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  • Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Austria
    1909
    Adolf Hitler

    Homeless

    Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Austria
    1909

    In 1909 Hitler ran out of money and was forced to live a bohemian life in homeless shelters and a men's dormitory. He earned money as a casual laborer and by painting and selling watercolours of Vienna's sights.




  • Paris, France
    1909
    Eiffel Tower

    Eiffel was to be dismantled

    Paris, France
    1909

    Eiffel had a permit for the tower to stand for 20 years. It was to be dismantled in 1909, when its ownership would revert to the City of Paris. The City had planned to tear it down (part of the original contest rules for designing a tower was that it should be easy to dismantle) but as the tower proved to be valuable for communication purposes, it was allowed to remain after the expiry of the permit.




  • Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
    1909
    Edward VIII

    Royal Naval College at Dartmouth

    Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
    1909

    Following two years at Osborne College, which he did not enjoy, Edward moved on to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.




  • Paris, France
    1909
    Marie Curie

    The Initiative For Creating The Radium Institute

    Paris, France
    1909

    She headed the Radium Institute (Institut du radium, now Curie Institute, Institut Curie), a radioactivity laboratory created for her by the Pasteur Institute and the University of Paris. The initiative for creating the Radium Institute had come in 1909 from Pierre Paul Émile Roux, director of the Pasteur Institute, who had been disappointed that the University of Paris was not giving Curie a proper laboratory and had suggested that she move to the Pasteur Institute.




  • England
    1909
    John Maynard Keynes

    First professional economics article

    England
    1909

    By 1909 Keynes had published his first professional economics article in The Economic Journal, about the effect of a recent global economic downturn on India.




  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    1909
    John Maynard Keynes

    Political Economy Club

    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
    1909

    He founded the Political Economy Club, a weekly discussion group.




  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    1909
    New York Stock Exchange

    Trading in bonds begins

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    1909

    In 1909, trading in bonds begins.


  • France
    Friday Jan 1, 1909
    02:50:00 PM
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle won a place at St Cyr

    France
    Friday Jan 1, 1909
    02:50:00 PM

    De Gaulle won a place at St Cyr in 1909. His class ranking was mediocre (119th out of 221 entrants), but he was relatively young and this was his first attempt at the exam.


  • Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    1909
    Armenian Genocide

    A Counter-coup took place

    Turkey (then Ottoman Empire)
    1909

    A countercoup took place in early 1909, ultimately resulting in the 31 March Incident on 13 April 1909. Some reactionary Ottoman military elements, joined by Islamic theological students, aimed to return control of the country to the Sultan and the rule of Islamic law. Riots and fighting broke out between the reactionary forces and CUP forces, until the CUP was able to put down the uprising and court-martial the opposition leaders.


  • Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1909
    Robert Fulton

    Marble statue of Fulton

    Pennsylvania, U.S.
    1909

    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania donated a marble statue of Fulton to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol. Fulton was also honored for his development of steamship technology in New York City's Hudson-Fulton Celebration of the Centennial in 1909. A replica of his first steam-powered steam vessel, Clermont, was built for the occasion.


  • Abilene, Texas, U.S.
    1909
    Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Eisenhower graduated from Abilene High School

    Abilene, Texas, U.S.
    1909

    Eisenhower attended Abilene High School and graduated with the class of 1909. As a freshman, he injured his knee and developed a leg infection that extended into his groin, which his doctor diagnosed as life-threatening. The doctor insisted that the leg be amputated but Dwight refused to allow it, and surprisingly recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year. He and brother Edgar both wanted to attend college, though they lacked the funds. They made a pact to take alternate years at college while the other worked to earn the tuitions.


  • Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Feb, 1909
    Igor Stravinsky

    The Concert in Saint Petersburg

    Saint Petersburg, Russia
    Feb, 1909

    In February 1909, two of Stravinsky's orchestral works, the Scherzo fantastique and Feu d'artifice (Fireworks) were performed at a concert in Saint Petersburg, where they were heard by Serge Diaghilev, who was at that time involved in planning to present Russian opera and ballet in Paris. Diaghilev was sufficiently impressed by Fireworks to commission Stravinsky to carry out some orchestrations and then to compose a full-length ballet score, The Firebird.


