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Historical Events in June 1909

  • Jun 1 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition opens in Seattle
  • Jun 2 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan riding Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6

Alfred Deakin Prime Minister

Jun 2 Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time

  • Jun 7 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens

Mary Pickford Screen Debut

Jun 7 Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16

  • Jun 9 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days

49th British Men's Open

Jun 11 British Open Men's Golf, Royal Cinque Ports GC: Englishman J.H. Taylor wins Championship for a 4th time, 6 strokes ahead of runners-up Tom Ball and James Braid

  • Jun 12 "Shine On, Harvest Moon" by Ada Jones & Billy Murray hits #1
  • Jun 15 Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
  • Jun 16 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000

Jim Thorpe Forfeits Olympic Gold

Jun 16 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic gold medals

  • Jun 18 American educator Nannie Helen Burroughs forms National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington D.C
  • Jun 19 1st baseball game, an exhibition between local Elks lodge teams, played under lights in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Jun 20 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
  • Jun 23 Confessional parties win Dutch parliamentary elections
  • Jun 25 US Open Men's Golf, Englewood GC: Englishman George Sargent sets a new Open scoring record to win his only major title, 4 strokes ahead of runner-up Tom McNamara
  • Jun 26 Victoria & Albert Museum opens in London
  • Jun 27 US National Championship Women's Tennis, Philadelphia CC: Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman outclasses defending champion Maud Barger-Wallach 6-0, 6-1 for first of 3 straight US singles titles
  • Jun 28 1st French air show, Concours d'Avation opens

Johnson vs Ross

Jun 30 Jack Johnson fights Tony Ross to a no decision in 6 rounds at Duquesne Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to retain his heavyweight boxing title