The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. Date: February 12, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 12 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Paris Film Congress opens, an attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPPC cartel in the United States. Date: February 2, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 2 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War. Date: January 28, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 28 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera. Date: January 25, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 25 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
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…
Newly formed automaker General Motors (GM) buys into the Oakland Motor Car Company, which later becomes GM's long-running Pontiac division. Date: January 20, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 20 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This Day (Today)
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)
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 📅…
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)
New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory. Date: December 14, 1909 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on December 14 📅 Events on this day in 1909 📅 On This…