• the Silver Fish, the highest award in the Girl Guides and scouting movement, can be traced back to November 1909?
• William James Sidis, an eccentric—and once world-famous—genius, entered Harvard University in 1909 at the age of 11?
• William Garwood, an American silent film actor, starred in 149 films in under 10 years—between 1909 and 1919?
• prospector Reuben D'Aigle missed finding a huge gold deposit by only a few feet, and his boot print was found pressed into the vein when the Porcupine Gold Rush started in 1909?

Facts on topics related to 1909

1911

• 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?
• Isaac Newton Van Nuys of New York founded Van Nuys, California, United States in 1911?
• James A. Bland (1854-1911) an African American musician and song writer wrote over 700 songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" in 1878, which was later the official State Song of Virginia from 1940 to 1997?
• in 1911 baseball player Ed Konetchy and the St. Louis Cardinals were involved in a train wreck that killed 12 and injured 47, and Konetchy and manager Roger Bresnahan led the rescue effort?
• in 1911, Charles Rosher, working for David Horsley's production company, became Hollywood's first full-time cameraman?
• the British Seafarers' Union was formed in Southampton in England in October 1911?
• the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?
• the body of Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, who led the Russian Buddhists from 1911 until his death in 1927, is said to exhibit no signs of physical decay?
• the world's first geothermal power station was built in Larderello, Italy in 1911?

1908

• Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands appointed the task of guarding the royal palaces to the Koninklijke Marechaussee (Royal Constabulary) in 1908?
• Central Fire Station, the oldest existing fire station in Singapore, had only four portable water pumps when it was completed in 1908?
• from 1908 to 1940, over 100,000 of the 447 different models for Sears Catalog Homes were sold in the United States?
• the first co-ed school in Azerbaijan was founded by Hamida Javanshir in 1908?

1912

• Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
• Lighthouse Hill on Staten Island got its name from the Staten Island Lighthouse, built in 1912, which towers 141 feet (43 meters) above the Lower New York Bay and can be seen as far as 18 miles (29 km) away?
• after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay (pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
• an industrial process for making instant mashed potatoes was patented in 1912?
• the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?
• the Overseas Railroad, completed in 1912 for 128 miles (206 kilometers) beyond the end of the Florida peninsula to Key West, was heavily damaged in the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 and not rebuilt?
• the Pereshchepina Treasure was discovered in 1912, when a Ukrainian shepherd boy literally stumbled over a gold vessel and fell into the grave of Kubrat, the founder of Great Bulgaria?

1910

• Australian swimmer Fanny Durack was considered to be the world's greatest female swimmer from 1910 until 1918?
  
• Edgar Evans was the first person to die on the ill-fated Scott Polar Expedition of 1910-1912?
• children born between 1901 and 1910 are said to be from the Interbellum Generation?
• the first military plane mass-produced in Germany was the Rumpler Taube in 1910?
  

1906

• Samuel Spencer, first president of the Southern Railway was killed in a train wreck in Virginia in 1906?
• Canada's first dedicated movie theater, the Ouimetoscope, was created in 1906 with an original investment of only seventy-five dollars?
• a 1906 football match between a team of youngsters from Kraków and the troupe of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is one of the milestones in the history of football in Poland?
• during the 72 day session of the First State Duma in 1906, a total of 391 requests about illegal actions of the Russian government were filed, but only two laws were passed?
• the battleship Satsuma of the Imperial Japanese Navy was the first ship in the world to be designed and laid down as an "all-big-gun" battleship, although the British HMS Dreadnought was eventually the first one to be completed in 1906?
• the Temple Sanitarium hired the first female anesthesiologist to work in the U.S., Dr. Claudia Potter, in 1906?
• the bestselling 1906 erotic novel Josephine Mutzenbacher is thought to have been written by Felix Salten, the author of Bambi?
• the first helicopter flight was in 1906 in Lisieux, France?
• the first Russian parliament of 1906 and the Russian Constituent Assembly of 1918 convened in the Tauride Palace (pictured) of Catherine the Great?

1907

• Yueh Hai Ching Temple is the oldest Taoist temple in Singapore, and Chinese Emperor Guang Xu presented a plaque to the temple in 1907?
• the single-grain experiment conducted between 1907 and 1911 would lead to the development of modern human nutrition?

1901

• Edinburgh University did not teach Scottish history until 1901, when a new professor, Peter Hume Brown (pictured), insisted that it was not revolutionary to study its national history?
• children born between 1901 and 1910 are said to be from the Interbellum Generation?

1903

• the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme included the world's then-longest fresh-water pipeline when it opened in Western Australia in 1903?

1916

• in 1916, Berlin, Ontario changed its name to Kitchener due to World War I-era anti-German sentiment?
• prior to the 1916 college football season, John R. Bender and Hall-of-Famer Zora G. Clevenger in effect traded jobs as head coach at Kansas State University and the University of Tennessee?
• the British plan for the battle of Bazentin Ridge in 1916, was dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs"?
• the Municipal Theatre of Corfu served as the place of assembly for the Serbian Parliament in exile from 19 January 1916 to 19 November 1918?
• the Vickers machine gun was the standard weapon on all British and French military aircraft after 1916?

1904

• cotton candy was first sold to the public at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair?
• pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905?
  
• The Australian Golf Club, arguably the oldest in Australia, held its 17th Australian Open between the 13th–16th December 2007, after holding the inaugural edition in 1904?
• Indian entrepreneur Jamsetji Tata conceptualized Tata Steel, Tata Power and the Indian Institute of Science, but that they were only established after his death in 1904?
• the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars?
• the South African physician Abdullah Abdurahman became Cape Town's first coloured city councillor in 1904?
• the tornado that struck Moscow on June 29, 1904 was the first ever recorded in Central Russia?
• the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railway opened in 1904 as a leg of George J. Gould's planned transcontinental railroad, but went bankrupt in four years and later became part of the Alphabet Route?
• the Wisconsin State Capitol burned nearly to the ground on February 26, 1904?
• the Baldock Beer Disaster occurred on March 14, 1904 when an unstable storage room floor collapsed at the Simpson Brewery, in what is now the Twitchell, in the North Hertfordshire town of Baldock?

1905

• football player Eddy de Neve scored all four goals for the Netherlands against Belgium on April 30, 1905, the first match of the Dutch national team ever?
• Doc Cheatham (1905–1997) has been described as the only jazz musician to create his best work after the age of 70?
• pre-dreadnought battleships saw their most notable service in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905?
  
• the Young Australia League was initially formed in 1905 to promote Australian rules football?
• the sinking of the Nantucket Lightship LV58 on December 10, 1905 was the first time that an American ship transmitted a distress signal by radio?