Glenn Curtiss, banking his turns, won the world's first airplane race which took place at Rheims, France.
Banking was unknown as a flying technique to retain speed until that time.
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Sunday, August 29, 1909. Banking the turn.
Glenn Curtiss, banking his turns, won the world's first airplane race which took place at Rheims, France.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Friday, August 27, 1909. Another coup in Greece
Honestly, I don't know when these started, or ended (1970s?) but yet another military coup in Greece occurred on this day.
Henry Farman became the first person to fly an airplane 100 miles. He accordingly won the Grand Prix de la Champagne endurance test.
Farman would live to age 84 and die in 1958.
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Thursday, August 26, 1909. A hostel idea.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1919, 1930s, 1936, 1940s, 1942, 1960s, 1961, boats and ships, Camping, Christmas Truce, Education, Germany, hiking, Hitler Youth, Radio, Weather, World War One, Youth Organizations
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Monday, August 23, 1909. Bill Bergen sets a record.
Catcher Bill Bergen of the Brooklyn Dodgers threw out six batters on the base paths in a game against St. Louis.
The record still stands.
Bergen died in 1943 at age 65.
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Sunday, August 22, 1909. Telephone lines.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Sunday, August 22, 1909. Telephone lines.
Msgr Leon Cristiani invoked the blessing of St. Joan d'Arc upon Miss Therese Belin, curing her of tuberculosis.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Saturday, August 21, 1909 The Great Victor Fire.
A major downtown fire broke out in Victor, Colorado. The fire was caused by a prostitute in the city's red light district catching a gown she was washing in kerosene with a cigarette. The fire rapidly spread from the red light district to the downtown.
The burnt area was rapidly rebuilt.
A set of great grandparents lived in Victor at the time.
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August 20, 1909. Sheridan Wyoming.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Thursday, August 19, 1909. First automobile race at Indianapolis.
The first automobile race occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. William Bourque and his mechanic, Harry Holcomb, were killed when their car left the track, struck a fence, and turned over. Louis H. Schwitzer won the race, averaging 57.4 mph.
Post from 1909.
Schwitzer as an engineer who would go on to be responsible for numerous important automotive inventions.
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Sunday, August 15, 1909. The Martyrdom of St. Isidore Bakanja
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Sunday, August 15, 1909. The Martyrdom of St. Isidore Bakanja
Congolese St. Isidore Bakanja died as a result of the beatings of his employer who attempted to force him to stop wearing the Brown Scapular and proclaiming the gospel.
St. Pope Pius X became the first Pope to ride in an automobile.
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Saturday, August 14, 1909. Rainbow Bridge.
Labels: 1900s, 1909, Bureau of Land Management, Indiana, Motorcycles, Native Americans, Paiute, Rainbow Bridge, Utah
Friday, August 14, 2009
Saturday, August 14, 1909. Rainbow Bridge.
The location of Rainbow Bridge, the world's largest natural ridge, was disclosed by Jim Mike (1872–1977), a Paiute Indian, to William B. Douglas of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
Amazing to think it had been disclosed so late.
The first motor race took place at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway took place. It was a motorcycle race sanctioned by the Federation of American Motorcyclists.
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Thursday, August 12, 1909. The father of a mass murderer dies.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thursday, August 12, 1909. The father of a mass murderer dies.
Briggs & Stratton started manufacturing engines.
Georgian Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili, father of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, know to history as Joseph Stalin, died of cirrhosis of the liver.
He was a cobbler by trade, and had hoped his son would be as well.
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Tuesday, August 10, 1909. Drilling bit.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Tuesday, August 10, 1909. Drilling bit.
Howard Hughes Sr was issued a patent for the rotary bit that would revolutionize petroleum drilling and found the fortune of the Hughes economic empire.
Hughes had originally been a lawyer.
After leaving Harvard in '94, I found myself in the Law School of the Iowa State University. It was my father's wish that I succeed him in his practice. Too impatient to await the course of graduation, I passed the examination before the Supreme Court of Iowa and began the practice of law. I soon found the law a too-exacting mistress for a man of my talent, and I quit her between dark and dawn, and have never since been back. I decided to search for my fortune under the surface of the earth.
Howard Hughes Sr., 1912.
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Monday, August 9, 1909. Pennies.
Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1940s, 1944, Alabama, Art, Currency, German Resistance Movements, Germany, July 20 Plot, law, Nazi Germany, New Jersey, panoramic, Personalities, Photography, Taxes
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Monday, August 9, 1909. Pennies.
"The Isles", Lake Hopatcong, N.J. August 9, 1909.
