As 2008 quickly fades into the past..
My wish for all of us in this New Year is
"May we all Celebrate and Share Our Love, Health, Peace and Happiness"
I have posted a picture of Times Square because 95% of us started out there and then moved on.....but at this time of the year we all have memories of New York. Some Happy some Unhappy but in this New Year let us all create only New Wonderful and Happy Memories to fill
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Happy New Year!!!
Love you all,
Kel
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Happy New Year to everyone. We are all fortunate to have each other each and every day. As another year passes, the memories of those in our lives that are not here with us only get stronger.
Here are some things that happened 100 years ago
1909 Jan 1, Barry Goldwater (d.1998), Republican senator for Arizona and presidential contender, was born in Phoenix, son of Baron and Josephine Goldwater. His grandfather was an immigrant Polish peddler and founder of the Goldwater department store chain.
(SFC, 5/30/98, p.A3)(MC, 1/1/02)
1909 Jan 3, Victor Borge (d.2000 at 91), musical humorist, was born as Borge Rosenbaum in Copenhagen. In 1953 he opened his "Comedy in Music" at the Golden Theater on Broadway and played for 849 performances .
(SSFC, 12/24/00, p.B5)(440 Int'l. 1/3/99)
1909 Jan 9, The Silver Dart made the 1st manned flight in Canada. It was funded by the Aerial Experiment Association, founded by Alexander and Mabel Bell.
(ON, 1/03, p.5)
1909 Jan 9, A Polar exploration team led by Ernest Shackleton reached 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They were 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue.
(HN, 1/9/01)
1909 Jan 16, Ethel Merman, U.S. singer and actress, was born. She was known as the "Queen of Broadway." [2nd source says 1908]
(HN, 1/16/99)(MC, 1/16/02)
1909 Jan 16, One of Ernest Shackleton's polar exploration teams reached the Magnetic South Pole.
(HN, 1/16/00)
1909 Jan 21-22, An earthquake in Morocco's northern region, near Tetouan, killed up to 100.
(AP, 2/25/04)
1909 Jan 22, Hariette Lake (aka Ann Sothern, d. 2001), film and TV actress, was born in Valley City, North Dakota.
(SFC, 3/17/01, p.A23)
1909 Jan 22, U Thant, Secretary General of United Nations General Assembly (1962-1972), was born in Burma. He played a major role in the Cuban crisis.
(HN, 1/22/99)(MC, 1/22/02)
1909 Jan 23, The steamship Florida, with 850 Italian immigrant passengers, collided off Long Island with the luxury liner Republic, a steamship under Captain Sealby of the White Star Line. Jack Binns (26), a Marconi telegraph operator on the Republic, sent and received messages for hours into the crises and helped save 550 Republic passengers plus 192 crew. Only 6 people died in the collision. The event was made into a 1999 TV documentary "Rescue at Sea" as part of the American Experience PBS series.
(WSJ, 2/8/99, p.A21)(ON, 7/04, p.6)
1909 Jan 28, The United States ended direct control over Cuba.
(AP, 1/28/98)
1909 Feb 1, U.S. troops left Cuba after installing Jose Miguel Gomez as president.
(HN, 2/1/99)
1909 Feb 3, Simone Weil (d.1943), French philosopher, member of the French resistance in WWII, was born. "All sins are attempts to fill voids." "Man alone can enslave man."
(HN, 2/3/01)(AP, 12/10/97)(AP, 8/23/98)
1909 Feb 3, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt signed Executive Order 1019 which established a bird sanctuary of some of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
(SFC, 6/15/06, p.A2)(www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=12526)
1909 Feb 4, California law segregated Japanese schoolchildren.
(HN, 2/4/99)
1909 Feb 5, Hendrik Baekeland, Belgian-born inventor, presented a paper to the NY chapter of the American Chemical Society entitled: “The Synthesis, Constitution, and Uses of Bakelite.”
(ON, 9/05, p.12)
1909 Feb 9, Dean Rusk, was born. He was Secretary of State (1961-1969) under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
(HN, 2/9/99)(MC, 2/9/02)
1909 Feb 9, The 1st US federal legislation prohibiting narcotics was directed at opium.
(MC, 2/9/02)
1909 Feb 9, France agreed to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.
(HN, 2/9/97)
1909 Feb 12, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. It was based on the Niagara movement of 1905. Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) was one of the founders.
(SFC, 5/12/96, p.A-6)(SFEC,12/797, BR p.6)(AP, 2/12/98)
1909 Feb 16, The SF Citizens Health Committee declared SF free of bubonic plague.
(ON, 1/00, p.7)
1909 Feb 16, 1st subway car with side doors went into service in NYC.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1909 Feb 16, Serbia mobilized against Austria and Hungary.
(MC, 2/16/02)
1909 Feb 17, Marjorie Lawrence, soprano (Venus-Tannhauser), was born in Australia.
(MC, 2/17/02)
1909 Feb 17, A government commission reported that the tobacco industry was controlled by six men with 86 firms that were worth $450 million.
(HN, 2/17/98)
1909 Feb 17, Apache chief Geronimo died of pneumonia at age 80, while still in captivity at Fort Sill, Okla.
(HN, 2/17/99)
1909 Feb 18, Wallace Stegner, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Angle of Repose), was born.
(AP, 2/18/01)
1909 Feb 22, The Great White Fleet returned to Norfolk, Va., from an around-the-world show of naval power. 1st US fleet to circle the globe.
