WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 1909
Find out what all happened February to October 1909

Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. (5. February 1909)

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

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

Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. (30. August 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 Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the South Africa Act 1909, creating the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Orange River Colony, and the Transvaal Colony. (20. September 1909)

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

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

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

The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. (23. February 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)

New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. (12. February 1909)

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

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

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)

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. (26. October 1909)