Alabama became the first state to ratify the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution providing for an income tax.
The U.S. mint halted the production of the Lincoln head VDB marked pennies, with the initials of designer Victor David Brenner, on them. 22,350,000 of the pennies had been put into circulation.
Production had only been ongoing for one week.
Friedrich Adam von Trott zu Solz, German lawyer, diplomat, and dedicated and open opponent of the Nazis, was born. He would later be active in the Kreisau Circle and July 20 plot, under which he was to have been the German Secretary of State in the Foreign Office and lead negotiator with the Western Allies.
He was executed on August 26, 1944, for his role in the plot.
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Sunday, August 8, 1909. Passing of St. Mary Helen MacKillop.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The Speed of Cooking
I received an unexpected and surprising of how much things have changed even in my own lifetime this week, and in the kitchen at that.Last week I happened to have to go to Safeway to buy some odds and ends, one of which was breakfast cereal. I'm bad about buying the same kinds again and again, so I decided to add some variety. It's been fall like here, so I decided to go with hot cereals for a change.
But not only did I decide to go with hot cereals, but I bought Cream of the West and Irish Oatmeal. That is, I did not buy instant Cream of Wheat, instant Oatmeal or quick oats.
Cream of the West is like old fashioned Cream of Wheat, except its whole wheat. Frankly, the taste is identical to "regular" Cream of Wheat. Irish Oatmeal, however, is really porridge, and it has to be cooked. It actually has to be cooked and allowed to stand, so it isn't speedy.
Anyhow, my kids have never had "regular" Cream of Wheat. They like "instant" Cream of Wheat, which has an odd texture and taste in my view. Sort of wall paper paste like. Anyhow, my son cooked some Cream of the West the first day I did, with us both using the microwave instructions.
He hated it. He's so acclimated to the pasty instant kind, he finds the cooked kind really bad.
Both kids found the porridge appalling. They're only familiar with instant oatmeal, and they porridge was not met with favor at all. I really liked it. It's a lot more favorable than even cooked oatmeal.
Anyhow, the point of all of this is that all this quick instant stuff is really recent, but we're really used to it. During the school year my wife makes sure the kids have a good breakfast every day, which she gets up and cooks for them. But it never really sank in for me how much our everyday cooking has benefited from "instant" and pre made. Even a thing like pancakes provides an example. My whole life if a person wanted pancakes, they had the benefit of mixes out of a box. More recently, for camping, there's a pre measured deal in a plastic bottle that I use, as you need only add water. A century ago, I suppose, you made the pancakes truly from scratch, which I'll bet hardly anyone does now.
A revolution in the kitchen.
Sunday, August 8, 1909. Passing of St. Mary Helen MacKillop.
The first native Australian saint, St. Mary Helen MacKillop, the co-founder of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, died in North Sydney, Australia,
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Saturday, August 7, 1909. Going on vacation.
Friday, August 7, 2009
Saturday, August 7, 1909. Going on vacaation.
Nearly the entire upper elements of the US Government went on vacation. President Taft arrived at the "Summer White House" in Beverly, Massachusetts. Vice-President Sherman went to his home in Utica, New York. House Speaker Cannon went home to Danville, Illinois.
Only two cabinet officers remained in Washington, D.C.
Oxnard California.
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Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Scenes from days gone by.
A building in Deadwood South Dakota that was once a Hudson and Terraplane dealer, two extinct brands of automobiles.Interesting for a variety of reasons. One, the then existing variety of American automobiles. Two, that fairly small towns (although the area was fairly well populated, due to mining, at that time), with a fairly substantial automobile dealership.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Monday, August 2, 1909. Two firsts.
The United States Army accepted the delivery of a Wright Military Flyer.
Wright Model A.
The Wright brothers were hired at the same time to train the first two pilots, Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys
It was just six years after the first flight, and less than a decade before airplanes would become a major weapon of war.
Lincoln penneys went into circulation. The 1909 penny had the equivalent of $.35 spending power in contemporary dollars.
It replaced the Indian head penny that had been in circulation since 1859.
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Sunday, August 1, 1909. Semana Tragica ends.
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sunday, August 1, 1909. Semana Tragica ends.
The Tragic Week, "Semana Tragica" ended as the Spanish government restored order in Barcelona and other areas of Catalonia. The violent confrontations between the Spanish army and anarchists, freemasons, socialists and republicans of Barcelona and other cities in Catalonia, Spain were in opposition to the Second Rif War and the call up of reservists.
Called up reservists were often the only means of support for their families, whereas the wealthy could hire substitutes.
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Saturday, July 31, 1909. Zion National Park sort of established.
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