The Union of South Africa was created by royal proclamation of the South Africa Act.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Saturday, November 27, 1909. Landing in Nicaragua.
US Marines and Sailors landed at Bluefields, Nicaragua. An ultimate was given to the country to guarantee protection of US citizens and to explain the recent execution of two American mercenaries, which seemingly wouldn't really require explanation.
The US, UK, Germany, Republic of China, Netherlands, and others, ratified the Hauge Convention of 1907 "to adapt to maritime warfare the principles of the Geneva Convention of the 6th July, 1906"
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Tuesday, November 23, 1909. The Uprising of the 20,000
Monday, November 23, 2009
Tuesday, November 23, 1909. The Uprising of the 20,000
Approximately 20,000 Yiddish-speaking young women launched a strike in the New York garment industry.
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Mount Aspiring (referred Tititea), the highest peak in New Zealand at 9,957 feet (3,033 m), was climbed for the first time.
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Sunday, November 21, 1909. Demanding Nicaraguan reparations..
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 21, 1909. Demanding Nicaraguan reparations..
The US issued a statement demanding reparations from Nicaragua for the execution of two American mercenaries, Leonard Groce and Lee Roy Cannon, that had occurred several days earlier. The transport ship USS Buffalo was ordered to proceed towards Nicaragua.
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USS Buffalo.
Nicaragua was fighting a rebellion at the time.
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Friday, November 19, 1909 Sabin sentenced and Belgian abuse.
Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1910s, 1913, Belgium, Blog Mirror, Christianity, Colonialism, Congo, Crime, Personalities, Protestant, religion, Sheep Wars, Spring Creek Raid, Wyoming
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Friday, November 19, 1909 Sabin sentenced and Belgian abuse.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 19: 1909 George Sabin sentenced for Second Degree Murder for his part in the Spring Creek Raid. He escaped on December 25,1913, while on a work gang in Basin, and was never recaptured.
The sentencing is remarkable and significance as it effectively meant an end to private warfare over sheep in Wyoming, and it also meant that conventional justice had come to the Big Horn Basin, where previously juries would not convict in these circumstances. This reflected in part the horror of the Spring Creek assault, but also the fact that the Basin was now closer to the rest of the state, having been connected some time prior by rail.
Members of the leadership of the Church of England, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, and fifty members of parliament assembled at Albert Hall to protest Belgium abuses in the Congo.
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Saturday, November 13, 1909. Cherry Mine Disaster.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Saturday, November 13, 1909. Cherry Mine Disaster.
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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Thursday, November 11, 1909. Barbarity.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
The Telephone
Concerning changes between then and now, something that occurs to me is that those practicing a century ago were much less impacted, if impacted at all, by the telephone.
That may sound obvious, but the impact would be huge.
There are days that I hardly get off the phone. And as I try to take my phone calls, even if really busy, it means that the phone impacts the flow of my work a great deal. This would not have been the case at one time.
It's really difficult to imagine, actually. A day without phone calls and without email. Communications would come solely by mail or by direct contact. I suppose if people had a question, they dropped by to ask it or to make an appointment, and most contacts would have been very much local.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 11, 1909. Barbarity.
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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Wednesday, November 10, 1909. Narcissism as a personality disorder.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Wednesday, November 10, 1909. Narcissism as a personality disorder.
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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Monday, November 8, 1909. A Roosevelt tragedy.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, November 8, 1909. A Roosevelt tragedy.
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.
Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon National Park, November 8, 1909.
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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Monday, November 1, 1909. Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.
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.
Thirteen year old working in glass factory, November 1, 1909.
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Friday, October 29, 1909. First Boy Scout Troop in U.S.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Friday, October 29, 1909. First Boy Scout Troop in U.S.
The first Boy Scout Troop in the United States was organized. It was in Barre, Vermont.
Or maybe. There are other 1909 contenders.
Inspection at West Point.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, October 27, 1909. First American woman to fly in an airplane.
The First Woman to Fly in an Aeroplane in the United States, October 27, 1909
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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Tuesday, October 26, 1909. Korean assassins, US pilot, Hookworms, and the passing of O. O. Howard.
Labels: 1900s, 1909, Aircraft, Army, Civil War, Disease, Education, Ethnicities, Indian Wars, Japan, Korea, Native Americans, Nez Perce, Nez Perce War, Personalities
Monday, October 26, 2009
Tuesday, October 26, 1909. Korean assassins, US pilot, Hookworms, and the passing of O. O. Howard.
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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Thursday, October 21, 1909. Jireh College.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Thurday, October 21, 1909. Jireh College.
Today In Wyoming's History: October 21: 1909 The cornerstone for Jireh College, in Jireh was laid. Jireh College was a Protestant College that no longer exists. The town likewise no longer exists. It's history was relatively short, but it featured a combined effort to create a Christian school with a farming community. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Sunday, October 17, 1909. First Navy officer flight.
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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Saturday, October 16, 1909. Two heavyweight leaders meet.
Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1909 World Series, Automobiles, baseball, Blog Mirror, boxing, Diplomacy, Lighter than air aircraft, Mexico, Porfirio Díaz, Sports, Transportation, William Howard Taft, Wyoming
Friday, October 16, 2009
Saturday, October 16, 1909. Two heavyweight leaders meet.
William H. Taft met Porfirio Diaz at the El Paso Chamber of Commerce. That evening, Taft crossed over the Rio Grande to Ciudad Juárez for a banquet hosted by Diaz, becoming the first U.S. President to visit a foreign country while in office, although it was temporarily declared neutral territory to honor a tradition that was soon to become obsolete.
Taft was in his first year of what would turn out to be a one year presidency. Diaz was one year away from a revolution that would end over thirty years in power.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Detroit Lions to win the World Series.
The world's fist passenger airline, DELAG (DEutsche Luftschiffahrt AktienGesellschaft), was founded in Frankfurt, Germany.
It flew Zeppelins.
Stanley Ketchel fought Jack Johnson in a match at Colma, California, knocking the former champion down with his first punch in the 12th round. Johnson in turn struck back with a right uppercut that broke Ketchel's front teeth and knocked out Ketchel.
The board of directors of General Motors approved a plant to buy Ford Motor Company for $8,000,000. . . which fell through when they failed to obtain financing.
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Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1909 World Series, Anabaptist, baseball, Christianity, Electrical Power, Lancaster Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (Lancaster), Protestant, religion, technology, telephone
Monday, October 12, 2009
Tuesday, October 12, 1909. Beginning of the path to a schism.
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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Monday, October 11, 1909. Convention Internationale Relative à la Circulation des Automobiles and The Key West Hurricane of 1909.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Monday, October 11, 1909. Convention Internationale Relative à la Circulation des Automobiles and The Key West Hurricane of 1909.
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.
The Pirates beat the Tigers in game three of the World Series.
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Sunday, October 10, 1909. Nicaraguan revolution.
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