WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1909
Find out what all happened February to August 1909

Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London. (26. February 1909)

Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins. (31. March 1909)

Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. (23. March 1909)

Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. (25. July 1909)

French troops capture Abéché (in modern-day Chad) and install a puppet sultan in the Ouaddai Empire. (6. June 1909)

Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar. (16. July 1909)

Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. (7. August 1909)

The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. (26. June 1909)

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. (12. February 1909)

Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal. (24. August 1909)

The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens. (30. March 1909)

The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by USS Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world. (22. February 1909)

Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina. (31. March 1909)

Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. (18. April 1909)

A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia. (14. April 1909)

The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250. (15. February 1909)

U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State (4. March 1909)

The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place. (19. August 1909)

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. (30. August 1909)

Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time. (2. June 1909)