(HN, 2/22/98)(MC, 2/22/02)
1909 Feb 24, August Derleth, writer (Still is the Summer Night, The Shield of the Valiant), was born.
(HN, 2/24/01)
1909 Feb 27, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt established the Farallon Islands, 28 miles off the coast of San Francisco, as a wildlife refuge.
(SFC, 2/17/05, p.A1)(www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/conFedBird.htm)
1909 Feb 28, Stephen Spender (d.1995), English poet, critic, was born.
(HN, 2/28/01)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.81)
1909 Feb 28, President Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to visit the Austrian embassy.
(HN, 2/28/98)
1909 Mar 1, David Niven, actor (Casino Royale, Eye of the Devil), was born in Kirriemuir Angus, Scotland.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1909 Mar 1, 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota.
(SC, 3/1/02)
1909 Mar 2, Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy asked Serbia to set no territorial demands.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1909 Mar 4, Harry Helmsley (d.1997), billionaire New York landlord (Empire State Building), was born in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Helmsley)(http://tinyurl.com/ropqy)
1909 Mar 8, Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1909 Mar 4, President Taft was inaugurated as 27th President during a 10" snowstorm.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1909 Mar 4, US prohibited the interstate transportation of game birds.
(SC, 3/4/02)
1909 Mar 6, Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premiered in Vienna.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1909 Mar 8, Anthony Donato, composer, was born.
(MC, 3/8/02)
1909 Mar 8, Pope Pius X lifted the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary.
(HN, 3/8/98)
1909 Mar 10, Kathryn McLean (Forbes), author (Mama's Bank Account), was born.
(HN, 3/10/01)
1909 Mar 18, Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short-wave transmitter to converse with a government radio post about six miles away in what is believed to have been the first broadcast by a "ham" operator.
(AP, 3/18/97)
1909 Mar 23, Theodore Roosevelt began an African safari sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1909 Mar 23, British Lt. Shackleton found the magnetic South Pole.
(HN, 3/23/98)
1909 Mar 26, August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti" premiered in Stockholm.
(SS, 3/26/02)
1909 Mar 26, Russian troops invaded Persia to support Muhammad Ali as the Shah in place of the constitutional government.
(HN, 3/25/98)
1909 Mar 28, Nelson Algren (d.1981, novelist (The Man with the Golden Arm, A Walk on the Wild Side), was born.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Algren)
1909 Mar 30, The Queensboro Bridge, the first double decker bridge, opened and linked the New York boroughs of Manhattan and Queens.
(AP, 3/30/97)(HN, 3/30/98)
1909 Mar 31, Gustav Mahler conducted the NY Philharmonic for 1st time.
(MC, 3/31/02)
1909 Apr 1, Eddie Duchin, society pianist, bandleader (Eddie Duchin Orch), was born in Mass.
(MC, 4/1/02)
1909 Apr 1, The ornate Italian style embassy building at 2600 16th St. in Washington DC was completed. It was designed by George Oakley Totten Jr. under the direction of Mrs. Henderson, wife of Sen. John B. Henderson. It was constructed by the George A. Fuller Co. In 1924 it was sold to the Lithuanians and became their foreign embassy.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.3)
1909 Apr 6, 1st credit union formed in US.
(MC, 4/6/02)
1909 Apr 6, Explorers Robert E. Peary, Matthew A. Henson and four Inuits became the first men to reach the North Pole along with 4 Eskimos. The claim, disputed by skeptics, was upheld in 1989 by the Navigation Foundation. Robert E. Peary used Ellesmere Island as a base for his expedition to the North Pole. The north coast of Ellesmere lies just 480 miles from the Pole. He was accompanied by Matthew Henson, an African-American, who had spent 18 years in the Arctic with Peary.
(NG, 6/1988, 754, 757)(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B8)(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)(AP, 4/6/08)
1909 Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook claimed to have discovered the North Pole a year ahead of Peary. Many historians suspect that neither explorer succeeded. The term “Dr. Cook weather” refers to an incident where Dr. Cook once left a chilly New York baseball game after which the city papers trumpeted; “Game called—even too cold for Dr. Cook.” Cook's assertion was later proved false.
(SFC, 8/18/96, p.B8)(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)
1909 Apr 10, Algernon Charles Swinburne (b.1837), English poet, died.
(MC, 4/10/02)
1909 Apr 13, Eudora Welty (d.2001), Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter), was born in Jackson, Miss. In 1998 Ann Waldron published "Eudora Welty: A Writer’s Life."
(SFEC, 11/22/98, BR p.4)(SFEC, 12/6/98, BR p.8)(HN, 4/13/01)(SFC, 7/24/01, p.A17)
1909 Apr 18, Joan of Arc was declared a saint.
(MC, 4/18/02)
1909 Apr 21, Rollo May, psychologist, was born.
(HN, 4/21/01)
1909 Apr 27, Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, was overthrown.
(HN, 4/27/98)
1909 Apr 29, Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch), was born in Ky.
(MC, 4/29/02)
1909 Apr 30, Juliana, queen of the Netherlands, was born. She fled during the Nazi occupation and abdicated in favor of her daughter Beatrix.
(HN, 4/30/99)
1909 May 1, Walter Reed Hospital opened in Washington DC as an 80-bed Army medical center. In 2005 it was scheduled for closure.
