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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use South African English Шаблон:Year in South Africa The following lists events that happened during 1909 in South Africa.
Incumbents
- Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner for Southern Africa:Walter Hely-Hutchinson.
- Governor of the Colony of Natal: Matthew Nathan.
- Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope: Leander Starr Jameson.
- Prime Minister of the Colony of Natal: Frederick Robert Moor.
- Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony: Hamilton John Goold-Adams.
- Prime Minister of the Transvaal Colony: Louis Botha.
Events
- February
- 25 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested at Volksrust for failure to produce a registration certificate and is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment.
- June
- 15 – Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's Cricket Ground and form the Imperial Cricket Conference (ICC).
- Mahatma Gandhi embarks in Cape Town for Southampton, England.
- November
- 30 – Mahatma Gandhi and the Transvaal Indian Deputation arrive back in Cape Town.
- December
- 28 – The first manned heavier-than-air powered flight in South Africa is made by French aviator Albert Kimmerling by taking off from the Nahoon Racecourse at East London in a Voisin 1907 biplane.[1]
- Unknown date
- South Africa becomes the first non-European country to join FIFA.
Births
- 19 March – Louis Hayward, South African-born actor. (d. 1985)
- 5 August – Oscar Mpetha, anti-apartheid activist. (d. 1994)
- 5 September – Yusuf Dadoo, doctor and politician. (d. 1983)
- 5 December – Bobbie Heine Miller, South African tennis player. (d. 2016)
Deaths
- 13 April – Sir Donald Currie GCMG, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket. (b. 1825)
Railways
Railway lines opened
- 4 February – Natal – Creighton to Riverside (Cape), Шаблон:Convert.[2]
- 1 April – Natal – Vryheid East to Hlobane, Шаблон:Convert.[2]
- 18 May – Cape Midland – Barkly Bridge to Alexandria, Шаблон:Convert.[3]
Locomotives
- Two new Cape gauge locomotive types enter service on the Natal Government Railways (NGR):
- The first five of thirty [[4-8-2|Шаблон:Nowrap]] tender locomotives, the world's first true Mountain type locomotive. In 1912 it will be designated Class B on the South African Railways (SAR).[4][5][6]
- A single [[2-6-6-0|Шаблон:Nowrap]] Mallet articulated compound steam locomotive, the first Mallet type to enter service in South Africa. In 1912 it will be designated Class MA on the SAR.[4][6]
- The NGR begins to modify some of its Class C Шаблон:Nowrap Reid Tenwheeler locomotives to a Шаблон:Nowrap wheel arrangement to make them suitable for yard work without the risk of derailing as a result of the long ten-coupled wheelbase. In 1912 these will be designated Class H2 on the SAR.[6][7]
References
Шаблон:Reflist Шаблон:Africa topic
- ↑ South African Power Flying Association - 1910 to 1920 - Early Flying in South Africa Шаблон:Webarchive (Accessed on 26 November 2016)
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Statement Showing, in Chronological Order, the Date of Opening and the Mileage of Each Section of Railway, Statement No. 19, p. 186, ref. no. 200954-13
- ↑ Report for year ending 31 December 1909, Cape Government Railways, Section VIII - Dates of Opening and the Length of the different Sections in the Cape Colony, from the Year 1873 to 31st December, 1909.
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Шаблон:Holland-Vol 1
- ↑ Шаблон:Holland-Vol 2
- ↑ 6,0 6,1 6,2 Шаблон:Paxton-Bourne
- ↑ The Railway Report for year ending 31 Dec. 1908, Natal Government Railways, p. 39, par 14.
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