1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). 1909 - Events. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 23 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the ...

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1909 - January – March. January 16 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. January 28 - United States troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish-American War. February 12 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. February 23 - The Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire. February 24 - The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded. ...

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William Henry Dinneen, alternately spelled Dineen (April 5, 1876 - January 13, 1955), was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who followed his 12-year career from 1898 to 1909 with a highly regarded tenure as an American League umpire from 1909 to 1937. Born in Syracuse, New York, he played for the Washington Senators and Boston Braves (both of the National League), and the Boston Red Sox and St. L ...

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Antony Tudor (April 4, 1909 - April 19, 1987), born William Cook, was an English choreographer, teacher and dancer who choreographed numerous ballets. Antony Tudor - Biography. Tudor was born in London, and began dancing professionally with Ballet Rambert in 1928. There he choreographed Cross Garter'd, Lysistrata, and The Planets, as well as his two most famous works, Lilac Garden and Dark Elegies. In 1938, he founded the London Ballet with Agnes de Mille, on ...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 – April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and anti-Christian sentiments. He was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and counted among his best friends Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He is considered a decadent poet, albeit that he professed to perhaps rather more vice than he actually indulged in, a fact ...

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1909 in rail transport - January events. January 26 - The Jamestown, Franklin and Clearfield Railroad, a predecessor of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, is formed from the merger of four smaller railroads in Pennsylvania.[1] January 29 - The final spike is driven in the construction of the Virginian Railway at Glen Lyn, Virginia. 1909 in rail transport - March events. March 7 The Winona Interurban ...

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Victor Gazaway Willis (April 12, 1876 - August 3, 1947) was a Major League Baseball player. He was a starting pitcher. Over a 13 year career Willis played for three teams, the Boston Beaneaters (1898-1905), Pittsburgh Pirates (1906-1909) and St. Louis Cardinals (1910), compiling a 249-205 record with a 2.63 ERA. He was known as a workhorse and completed 388 of his 471 starts. He holds the post-1900 records for most losses (29, in 1905) and complete games (45, in 1902) in a single season. Willis was on one World Series championship team, the 1909 Pirates. Willis was ...

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Abd-ul-Hamid II also Abdulhamid, Abdülhamit, Abdul Hamid, Abd al-Hamid II, or Abdul-Hamid (Arabic: عبد الحميد الثاني) (September 21, 1842 – February 10, 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from August 31, 1876 – April 27, 1909. He was the son of Sultan Abd-ul-Mejid, and succeeded to the throne on the deposition of his brother Murad V on August 31, 1876. He accompanied his uncle Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz on his visit to England and France in 1867. At his accession spectator ...

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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was a successful folk music singer, author and actor. Born in Jasper County, Illinois, Ives is probably best remembered for his music. Carl Sandburg described him as "the mightiest ballad singer born in any century". He dropped out of college to travel about as an itinerant singer during the early 1930s, earning his way by doing odd jobs and playing his banjo. He was jailed in Mona, Utah for singing "Foggy Foggy Dew", ...

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Whitley Stokes (February 28, 1830 - April 13, 1909) was a British lawyer and Celtic scholar. He was a son of William Stokes (1804-1878), and a grandson of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was Regius Professor of Physics at the University of Dublin. In his day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in Europe. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, young Stokes became an English barrister in 1855, and in 1862 he went to India, where he filled sever ...

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Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald (commonly just Wilhelm Ostwald) (September 2, 1853 - April 4, 1932) was a German chemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities. Wilhelm Ostwald - Biography. He was born in Riga (at that time Russia, today Latvia), as the son of master-cooper Gottfried Wilhelm Ostwald and Elisabeth Leuckel. He was ethnically a Baltic German. He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1875, then taught ...

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The history of USS Vestal (AR-4) began when Erie (Fleet Collier No. 1) was authorized on 17 April 1904; but the ship was renamed Vestal in October 1905, well before her keel was laid down on 25 March 1907 at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N.Y. Launched on 19 May 1908, Vestal was placed in service as a fleet collier, with a civilian crew, at her builders' yard on 4 October 1909. Vestal served the fleet as a collier, operating along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies, from the autumn o ...

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Wallace Earle Stegner (February 18, 1909—April 13, 1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, and environmentalist. Some call him "The Dean of Western Writers." Wallace Stegner - Early life. He was born in Lake Mills, Iowa and grew up in northern Montana, Salt Lake City, Utah and southern Saskatchewan, which he wrote about in his autobiography Wolf Willow. Stegner says he "lived in twenty places in eight states and Canada".^Including:

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1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. 1910 - Events. January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution. January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in ...

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Yitzhak Ben--Zvi (November 24, 1884, Poltava, Ukraine - April 23, 1963, Jerusalem, Israel) was a historian, Labor Zionist leader, and the second Israeli president (1952 - 1963). Ben-Zvi was the eldest son of Zvi Shamshi Shimshelevitz. He was active in the Jewish self-defense units organized in Ukraine to defend Jews during the pogroms of 1905, and joined the Poalei Zion (Workers of Zion) Zionist political party. He emigrated to Palestine in 1907, and settled in Jaffa, where he helped organize the HaShomer self-defense unit in the country. In 1909, he organized the Gymnasia ...

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William Marrion Branham (April 6, 1909, Kentucky - 1965) was an influential Bible minister sometimes credited with founding the Latter Rain Movement within American Pentecostal churches, elements of which are present in most modern Pentecostal and Charismatic churches (although William Branham denied any specific connection with the movement). Many consider him a false prophet who taught heret ...

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Commandants : 10 Dec 1903 - May 1904 : William H. Allen 17 May 1904 - Sep 1906 : Charles C. Rogers 8 Sep 1906 - Jul 1907 : Albert A. Ackerman Aug 1907 - May 1908 : Clark D. Stearns (acting) May 1908 - April 1909 : Charles H. Harlow May 1909 - Nov 1909 : Myles Joyce (acting) Nov 1909 - Jan 1912 : Walter Ball 18 Jan 1912 - Jun 1913 : George W. Kline Jun 1913 - Jan 1914 : Merritt S. Corning (act ...

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1910 - January-April. January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution. January 15 - In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273). January 16 - ...

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The current athletics stadium is on the same land as a previous football ground[1], which hosted the FA Cup final from 1895 to 1914. In 1905, the owners wanted a professional club to play at the venue, so a new club, Crystal Palace F.C., was formed. They moved out in 1915, and now play at nearby Selhurst Park. The following international matches have been played at Crystal Palace: April 3, 1897 - England 1-2 Scotland March 30, 1901 - England 2-2 Scotland April 1, 1905 - England 1-0 Scotland April 3, 1909 - England 2-0 Sco ...

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