In 1906 Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini.

In 1909, Puccini's wife Elvira publicly accused Doria Manfredi, a maid working for the Puccini family, of having an affair with the composer.

The Harden-Eulenburg affair of 1907 – 1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century.

Ann Veronica created a sensation when published in the fall of 1909 because of the feminist sensibilities of the heroine and also because of the affair Wells was having with Amber Reeves, the woman who inspired the novel's eponymous character.

In 1909 he began an affair with the actress Lilliane Lorraine ; Held remained hopeful that his fascination would pass and he would return to her, but instead he turned his attentions to another actress Billie Burke, whom he would marry in 1914.

American novelist F. Marion Crawford also produced a highly romanticized novel of Stradella's affair and flight from Venice, titled Stradella ( Macmillan 1909 ).

By 1909, Maria was aware of Jozef's affair but refused to divorce him, and they continued to share a home until the outbreak of the First World War.

The Cibecue affair touched off a regional Apache uprising, in which the leading men of the Chiricahua bands, such as Naiche ( c. 1857-1919 ), Juh ( c. 1825 – Nov. 1883 ), and Geronimo ( June 16, 1829 – Feb. 17, 1909 ), left the reservation and went to war in Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico.

It turned out that Cherubina de Gabriak was the literary pseudonym for two people, a disabled schoolteacher and Maximilian Voloshin, and on November 22, 1909 he had a duel with Voloshin over the affair.

Gumilyov talked in public about his romantic affair with Dmitrieva and he did it in rather rude expressions, and on November 19, 1909, at the studio of artist Ivan Bilibin, Voloshin slapped Gumilyov across the face, which by the customs of the time made a duel inevitable.

the former contains no poem dated before 1909 - 10 -- that is, no poem from a period covered by a previous volume -- and the latter has only a few such.

* 1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.

* 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.

Carnegie Hall, built in 1909, is a large, two-storey, Neo-classical brick building on the Registry of Historic Places of Canada

* 1909 – Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.

The Catholic Encyclopedia ( 1909 ) called this confusion a " distortion of the true facts " and suggested that it arose because the " Liber Pontificalis ", which at this point may be registering a reliable tradition, says that this Felix built a church on the Via Aurelia, which is where the Roman martyr of an earlier date was buried.

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

The earliest citation for " big apple " is the 1909 book The Wayfarer in New York, by Edward Martin, writing: " Kansas is apt to see in New York a greedy city.

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.

A vivid example is Moscow clad in snow ( 1909 ).

The Daily Record, however, began in 1909 and is the name of the local newspaper today.

The renamed Emsworth Recreation Ground dates from 1909 and is the current home of Emsworth Cricket Club, which was founded in 1811 and celebrated its Bicentennial in 2011.

* 1909: The International Association of Esperantist Railway Workers is founded in Barcelona.

Fenrir has been depicted in the artwork " Odin and Fenris " ( 1909 ) and " The Binding of Fenris " ( around 1900 ) by Dorothy Hardy, " Odin und Fenriswolf " and " Fesselung des Fenriswolfe " ( 1901 ) by Emil Doepler, and is the subject of the metal sculpture " Fenrir " by A. V. Gunnerud located on the island of Askøy, Norway.

* 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.

* 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) is founded.

The northernmost point of the Island of Greenland is Cape Morris Jesup, discovered by Admiral Robert Peary in 1909.

It has also been demonstrated experimentally ( R. W. Wood, 1909 ) that a " greenhouse " with a cover of rock salt ( which is transparent to infra red ) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover.

Gaston Lerouxs The Phantom of the Opera ( 1909 – 1910 ) is another well-known example of gothic fiction from the early twentieth century.

Iolanthe is one of a number of Gilbert's works, including The Wicked World ( 1873 ), Broken Hearts ( 1875 ), Princess Ida ( 1884 ) and Fallen Fairies ( 1909 ), where the introduction of men and " mortal love " into a tranquil world of women wreaks havoc with the status quo.

Hermann Ebbinghaus ( January 24, 1850 — February 26, 1909 ) was a German psychologist who pioneered the experimental study of memory, and is known for his discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

The Ben Ish Chai by Yosef Chaim ( Baghdad, 1832 – 1909 ) is a corresponding Sephardi work.

In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.

Alfred Gerald Caplin ( September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979 ), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li ' l Abner.

For example: the similarity of southern continent geological formations had led Roberto Mantovani to conjecture in 1889 and 1909 that all the continents had once been joined into a supercontinent ( now known as Pangaea ); Wegener noted the similarity of Mantovani's and his own maps of the former positions of the southern continents.

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual () ( 29 May 1860, Camprodon – 18 May 1909, Cambo-les-Bains ) was a Spanish pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms.

Apart from Legends of the Jews, perhaps his best known scholarly work was his Geonica ( 1909 ), an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.

According to Lt. Paul Gratz's account from 1909, indigenous legends of the Congo River Basin in modern day Zambia spoke of a creature known by native people as the " Nsanga ", which was said to inhabit the Lake Bangweulu region.

* 1909 – U. S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U. S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U. S. Secretary of State

In 1909, the Opel 4 / 8 hp model, known as the " Doctor's Car " was produced.

The formal title of the portfolio has always been simply " Prime Minister ", except for the period of the Fourth Deakin Ministry ( June 1909 to April 1910 ), when it was known as " Prime Minister ( without portfolio )".

The most well known scholars of the Stockholm School of Economics are arguably the economists Eli Heckscher ( professor of economics and statistics 1909 – 1929, professor of economic history 1929 – 1945 ), Gunnar Myrdal and Bertil Ohlin ( professors of economics ).

The affirmative answer, known as the Hilbert – Waring theorem, was provided by Hilbert in 1909.

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

He welcomed The Indian Councils Act, popularly known as Minto-Morley Reforms, which had been passed by British Parliament in May 1909, terming it as " a marked increase of confidence between the Rulers and the Ruled ".

It was followed in 1863 by the line to Weiden, in 1877 by the railway to Schnabelwaid, in 1896 by the branch line to Warmensteinach, in 1904 by the branch to Hollfeld and in 1909 by the branch via Thurnau to Kulmbach, known as the Thurnauer Bockala ( which means something like " Thurnau Goat ").

* Leopold II also engaged in a religious ceremony with Blanche Zélia Joséphine Delacroix, also known as Caroline Lacroix, a prostitute, on 14 December 1909, with no validity under Belgian law, at the Pavilion of Palms, Royal Palace of Laken, in Brussels, five days before his death.

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as " Betty ", was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta " Ruthie " ( née Favor ) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney ; her sister, Barbara " Bobby ", was born October 25, 1909.

She married Arthur Grenbry Outhwaite on 8 December 1909 and thereafter was generally known as Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

Bologna Football Club 1909, known simply as Bologna, is an Italian Football League club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, formed in 1909 ( reformed in 1993 ).

The chairman of its original Board of Trustees, Thomas Jordan Jarvis, a former Governor of North Carolina now known as the " Father of ECU ", participated in groundbreaking ceremonies for the first buildings on July 2, 1908 in Greenville, North Carolina and ECTTS opened its doors on October 5, 1909.

As I now recall a group of boys from our First Baptist Church headed by a young man just over from the " old country " and already interested in scouting as it was than known in England, decided to form a troup and in the month of October of the year 1909 we organized such a troup, with this young man William Foster Milne as our leader.

Frank Gray was one of America's earliest Scoutmasters, having started Troop 4 in Montclair, New Jersey, known as the " Lord Baden-Powell Troop " in March 1909.