July 1909

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July 25, 1909: Bleriot becomes first man to fly an aircraft across English Channel
July 19, 1909: Hudson Terminal and 22-storey twin towers open at future site of World Trade Center in New York
July 27, 1909:SS Waratah and 211 people on board vanish without a trace

The following events occurred in July 1909:

July 1, 1909 (Thursday)
  • In the first political assassination in Britain since 1882, Sir William Curzon-Wyllie, chief aide to British India's Secretary of State, was shot and killed in London by Madan Lal Dhingra. Another bystander, Dr. Cawas Lalcaca, was fatally wounded by Dhingra's shots.[1]
  • Clark County, Nevada, Palm Beach County, Florida, and Lincoln County, Montana, all came into existence on the same day.[2]
  • Alice Blériot, wife of Louis Blériot, saved a child from death, and the grateful family loaned the almost bankrupt aviator 25,000 francs, enough to help him perfect his Blériot XI airplane in an attempt to be the first person to fly across the English Channel.[3]
  • Arctic explorer Joseph-Elzéar Bernier placed a plaque at Winter Harbour on Melville Island that proclaimed "The Memorial is erected today to commemorate the taking possession for the Dominion of Canada of the whole Arctic Archipelago lying to the north of America from long. 60 W to 141 W up to the latitude of 90 N."[4]

July 2, 1909 (Friday)

July 3, 1909 (Saturday)
  • The first Hudson automobile, the "Model 20", came off the assembly line in Detroit. The last Hudson was manufactured in 1957, after the company merged into AMC.[6]
  • Federal charges were filed against the manufacturers of Koca Nola, the third most popular cola after Coke and Pepsi, after a one-gallon jug of the syrup was found to include cocaine. Ironically, the company's slogan was "Delicious and Dopeless". The company was fined $100 for "adulteration" and failure to disclose ingredients; bottling of Koca Nola ceased after the company went bankrupt in 1910.[7]

July 4, 1909 (Sunday)
  • Architect Daniel Burnham and a team of planners unveiled the Plan of Chicago, also known as the Burnham Plan, a long range vision for the Windy City.[8]
  • A 16-foot-tall (4.9 m) pedestal and bust of Abraham Lincoln was dedicated in Scranton, Pennsylvania, at Nay Aug Park. The statue disappeared at some point in the next few decades, and clues to its whereabouts were still being sought a century later.[9]
  • France's battleship Danton, the first to have turbine engines, was launched from the shipyard at Brest. The Danton was torpedoed and sunk on March 19, 1917.[10]

July 5, 1909 (Monday)
  • Suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop introduced the "hunger strike" to Britain, after being jailed for disturbing Parliament. Dunlop's fast lasted 91 hours, attracting enough publicity that the government agreed to meet with the suffrage movement leaders. She was released on July 8, becoming a heroine for women's suffrage and an example for protestors ever since.[11]
  • The proposed Sixteenth Amendment (income tax) passed the U.S. Senate unanimously, 77–0, and moved on to the House.[12]
  • Born: Mohammed Gharib, known as the "Father of Pediatrics in Iran" after authoring a 1941 Persian language textbook on childhood disease (d. 1975)

July 6, 1909 (Tuesday)

July 7, 1909 (Wednesday)
  • Physicist Walther Ritz, who had formulated the Ritz method for analyzing combinations of particles, and who had contributed to the Rydberg formula, died of pleurisy in Göttingen at the age of 31.[14]
  • T.E. Lawrence, immortalized as "Lawrence of Arabia", departed Britain for his first trip to the Arab world. Lawrence, a second-year undergraduate at Oxford University, traveled to Syria and Palestine for his thesis on the influence of the Crusades on European military architecture.[15]
  • Born: Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player, French Open winner 1934, 1936, in Nettlingen (killed in auto accident, 1976)

July 8, 1909 (Thursday)

July 9, 1909 (Friday)

July 10, 1909 (Saturday)
  • China and the United States reached the first agreement providing for Chinese students to enroll at American universities. The Imperial Court approved Qianpai YouMei Xuesheng Banfa Dagang, an outline of regulations for selecting suitable candidates for study in the U.S., after its delivery by the Ministry of Education.[20]

July 11, 1909 (Sunday)

