What Happened in February 1909

Historical Events

NAACP Forms

Feb 12 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms

Civil Rights Leader, Journalist and Suffragist Ida B. Wells

Feb 12 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)

Polonia

Feb 12 Symphony in B minor "Polonia", by Polish composer Ignacy Jan Paderewski has its public premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Pianist, Composer and Polish Prime Minister Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Feb 16 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
Feb 16 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary

Baseball Trade

Feb 18 Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps

Feb 20 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal "Le Figaro"
Feb 20 The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded in Detroit, Michigan by retail titan Joseph L. Hudson and other investors [1]
Feb 21 John Galsworthy's "Strife" premieres in London

Great White Fleet

Feb 22 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia

American naval ships leave Virginia on December 16, 1907, the first day of their two-year voyage

February Manifesto

Feb 23 Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet

Feb 26 Austria and Turkey conclude an agreement in which Turkey recognizes Austria's 1908 annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is to receive compensation
Feb 28 1st National Woman's Day is observed in the United States. Organized by the Socialist Party of America in honor of the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York, where women protested against working conditions.

Events in 1909

Famous Birthdays

Feb 1 Douglas Hall, British colonial administrator (last British Governor of Somaliland Protectorate 1959-60) (d. 2004)
Feb 1 George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning gospel singer (Billy Graham Crusades, 1947-2013), born in Winchester, Ontario (d. 2013)
Feb 2 Frank Albertson, American actor (Psycho, It's a Wonderful Life, Alice Adams), born in Fergus Falls, Minnesota (d. 1964)
Feb 3 Andre Cayatte, French filmmaker, born in Carcassonne (d. 1989)
Feb 3 Simone Weil, French philosopher, Resistance fighter (WWII) and social activist, born in Paris, France (d. 1943)
Feb 4 (Arthur) "Artie" Bernstein, American jazz and session double bassist (The Dorsey Brothers), born in Brooklyn, New York City (d. 1964)
Feb 4 Harold "Duke" Dejan, Creole-American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader (Olympia Brass Band), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2002)
Feb 4 Robert Coote, British actor (The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Scaramouche), born in London, England (d. 1982)

Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Feb 5 Polish violinist and composer, born in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland) [1]

Feb 6 Israel Citkowitz, Polish-American composer (The Lambs), and pedagogue, born in Skierniewice, Poland (d. 1974)
Feb 7 Hélder Câmara, Roman catholic archbishop (d. 1999)
Feb 9 Carmen Miranda, Portuguese vocalist and actress (Copacabana; Date With Judy), born in Marco de Canavezes, Portugal (d. 1955)
Feb 9 Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State (1961-69), born in Cherokee County, Georgia (d. 1994)
Feb 9 Harald Genzmer, German composer, born in Blumenthal, Germany (d. 2007)
Feb 9 Heather Angel, British-American actress (Night in Montmartre; The Informer; The Last of the Mohicans; Lifeboat), born in Headington, Oxford, England (d. 1986)
Feb 9 John Eustace Theodore Brancker, Barbadian lawyer, civil rights activist and parliamentarian (d. 1996)
Feb 10 George Douglass Milne, British peer, soldier and artist, born at Lichfield (d. 2005)
Feb 11 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and film director (Sleuth), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)

Max Baer (1909-1959)

Feb 11 American heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35), born in Omaha, Nebraska