(SFC, 8/26/05, p.A13)
1909 May 5, Carlos Baker, biographer, was born.
(HN, 5/5/01)
1909 May 7, Edwin Herbert Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, was born.
(HN, 5/7/02)
1909 May 10, Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), was born in Nickelsville, Va.
(MC, 5/10/02)
1909 May 13, A. Kopff discovered asteroid #681, Gorgo.
(SS, Internet, 5/13/97)
1909 May 14, Texan Samuel Franklin Cody became the first to make a powered airplane flight beyond one mile in the United Kingdom. Cody, no relation to William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, used his name and talents to create his own "Wild West" show that toured Europe. Despite the fact he could read nor write, Cody designed a series of kites, including a huge man-lifting version that could be used for battle reconnaissance. Cody built a large biplane for the British army, which he flew beyond a mile on May 14, 1909. His second flight of the day crashed. Cody died in 1913 when another of his planes broke apart in midair.
(HNQ, 3/12/99)
1909 May 15, James Mason, actor (The Desert Fox, Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil), was born in England.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1909 May 17, White firemen on Georgia RR struck to protest the hiring of blacks.
(MC, 5/17/02)
1909 May 18, George Meredith (81), English poet, writer (Diana of Crossways), died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1909 May 18, Isaac M F Albéniz (48), Spanish pianist, composer, died.
(SC, 5/18/02)
1909 May 21, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, artist, was born.
(HN, 5/21/01)
1909 May 29, Neil R[onald] Jones, US sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds), was born.
(SC, 5/29/02)
1909 May 30, Benny Goodman was born. He became a great clarinet player, and big band leader and was known as the "King of Swing."
(HN, 5/30/99)
1909 May 30, Reuben Siegel laid the cornerstone of the 1st home in Tel-Aviv.
(MC, 5/30/02)
1909 May 31, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) held its first conference at the United Charities Building in NYC.
(HN, 5/31/98)(MC, 5/31/02)
1909 May, Biograph released the 11 minute film “Resurrection” directed by D.W. Griffith (34). It featured Florence Lawrence and was based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy.
(www.imdb.com/title/tt0001016/)(ON, 4/06, p.6)
1909 Jun 1, Guido Deiro, European vaudeville star, introduced the "fizarmonica systema piano" at the Alaskan Exposition in Seattle, Washington. He was contracted by the Ranco Antonio Accordion Company of Italy and is credited with naming the instrument " piano accordion." His brother Pietro Deiro was the first to play the accordion in San Francisco.
(www.guidodeiro.com)
1909 Jun 6, Isaiah Berlin (d.1997) was born in Riga. He became a professor at Oxford and wrote numerous essays on the history of political ideas and concepts of liberty. The family moved to Britain in 1919.
(SFC,11/6/97, p.C14)
1909 Jun 7, Virginia Apgar, American physician and medical researcher, was born.
(HN, 6/7/01)
1909 Jun 7, Peter Rodino, Congressman from New York, was born. He served as chairman of the Watergate hearings.
(HN, 6/7/99)
1909 Jun 7, Jessica Tandy, actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included), was born in London.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1909 Jun 7, Cleveland Industrial Exposition opened.
(SC, 6/7/02)
1909 Jun 10, An SOS signal was transmitted for the first time in an emergency as the Cunard liner SS Slavonia was wrecked off the Azores.
(HN, 6/10/99)
1909 Jun 14, Burl Ives, folk singer, actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), was born in Hunt, Ill.
(MC, 6/14/02)
1909 Jun 16, Jim Thorpe made his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with a 4-2 win. This later caused him to forfeit his Olympic medals.
(MC, 6/16/02)
1909 Jun 20, Errol Flynn, actor who starred in "The Adventures of Robin Hood" and "Captain Blood" among many other movies, was born.
(HN, 6/20/98)
1909 Jun 20, The first honeymoon in a balloon.
(HFA, ‘96, p.32)
1909 Jun 24, Milton Katims, conductor, violist (NBC Orchestra), was born in NYC.
(MC, 6/24/02)
1909 Jun 26, Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, was born. He was never a colonel.
(HN, 6/26/99)
1909 Jun 27, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer, conductor, was born.
(MC, 6/27/02)
1909 Jun 28, Eric Ambler, British mystery writer (The Dark Frontier, Uncommon Danger), was born.
(HN, 6/28/01)
1909 Jul 2, Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch of the BASF company succeeded in combining nitrogen from the air with hydrogen from coal to make ammonia.
(Econ, 12/24/05, p.29)
1909 Jul 3, Stavros Niachos, Greek shipping magnate, was born.
(MC, 7/3/02)
1909 Jul 5, Andrei Gromyko, diplomat, USSR President (1985-89), was born. [see Jul 18]
(MC, 7/5/02)
1909 Jul 8, The 1st official evening baseball game was played in Grand Rapids. Mich. Grand Rapids defeated Zanesville 11 to 10. In 2000 David W. Anderson authored "More than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History."
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)(SFEC, 4/16/00, Par p.18)
1909 Jul 11, Simon Newcomb, celestial mechanics authority, died.
(PGA, 12/9/98)
1909 Jul 12, "Curly" Joe DeRita (Joseph Wardell) (The Three Stooges: The Outlaw is Coming, Snow White and the Three Stooges, Have Rocket, Will Travel; died July 3, 1993), was born.
(MC, 7/12/02)
1909 Jul 18, Andrei Gromyko, USSR diplomat and President (1985-89), was born. [see Jul 5]
(MC, 7/18/02)
1909 Jul 25, Draugas, "The Friend," a Lithuanian newspaper, began publishing in Chicago.
(Dr, 7/96, V1#1, p.3)
1909 Jul 25, French aviator Louis Bleriot (1872-1936) made the first crossing of the English Channel from Calais to the grounds of Dover Castle in a powered aircraft, winning a £1,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail. Piloting his Type XI monoplane at an average of 39 miles per hour, Blériot made the trip of 23.2 miles in just under 36 minutes.
