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* 1909 – Syd Buller, English cricketer ( d. 1970 )
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* 1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
* 1909 – The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
1909 and Buller
In 1909, a French military critic, General Langlois, pointed out that it was Buller, not Roberts, who had the toughest job of the war – and it was Buller who was the innovator in countering Boer tactics.
1909 and English
Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.
A month after Blériot's crossing of the English Channel the aviation week in Reims, France, August 1909, caught special worldwide attention.
Nicaragua's legal system also is a mixture of the English Common Law and the Civil Law through the influence of British administration of the Eastern half of the country from the mid-17th century until about 1905, the William Walker period from about 1855 through 1857, USA interventions / occupations during the period from 1909 to 1933, the influence of USA institutions during the Somoza family administrations ( 1933 through 1979 ) and the considerable importation between 1979 and the present of USA culture and institutions.
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.
* Jones, D. 1909 ), " The Pronunciation of English ", Cambridge: CUP ; rpt in facsimile in Jones ( 2002 ).
Some described lower-middle class life ( Kipps ; The History of Mr Polly ), leading him to be touted as a worthy successor to Charles Dickens, but Wells described a range of social strata and even attempted, in Tono-Bungay ( 1909 ), a diagnosis of English society as a whole.
* 1909 – Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from ( Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom ) in 37 minutes.
Loraine is cited by the Oxford English Dictionary for using the term " joystick " in his diary in 1909 when he went to Pau to learn to fly at Bleriot's school.
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