1909: On This Year

1909

1909 (MCMIX in Roman Numerals) was the year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations.

Is 1909 a year special to you? If so you may like to discover what 1909 was famous for, who won the Oscars and the Nobel Prizes in 1909, who was Time's Person of the Year in 1909, which books, music and movies were top of the charts in 1909, what Chinese zodiac sign is associated to 1909, what babynames were most popular that year, what was the World population on that year and what happend in 1909.

On this page we will address all your questions and curiosities about 1909 to help you enjoy your trip down memory lane.

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What was 1909 known for ?

  • The year 1909 saw the inauguration of the only US President to formerly hold the position of Chief Justice: William Howard Taft. He, along with his cabinet, became notorious for their ample use of so-called “dollar-diplomacy”.
  • With a population of just 1.7 billion, the world was a much smaller place at the start of the 20th century. These 365 days saw the beginnings of many things we now take for granted: communist paranoia, middle schools, instant coffee, anti-drug taskforces, credit unions, and pedestrian-jammed subway lines.
  • Famous criminal Clyde Barrow, the namesake of McCarthyism, Joseph McCarthy, and the first president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah were also all born in 1909. The world also witnessed the end of the inventor of instant photography, Edwin Land, Apache-chief Geronimo, Japanese Prime Minister Ito Horiboemi, and the King of Belgium, Leopold II.
  • In 1909, the names Mary and John were common place choices for new parents. To help set the scene, imagine a time where the most movies were monochromatic classics like Carmen, Andreas Hofer, and The Life of Moses. Off the silver screen, the bookworms of the world were engrossed in The Road to Oz, Martin Eden, and Three Lives. Keep reading to find out what made 1909 so fundamental to life as we know it.
  • A lot changed on the Earth in 1909. First and foremost, let’s look at some of the year’s notable firsts. These include, the first rescue at sea facilitated by radio, the first federal legislation preventing narcotic use, the opening of the first junior high school, the first woman to drive cross-country, and the test of the world’s first army plane. For anyone out there who can’t function without a nice hot cup of joe, these twelve months also saw the invention of instant coffee.
  • The world became a much bigger place after these twelve months as well. Polish Explorer, Shackleton, set a world record for going farther south on the world than any other human being. In addition, Robert Peary became the first person in history to reach the North Pole, and the first cement laid at the Panama Canal heralded a future of easier travel between the Eastern and Western hemispheres. While relationships between Nicaragua and the US soured after an invasion, Japan attempted to increase diplomacy by gifting the US with the first of its infamous cherry trees.
  • Therefore, whether you rely on instant coffee to put some pep in your step, or have a desktop background of Washington in bloom, you should write a thank-you note to 1909.

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Rooster chinese zodiac sign

1909: What was the Chinese Zodiac sign associated with the year 1909?


According to the Chinese Zodiac and Astrology 1909 was the Year of the Rooster.

Discover Zodiac Sign Characteristics and Personality Traits of people born under the Rooster sign.

Nobel Prize

1909: Nobel Prize Winners of the Year


1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Auguste Marie François Beernaert

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Selma Lagerlöf

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Karl Ferdinand Braun

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Wilhelm Ostwald

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Guglielmo Marconi

1909: Who won the Nobel Prize in None ?

In 1909 the Nobel Prize in None was awarded to:
  • Emil Theodor Kocher
world population

1909: What were the most popular baby names in the USA that year ?

The 3 most popular baby names in 1909 were John, William and James for boys and Mary, Helen and Margaret for girls according to the US Census Bureau historical records.

1909: What were the Top #10 male names given to baby boys that year?

The Top # 10 male names given to baby boys in 1909 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • John
  • William
  • James
  • George
  • Robert
  • Joseph
  • Charles
  • Frank
  • Edward
  • Thomas

1909: What were the Top #10 female names given to baby girls that year?

The Top # 10 female names given to baby girls in 1909 in the USA according to the US Census Bureau historical records were:

  • Mary
  • Helen
  • Margaret
  • Ruth
  • Dorothy
  • Anna
  • Elizabeth
  • Mildred
  • Marie
  • Alice

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1909: What was the number 1 song in the USA that year?

The number 1 song in the USA in 1909, i.e. the best selling and most popular song of tha year, was I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now by Henry Burr

1909: What was the music chart in the USA that year?

