January 1909 - January 22, 1909 (Friday)

January 22, 1909 (Friday)

• The National Conservation Commission released its final report. President Roosevelt endorsed it as "one of the most fundamentally important documents ever laid before the American people". Later, Roosevelt would comment that the report "was not only the first inventory of our resources, but was unique in the history of Government in the amount and variety of information brought together. It was completed in six months. It laid squarely before the American people the essential facts regarding our natural resources..."
• Born: U Thant, United Nations Secretary General, 1961–1971; in Pantanaw, Burma (d. 1974); and Ann Sothern, American film actress; as Harriette Arlene Lake, in Valley City, North Dakota (d. 2001)