(AP, 7/25/97)(HNPD, 7/25/98)(ON, 6/07, p.9)
1909 Jul 27, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor, was born.
(MC, 7/27/02)
1909 Jul 27, Orville Wright tested the U.S. Army's first airplane, flying himself and a passenger for 1 hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds over Fort Myer, Virginia.
(AP, 7/27/97)(HN, 7/27/02)(MC, 7/27/02)
1909 Jul 28, Malcolm Lowry, novelist (Under the Volcano), was born.
(SC, 7/28/02)
1909 Jul 29, Chester Himes, author (Cotton Comes to Harlem, If He Hollers, Let Him Go), was born.
(HN, 7/29/01)
1909 Jul 30, C. Northcote Parkinson (d.1993), historian and author, was born. Author of Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
(HN, 7/30/01)(AP, 3/10/02)
1909 Jul 30, The Wright Brothers delivered their 1st military plane to the army.
(MC, 7/30/02)
1909 Jul, Imprisoned English suffragette Marion Dunlop refused to eat. Prison officials, afraid that she might die and become a martyr to her cause, released her. Soon after, so many suffragettes had adopted the same tactics that prison authorities began force-feeding the women. Mary Leigh told her own story of being force-fed in the September 1909 edition of The Suffragette. The hunger strike was one of the most formidable weapons in the arsenal of suffragettes in Britain and America. [see Sep, Mary Leigh]
(HNPD, 10/23/98)
1909 Aug 2, The 1st Lincoln head pennies were minted. It was 95% copper and was the first US coin to depict the likeness of a president.
(SFEC, 9/8/96, Par p.21)(SFC, 12/29/96, Z1 p.2)(MC, 8/2/02)(WSJ, 12/12/03, p.W15)
1909 Aug 2, The US Army Air Corps formed as the Army took 1st delivery from the Wright Brothers.
(MC, 8/2/02)
1909 Aug 3, Walter Van Tilberg, Western novelist, was born. He wrote "The Ox-Bow Incident."
(HN, 8/3/00)
1909 Aug 4, Baseball umpire Tim Hurst instigated a riot by spitting at A's 2nd baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call. This lead to Hurst's banishment.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1909 Aug 7, US issued the 1st Lincoln penny. [see Aug 2]
(MC, 8/7/02)
1909 Aug 10, George W. Crockett, first African-American lawyer with the U.S. Department of Labor, was born.
(HN, 8/10/98)
1909 Aug 10, Leo Fender, inventor of the first mass-produced electric guitar, was born.
(HN, 8/10/00)
1909 Aug 11, The SOS distress signal was first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
(AP, 8/11/97)
1909 Aug 19, The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened with a 2.5 mile race track. It was founded in 1906 and the 1st 500 race was held in 1911.
(MC, 8/19/02)(Internet)
1909 Aug 21, C. Dillon Douglas, US Secretary of Treasury (1961-65), was born in Geneva, Switz.
(SC, 8/21/02)
1909 Aug 24, Workers started pouring concrete for Panama Canal.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1909 Aug 25, Ruby Keeler, dancer (Dames, 42nd Street), was born in Halifax, NS.
(MC, 8/25/02)
1909 Aug 29, World’s 1st air race was held in Rheims France. American Glenn Curtiss won.
(MC, 8/29/01)
1909 Aug 31, The A.J. Reach Co. patented the cork-centered baseball.
(MC, 8/31/01)
1909 Sep 6, American explorer Robert Peary sent word that he had reached the North Pole five months earlier. [see Apr 6]
(AP, 9/6/97)
1909 Sep 7, Elia Kazan (d.2003) was born as Alia Kazanjoglous in Constantinople to Anatolian Greek parents. Kazan became a producer, screenwriter and director who won directing Oscars for "Gentleman’s Agreement" and "On the Waterfront."
(HN, 9/7/98)(AP, 9/29/03)(SFC, 9/29/03, p.A18)
1909 Sep 9, Kwame Nkrumah, communist and premier of the Gold Coast and president of Ghana (1960-66), was born.
(MC, 9/9/01)
1909 Sep 13, Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), was born in Vienna, Austria.
(MC, 9/13/01)
1909 Sep 22, David Reisman, sociologist, was born. He authored "The Lonely Crowd."
(HN, 9/22/00)
1909 Sep 22, In Oakland, Ca., Fung Joe Guey made the first West Coast flight of a heavier than air motor driven airplane at Piedmont Heights. He flew for half a mile some 15-feet above the ground.
(SFEC, 12/26/99, p.W3)
1909 Sep 25, The first National Aeronautic Show opened at Madison Square Garden.
(HN, 9/25/98)
1909 Sep 28, Al Capp (Alfred Gerald Caplin), cartoonist, was born in New Haven, Ct. From 1934 until 1977, Capp wrote and drew the cartoon, "Li’l Abner", with its cast of wonderful characters, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, their son Abner, the lovely Daisy Mae, Fearless Fosdick and the lovable Schmoos. Al Capp even invented a holiday, Sadie Hawkins Day. "Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?"
