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The following events occurred in April 1909: ==April 1, 1909 (Thursday)== *The day after the raising of the Cuban flag over Camp Columbia, the last American troops left Cuba.〔''Annual Reports of the Secretary of War'', p272〕 *The Children's Charter went into effect in Great Britain, providing new rules for protection of children, including more severe penalties for the death of a child, and prohibitions against juvenile begging or smoking, and creation of reform schools〔Dana Webster Bartlett, ''The Better Country'' (The C. M. Clark Publishing Co., 1911), pp445–446〕 *A law banning the importing of opium into the United States went into effect.〔"Fighting the Opium Ring" by Eugene B. Block, ''The Overland Monthly'' (July 1911), p184〕 *The New York Times reported that Rameses II, a toad "aged 1,000 years or more", died at the Bronx Zoo. Miners had discovered the toad in 1898 at inside a stone near Butte Montana.〔"The Oldest Toad is Dead", ''New York Times'', April 2, 1909, p1〕 *The six members of the polar expedition-- Robert Peary, Matthew Henson, Ootah, Ooqueah, Egingwah, and Seegloo, set off from a point from the North Pole, and their last supply team turned back.〔Barbara Saffer and Henry H. Brecher, ''Polar Exploration Adventures'' (Capstone Press, 2000), p20〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April 1909」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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