The Cherry Mine Disaster saw 247 coal miners and 12 rescuers killed in the accident at Cherry Illinois. It's the third deadliest mine disaster in U.S. history.
University of Virginia freshman halfback Archer Christian was fatally injured during a game against Georgetown.
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The unspeakably brutal lynching of African American Will "Froggy" James took place in Cairo, Illinois before a crowd of 10,000 people.
Three hours later Caucasian Henry Salzner, accused of murdering his wife, was likewise lynched.
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Dr. Isidor Sadger first described narcissism as a personality disorder as part of his presentation "A Case of Multiform Perversion".
On Wisconsin was preformed by the first time by the University of Wisconsin Glee Club.
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Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt's third child, named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., died at the age of seven months. They'd use the name again for their fifth child.
Victor Hémery became the first person to drive an automobile faster than 125 miles per hour, driving a 200 PS Benz at 126 mph at the Brooklands track in England.
President Taft proclaimed the Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico, containing ruins Pueblo settlements dating back to the 9th Century and Spanish missions dating back to the 17th.
Exact dates for the Puebloan settlements would be impossible to determine, but construction of the missions started in 1622 and were completed in 1635. An additional church was built in 1651. The entire population migrated north in 1677, and everything was abandoned.
The expanded site today is the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
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The first Boy Scout Troop in the United States was organized. It was in Barre, Vermont.
Or maybe. There are other 1909 contenders.
Sir Oliver Lodge published an article in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association theorizing that if there had been intelligent life on Mars, it had been destroyed by a catastrophe two months earlier when, he theorized, the Martian polar ice caps had fractured.
Born on this day. He passed away in 2006.
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Former Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi was assassinated by Korean An Chung-gun, a Korean nationalist, who walked past the Russian guards while dressed in Western clothing.
U.S. Army Lieutenant Frederick E. Humphreys became the first military pilot to fly an airplane solo.
He'd go on to fly in World War One.
The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease was created.
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard died at age 78.
The Civil War era general had stayed in the Army after the war and had a founding role in Howard University. He retired in 1894 as a Major General.
His post war career may be best remembered by his halting pursuit of the Nez Perce in 1877.
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Lt. George Sweet became the first U.S. Navy officer to fly in an aircraft.
He went up as a passenger of Orville Wright.
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The Amish bishops of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, denied a request by 35 families to relax the ban on use of electricity and telephones resulting in the Schism of 1910 the following February.
The Tigers beat the Pirates in game four of the World Series.
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The Convention Internationale Relative à la Circulation des Automobiles was signed in Paris by seventeen European nations. The treaty established common roald rules and letter symbols for a car's country of origin, those being: A-Austria, B-Belgium, CH-Switzerland, D-Germany, E-Spain, F-France, GB-Great Britain, GR-Greece, H-Hungary, I-Italy, MC-Monaco, MN-Montenegro, NL-Netherlands, P-Portugal, R-Russia, RM-Romania, S-Sweden, SB-Serbia.
Floridians were digging out after the Key West Hurricane of 1909.
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General Juan José Estrada, backed by American businessmen, began a revolution in Nicaragua to overthrow President José Santos Zelaya in what would later be called "the first real American coup".
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William James Sidis of Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of two Russian physicians, was admitted to Harvard at age 11, the youngest person to obtain that status.
He lived an eclectic and not particularly happy life, not seemingly making the transfer to adult life very well, and having been arrested for being present at a Socialist demonstration in 1919. He died in 1944 of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 46.
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