(HN, 9/28/98)(AP, 11/11/99)(MC, 9/28/01)
1909 Sep, Suffragette Mary Leigh told her own story of being force-fed in the September edition of The Suffragette. "On Saturday afternoon the wardress (female prison guard) forced me onto the bed and two doctors came in. While I was held down a nasal tube was inserted. It is two yards log, with a funnel at the end...The end is put up the right and left nostril on alternative days. The sensation is most painful--the drums of the ears seem to be bursting and there is a horrible pain in the throat and the breast. The tube is pushed down 20 inches. I am on the bed pinned down by wardresses, one doctor holds the funnel end, and the other doctor forces the other end up the nostrils. The one holding the funnel end pours the liquid down--about a pint of milk...egg and milk is sometimes used." [see July, Marion Dunlop]
(HNPD, 10/23/99)
1909 Sep, An air show was held in Brescia, Italy. In 2002 Peter Demetz authored "The Air Show at Brescia, 1909."
(WSJ, 11/15/02, p.W10)
1909 Oct 2, Orville Wright set an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham’s previous record of 508 feet.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1909 Oct 3, Herblock (Herbert Block, d.2001), political cartoonist, was born.
(MC, 10/3/01)
1909 Oct 4, The Cunard liner "Lusitania" crossed the Atlantic in four days, 15 hours and 52 minutes.
(MC, 10/4/01)
1909 Oct 9, Jacques Tati, French actor and director, was born.
(HN, 10/9/00)
1909 Oct 13, Herblock (Herbert Lawrence Block), multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist, was born.
(HN, 10/13/00)
1909 Oct 16, Carl Laemmle, director of the Independent Motion Pictures Company of America (IMP) confirmed that he had stolen Florence Lawrence, the “Biograph Girl,” from his competitor.
(ON, 4/06, p.6)
1909 Oct 26, General Oliver Otis Howard (b.1830), former Union Civil War commander, co-founder of Howard Univ., and Indian Commissioner, died in Burlington, Vermont. His books included “My Life and Experiences among Our Hostile Indians” (1907).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_O._Howard)
1909 Oct 28, Francis Bacon, English artist, was born. He painted expressionist portraits.
(HN, 10/28/00)
1909 Nov 3, James "Scotty" Reston, New York Times reporter, editor and columnist, was born in Clydebank, Scotland.
(HN, 11/3/00)(MC, 11/3/01)
1909 Nov 4, Opera "Il Segreto di Susanna" was produced in Munich.
(MC, 11/4/01)
1909 Nov 8, Katherine Hepburn, American actress, was born. She won four Oscars. Her movies included "Bringing Up Baby," "The Philadelphia Story" and "The African Queen."
(HN, 11/8/00)
1909 Nov 8, Alberto Erede, Italian conductor, was born.
(MC, 11/8/01)
1909 Nov 10, Ludvig Schytte (61), composer, died.
(MC, 11/10/01)
1909 Nov 11, Robert Ryan, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day), was born in Chicago.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1909 Nov 11, Construction began on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
(HN, 11/11/98)
1909 Nov 11, J.M. Synge's "Tinker's Wedding," premiered in London.
(MC, 11/11/01)
1909 Nov 13, Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-born dramatist, was born. His work included "The Bald Soprano" and "Rhinoceros." [see Nov 26, 1909 and Nov 26, 1912]
(HN, 11/13/00)
1909 Nov 15, M. Metrot took off in a Voisin bi-plane from Algiers, making the first manned flight in Africa.
(HN, 11/15/98)
1909 Nov 18, John Herndon Mercer [Johnny Mercer] (d.1976), songwriter, was born in Savannah, Ga. John Herndon Mercer died on Jun 25, 1976, and was buried in Boneventure Cemetery in Savannah, Ga.
(SFEC,11/30/97, p.T5)(HN, 11/18/00)
1909 Nov 18, US invaded Nicaragua and later overthrew Pres Zelaya.
(MC, 11/18/01)
1909 Nov 19, Peter Drucker, management guru, was born. His work led to business questions and answers that came to be known as "the theory of the business."
(WSJ, 11/19/99, p.A20)
1909 Nov 23, Wright brothers formed a million-dollar corporation for the commercial manufacture of airplanes.
(HN, 11/23/98)
1909 Nov 26, Eugene Ionesco (d.1994), Romanian-born French dramatist, was born. [see Nov 13, 1909 and Nov 26, 1912]
(AP, 11/26/02)
1909 Nov 27, James Agee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, was born. His work included "A Death in the Family."
(HN, 11/27/00)
1909 Nov 27, U.S. troops land in Bluefields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
(HN, 11/27/99)
1909 Nov, Mohandas Gandhi returned to South Africa from a trip to England to lobby the government to help repeal the Registration Act. He founded a communal farm named "Tolstoy" to help support a few members of his Satyagrahi movement.
(ON, 9/03, p.1)
1909 Dec 1, President Taft severed official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government, and declared support for the revolutionaries.
(HN, 12/1/98)
1909 Dec 1, The 1st Israeli kibbutz, Deganya Alef, a collective agricultural settlement, was founded in Palestine.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R25)(MC, 12/1/01)
1909 Dec 2, J.P. Morgan acquired majority holdings in Equitable Life Co. This was the largest concentration of bank power to date.
(HN, 12/2/98)
1909 Dec 5, George Taylor made the first manned glider flight in Australia in a glider that he designed himself.
(HN, 12/5/98)
1909 Dec 7, Dr. Leo H. Baekeland patented Bakelite, the 1st completely synthetic plastic thermosetting plastic. [see 1907]
(HNQ, 5/8/98)(WSJ, 1/11/98, p.R18)(MC, 12/7/01)
1909 Dec 9, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor (Ghost Story), was born in NYC.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1909 Dec 9, The 1st US monoplane was flown by Henry W. Walden at Long Island, NY.
