December 1909

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December 31, 1909: Manhattan Bridge opens
December 17, 1909: Belgium's King Leopold II dies
December 31, 1909: Kinemacolor film first shown in theater

The following events occurred in December 1909:

December 1, 1909 (Wednesday)[edit]

December 2, 1909 (Thursday)[edit]

Union of South Africa flag used until 1928

December 3, 1909 (Friday)[edit]

December 4, 1909 (Saturday)[edit]

December 5, 1909 (Sunday)[edit]

December 6, 1909 (Monday)[edit]

December 7, 1909 (Tuesday)[edit]

December 8, 1909 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • Colonel Sergey Karpov, director of Russia's secret police, the Okhrana, was assassinated in the Russian capital of St. Petersburg. Aleksandr Petrov, a Bolshevik who had infiltrated the Okhrana, planted the bomb that killed the security chief.[26]
  • Born: Franz Six, Nazi German administrator; in Mannheim (d. 1975)

December 9, 1909 (Thursday)[edit]

  • The British General Post Office announced the first cable money transfer agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States, to take effect on January 1, 1910. Under the new service, money could be wired between British post offices and Western Union telegraph stations in the United States, with orders transmitted via transatlantic cable.[27]
  • Born: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American film actor; in New York City (d. 2000)

December 10, 1909 (Friday)[edit]

December 11, 1909 (Saturday)[edit]

December 12, 1909 (Sunday)[edit]

  • The only persons known to have escaped the sinking of the Bessemer and Marquette ferry were found in a lifeboat on Lake Erie, frozen to death.[32]
  • Born: Karen Morley (stage name for Mildred Linton), blacklisted American actress; in Ottumwa, Iowa (d. 2003)

December 13, 1909 (Monday)[edit]

  • On his deathbed, King Leopold II of Belgium married Caroline Lacroix, his mistress and the mother of his two sons, Lucien and Philippe.[33] The King died four days later and was succeeded by his brother. The marriage, performed as a religious ceremony but not a civil ceremony, was not recognized under Belgian law, and Lucien was ineligible to succeed to the throne.[34] Lucien Durieux lived until November 15, 1984.[35]
  • Died: George Salting, 74, British millionaire and art collector

December 14, 1909 (Tuesday)[edit]

December 15, 1909 (Wednesday)[edit]

December 16, 1909 (Thursday)[edit]

  • José Santos Zelaya resigned as President of Nicaragua as American warships approached that nation's coasts. In a message to the Congress, Zelaya wrote that he resigned in hopes of "the re-establishment of peace, particularly the suspension of the hostility of the United States". Zelaya was succeeded by José Madriz, who later resigned under American pressure.[44]
  • The village of Duson, Louisiana, was incorporated.

December 17, 1909 (Friday)[edit]

Albert I

December 18, 1909 (Saturday)[edit]

  • Albert Kimmerling became the first pilot in South Africa.[47]
  • U.S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox sent a diplomatic note to his counterpart in Japan, challenging the expansion of both Empires into China. As part of President Taft's policy of "Dollar Diplomacy", Knox proposed to Japan's Foreign Minister, Komura Jutarō, that foreign-built railways in Manchuria be made neutral to promote economic development. After a January 6 press statement by Knox described the U.S., Britain, Germany and France as "the four great capitalist nations" setting an example for China, Japan and Russia rejected the proposal and agreed to divide their spheres of influence. Historian A. Whitney Griswold later wrote that in trying to advance the Open Door Policy, Knox had "nailed that door closed with himself on the outside".[48]

December 19, 1909 (Sunday)[edit]

  • Borussia Dortmund, Germany's most popular soccer football club, was founded. The team won eight national championships, including the 2002 Bundesliga, and has the largest attendance in Germany.[49]

December 20, 1909 (Monday)[edit]

December 21, 1909 (Tuesday)[edit]

December 22, 1909 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • Thousands of people in Worcester, Massachusetts and neighboring towns witnessed a mysterious airship that hovered over the city and shone a searchlight.[55] The sighting followed claims by inventor Wallace Tillinghast that he had invented an airplane that could fly 120 miles per hour.[56]
  • Born:
  • Died: Jimmy Sebring, 27, American major league baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates who hit the first home run in the first World Series, died of kidney failure four months after his last major league game.

