PEACH

History

1909

Earl Franklin Lowe 6
Jessie Marlene Snow (Lowe) 3
Harry Chester Peterson 7
Mada Elizabeth Peck (Peterson) 7

Population: 1.74 Billion*

Education: The Montessori Method published
Entertainment: Frank Lloyd Wright designs Robie House
Music includes Schoenberg, Delius, Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov (posthum.) Mahler, R Vaughan Williams, Wolf-Gerrari, Franz Lehar
Popular songs include popular Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet, The Whiffenpoof Song, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Casey Jones, Uncle Josh in Society
Art includes Bellows, Matisse, Sir William Orpen, Picasso
Sergei Diaghilev presents "Ballet Russe" for first time in Paris
Writers include Apollinaire, HG Wells, Thomas Mann, Ezra Pound, Lenin, William Beveridge
Films include Carmen, First newsreels, Mary Pickford first in film
Fashion: Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel opens her first shop
Medicine: Erlich prepares Salvarsan for cure of syphilis
Landsteiner develops blood type grouping
Sigmund Freud lectures in US on psychoanalysis
Exploration: South pole reached
Science: Morgan begins researches in genetics
Halley's comet visible
Marconi awarded in physics
Walcott discovers soft-bodied fossils in Burgess shale
Technology: Ham radio created
First commercial manufacture of Bakelite marks start of plastic age
Deaths: Novelist George Meredith, Microbiologist Emil Hansen, Astronomer Simon Newcomb, Chemist Ludwig Mond, Japanese Prince Ito Hirobumi, Statesman Friedrich von Holstein, Poet AC Swinburne, Frederick Remington, Leopold II of Belgium, Mark Twain (or 1910)

China: Plague
India: Morley-Minto reforms (Government of India Act) gives a first taste of representative government
Indian Councils Act increases elections
Siam: Anglo-Siamese treaty - Britain controls Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan and Trengganu

General: First cross-channel flight by Louis Bleriot in 37 minutes in plane
Belgium: Bakelite patented
Death of Leopold II as Albert I ascends throne
France: National strikes of rail and postal workers
Ritually buried Neanderthal discovered
Diaghilev's Russian ballet company opens in Paris
French aviator Louis Blériot flies across English Channel
Largest earthquake in France kills 46 at 6.2
Aristide Briand the French Premier
Germany: Bethmann-Hollweg becomes German Chancellor
Women admitted to German universities
First six-day bicycle race held in Berlin
Great Britain: First Boy Scout rally
First rugby match
Free employment bureaus created
Old aid pensions introduced
Introduction of Labour Exchanges Department
Selfridges Dept. Store opens in London
Britain's houses deadlocked over social reform budget
Britain's houses deadlocked over social reform budget - Peoples Budget increases taxes on wealthy
Radio begins broadcasting
Aviator Henri Farman completes first 100 mile flight
State visits of Edward VII to Berlin and Rome
Cinematograph Licensing Act
Girl Guides established
King Edward VII's horse Minoru wins Derby
First permanent waves given in London by hairdressers
Women's Suffrage movement becomes militant
Italy: Sonnion Italian Prime Minister
Serbia: Serbia accepts Austrian control of Islamic Bosnia-Herzegovina

Iran: (Persia) Oil drilling begins with start of Anglo-Persian Oil Company
Mohammed Ali Shah deposed – succeeded by Sultan Ahmed Shah age 12
Iraq: Anglo-German discussions on control of Baghdad Railroad
Ottoman Empire: Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid II deposed and national assembly created - Brother Muhammad V rules
Turkey and Serbia recognize Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovinia

Arctic: Robert Peary and Henson reaches North Pole
Dr. Frederick Cook fails to prove he arrived a year earlier
Antarctica: Shakleford reaches south pole this winter
New Zealand: Creation of separate labor party