Sadly, Minkowski — Hilbert's " best and truest friend " — died prematurely of a ruptured appendix in 1909.

" I will remember the summer of 1909 when Mr. William F. Milne, an intimate friend of our family went to visit his old home in Scotland and came back all enthused with the idea of the Boys Brigade, Sir Baden Powell's organization in Great Britain.

This large three-wing museum had been in planning since 1907 ; when Alfred Messel died in 1909 his close friend Ludwig Hoffman took charge of construction, which began in 1910.

Ewing's first wife, Annie ( née Washington ) died in 1909 and, in 1912, he married Ellen, the surviving daughter of his old friend and patron, John Hopkinson.

In October 1909, de Laroche appealed to her friend, aviator and aeroplane builder Charles Voisin, to instruct her in how to fly.

The Columbus Center was followed by centers in North Yakima, Washington ( November 1909 ), Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California ( February 27, 1910 ), the city where Heindel reencountered his theosophist friend Augusta Foss.

It is only by consulting the minutes of meetings of the board of directors of the newspaper company that we can identify him as the Austin Molloy who trained at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art between 1909 and 1916, at the same time as his more famous friend Harry Clarke.

His maternal great-grandfather was Philip, Prince of Eulenburg and Hertefeld ( 1847 – 1921 ), a friend of Wilhelm II, whose youngest child Viktoria Ada Astrid Agnes Gräfin zu Eulenburg ( 1886 – 1967 ) married 1909 ( div 1921 ) professor Otto Ludwig Haas-Heye ( 1879 – 1959 ), and had issue, including two daughters.

In 1909 Kelley helped create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), and thereafter became a friend and ally of W. E. B.

In 1909, King left the Examiner to work at the Chicago Tribune, where, according to his friend, Chicago cartoonist Lew Merrell, he increased his weekly pay 50 cents.

Though a friend and promoter of poets like Dylan Thomas and George Barker, Williams ' own poetry is not highly regarded by critics, though he published several volumes during his lifetime, and is not nearly as accomplished as the poetry of his wife, Gene Derwood ( 1909 – 1954 ).

In 1909, McNutt entered Indiana University where he was active in campus politics, acted in student theater productions and was a close friend of Wendell Willkie, future Republican candidate for president of the United States who, like McNutt, was then a Democrat.

At the request of a school friend, Maundy Gregory, he invested in a disastrous revival of the comic opera Dorothy at the Waldorf Theatre in 1909.

Between 1909 and 1910, Huo founded the Chin Woo Physical Training Center ( later known as Chin Woo Athletic Association ) with his close friend Nong Jinsun as president of the association.

He was a consulting editor for the original " Scofield Reference Bible " ( 1909 ) for his friend, C. I. Scofield and was also a friend of D. L. Moody, George Müller ( whose biography ' George Muller of Bristol ' he wrote ), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and C. H. Spurgeon, whom he succeeded in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, from 1891 to 1893.

He then became the general counsel of the Chicago & North Western Railway Company, one of the great railway systems of the country, and in this office he served until 1909, when he was appointed by President Taft, an intimate friend since college and fellow Bonesman, Solicitor General of the United States.

* 1972 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian leader, 1st President of Ghana ( b. 1909 )

This opinion proved fateful, because Eliot, while President of Harvard 1869 – 1909 — a period encompassing nearly all of Peirce's working life — repeatedly vetoed Harvard's employing Peirce in any capacity.

Holland, minister of the Ottawa church, in 1898, Samuel A. Eliot, President of the American Unitarian Association in 1908, Charles Huntingdon Pennoyer, minister of the Halifax Universalist Church in 1909, and Horace Westwood, a Unitarian minister in Winnipeg in 1913.

The recommendations of the Brent Commission were endorsed by the United States Department of State and in 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt called for an international conference, the International Opium Commission, which was held in Shanghai in February 1909.

* 1909 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, 1st President of Afghanistan ( d. 1978 )

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

His son, Lawrence Fraser Abbott, accompanied President Roosevelt on a tour of Europe and Africa ( 1909 – 10 ).

* 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 United States provided political support to conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya.

In 1909, he ordered the overthrow of Nicaraguan President José Santos Zelaya.

* 1909 – Kwame Nkrumah, Ghanaian politician, 1st President of Ghana ( d. 1972 )

Theodore " Teddy " Roosevelt ( ; October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919 ) was the 26th President of the United States of America ( 1901 – 1909 ).

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2 % federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

** Li Xiannian, former President of the People's Republic of China ( b. 1909 )

* November 4 – Guillermo León Valencia, President of Colombia ( b. 1909 )

The culmination of such efforts came with the First White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children called by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1909, where it was declared that the nuclear family represented " the highest and finest product of civilization ” and was best able to serve as primary caretaker for the abandoned and orphaned.

Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan or Daud Khan ( July 18, 1909 – April 28, 1978 ) was Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963, and later became the President of Afghanistan.

President William Howard Taft called Congress into a special session in 1909 shortly after his inauguration to discuss the issue.

According to Henry A. Wallace ( then the Secretary of Agriculture in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's cabinet ), in 1934 he saw a 1909 pamphlet on the Great Seal by Gaillard Hunt.

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.

In January 1909, General Motors President William C. Durant purchased a 50 % interest in the Oakland Motor Car Company.

Thomsen was President of the Danish Academy from 1909 until his death, and was an honourary member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

The Washington State Legislature officially created Grant County February 24, 1909, and named after President Ulysses S. Grant.

Charles Warren Fairbanks ( May 11, 1852 – June 4, 1918 ) was an American politician who served as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905 and the 26th Vice President of the United States from 1905 to 1909.