(MC, 12/9/01)
1909 Dec 10, Red Cloud, Sioux Indian chief, died.
(MC, 12/10/01)
1909 Dec 12, Mildred Linton (d.2003) was born in Ottumwa, Iowa. She became a film star in the 1930s under the name Karen Morley.
(SFC, 4/21/03, p.B5)
1909 Dec 14, Edward L. Tatum, American molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958), was born.
(MC, 12/14/01)
1909 Dec 14, The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ended with a "declaration of war" on U.S. Steel.
(HN, 12/14/98)
1909 Dec 19, U.S. socialist women denounced suffrage as a movement of the middle class.
(HN, 12/19/98)
1909 Dec 28, The first manned, controlled, powered flight in the whole continent of
Africa and the entire southern hemisphere was successfully carried out by the Frenchman
Albert Kimmerling (d.6/12/1912) at East London, South Africa using a Voisin bi-plane.
(Internet)
1909 Dec, Whitcomb Judson died in Muskegon, Michigan.
(ON, 7/04, p.5)
1909 Dec, Frederic Remington (b.1861), American Western painter and sculptor, died. His work included "The Fight for the Water Hole," "The Call for Help" (1908), and "Shotgun Hospitality" (1908).
(AAP, 1964)(WUD, 1994, p.1213)(HN, 10/4/00)
1909 Robert Lewis (d.1997), director and teacher of actors, was born in Brooklyn.
(SFC,11/25/97, p.A22)
1909 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American Western novelist, was born. His work included "The Ox-Bow Incident."
(WUD, 1994 p.272)(SFC, 4/8/00, p.A23)
1909 Peter Drucker, management analyst, was born in Austria and grew up in Vienna. A summary of his work by Jack Beatty, "The World According to Peter Drucker," was published in 1998.
(WSJ, 1/12/98, p.A19)
1909 Anthony Tudor, choreographer, was born in London. His work added a human dimension to the most demanding movement.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1909 Jazz saxophonist Lester Young (d.1959), aka "Prez," was born in Mississippi.
(SFC, 4/14/01, p.B3)
1909 Matisse made his bronze "Head of Fernande."
(WSJ, 1/9/97, p.A8)
1909 George Bellows painted "Stag at Sharkeys," depicting a pair of boxers. He also did "Pennsylvania Station Excavation."
(WSJ, 8/21/02, p.D8)(WSJ, 9/24/02, p.D8)
1909 Marc Chagall painted "The Red Nude," an early work with touches of Fauvism.
(WSJ, 5/11/95, p. A-14)
1909 Adolf Hitler painted a series of views around Linz, Austria, including the watercolor "Mountain Chapel."
(WSJ, 7/24/02, p.D12)
1909 Henri Matisse painted “Dance,” commissioned for the stairwell of a Moscow mansion.
(WSJ, 12/7/04, p.D11)
1909 Rose Cecil O’Neill (1874-1944), illustrator, drew the 1st Kewpie doll for an issue of Ladies Home Journal. By 1911 they were being produced as dolls and figurines.
(www.lambiek.net/oneill_rose.htm)(SFC, 5/14/08, p.G6)
1909 The Musicalist movement in art began with the work of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky.
(Exc, 6/96, p.118)
1909 Picasso sculpted the head "Fernande," the first cubist sculpture. His paintings this year included "Femme Nue," which featured his lover Fernande Olivier and “Houses on the Hill” (Horta de Ebro).
(SFEM, 11/24/96, p.42)(WSJ, 2/12/99, p.W9)(WSJ, 5/13/04, p.D10)
1909 John Sloan, American painter, painted Chinese Restaurant.
(WSJ, 6/6/95, p.A-14)
1909 Jean Cocteau (19) published his 1st book of poems: "La Lampe d'Aladin."
(SFC, 10/6/03, p.D8)
1909 George Bernard Shaw wrote his comedy play "Misalliance." His play "Pygmalion" was first produced.
(WSJ, 9/18/96, p.A16)(SFEC, 8/3/97, p.A3)
1909 Louis Dollo (1857-1931), Belgian paleontologist, wrote "La Paleontologie Ethologique." Dollo’s law: complex physical features lost during evolution are seldom regained.
(NH, 6/96, p.24)(NH, 4/1/04, p.12)
1909 Francis Hodgson Burnett wrote the classic children’s story "The Secret Garden." It was published in 1910.
(SFC, 11/18/96, p.E1)(SFEC, 2/27/00, BR p.12)
1909 Freud authored his speculative monograph on Leonardo da Vinci and invented psychobiography.
(SFC, 8/30/03, p.D6)
1909 Maria Montessori (1870-1952) authored her first book, “The Montessori Method,” to explain the origins and applications of her educational theories.
(ON, 3/07, p.5)
1909 The Ballet Russes of Serge Diaghilev exploded onto the stage of the Chatelet in Paris.
(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E3)
1909 Webern composed his "Five Movements for String Orchestra."
(WSJ, 6/16/98, p.A17)
1909 Sophie Tucker, cabaret singer, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies.
(SFC, 3/13/97, p.E3)
1909 A new Alcatraz lighthouse was built. The 1854 original was removed to make way for the Alcatraz Prison.
(SFC, 6/2/04, B1)
1909 The Point Cabrillo lighthouse was built north of Mendocino in northern California. The Coast Guard retired the fog signal 1972.
(SSFC, 2/11/07, p.G10)
1909 In NYC the Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower was completed. The 50-story building was the tallest in the world for 4 years. It copied the Campanile in the Piazza San Marco in Venice that collapsed in 1902.
