New Zealand’s Worst Maritime Disaster: SS Penguin Sinks and Explodes, February 12, 1909
Date: February 12, 1909
Date: February 12, 1909
Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. Date: January 16, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 16 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1909Portugal Earthquake Near Lisbon Kills 60, Injures 75 – April 23, 1909Montreal Canadiens Founded as NHA Charter…
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. Date: January 23, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events…
The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. Date: February 23, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1909Burgess Shale Fossils Discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott, August 30,…
Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. Date: January 4, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 4 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1909General Motors Acquires Oakland Motor Car Company, January 20, 1909Abdul…
The city of Tel Aviv is founded. Date: April 11, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 11 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1909NAACP Founded in Civil Rights Movement February 12, 1909Kinemacolor First Public Screening at Palace Theatre, London, February 26,…
Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180 km; 112 mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time. Date: January 9, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 9 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅…