WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1909
Find out what all happened February to November 1909

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

The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. (13. April 1909)

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

Eugene Lefebvre crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft. (7. September 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)

Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro. (20. February 1909)

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

The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois. (23. September 1909)

The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner. (13. May 1909)

Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole. (6. April 1909)

Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University. (2. November 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)

Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya. (18. November 1909)

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

The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time. (31. May 1909)

Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16. (7. June 1909)

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

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

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