  • Pau, France
    Monday Feb 15, 1909
    The Wright brothers

    More public flights in france

    Pau, France
    Monday Feb 15, 1909

    The Wrights traveled to Pau, in the south of France, where Wilbur made many more public flights, giving rides to a procession of officers, journalists and statesmen—and his sister Katharine on February 15.


  • Paris, France
    1909
    Mona Lisa

    Current frame

    Paris, France
    1909

    The Mona Lisa has had many different decorative frames in its history, owing to changes in taste over the centuries. In 1909, the art collector Comtesse de Béhague gave the portrait its current frame, a Renaissance-era work consistent with the historical period of the Mona Lisa.


  • Palestine
    Monday Apr 12, 1909
    David Ben-Gurion

    Arab from Kafr Kanna was killed

    Palestine
    Monday Apr 12, 1909

    On 12 April 1909, following an attempted robbery in which an Arab from Kafr Kanna was killed, Ben-Gurion was involved in fighting during which one guard and a farmer from Sejera were killed.


  • England, United kingdom
    Thursday Apr 29, 1909
    Winston Churchill

    People's Budget

    England, United kingdom
    Thursday Apr 29, 1909

    To ensure funding for their reforms, Lloyd George and Churchill denounced Reginald McKenna's policy of naval expansion, refusing to believe that war with Germany was inevitable. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lloyd George presented his "People's Budget" on 29 April 1909, calling it a war budget to eliminate poverty. He proposed unprecedented taxes on the rich to fund the Liberal welfare programs. The budget was vetoed by the Conservative peers who dominated the House of Lords. His social reforms under threat, Churchill warned that upper-class obstruction could anger working-class Britons and lead to class war.


  • Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (Now Croatia)
    Saturday May 1, 1909
    Josip Broz Tito

    May day

    Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary (Now Croatia)
    Saturday May 1, 1909

    During his apprenticeship he was encouraged to mark May Day in 1909, and read and sold Slobodna Reč (Free Word), a socialist newspaper.


  • New York City, New York, U.S.
    May, 1909
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois attended the National Negro Conference

    New York City, New York, U.S.
    May, 1909

    In May 1909, Du Bois attended the National Negro Conference in New York. The meeting led to the creation of the National Negro Committee, chaired by Oswald Villard, and dedicated to campaigning for civil rights, equal voting rights, and equal educational opportunities.


  • Dundee, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 9, 1909
    Winston Churchill

    Liberals stood him in the safe seat of Dundee

    Dundee, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Jun 9, 1909

    On 9 May, the Liberals stood him in the safe seat of Dundee, where he won comfortably.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1909
    Max Planck

    Marie Planck's Death

    Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1909

    After several happy years, in July 1909 Marie Planck died, possibly from tuberculosis.


  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jul 11, 1909
    Winston Churchill

    First child

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Sunday Jul 11, 1909

    The first daughter, Diana, was born in July 1909.


  • Osaka, Japan
    Jul, 1909
    Yasunari Kawabata

    Meeting his Sister

    Osaka, Japan
    Jul, 1909

    Yasunari had an older sister who was taken in by an aunt, and whom he met only once, after the death of his parents, at the age of ten in July 1909.


  • France
    Oct, 1909
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle enlisted in the 33rd Infantry Regiment

    France
    Oct, 1909

    In October 1909, de Gaulle enlisted (for four years, as required, rather than the normal two-year term for conscripts) in the 33rd Infantry Regiment.


  • U.S.
    Monday Nov 22, 1909
    The Wright brothers

    Wright Company incorporated

    U.S.
    Monday Nov 22, 1909

    The Wright Company was incorporated on November 22, 1909.


  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Dec, 1909
    W. E. B. Du Bois

    Du Bois was the first African American invited by the American Historical Association

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Dec, 1909

    Du Bois was the first African American invited by the American Historical Association (AHA) to present a paper at their annual conference. He read his paper, Reconstruction and Its Benefits, to an astounded audience at the AHA's December 1909 conference.


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