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1909 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2027. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1909 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1909

• January 9, 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nmi from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
• January 22, 1909 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rooster in Chinese astrology.
• January 23, 1909 – RMS Republic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
• February 5, 1909 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic.
• February 22, 1909 – The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
• March 4, 1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution’s Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
• March 31, 1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.
• June 26, 1909 – The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
• October 26, 1909 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.
• November 2, 1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.

Who Were Born On 1909?

• February 5, 1909 – Grażyna Bacewicz, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1969)
• March 24, 1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
• April 29, 1909 – Tom Ewell, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• May 6, 1909 – Loyd Sigmon, American radio host (d. 2004)
• May 27, 1909 – Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011)
• July 12, 1909 – Motoichi Kumagai, Japanese photographer and illustrator (d. 2010)
• October 20, 1909 – Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
• November 19, 1909 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American theorist, educator, and author (d. 2005)
• December 2, 1909 – Joseph P. Lash, American activist and author (d. 1987)
• December 26, 1909 – Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)