Feb 12 Barry Wood [Louis Rappaport], American pop vocalist (Your Hit Parade; "We Did It Before (And We Can Do It Again)"), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 1970)
Feb 13 M. Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], Dutch poet (Phoenix), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1998)
Feb 14 A. M. Klein, Canadian modernist Jewish poet (Hath Not a Jew...), born in Ratno, Ukraine (d. 1972)
Feb 15 Harold Beeley, British diplomat to the Arab world, born in Manchester, England (d. 2001)
Feb 15 Miep Gies, Dutch discoverer of Anne Frank's diary and friend of the Frank family, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2010)
Feb 16 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver), born in Lawrence, Kansas (d. 1982)
Feb 16 Jeffrey Lynn [Ragnar Godfrey Lind], American actor (Four Daughters; The Roaring Twenties; BUtterfield 8), born in Auburn, Massachusetts (d. 1995)
Feb 16 Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (McDonalds), born in Manchester, New Hampshire (d. 1998)
Feb 17 Jef Scherens, Belgian track cyclist (World C'ships gold sprint 1932-37, 47), born in Werchter, Belgium (d. 1986)
Feb 18 Matti Järvinen, Finnish javelin thrower (Olympic gold 1932), born in Tampere, Finland (d. 1985)
Feb 18 Wallace Stegner, American novelist and critic (Pulitzer-1972 for Angle of Repose), born in Lake Mills, Iowa (d. 1992)
Feb 20 Oscar Alemán, Argentine jazz and swing guitarist, and singer ("Rosa Madreselva"), born in Machagai, Chaco, Argentina (d. 1980)
Feb 21 George van Renesse, Dutch pianist and music director, born in Zaamslag, Netherlands (d. 1994)
Feb 21 Hans Erni, Swiss painter and sculptor, born in Lucerne, Switzerland (d. 2015)
Feb 21 Helen Octavia Dickens, American physician and gynaecologist (1st black women admitted to US College of Surgeons), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2001)
Feb 23 Anthony Ross [Rosenthal], American stage (Bus Stop), and screen character actor (The Telltale Clue), born in New York City (d. 1955)
Feb 24 August Derleth, American writer (Judge Peck Mysteries) and editor, born in Sauk City, Wisconsin (d. 1971)
Feb 24 Jean Marin, French broadcaster (one of the voices of free France WWII), born in Douarnenez, France (d. 1995)
Feb 24 Max Black, Azerbaijan-born British-American philosopher (analytical philosophy), born in Baku, Russian Empire (d. 1988)
Feb 24 Michael Lindsay, British-Australian scholar (aided communists against Japanese occupation in China), born in London, England (d. 1994)
Feb 24 Riccardo Freda, Italian film director and screenwriter (Theodora, Slave Empress), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1999)
Feb 25 Edgar Pangborn, American sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), born in New York City (d. 1976)
Feb 25 Geoffrey Dummer, electronics engineer, first to build integrated circuit / microchip, born in Hull England (d. 2002)
Feb 25 John Evan "Jasper" Weston-Davies [pen name Berkley Mather], English writer, born in Gloucester (d. 1996)
Feb 26 Chauncey Haughton, American jazz clarinetist, and saxophonist (Blanche Calloway; Chick Webb; Cab Calloway), born in Chestertown, Maryland (d. 1989)
Feb 26 Fanny Cradock, English TV Chef and food critic, born in Leytonstone, England (d. 1994)
Feb 26 Talal bin Abdullah, King of Jordan (1951-52), established modern constitution, forced to abdicate due to mental illness, born in Mecca, Ottoman Empire (d. 1972)
Feb 27 Elisabeth Welch, American born British-based singer (Stormy Weather, Over the Moon), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 2003)
Feb 28 Olan Soule, American character radio and screen actor (The First Nighter Program; Captain Midnight; Dragnet; Arnie), born in La Harpe, Illinois (d. 1994)
Feb 28 Stephen Spender, English poet and critic (Vienna, Edge of Darkness), born in London (d. 1995)

Born in 1909

Famous Deaths

Feb 2 Adolf Stoecker, German conservative politician, and reformer who founded the German Christian Social Party, dies at 73
Feb 3 Johann Georg Herzog, German composer and organist, dies at 86
Feb 4 John Clarkson, American Baseball HOF pitcher (Triple Crown 1889; no-hitter 1885; 3 × NL wins leader; 3 × NL strikeout leader; Chicago White Stockings, Boston Beaneaters), dies of mental illness & pneumonia at 47
Feb 8 Catulle Mendès, French poet, dies at 67
Feb 8 Edouard Silas, Dutch composer, dies at 80
Feb 8 Mieczysław Karłowicz, Polish composer and conductor (Rebirth Symphony, Op. 7), dies in an avalanche while on a skiing excursion at 32