The Music Chart in the USA in 1909 with the top 10 most popular songs, was:

  1. I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now by Henry Burr
  2. She is My Daisy by Harry Lauder
  3. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere by Harold Jarvis
  4. Under the Double Eagle by Sousa's Band
  5. When I Get Back Again to Bonnie Scotland by Harry Lauder
  6. National Emblem March by Arthur Pryor's Band
  7. Fairest of the Fair March by Sousa's Band

1909: What were the most popular movies that year ?

The most popular movies and box office hits in 1909 were:

Les surprises de l'amour

Les surprises de l'amour

Release year: 1909

Before and After

Before and After

Release year: 1909

Directed by: Barbet Schroeder

The Haunted Hotel

The Haunted Hotel

Release year: 1909

Tom Thumb

Tom Thumb

Release year: 1909

Directed by: Karthik Chandran

The House of Cards

The House of Cards

Release year: 1909

Directed by: Edwin S. Porter

Starring: Mary Fuller, Marc McDermott, Herbert Prior

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What happened in 1909?

Here's what happened in 1909:

  • Jan 1, 1909: Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
  • Jan 5, 1909: Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
  • Jan 9, 1909: Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
  • Jan 16, 1909: British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole.
  • Jan 25, 1909: Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
  • Jan 27, 1909: The Young Left is founded in Norway.
  • Jan 28, 1909: United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish-American War.
  • Feb 1, 1909: US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens.
  • Feb 2, 1909: Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris.
  • Feb 8, 1909: France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco.
  • Feb 12, 1909: Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6).
  • Feb 15, 1909: The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
  • Feb 16, 1909: Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary.
  • Feb 18, 1909: Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at age 41, to Cleveland Naps.
  • Feb 20, 1909: Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
  • Feb 22, 1909: Great White Fleet, first US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia.
  • Feb 23, 1909: Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet.
  • Feb 26, 1909: Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • Mar 3, 1909: Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat MontrTal Wanderers, 8-3.
  • Mar 4, 1909: President Taft inaugrated as 27th US President during 10-inch snowstorm.
  • Mar 10, 1909: Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in six for box title.
  • Mar 14, 1909: Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms.
  • Mar 21, 1909: The remains of the Báb were placed in his Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel.
  • Mar 23, 1909: Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
  • Mar 30, 1909: The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
  • Mar 31, 1909: Gustav Mahler conducts New York Philharmonic for his first time.
  • Apr 4, 1909: Sport Club Internacional was founded in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
  • Apr 6, 1909: 1st credit union forms in US
  • Apr 9, 1909: The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
  • Apr 11, 1909: The city of Tel Aviv (then known as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded.
  • Apr 13, 1909: The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the deposal of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
  • Apr 14, 1909: Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London.
  • Apr 15, 1909: New York Giants Red Ames second no-hitter, loses in 13 on a 7 hitter to Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • Apr 18, 1909: Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
  • Apr 19, 1909: 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8.
  • Apr 24, 1909: Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100 metre 3-legged race in 11 seconds.
  • Apr 27, 1909: Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
  • May 1, 1909: Netherlands begins unity with Belgium.
  • May 2, 1909: Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in first inning against Chicago Cubs.
  • May 3, 1909: 35th Kentucky Derby: Vincent Powers on Wintergreen wins in 2:08.2.
  • May 7, 1909: Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv).
  • May 8, 1909: Frederick Barrett runs world record marathon
  • May 12, 1909: 34th Preakness: Willie Doyle aboard Effendi wins in 1:39.8.
  • May 13, 1909: Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in the Netherlands
  • May 17, 1909: White firemen on Georgia railroad strike to protest hiring blacks.
  • May 24, 1909: Bristol University granted Royal Charter.
  • May 29, 1909: In Shepard, Texas, USA a meteorite drops through a house.
  • May 30, 1909: National Conference on the Negro is held.
  • Jun 1, 1909: (to October 16) The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition is held in Seattle, Washington.
  • Jun 2, 1909: 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
  • Jun 7, 1909: Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens.
  • Jun 12, 1909: Shine On, Harvest Moon by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1
  • Jun 15, 1909: Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
  • Jun 16, 1909: Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals
