sank in the English Channel, off Cromer, after the steamer Eddystone sheared off the submarine's stern, killing 13 of the 16 men aboard. Edward Payson Weston arrived in San Francisco on the 105th day of his transcontinental walk. He had set off from New York on his 75th birthday on March 15 on a goal of reaching the West Coast in 100 days—not including Sundays—and reached the St. Francis Hotel at Born: Frank Tinker, American flying ace and mercenary; in De Witt, Arkansas (died 1939) July 15, 1909 (Thursday) After China refused to let American banks participate with Germany, Britain and France in financing of a railway building project, U.S. President William Howard Taft personally cabled a request to Prince Chun, the regent for the Chinese Emperor, to be allowed in. China renegotiated the agreement to include American banks, and problems with the project later contributed to the downfall of the Empire in 1911. Born: Hendrik B. G. Casimir, Dutch theoretical physicist and discoverer of the Casimir effect; at The Hague (died 2000) Died: George Tyrrell, 48, Modernist theologian within the Catholic Church July 16, 1909 (Friday) The Persian Constitutional Revolution succeeded in forcing Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar from the throne of Iran. The National Assembly proclaimed the 12-year-old Crown Prince, Ahmed Mirza, as Shah, and Azud ul Mulk as regent. August Horch founded the Horch Automobile Works in Zwickau, beginning a century of manufacture of luxury autos. Because a company he had founded in 1899 already made Horch automobiles, Horch—whose surname meant "Hark!" in German—chose the Latin equivalent, Audi. The Detroit Tigers and the visiting Washington Senators played 18 scoreless innings of baseball before darkness ended the game. The 0–0 tie was bettered on September 11, 1945, by a 19 inning scoreless game between the Reds and Dodgers. July 17, 1909 (Saturday) Glenn Curtiss piloted the airplane Gold Bug for at Mineola, New York, earning a $10,000 prize from Scientific American magazine. After 45 consecutive at-bats without a hit, Brooklyn Dodgers' catcher Bill Bergen got a single. The record still stands a century later. Huntington Beach, California, was incorporated, with 915 residents within its . From 1960 to 1970, with the annexation of adjoining farmland, the city's population grew tenfold, from 11,492 to 115,960, and is now nearly 200,000 inhabitants. July 18, 1909 (Sunday) Film actor Larry Semon violated the magician's code by starting a weekly newspaper series, "Mysteries