* 1909 – Glenn Cunningham, American runner ( d. 1988 )

** Glenn Cunningham, American Olympic athlete ( b. 1909 )

* Willis Linn Jepson ( 1909 ) The Trees of California, published by Cunningham, Curtis & Welch, 228 pages

* 29 July-Knox Cunningham, barrister, businessman and Ulster Unionist politician ( born 1909 ).

Gordon Friesen ( born March 3, 1909, in Weatherford, Oklahoma-1996 ) and wife Agnes Sis Cunningham were the founders of Broadside, the political song magazine that first published many of the most popular songs of the folk revival, including Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs.

The Tigers have won four World Series championships ( 1935, 1945, 1968, and 1984 ) and have won the American League pennant 10 times ( 1907, 1908, 1909, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1945, 1968, 1984, and 2006 ).

Two years later the club won the London Challenge Cup in the 1909 – 10 season.

Fans grumbled, " Rosh Hashanah comes every year but the Tigers haven't won the pennant since 1909.

Nearby the Lunapark opened in 1909, then Europe's largest amusement park modelled on Coney Island, where boxer Max Schmeling won his first title of a German Lightheavyweight Champion in 1926.

In 1909, he won a seat in the provincial legislature, before switching to federal politics.

The only other team to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in ( the new ) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates, who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field's inaugural season ; and the Boston Red Sox, who won the 1912 World Series in Fenway Park's first year.

The King's horse Minoru won the Derby on 26 July 1909.

This was added to honour the shirt worn by the club when they first won the FA Cup in 1909.

Sparta has won six national titles ( 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1915 and 1959 ) and three national cups ( 1958, 1962 and 1966 ).

In the 1909 elections the ARP won 3 % of vote and twenty-five seats.

The Palau won the architect an award from the Barcelona City Council in 1909, given to the best building built during the previous year.

Crown Point was the site of the first Cobe Trophy automobile race, won by Louis Chevrolet in 1909.

The first long distance event, in " fearful conditions ", was the 100-lap Prest-O-Lite Trophy in 1909, won by Bob Burman in a Buick.

In 1909, work began on a potential new ground in the Piershill area of Ednburgh, but the North British Railway company won a court order allowing them to build a railway line over the ground.

François Faber of Luxembourg won the 1909 Tour de France

United soon found another home, sharing with Torquay Cricket Club in nearby Cricketfield Road ( a site still used for football in the modern day by South Devon League side Upton Athletic ) for four years and during that time won their first honour, the Torquay and District League title in 1909.

Speaker finally won the regular starting center fielder's job in 1909 from the light-hitting Denny Sullivan, who was then sold to the Cleveland Naps.

Hakoah Vienna was a Jewish sports club founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1909 whose teams competed with the Star of David on the chest of their uniforms, and won the 1925 Austrian League soccer championship.

These problems would not come to fruition until Rutherford had left office, however ; in the short-term, the government's involvement in the telephone business helped it to a sweeping victory in the 1909 election, in which the Liberals won 37 of 41 seats in the newly expanded legislature.

At the turn of the century, Swedish league football was dominated by Örgryte, who won ten times between the years 1896 and 1909.

This was significant not only because of Coe's proven ability as a player, but also because Nicklaus became the then-youngest champion in the modern era, second only to Robert A. Gardner, who won in 1909.

In 1909, at Konti's urging, he entered the competition for, and won, the highly sought-after Prix de Rome and shortly thereafter decamped for Rome where he attended the American Academy from 1909 until 1912.

Since American Secretary of State John Hay suggested that the US $ 30 million plus Boxer indemnity paid to the United States was excessive, in 1909, President Roosevelt then obtained congressional approval to reduce the Qing Dynasty indemnity payment by US $ 10. 8 million, on the condition that the said fund was to be used as scholarship for Chinese students to study in the United States.

Since American Secretary of State John Hay suggested that the US $ 30 million plus Boxer Rebellion indemnity money paid to the United States was excessive, in 1909, President Roosevelt then obtained congress approval to reduce the Qing Dynasty indemnity payment by $ 10. 8 million USD, on the condition that the said fund was to be used as scholarship for Chinese students to study in the United States.

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.

The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;

* 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.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

The author was American ambassador to Spain from 1905 to 1909.

In the United States, the development of conservation can be traced to the Fogg Art Museum, and Edward Waldo Forbes, the Director of the Fogg from 1909 to 1944.

Between 1909 and 1911 George Butterworth produced settings in two collections or cycles, as Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad, and Bredon Hill and other songs.

" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

With William Heelis acting for her she bought contiguous pasture, and in 1909 the Castle Farm across the road from Hill Top Farm.

A number of Andreyev's students also toured the west from 1909 to 1912.

Bogdanov was then involved with setting up Vpered, which ran the Capri Party School from August to December 1909.

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.

Cy Young, who returned to Cleveland in 1909, was ineffective for most of his three remaining years and Addie Joss died from tubercular meningitis prior to the season.

Some historians think Kling's absence was significant enough to prevent the Cubs from also winning a third straight title in 1909, as they finished 6 games out of first place.

For nineteen consecutive years, from 1891 through 1909, Cy Young was in his leagues ' top ten for innings pitched ; in fourteen of the seasons, he was in the top five.

Chiang served in the Imperial Japanese Army from 1909 to 1911.

An example of a now discredited " ethnographic " map of India from the Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1909, purporting to show the different " races " ( in coloured regions ), and castes ( in labels ).

Due to his two periods of exile in 1904 – 1909, to escape the British invasion of 1904, and from 1910 – 1912 to escape a Chinese invasion, he became well aware of the complexities of international politics and was the first Dalai Lama to become aware of the importance of foreign relations.

( 1905 ) in Germanic philology from Columbia, before embarking on his PhD in Anthropology which he completed in 1909.

Haeckel studied under Karl Gegenbaur at the University of Jena for three years, earning a doctorate in zoology, before becoming a professor of comparative anatomy at the University of Jena, where he remained for 47 years, from 1862 to 1909.

Haeckel retired from teaching in 1909, and in 1910 he withdrew from the Evangelical church.