The following events occurred in August 1909: August 1, 1909 (Sunday) The "Semana Tragica" or "tragic week" ended as the Spanish government restored order in Barcelona and other areas of Catalonia. In seven days that began on July 26 with anti-war protests and a strike in Barcelona, hundreds of people were killed in fighting. August 2, 1909 (Monday) The United States Army accepted the delivery of the Wright Military Flyer as "Army Aeroplane Number 1", and hired Wilbur and Orville Wright to train the first two pilots in operation of the machine. Lts. Frank P. Lahm and Frederick E. Humphreys began instruction in October. The first Lincoln cents were put into circulation by the U.S. Mint. August 3, 1909 (Tuesday) General Ramón González Valencia was selected as the 12th President of Colombia, to fill the remaining year of the term of Rafael Reyes. González had been Reyes's Vice-President, but had been fired in 1905 by Reyes, who then abolished the office. The Silver Dart, Canada's first airplane, was destroyed when it crashed into a hill. August 4, 1909 (Wednesday) In Sweden, a lockout began of 80,000 workers in the paper industry, and the iron and steel industries. The Swedish Labor Federation called for a strike of 124,000 workers, and after a secondary strike, 285,000 of the nation's 460,000 non-agricultural workers were off the job. The Federation called off the secondary strike on September 11; the lockout of ironworkers lasted until November. Born: Glenn Cunningham, American track star, who overcame a childhood injury and held the world record for running the mile (1934–1937); in Atlanta, Kansas (d. 1988) Saunders Mac Lane, American mathematician and co-creator of category theory; in Taftville, Connecticut (d. 2005) Roberto Burle Marx, Brazilian architect; in São Paulo (d. 1994) August 5, 1909 (Thursday) The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act was signed into law by President William Taft at , after passing the Senate 54–38. The new rules for a federal corporate tax would take effect at midnight. In a statement, Taft said "The corporation tax is a just and equitable excise measure, which it is hoped will produce a sufficient amount to prevent a deficit", and that the law provided "that degree of publicity and regulation which the tendency in corporate enterprises in the last twenty years has shown to be necessary", and added that the law "will constitute an important and which incidentally will secure valuable statistics and