1909This Year - US troops land in Bluefields Nicaragua and President Taft declares support for the Nicaraguan revolutionaries. Nicaraguan president Jose Zelaya resigns but guerrilla warfare continues.
This Year - 69 black Americans are known to have been lynched.
January05 - Colombia recognizes Panama's independence.
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14 - Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60.
22 - Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83.
23 - 1st radio rescue at sea.
28 - US military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time.
February01 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens.
08 - France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco.
09 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio.
09 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium).
12 - The NAACP, an organization formed to promote use of the courts to restore the legal rights of black Americans, is formed on the centennial of the birth of Lincoln
16 - Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary.
16 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC).
21 - John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London.
22 - Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va.
23 - Russian tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet.
March01 - 1st US university school of nursing established, Univ of Minn.
02 - Gr Brit, France, Germ & It asks Serbia to set no territorial demands.
04 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds.
04 - President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm.
06 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna.
10 - Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title.
12 - Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34.
14 - Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms.
21 - Moran & MacFarland (US) wins Europe's 1st 6 day bicycle race (Berlin).
30 - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens.
31 - Baseball rules players who jump contracts are suspended for 5 years.
31 - Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for his 1st time.
April06 - Admiral Peary and African-American Matthew Henson, accompanied by four Eskimos, became the first men known to have reached the North Pole.
06 - 1st credit union forms in US.
14 - Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London.
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19 - Sports 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8.
27 - Sultan of Turkey Abdul Hamid II is overthrown.
May01 - Netherlands begins unity with Belgium.
07 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv).
17 - White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks.
24 - Bristol University granted Royal Charter.
31 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC).
June01 - Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle.
07 - Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens.
12 - "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1.
16 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000.
18 - Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women.
26 - Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London.
28 - Aviation 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens.
30 - Sports Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to no decision in 6 for hw boxing title.
July11 - Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority (Stars), dies at 74.
12 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes).
25 - Aviation France's Louis Bleriot was the first man to fly across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air craft.
27 - Aviation Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s.
30 - Aviation Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army.
August01 - British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed.
02 - Aviation Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers.
02 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted.
07 - US issues 1st Lincoln penny.
11 - SOS 1st used by an American ship, Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.
19 - Sports Indianapolis 500 race track opens.
24 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal.
29 - Aviation World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins.
September02 - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill.
06 - Word received, Adm Peary discovers North Pole 5 months earlier.
09 - Jack Johnson fights Al Kaufman to no decision in 10 for boxing title.
11 - Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's Comet.
25 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY.
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October13 - Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist, executed.
16 - Jack Johnson KOs Stanley Ketchel in 12 for heavyweight boxing title.
26 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean.
November11 - Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins.
13 - 259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry Ill.
18 - US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows Pres Zelaya.
23 - Aviation, Business Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes.
December01 - 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef.
01 - 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa.
08 - Bird banding society found.
09 - Aviation 1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY).
10 - Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief, dies.
16 - US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos‚ Santos Zelaya from office.
17 - Leopold II, king of Belgium, buried in Brussels.
21 - U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole.
23 - Albert becomes king of Belgians.
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