de l'Opera), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
• 25 Sep 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in New York.
• 27 Sep 1909 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)

Famous Birthday

• Elia Kazan

  Turkish-born American film and stage director, best-known for introducing Marlon Brando and James Dean to the silver screen, in "A Streetcar...

• José Cabrero Arnal
• Marguerite Bordet
• Gilbert (secret-agent)
• Marc Blancpain
• Henri Goetz
• Michael Gordon

  Actor / director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83.

• Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon

  French playwright, screenwriter, and film director.

• Clara Calamai

  Italian actress who was one of the most famous and popular Italian actresses in the 1930s and 1940s, sharing the limelight with actresses...

• Jean Laquintinie
• Ivan Devries

  French radio producer, 1935-1975.

• Johannes Willebrands

  Dutch ecclesiastic, a Cardinal since 1969 and the founder of the Catholic Center for Ecumenical Questions in 1952.

• David Riesman

  US sociologist (Lonely Crowd).

• MJ Frankovich
• Ferry Porsche

  Austrian automobile manufacturer (Born 1909).

• Sam DeStefano
• Donald MacDonald

  Canadian union leader and politician (d. 1986).

• Florizel A Glasspole

  Governor-General of Jamaica (1973-91).

• Marianne Straub

  Weaver.

• Jean Batten

  New Zealand -- Air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia).

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Famous Deaths

• Edward Henry Harriman

  American railroad entrepreneur (Born 1848).

• Clyde Fitch

  American dramatist and playwright (Born 1865).

• Grigore Tocilescu

  Romanian historian, archaeologist, epigrapher and folkorist (Born 1850).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
2. Harry Lauder - She is My Daisy
3. Arthur Collins - That's a-Plenty
4. Edward M. Favor - I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid!
5. Harry Lauder - He was Very Kind to Me