Events That Happened in 1909

1909 Timeline

1909
to 1913
Adolf Hitler lives in Vienna
The beautiful old world city of Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with its magnificent culture that had seen the likes of Beethoven and Mozart, now had a new resident, a pal...
1909 Auguste Marie François Beernaert and Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant Win the Nobel Peace Prize
Auguste Marie François Beernaert (July 26, 1829 – October 6, 1912) was the Prime Minister of Belgium from October 1884 to March 1894. Born in Ostend, he was elected to the Chamber of D...
1909 Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick Cheney Elope
Local gossips noticed Wright's flirtations, and he developed a reputation in Oak Park as a man-about-town. His family had grown to six children, and the brood required most of Catherine's...
1909 Selma Lagerlöf Becomes the First Woman to be Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1909 was awarded to Selma Lagerlöf "in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings".
1909 Jan 20 Chicago Crib Disaster
The temporary Crib used in the construction of the Southwest Land and Lake Tunnel System, situated on the line of the tunnel seventy-five hundred feet from the shore, caught fire from som...
1909 Feb 12 The National Association for the Advacement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded
Founded Feb. 12. 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest, largest and most widely recognized grassroots–based civil rights organization. Its more than half-million members and supporters t...
1909 Mar 4 William Howard Taft is inaugurated as the 27th president of the United States
A blizzard the night before caused the ceremonies to be moved into the Senate Chamber in the Capitol. The oath of office was administered for the sixth time by Chief Justice Melville Ful...
1909 Mar 13 Ottawa Senators win Stanley Cup
The 1909 Eastern Canadian Hockey Association (ECHA) season lasted from January 2 until March 6. Teams played a twelve game schedule. The Ottawa Senators would win the league championship ...
1909 Mar 24 Clyde Barrow Is Born
Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central ...
1909 Sep 7 Elia Kazan is Born
Elia Kazan (pronounced ē-LĒ-ä ka-ZAHN; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, film and theatrical producer, screenwriter, novelist and co-found...
1909 Oct 8
to 1909 Oct 16
 1909 World Series
The 1909 World Series featured the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Detroit Tigers. The Pirates won the Series in seven games to capture their first championship of the modern Major League Base...
1909 Nov 13 Cherry Mine Disaster
Cherry is in Bureau county, 100 miles north and slightly west of Decatur, and about 10 miles north of Spring Valley, the home of John Mitchell. It is on a spur of the Chicago, Milwaukee a...
1909 Nov 26 Sigma Alpha Mu is Formed
Sigma Alpha Mu (ΣΑΜ), also known as "Sammy", is a college fraternity founded at the City College of New York in 1909. Originally only for Jewish men, Sigma Alpha Mu remained so until 1953...
1909 Dec
to 1910 Jan
James Joyce Manages The Volta Cinematograph, Ireland's First Cinema
Cinema arrived in Dublin in April 1896 when a demonstration was held in Dan Lowery’s Star of Erin theatre (later the Olympia). James Joyce was briefly the manager of the first cinema in t...