* 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.

* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )

* 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver ( d. 1987 )

* 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands ( d. 2004 )

* 1909 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor ( d. 1992 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Lester Young, American saxophonist ( d. 1959 )

* 1909 – V. K. Gokak, Indian writer ( d. 1992 )

* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

Monty Noble led Australia to victory in both 1907 – 08 and 1909.

* 1909 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist ( d. 1971 )

* 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.

* 1909 – Bill Voce, England cricketer ( d. 1984 )

* 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer ( d. 1909 )

* 1909 – Hugo Winterhalter, American composer and bandleader ( d. 1973 )

* 1909 – Paul Callaway, American organist and conductor ( d. 1995 )

* 1909 – Bruce Matthews, Canadian army officer and businessman ( d. 1991 )

* 1909 – Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1992 )

* 1829 – Carlo Acton, Italian composer and pianist ( d. 1909 )

* 1909 – Michael Rennie, English actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

* 1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer ( d. 1970 )

* 1909 – Leila Danette, American actress

Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1909.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

* Her First Biscuits ( 1909, actor )

Among Latter-day Saints the idea of " spirit birth " was described in its modern doctrinal form in 1909, when the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued the following statement:

** Syed Abdul Rahim, First ever Indian national football manager ( b. 1909 )

The culmination of such efforts came with the First White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children called by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, where it was declared that the nuclear family represented " the highest and finest product of civilization ” and was best able to serve as primary caretaker for the abandoned and orphaned.

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

The event raised more than $ 50, 000 a year for the two First Ward aldermen until it was closed down in 1909 by Mayor Fred Busse.

* Inspired Talks ( First published 1909 )

* Blackburn First Monoplane ( 1909 )-single-engine, single-seat high-wing monoplane aircraft

His most famous are the First Suite in E-flat for Military Band of 1909 and the Second Suite in F for Military Band of 1911 ( see also Hammersmith, below ).

A 1930 edition of " First Lessons in Maori " by Leonard Williams ( bishop ) | William Leonard Williams, Bishop of Diocese of Waiapu | Waiapu from 1895 to 1909.

** 1896, First report of the station on adulterated food products ; 1897 ; 1898 ; 1899 ; 1900 ; 1901 ; 1902 ; 1903 ; 1904 ; 1905 ; 1906 ; 1907: Food, Food, Drugs ; 1908: Not located ; 1909: Not located ; 1910: Not located ; 1911: Food, Drugs

* 1909 – First Intrauterine device described by Richard Richter.

* First motorized Tiltrotor ( 1909 )

In 1909 " Billy " Milne learned of a small group of boys at the First Baptist Church in Barre, who were already members of the Boys Brigade, he offered them an alternative to their routine of marching and drills.

Mr. Milne (" Billy " to one and all who knew him ) started at once with his idea and by the latter part of the summer of 1909 had formed a troop of Boy Scouts with about a dozen boys from the Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church, Barre, Vermont, Mr. James Grearson, teacher.

As I now recall a group of boys from our First Baptist Church headed by a young man just over from the " old country " and already interested in scouting as it was than known in England, decided to form a troup and in the month of October of the year 1909 we organized such a troup, with this young man William Foster Milne as our leader.

In 1909, the First National Bank was organized and opened for business with a paid-in capital of $ 30, 000 by C. J.

The oldest existing church building in Wilmette is the First Congregational Church ( 1909 ) designed in the Tudor Revival style.

* Augusta Emma Stetson, pastor and later First Reader of First Church of Christ, Scientist ( New York, New York ), excommunicated by the Mother Church in 1909.

His sister, Elizabeth Gorham, who married John Leighton, was the ancestor of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt the second wife of Theodore Roosevelt who served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1901 to 1909.

Image: Jourdanton, TX, United Methodist Church IMG_2548. JPG |< center > The First United Methodist Church in Jourdanton was organized in 1909 as the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.