December 23, 1909 (Thursday)[edit]

December 24, 1909 (Friday)[edit]

  • The federal court in Boston ruled in the case In re Halladjian (174 F. 834) that Armenians were of the White race, and thus eligible to become naturalized citizens. Earlier, Jacob Halladjian and three other people were denied citizenship on grounds that they were "Asiatics".[59]
  • Toyohiko Kagawa established the Kyureidan, a Christian mission and social welfare organization, in Kobe, Japan. In 1914, the organization was renamed the Jesus Band, which celebrated its centennial in 2009.[60]

December 25, 1909 (Saturday)[edit]

  • After an absence of more than a year, the 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso, returned to Lhasa. The ruler of Tibet had journeyed to Beijing in 1908 to meet with the Manchu Emperor, but refused to kowtow to him, and fled at the beginning of 1909, arriving home ahead of the Chinese army. The first soldiers arrived on February 12, 1910, and the Dalai Lama fled again.[61]
  • Engineer Cândido Rondon and his remaining 14 men completed a six-month, 900-mile (1,400 km) expedition into the Amazon jungles of the interior of Brazil, arriving at the town of Primor, where they were finally able to get resupplied, four months after running out of food. Rondon, who returned to a hero's welcome in Rio de Janeiro, succeeded in extending telegraph wires to form a communications network across Brazil.[62]
  • Born: Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-born U.S. designer of the Corvette automobile; in Brussels (d. 1996)

December 26, 1909 (Sunday)[edit]

  • American painter, sculptor and author Frederic Remington died at the age of 48, six days after becoming ill with appendicitis at a New York exhibition of his paintings. By the time he underwent surgery on December 23, his appendix had burst and peritonitis had set in.[63]

December 27, 1909 (Monday)[edit]

  • Five days after the sudden death of Mississippi's U.S. Senator Anselm J. McLaurin, Governor Noel appointed James Gordon, a 76-year-old former colonel in the Confederate Army, had admitted to having met with John Wilkes Booth in Montreal shortly before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.[64] At one time, a $10,000 reward had been offered by the United States government for his capture, dead or alive, though it was later concluded that he had not been a conspirator.[65]

December 28, 1909 (Tuesday)[edit]

December 29, 1909 (Wednesday)[edit]

  • Ah Hoon, well known in New York as a Chinese American comedian, became a casualty of the tong wars. The Hip Sing gang had delivered a message to him, announcing "the exact hour and the minute he would die", because of insults to them in Hoon's comic routine. Although many sources list December 30 as the evening of Ah Hoon's last performance and murder, his body was discovered in the early morning hours of the 30th.[69]

December 30, 1909 (Thursday)[edit]

  • The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs decreed that baptism ceremonies could not be performed outdoors (such as in a lake or river) without a permit, because they qualified as a "religious procession".[70]
  • Born: Milton Rogovin, American photographer; in New York City (d. 2011)

December 31, 1909 (Friday)[edit]

  • At 2:00 pm, the 6,855-foot-long (2,089 m) Manhattan Bridge was opened to traffic, after eight years and 26 million dollars had been spent on its construction. New York City Mayor George B. McClellan Jr., who was on the last day of his term of office, rode in the first automobile of a motorcade from Manhattan to Brooklyn.[71]
  • Pope Pius X issued the decree Quinquennial Visit Ad Limina, requiring all Roman Catholic bishops to issue a quinquennial (every five years) report to the Vatican on the state of their diocese, starting in 1911.[72]

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