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  • 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.




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