  • Jun 18, 1909: Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women
  • Jun 20, 1909: 1st balloon honeymoon
  • Jun 23, 1909: Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
  • Jun 24, 1909: 15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood Golf Club - New Jersey
  • Jun 25, 1909: George Sargent wins US Open golf tournament
  • Jun 26, 1909: 23rd US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss beats Maud Barger-Wallach
  • Jun 27, 1909: 23rd US Womens Tennis: Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach
  • Jun 30, 1909: Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title
  • Jul 12, 1909: 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes).
  • Jul 15, 1909: Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
  • Jul 16, 1909: Detroit and Washington play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
  • Jul 19, 1909: Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
  • Jul 24, 1909: Brooklyn Dodger Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Jul 25, 1909: August 2 ampndash quotTragic Weekquot: The city of Barcelona experiences a workers' uprising.
  • Jul 27, 1909: Orville Wright tests first US Army airplane, flying 1h12m.
  • Jul 30, 1909: Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
  • Aug 1, 1909: British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed
  • Aug 2, 1909: 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
  • Aug 5, 1909: US Senate confirms A. Piatt Andrew as Mint Director.
  • Aug 6, 1909: Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
  • Aug 7, 1909: US issues 1st Lincoln penny
  • Aug 10, 1909: Algemeene Netherlands Toonkunstenars Ver (ANTV) begins
  • Aug 11, 1909: Liner Arapahoe is 1st ship to use SOS distress call
  • Aug 15, 1909: A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
  • Aug 18, 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.
  • Aug 19, 1909: Indianapolis 500 race track opens
  • Aug 26, 1909: Middlesex beat Gloucs (Bristol) by Inn and 31 in a single day
  • Aug 29, 1909: AH Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 m.
  • Aug 30, 1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
  • Aug 31, 1909: A J Reach Co patents cork-centered baseball
  • Sep 2, 1909: English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
  • Sep 4, 1909: Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.
  • Sep 6, 1909: Word received, Admiral Peary discovers North Pole five months earlier.
  • Sep 7, 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.
  • Sep 9, 1909: Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title
  • Sep 13, 1909: Ty Cobb clinches AL HR title with his 9th HR
  • Sep 23, 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.
  • Sep 25, 1909: Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in New York.
  • Sep 27, 1909: 29th US Mens Tennis: W A Larned beats W J Clothier (61 62 57 16 61)
  • Oct 2, 1909: 1st rugby match
  • Oct 8, 1909: Chicago Cubs beat New York Giants 4-2 in a playoff to win National League pennant.
  • Oct 9, 1909: Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game
  • Oct 13, 1909: An agreement by Germany, Italy and Switzerland gives the Germans and Italians access to the Gotthard Rail Tunnel.
  • Oct 14, 1909: Pirates beat Tigers, 5-4, forces 1st full 7 game world series
  • Oct 16, 1909: Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
  • Oct 18, 1909: Comte de Lambert of France sets airplane altitude record of 300 m.
  • Oct 26, 1909: Ito Hirobumi, Resident-General of Korea, was shot to death by Korean independence supporter Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
  • Nov 2, 1909: Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
  • Nov 7, 1909: Knights and Ladies of Saint Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama.
  • Nov 11, 1909: Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
  • Nov 13, 1909: Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game.
  • Nov 16, 1909: EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
  • Nov 18, 1909: US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya.
  • Nov 19, 1909: Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
  • Nov 20, 1909: Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game.
  • Nov 23, 1909: Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
  • Nov 26, 1909: Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
  • Dec 4, 1909: 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26 : 6.
  • Dec 7, 1909: Leo Baekeland, Yonkers New York, patents first thermosetting plastic (Bakelite).
  • Dec 8, 1909: Bird banding society found.
  • Dec 11, 1909: Canadian Football exhibition game played in Van Cortlandt Park in Bronx, Hamilton Tigers beat Ottawa Rough Riders, 11-6 before 15,000.
  • Dec 14, 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.
  • Dec 16, 1909: US pressure forces Nicaraguan President JosT Santos Zelaya from office.
  • Dec 17, 1909: Karl Landsteiner develops a system of blood grouping.
  • Dec 21, 1909: 1st junior high school established
  • Dec 23, 1909: Albert becomes king of Belgium.
  • Dec 31, 1909: Manhattan Bridge opens.
  • Jan 4, 1909: Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes.

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What does the year 1909 refer to in the Gregorian calendar?

The year 1909 refers to a specific year in the Gregorian calendar, which is commonly used internationally. It is the 10th year of the 20th century and the 9th year of the 1900s decade. In the Gregorian calendar, it follows 1908 and precedes 1910.

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