(HT, 5/97, p.24)
1909 Florence Nightingale Graham (b.1878) reopened a NYC 5th Ave beauty salon and developed her own Venetian line of beauty preparations, following a failed partnership. She took the name of Elizabeth Arden.
(SFEM, 8/23/98, p.29)
1909 John H. Roth, the oldest ceramic pictorial souvenir firm, was founded in Peoria, Ill.
(SFC, 7/3/96, z-1 p.7)
1909 Harry V. Warehime established Hanover Pretzel Company in Pennsylvania with a single recipe, Hanover Olde Tyme Pretzels.
(http://factorytoursusa.com/full.htm)
1909 In Hershey, Pennsylvania, Milton Hershey and his wife Catherine established the Milton Hershey School for the "maintenance, support and education of as many poor, white orphan boys as it could afford." The racial restriction ended in 1970. By 2002 the 1200-student school had an endowment of some $5.4 billion.
(WSJ, 8/12/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/26/02, p.B3)
1909 In California Stanley Ketchell, middleweight champion, fought with Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight world’s champion in Daly City. Johnson knocked Ketchell out.
(GTP, 1973, p.58)
1909 The Pittsburgh Pirates, led by pitcher Honus Wagner, defeated the Detroit Tigers 4-3 in the World Series. This marked the last world series appearance by Ty Cobb.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)
1909 Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Italian engineer, won the Nobel Prize for physics for his invention of wireless telegraphy.
(ON, 11/99, p.10)(MC, 7/20/02)
1909 Sigmund Freud‘s only visit to the United States was to accept an honorary degree at Clark University. G. Stanley Hall, the president of the university in Worcester, Massachusetts, had invited Freud to "[set] forth your own views" in a series of lectures at a conference honoring Clark‘s 20th anniversary. Following a visit to New York City, Freud delivered five lectures at Clark, all of them in German. He then went on to visit Niagara Falls and the Adirondacks before returning to Europe.
(HNQ, 6/4/00)
1909 Coco Chanel opened her 1st shop, a millinery, in Paris.
(WSJ, 10/13/03, p.A1)
1909 Evelyn Walsh McLean (d.1947) bought the blue Hope Diamond from Pierre Cartier for $180,000.
(THC, 12/3/97)
1909 US Federal taxes were imposed on corporate income.
(http://tinyurl.com/3c45eg)(Econ, 8/4/07, p.61)
1909 Congress proposed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which proposed an income tax. It was ratified in 1916.
(WSJ, 6/4/03, p.B1)
1909 Virginia executed 17 people.
(SFC,12/15/97, p.A1)
1909 A US federal copyright law was passed that allowed composers and music publishers to demand royalty payments for any public performance of copyrighted material. Protection was extended to player-piano rolls and the phonograph.
(WSJ, 8/21/96, p.A8)(SFC, 4/8/02, p.E1)
1909 The US Naval Postgraduate School was established. It relocated to Monterey, Ca. in 1951.
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.A10)
1909 California became its own Catholic province.
(GenIV, Winter 04/05)
1909 California made betting on horses illegal.
(Ind, 8/17/02, 5A)
1909 California became the 3rd state to enact eugenics-related laws.
(SSFC, 11/9/03, p.D1)
1909 California legalized the sterilization of convicted sodomites.
(SSFC, 5/11/08, Books p.4)
1909 The California State Automobile Association produced its first road map. In 2008 it planned to stop production of paper maps and shift to digital technology.
(SFC, 5/27/08, p.D1)
1909 St. Cloud, Florida, was founded as a colony for Union veterans. Some prominent investors from Washington, D.C., doing business as the Seminole Land Investment Company, secured a purchase option on 32,000 acres of land on the southern shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga in Osceola County, Florida. In response to advertisements in the National Tribune, the nationally distributed newspaper of the Grand Army of the Republic (a large organization for Union veterans commonly called the GAR), more than 1,000 former soldiers in blue bought land in St. Cloud sight unseen. For $50, soon raised to $100, a veteran could purchase a house lot in the city and five acres in the countryside.
(HNQ, 6/30/01)
1909 The Oregon Caves in the Siskiyou Mountains was set aside as one of the first national monuments.
(SFEM, 10/12/97, p.17)
1909 Women workers in New York City’s shirtwaist industry went on strike for better wages, working conditions and union recognition. The strike is described in the 1996 book "We Shall Not Be Moved: The Women’s Factory Strike of 1909." by Joan Dash.
(SFEC, 9/29/96, BR p.10)
1909 Theodore Vail of AT&T found encouragement in the Lee DeForest’s recent invention of the Audion, a precursor of the electronic vacuum tube, and promised transcontinental service to all telephones in time for the 1914 Panama-Pacific Exposition.
(I&I, Penzias, p.215)
1909 John Moody began publishing his annual railroad bond ratings.
(Econ, 3/26/05, p.67)
1909 The Central Pacific Railroad finally paid off its 30-year bonds issued in 1863.
(SFC, 7/8/96, p.D2)
1909 The first rural mile of concrete road was paved in the Detroit area at a cost of $13,534.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1909 The San Francisco Murphy Door & Bed Company created the first "concealed bed." [see 1900]
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A20)
1909 GM acquired Cadillac.
(WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl)
1909 Montgomery Ward went public as profits reached $1 million for the 1st time.
(SFC, 12/29/00, p.A12)
1909 The Public Cup Vendor Co. was incorporated to produce paper cups. By 1919 it was named the Dixie Cup Co.
(SFC, 4/4/07, p.G2)
1909 The Wright brothers sold a Military Flyer to the Signal Corps for $30,000.
(WSJ, 5/20/03, p.D5)
1909 Konstantin S. Merezhovsky, biologist, argued that the chloroplasts in plant cells evolved from symbionts of foreign origin and coined the term "symbiogenesis" to describe the merger of different kinds of life forms into new species.
