What Happened In April 1909 - Historical Events 1909 April

Historical Events for April, 1909

6th » Robert Edwin Peary called Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
9th » The Congress of the United States named U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
11th » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
13th » The Ottoman Empire or Turkish military 31 March Incident e.g reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
14th » Adana massacre or A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
18th » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
27th » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

1st » Abner Biberman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1st » Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951)
5th » Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (d. 1996)
6th » William M. Branham, American minister (d. 1965)
6th » Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
7th » Robert Charroux, French author (d. 1978)
8th » John Fante, American author (d. 1983)
13th » Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician (d. 1984)
13th » Eudora Welty, American author (d. 2001)
17th » Alain Poher, French politician, President of France (d. 1996)
22nd » Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
22nd » Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (d. 2001)
25th » William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid (d. 1985)
28th » Arthur Võõbus, Estonian-American theologist and orientalist (d. 1988)
29th » Tom Ewell, American actor (d. 1994)
30th » F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (d. 1992)
30th » Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)

9th » Helena Modjeska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
10th » Algernon Charles Swinburne, English author, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1837)
13th » Whitley Stokes, Irish-English lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)