July 12, 1909 (Monday)
  • By a margin of 317–14, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution sending the proposed Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution to the states for ratification.[22] Alabama was first (on August 10) to ratify the income tax amendment, which was, on February 3, 1913, ratified by the required 36 states.[23]
  • Korea agreed to turn over the functions of prison administration and the court system to Japan. Annexation would follow on August 22, 1910.[24]
  • President Taft set aside 480 acres (1.9 km2) as the Oregon Caves National Monument.[25]
  • Born: Bimal Roy, Hindi film director, in Dhaka (died 1966); Joe DeRita, "the last of the Three Stooges" after replacing Curly Howard; as Joseph Wardell, in Philadelphia (died 1993); and Herbert S. Zim, author of science books for children, in New York (died 1994)

July 13, 1909 (Tuesday)
  • Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar, the Shah of Persia, was forced to flee to the Russian embassy after rebel armies poured into the Persian capital of Tehran. Mujahidin forces from the north, and Bakhtiari tribesmen from the south, were joined by local supporters of the revolution. By week's end, constitutional government had been restored.[26]
  • Born: Prince Souphanouvong, first President of Laos (1975–1991), in Luang Phrabang, five days before Savang Vatthana, last King of Laos (died 1995)

July 14, 1909 (Wednesday)

July 15, 1909 (Thursday)
  • After China refused to let American banks participate with Germany, Britain and France in financing of a railway building project, U.S. President William Howard Taft personally cabled a request to Prince Chun, the regent for the Chinese Emperor, to be allowed in. China renegotiated the agreement to include American banks, and problems with the project later contributed to the downfall of the Empire in 1911.[32]
  • Born: Hendrik B. G. Casimir, Dutch theoretical physicist and discoverer of the Casimir effect, at The Hague (died 2000)
  • Died: George Tyrrell, 48, Modernist theologian within the Catholic Church

July 16, 1909 (Friday)
Qajar of Iran

July 17, 1909 (Saturday)
  • Huntington Beach, California, was incorporated, with 915 residents within its 3.57 square miles (9.2 km2). From 1960 to 1970, with the annexation of adjoining farmland, the city's population grew tenfold, from 11,492 to 115,960, and now has nearly 200,000 inhabitants.[36]
  • Glenn Curtiss piloted the airplane Gold Bug for ​15 1⁄2 miles at Mineola, New York, earning a $10,000 prize from Scientific American magazine.[37]
  • After 45 consecutive at-bats without a hit, Brooklyn Dodgers' catcher Bill Bergen got a single. The record still stands a century later.[38]

July 18, 1909 (Sunday)

July 19, 1909 (Monday)
  • The Hudson & Manhattan Railroad's Hudson Terminal, the largest underground station in New York City, was opened at 10:15 a.m., connecting Manhattan to Jersey City.[41] The terminal, located at Cortlandt and Church Streets, was operated by the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, and would later become the World Trade Center PATH station. Two 22-story towers for the H & M Railroad, at the time the "nation's largest office buildings" [42] would later be replaced by the twin 110-story WTC office buildings, which would be destroyed on September 11, 2001.[43]
  • In Cleveland, Neal Ball of the Cleveland Indians made the first unassisted triple play in major league history, in the second inning of a 6–1 win over the Boston Red Sox. Ball caught a hit by Amby McConnell, stepped on second base before Heinie Wagner could return, and tagged Jake Stahl, who was trying to back to first base. The 14th and most recent such play was also in Cleveland, by Asdrúbal Cabrera on May 11, 2008.[44]
  • Hubert Latham's attempt to be the first to fly an airplane across the English Channel failed, when the engine on the Antoinette IV failed seven miles (11 km) into the trip. The French destroyer Harpon rescued both pilot and airplane. Six days later, Louis Blériot would cross the Channel.[45]
  • Died: Arai Ikunosuke, 73, Japanese samurai

July 20, 1909 (Tuesday)
  • Georges Clemenceau resigned as Prime Minister of France after a violent argument in the Chamber of Deputies with former Foreign Minister Theophile Delcasse. A vote of no confidence followed, with the Clemenceau government losing 212–176, and the premier quitting after nearly three years. Clemenceau, who was succeeded by Aristide Briand, would become Premier again in 1917.[46]

July 21, 1909 (Wednesday)
  • The first baseball game in Korea took place in Seoul. Yun Ik-hyon and 24 other Korean university students had learned the game while studying in Tokyo, and organized a match against American foreign missionaries. The Korea Baseball Organization would later refer to it as "the turning point for Korean baseball".[47]

