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1909 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of ...
October 11 – The 1909 Florida Keys hurricane makes landfall in the U.S. November – New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 begins. November 2 – The Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. November 6 – The Union Soldiers and Sailors Monument is dedicated in Baltimore.
March 4, 1909 – Taft becomes the 27th president; Sherman becomes the 27th vice president; 1909 – Robert Peary claims to have reached the North Pole; 1909 – NAACP founded by W. E. B. Du Bois; 1909 – Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act; 1909 – Taft implements dollar diplomacy; 1909 – Pinchot–Ballinger controversy
1 January – the first pensions are paid out under terms of the Old Age Pensions Act 1908, which provides for a non-contributory weekly sum of 5 shillings to be paid through post offices to people aged over seventy with a weekly income under 12 shillings but of 'good character'. [1]
The New York shirtwaist strike of 1909, also known as the Uprising of the 20,000, was a labour strike primarily involving Jewish women working in New York shirtwaist factories. It was the largest strike by female American workers up to that date.
American women’s rights activist Alice Paul, then aged 24, took action in Glasgow that August.
The following events occurred in January 1909: ... happened fifteen days after 51 men had been killed at the same mine (December 28, 1908). [36]
March 26, 1909 (Friday) [ edit ] A crowd of 10,000 demonstrated in Cairo, the day after British authorities in Egypt restored the 1881 "Law of Publications", barring newspapers from supporting nationalist causes.