(NH, 6/01, p.40)
1909 The word geriatric was coined.
(SFC, 8/24/96, p.E3)
1909 Wilhelm Johanssen, Danish botanist, coined the word "gene."
(NH, 6/01, p.30)
1909 The Burgess Shale was discovered by the geologist Charles D. Walcott. The shale contained fossils dating back to the Cambrian, 514 million years.
(NG, V184, No. 4, Oct. 1993, R. Gore, p.125)
1909 Earl Douglass discovered dinosaur bones in eastern Utah.
(SFEC, 3/14/99, p.T8)
1909 Edward Henry Harriman (b.1848), American financier and railway magnate, died. In 2000 Maury Klein authored "The Life and Legend of E.H. Harriman."
(WUD, 1994, p.648)(WSJ, 3/21/00, p.A24)
1909 Canada and the US signed a Boundary Waters Treaty that set up an Int’l. Joint Commission to deal with water disputes. Water was allowed to exit Lake Superior through locks, power plants and gates on the St. Marys River, but in amounts strictly regulated under the 1909 pact with Canada.
(Econ, 7/16/05, p.34)(AP, 8/3/07)
1909 An earthquake occurred in the Balkans. A. Mohorovicic, a Croatian seismologist, discovered a boundary between the mantle and the crust. It is called the Mohorovicic boundary or simply the Moho, lying at about 20 miles below the surface. The crust is less rigid than the deep mantle and is penetrated by many irregularities.
(DD-EVTT, p.78-79)
1909 Selfridges, one of London’s great department stores, was completed with a façade of 22 pillars.
(Econ, 12/23/06, p.106)
1909 In France the physicist Georges Claude perfected the neon tube and patented a long lasting electrode that he developed for it. 2 English chemists had discovered neon in 1898.
(G&M, 7/31/97, p.A20)(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B7)
1909 Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and industrialist, organized a company with his son Carl to build aircraft engines, including power plants for the Zeppelin airships.
(HNQ, 8/28/00)
1909 Italian futurists distributed their first manifesto. F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944) published the 1st Futurist Manifesto.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, DB p.27)(SFC, 12/27/99, p.E1)
1909 In Japan Michio Suzuki started a loom works. The company made its first motorcycle in 1954.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1909 The legendary Jesus Malverde, a Mexican Robin Hood who rode the hills around Culiacan in Sinaloa State, was supposedly hanged by the government and left to rot. The legendary crime figure became revered as a saint by many of the country's drug traffickers. In 2007 housewife Maria Alicia Pulido Sanchez built him a shrine in Mexico City after her son Marcos Abel recovered from injuries he suffered in a December 2005 car crash in just three days when she prayed to a Malverde statue a friend had given her.
(SFEC, 3/2/97, p.A14)(AP, 1/23/07)
1909 Abdullah Hassan, the “Mad Mullah” of Somaliland, waged jihad against local tribesmen who had accepted British rule. He slaughtered a third of the territory’s inhabitants.
(Econ, 8/26/06, p.20)
1909-1912 The E.I. Horsman Co., a New York City doll company, made Billiken dolls. The doll was like a teddy bear with the head of a Chinese deity.
(SFC,11/5/97, Z.1 p.3)
1909-1913 William Howard Taft became the 27th President of the US.
(A&IP, ESM, p.96b, photo)
1909-1914 Alfred Colley Ltd. was a pottery manufacturer in Staffordshire. They made a China pattern named Lusitania after an ancient Roman province on the Iberian peninsula.
(SFC, 6/3/98, Z1 p.6)
1909-1917 T.S. Eliot wrote a number of bawdy poems that were compiled and with extensive remarks in 1996 by Christopher Ricks in "Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917."
(WSJ, 9/12/96, p.A14)
1909-1918 Mehmed V succeeded Abdul Hamid II in the Ottoman House of Osman.
(Ot, 1993, xvii)
1909-1929 German and British expeditions in Tendaguru of present day Tanzania, unearth Jurassic dinosaurs as similar and impressive as those found in North America.
(T.E.-J.B. p.25)
1909-1959 Errol Flynn, American actor: "It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
(AP, 2/1/99)
1909-1984 Anna Swir, Polish poet. "A poet should be as sensitive as an aching tooth."
(SFEC, 11/10/96, DB p.8)
1909-1986 Jacques Gelman, Russian born movie producer. He produced movies in Mexico that starred the popular comic, Cantinflas. Between the wars he emigrated to Berlin and then to Paris where he founded a film distribution company and later settled in Mexico. In Paris he began collecting art. In Mexico he collected and commissioned work by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and Rufino Tamayo.
(SFC, 4/14/96, EM, p.18)
1909-1991 Edwin H. Land, American inventor (Polaroid cameras): "If you are able to state a problem, it can be solved."
(AP, 3/1/00)
1909-1993 Nguyen Gia Tri, Vietnamese artist, worked using the laborious lacquer on wood technique.
(SFC, 6/8/96, p.E1)
1909-1994 Clement Greenberg, American art critic. In 1998 Florence Rubenfeld published the biography: "Clement Greenberg: A Life." He held T.S. Eliot’s controversial precept, a "belief in the long-term objectivity of taste."
(SFEC, 5/24/98, BR p.9)
well a BLOG and a history lesson all in one....It took almost a year to read it...Thanks Ron...
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