destroyer Harpon rescued both pilot and airplane. Six days later, Louis Blériot would cross the Channel. Died: Arai Ikunosuke, 73, Japanese samurai July 20, 1909 (Tuesday) Georges Clemenceau resigned as Prime Minister of France after a violent argument in the Chamber of Deputies with former Foreign Minister Theophile Delcasse. A vote of no confidence followed, with the Clemenceau government losing 212–176, and the premier quitting after nearly three years. Clemenceau, who was succeeded by Aristide Briand, would become Premier again in 1917. July 21, 1909 (Wednesday) The first baseball game in Korea took place in Seoul. Yun Ik-hyon and 24 other Korean university students had learned the game while studying in Tokyo, and organized a match against American foreign missionaries. The Korea Baseball Organization would later refer to it as "the turning point for Korean baseball". July 22, 1909 (Thursday) The Republic of Paraguay enacted its first compulsory education law, requiring all children, 5 to 14, to attend school. On September 6, the "Law for the Conversion of the Indian Tribes" was enacted, providing for public land grants of 7,500 hectares (roughly 29 square miles) to establish schools, churches and housing for Indians converted to Christianity. July 23, 1909 (Friday) Alliott Verdon "A.V." Roe piloted the first British-manufactured aeroplane, the Roe I Triplane, flying at the Walthamstow Marshes in East London, at an altitude of and an average speed of . Roe went on to found the airplane manufacturer Avro. Sir Frederick Holder, Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, collapsed at while presiding over an all-night session, and died a few hours later without regaining consciousness. Reportedly, his last words during the tumultuous session were "Dreadful! Dreadful!" Born: Helen Martin, African-American TV actress known for Good Times and 227; in St. Louis (died 2000) July 24, 1909 (Saturday) At D'Urville Island, New Zealand, the first sighting was made of an "Aerialite", a brightly lit object flying over the bay. For the next six weeks, the unidentified flying object was observed across New Zealand from Otago to Auckland. John Flanagan became the oldest person to break a sports record when he had a distance of in the hammer throw. The Irish-born, NYPD cop was 41 years old. Born: John George Haigh, British serial killer, in Stamford, Lincolnshire (hanged 1949) July 25, 1909 (Sunday) Louis Blériot landed the Blériot XI at in England, at Northfall Meadow near Dover. Having taken off