What Happened In October 1909 In History

Historical Events for October, 1909

• 16th » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold a summit, a first between a U.S. and a Mexican president, and they only narrowly escape assassination.
• 26th » Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by Ahn Jung-geun at the Harbin train station in Manchuria.

Famous Birthdays on October in 1909

• 1st » Sam Yorty, American captain and politician, 37th Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
• 5th » Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (d. 2011)
• 7th » Anni Blomqvist, Finnish author (d. 1990)
• 7th » Shura Cherkassky, Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1995)
• 7th » Erastus Corning 2nd, American politician, 72nd Mayor of Albany (d. 1983)
• 9th » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (d. 2000)
• 9th » V. Nalliah, Ceylonese educator and politician
• 10th » Robert F. Boyle, American production designer and art director (d. 2010)
• 13th » Herblock, American author and illustrator (d. 2001)
• 13th » Art Tatum, American pianist (d. 1956)
• 14th » Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter and producer (d. 1996)
• 14th » Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (d. 1938)
• 15th » Jesse L. Greenstein, American astronomer (d. 2002)
• 15th » Robert Trout, American journalist (d. 2000)
• 17th » Cozy Cole, American drummer (d. 1981)
• 18th » Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher and theorist (d. 2004)
• 19th » Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
• 20th » Carla Laemmle, American actress (d. 2014)
• 20th » Yasushi Sugiyama, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
• 23rd » Zellig Harris, American linguist and methodologist (d. 1992)
• 24th » Bill Carr, American runner (d. 1966)
• 26th » Ignace Lepp, French psychologist and author (d. 1966)
• 26th » Dante Quinterno, Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 2003)
• 28th » Francis Bacon (artist) or Francis Bacon, Irish painter and illustrator (d. 1992)
• 30th » Homi J. Bhabha, Indian-French physicist and academic (d. 1966)

Famous Deaths for October 1909

• 13th » Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, Spanish philosopher (b. 1849)
• 26th » Itō Hirobumi, Japanese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1841)

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