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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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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1909 in aviation - February. February 23 - John McCurdy makes the first aeroplane flight in Canada in the Silver Dart 1909 in aviation - May. May 14 - Samuel Cody makes the first aeroplane flight in the UK longer than 1 mile (1.6 km) in British Army Aeroplane No. 1. 1909 in aviation - July. The International Exhibition of Aviation opens in Frankfurt-am-Main (now known as ILA and regularly held in Berlin). ...

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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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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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August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. The son of William Julius Derleth and his wife Rose Louise Volk, he resided in Sauk County, Wisconsin. At the age of 16, he sold his first story to Weird Tales magazine. Derleth wrote all throughout his four years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received a B.A. in 1930. During this time h ...

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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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BP plc, LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 , originally British Petroleum, is a multinational energy company with headquarters in London, one of the top four vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and gasoline companies in the world (along with Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total). In August 1998, BP merged with the American Oil Company (Amoco), forming "BP Amoco". This move was widely viewed as a takeover of Amoco by BP, and was only officially described as a merger for legal reasons (after ...

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Carmen Miranda (b. February 9, 1909, Marco de Canaveses, Portugal; d. August 5, 1955 Hollywood, California, USA from untreated toxemia, later called pre-eclampsia, and heart failure stemming from pregnancy), born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, was a Portuguese-Brazilian samba singer and motion picture star. Carmen Miranda - Life and career. Miranda reached her peak point of fame in the early 1940s. She arrived in the United States in 1939 and had become the country's highest-paid entertainer by 194 ...

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Simone Weil (February 3, 1909–August 24, 1943) was a French philosopher and mystic. Simone Weil - Life. It is, perhaps, a testimony to Simone Weil’s spiritual insight that people with differing views from hers commended her thought and life. From religious conservatives to liberals, political conservatives to left-wing, believers and atheists have praised her. But Weil came to religion from a purely secularist and atheist milieu. Weil was born in Paris, and she was the younger sister of mathemati ...

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Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. Wallace Stevens - Life and Career. Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania and attended Harvard, after which he moved to New York City and briefly worked as a journalist. He then attended New York Law School, graduating in 1903. On a trip back to Reading in 1904, Stevens met Elsie Kachel Moll, whom he married, after a long courtship, in 1909. The marriage reputedly turned cold and distant, but the Stevenses never divorced ...

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Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan (Arabic:الشيخ زايد بن سلطان أل نهيان)‎, (1918 — 2 November 2004), the principal architect of the seven United Arab Emirates, was the ruler of Abu Dhabi and president of the UAE for over 30 years (1971-2004). Sheikh Zayed was the youngest son of Sheikh Sultan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the traditional ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1922 to 1926. He was named after his famous grandfather, Zayed bin Khalifa al Nahyan, who ruled the emirate from 1855 to 1909. On August 6, 1966 he succ ...

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Royal Canadian Air Force - WWI and the formation years. The aviation age came to Canada on February 23, 1909, when Alexander Graham Bell's Silver Dart took off from the ice of Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck, Nova Scotia with J.D. McCurdy at the controls. This flight was the first "controlled powered flight" (also the first flight of a "heavier than air craft") in the British Empire. The craft also set other firsts with a March 10, 1909 flight of over 20 miles around Baddeck and on August 2, 1909, the Silver Dart made the firs ...

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Woolworths Limited was founded in the United Kingdom in 1909 as a subsidiary of the American company F.W. Woolworth Company. In 1982 it was acquired by Paternoster Stores Ltd, the forerunner of Kingfisher plc. Woolworths Group plc was formed by the demerger of Kingfisher's general merchandise business, and began trading as a listed company on the London Stock Exchange on August 28, 2001. Woolworths trades predominantly in high street locations. Its ranges are aimed primarily at young mothers and children, though it is sometimes ...

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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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Inspired by the examples of Hibernian in Edinburgh and Celtic in Glasgow, the Irish community in Dundee formed a new football club in 1909, following the demise of Dundee Harp. Originally called Dundee Hibernian, taking over Clepington Park (renamed Tannadice Park) from Dundee Wanderers. Dundee Hibernian played their innaugural game on 18th August, 1909 against Hibernian, the match ending in a 1-1 draw. The Club was saved from going out of business in October of 1923, being saved by a group of Dundee businessmen, they decided to chang ...

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The first international convention for coin collectors was held in August 15–18, 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, sponsored by the American Numismatic Association and the Canadian Numismatic Association. Attendance was estimated at 40,000. The most collected coin is probably the United States Lincoln cent. Minted in tremendous numbers from 1909 to the present, they are inexpensive and widely available with the exception of a few rare dates. The scientific study of coins is known as "numismatics". A numismatist may be a coin collector or not. A coin collector may be a num ...

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The first zeppelin to carry mail was LZ 4, in July 1908, followed shortly by LZ 3. The early flights did not use any special markings; the first was an oval reading "LUFTSCHIFF / SIGNALPOST" around the edge and "Z III" in the center, used on LZ 6 (Z 3) from August to October 1909. By 1911 a number of different postmarks were in use; a typical example was a circle reading "AN BORD DES / ZEPPELIN / LUFTSCHIFFES", with a date in the center and the name of the zeppelin at bottom. These were actually applied on boa ...

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