page_title: June 1909
section_title: June 9, 1909 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1909 / June 9, 1909 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Alice Huyler Ramsey, standing beside her auto
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1909:
context_section_description: Alice Huyler Ramsey set off from New York to become the first woman to drive across the United States, setting off from the Maxwell Motors dealership at 1930 Broadway Street in New York, along with three female companions.  The 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack reached Chicago on June 18 and the four arrived in San Francisco on August 6, 59 days and 3,800 miles after departing.  John D. Murphy of the Boston Herald handled publicity for Mrs. Ramsey, traveling ahead by train to prepare for each stop.  Since there were no road maps for the Western U.S., Murphy went ahead in another car and followed telephone lines in order to avoid getting lost.
  Ali bin Hamud al-Busaid, the Sultan of Zanzibar, decreed that compensation claims for former slaveholders would no longer be considered after the end of 1911.  Slavery had been abolished in the African nation in 1897, but the practice continued unofficially.  Most slaveholders were Arab clover farmers, who used black African field hands.
  Born:
  Virginia Apgar, American physician who developed the Apgar score in 1952, which aids in determining whether a newborn infant requires emergency medical attention, in Westfield, New Jersey (d. 1974)
  Peter Rodino, New Jersey Congressman who chaired the House Judiciary Committee that in 1974 voted to impeachment of President Richard Nixon, as Pellegrino Rodino, Jr., in West Orange, New Jersey (d. 2005)
caption: Mrs. Ramsey
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