July 22, 1909 (Thursday)
  • The Republic of Paraguay enacted its first compulsory education law, requiring all children, 5 to 14, to attend school. On September 6, the "Law for the Conversion of the Indian Tribes" was enacted, providing for public land grants of 7,500 hectares (roughly 29 square miles) to establish schools, churches and housing for Indians converted to Christianity.[48]

July 23, 1909 (Friday)

July 24, 1909 (Saturday)
  • John Flanagan became the oldest person to break a sports record when he had a distance of 56.18 meters in the hammer throw. The Irish-born, NYPD cop was 41 years old.[51]
  • At D'Urville Island in New Zealand, the first sighting was made of an "Aerialite", a brightly lit object flying over the bay. For the next six weeks, the unidentified flying object was observed across New Zealand from Otago to Auckland.[52]
  • Born: John George Haigh, British serial killer, in Stamford (hanged 1949)

July 25, 1909 (Sunday)
  • Louis Blériot landed the Blériot XI at 5:17 a.m. in England, at Northfall Meadow near Dover. Having taken off from the French village of Les Baraques, near Calais, 36 minutes earlier, Blériot became the first person to fly an airplane across the English Channel, and made the first international flight as well. A British newspaper noted the next day, "England's isolation has ended once and for all."[53] Blériot, who was recovering from surgery and had no compass, crash-landed. Legend has it that the 25 horsepower (19 kW) airplane engine was saved from overheating by a slight drizzle as he neared the English coast. Blériot won a ₤1,000 prize from the London Daily Mail and received hundreds of orders for his airplane.[45]

July 26, 1909 (Monday)
  • The SS Waratah departed Durban, South Africa, with 211 passengers and crew on board, bound for a 3-day journey to Cape Town, its next stop on a voyage from Australia to Britain. The Waratah was spotted on the 27th by the Clan MacIntyre, and never seen again. No trace of the ship has ever been found.[54] Explorer Emlyn Brown thought he had located the wreckage in 1999, but had found, instead, a freighter sunk during World War II.[55] As of 2009, no trace of the Waratah has been found.
  • Born: Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy), in Cherryvale, Kansas, as Vivian Roberta Jones (died 1979)

July 27, 1909 (Tuesday)
  • At Fort Myer, Virginia, Orville Wright and his passenger, Lt. Frank P. Lahm, went aloft in the Wright Military Flyer. Staying aloft for more than one hour (1:12:37.8), Wright met the first requirement of the U.S. Army Signal Corps' Specification No. 486.[56]

July 28, 1909 (Wednesday)

July 29, 1909 (Thursday)
  • General Motors acquired the Cadillac Motor Company from Henry M. Leland for $5.5 million.[59]
  • Amid concerns that African workers recruited from Angola were being exploited as slave labor by the chocolate maker Cadbury Brothers Ltd, Portugal's Colonial Minister, Manuel da Terra Vianna, barred further recruitment until an investigation could be made.[60]
  • Born: Chester Himes, African-American author, in Jefferson City, Missouri (died 1984)

July 30, 1909 (Friday)
  • With Benjamin Foulois as navigator and observer, Orville Wright passed the final requirement of the U.S. Army Signal Corps for a military airplane. A crowd of 7,000 turned out at Fort Myer, Virginia, to see if the Wright Military Flyer could average 40 miles (64 km) per hour over ten miles (16 km). Wright and Foulois flew five miles (8 km) to Alexandria, rounded Shooter's Hill, and returned in less than 15 minutes. For reaching 42.5 mph (68.4 km/h)., the Wilbur and Orville Wright earned an additional $5,000 along with the $25,000 award.[61]
  • When the House of Lords blocked his proposed budget, David Lloyd George, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, made the "Limehouse Speech" in the East London neighborhood of the same name. Referring to the House of Lords, Lloyd George said, "The question will be asked whether 500 men, ordinary men chosen accidentally from the unemployed, should override ... the deliberate judgment of millions of people who are engaged in the industry which makes the wealth of this country." The power of the House of Lords was reduced two years later by the Parliament Act 1911.[62]
  • An earthquake in Mexico heavily damaged the towns of Acapulco and Chilpancingo, and an aftershock the following day destroyed water mains in Mexico City.[63]
  • Born: C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and author of Parkinson's Law, in Barnard Castle (d. 1993); Juan Bosch, Dominican author and President for seven months in 1963, in La Vega (d. 2001); and Paul "Mousie" Garner, American comedian, in Washington, D.C. (died 2004)

July 31, 1909 (Saturday)

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