Mike Lamb Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Click to View 88.06 KB I was in the attic of an old Victorian and I found a bunch of old checks. Most were written in pencil. They are one hundred years old. I looked up some stuff that was going down in 1909. So it goes. Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet Honus Wagner steals his way around bases in 1st inning against Cubs "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones and Billy Murray hits #1 1st pro baseball game, minor league, played under lights Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal U.S. invades Nicaragua Ty Cobb steals home in World Series game (Cubs make the playoffs, but, umâ⬦) 259 miners die in a fire at St. Paul Mine at Cherry, Ill Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, New York City White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army 1st Lincoln head pennies minted Indianapolis 500 race track opens Construction of Navy base at Pearl Harbor begins Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, patents 1st thermosetting plastic (Bakelite) Mike Lamb Chicago "The insurgent leader...does not attempt to deceive us. He affords us no excuse to deceive ourselves." Abraham Lincoln 1864 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Kibbel Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 1909 Les VanAlstine embarks on his second of many successful careers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Originally posted by inspecthistoric 1909 Les VanAlstine embarks on his second of many successful careers. [:-bonc01][:-bonc01][:-bonc01] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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