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

Major reforms of the British fleet were undertaken, particularly by Admiral Jackie Fisher as First Sea Lord from 1904 to 1909.

Built by James Frank “ Major ” Lambert in 1909.

* Billy Herman ( July 7, 1909 – September 5, 1992 ) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball during the 1930s and 1940s.

* Three Major League Baseball players were born in Waynesboro ... Claude Passeau ( 1909 ), Paul Busby ( 1918 ), and Jeff Branson ( 1967 ).

Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey ( 26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994 ), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer frequently appearing on television, at cookery demonstrations and in print with Major Johnnie Cradock who played the part of a slightly bumbling husband.

In 1971, Aparicio was one at bat to tie the longest Major League hitless streak for non-pitchers held by Bill Bergens with 45, set in 1909 with Brooklyn Superbas, by going without a hit in 44 at bats.

* Equestrian Statue of Major General George B. McClellan, Smith Memorial Arch, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( 1909 – 11 ).

Faber set a college record by striking out 24 St. Ambrose batters in a 1909 game before moving on to a 20-year Major League career with the Chicago White Sox.

He was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant colonel in December 1909, but his ambition to become the Australian representative on the Imperial General Staff in London was blocked by Hutton's successor Major General Charles Hoad.

In August 1920, Ray Chapman was famously struck in the temple and killed by a spitball thrown by pitcher Carl Mays during a poorly lit game ; Chapman is the second of only two Major League Baseball players to have died as a result of an injury received in a game ( the first was Mike " Doc " Powers in 1909 ).

* Ralph A. Doc Carroll, 1909, Major League Baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics, 1916.

John Gibson Clarkson ( July 1, 1861 – February 4, 1909 ) was a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.

James Laverne " Skeeter " Webb ( November 4, 1909 – July 8, 1986 ) was a Major League Baseball infielder who played twelve season in the major leagues with the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1932 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1938 – 1939 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1940 – 1944 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1945 – 1947 ), and Philadelphia Athletics ( 1948 ).

On November 11, 1909, Major General John J. Pershing, the third and final military governor of Moro Province assumed his duties.

Hamilton also held the honorary posts of Captain of Deal Castle ( 1899 – 1923 ) and Major of Deal ( 1909 ) and received the degree of honorary LLD from Glasgow University and of honorary DCL from Oxford University.

Melvin Thomas Ott ( March 2, 1909 – November 21, 1958 ), nicknamed " Master Melvin ", was a Major League Baseball right fielder.

* Doc Powers ( Michael Riley Powers, 1870 – 1909 ) an American Major League Baseball player

The first ascent was on 23 November 1909 by Major Bernard Head and guides Jack Clarke and Alec Graham.

William Jennings Bryan " Billy " Herman ( July 7, 1909 – September 5, 1992 ) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball during the 1930s and 1940s.

A second baseman, Huggins played in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds ( 1904 – 1909 ) and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1910 – 1916 ).

Frank Gibson Selee ( October 26, 1859 – July 5, 1909 ) was an American Major League Baseball manager in the National League ( NL ).

Louis Criger ( February 3, 1872 in Elkhart, Indiana – May 14, 1934 in Tucson, Arizona ) was a Major League Baseball player for the Cleveland Spiders ( 1896 – 1898 ), St. Louis Cardinals ( 1899 – 1900 ), Boston Americans / Red Sox ( 1901 – 1908 ), St. Louis Browns ( 1909, 1912 ), and the New York Highlanders ( 1910 ).

Elberfeld played shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1898 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1899 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1901 – 1903 ), New York Highlanders ( 1903 – 1909 ), Washington Senators ( 1910 – 1911 ), and Brooklyn Robins ( 1914 ).

" At that time ( 1909 ) the Roman Martyrology had the following text: This entry was based on what the Catholic Encyclopedia called later legends that confound the relative positions of Felix and Liberius.

In 1909, Jones wrote the short Pronunciation of English, a book which he later radically revised.

The British experimented with oil propulsion for the Tribal class of 1905 but switched temporarily back to coal for the later Beagle class in 1909.

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

As an alumnus, he later helped to set up the Royal College of Science Association, of which he became the first president in 1909.

The first entirely Hebrew-speaking city, Ahuzat Bayit was established in 1909 ( later renamed Tel Aviv ).

In 1909, the priority was finally granted to Urbain and his names were adopted as official ones ; however, the name cassiopeium ( or later cassiopium ) for element 71 proposed by von Welsbach was used by many German scientists until the 1950s.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

Nurmi's brother Lahja died in 1909 and his father Johan a year later.

Although there were later tensions between Scott and Shackleton, when their polar ambitions directly clashed, in public mutual civilities were preserved ; Scott joined in the official receptions that greeted Shackleton on his return in 1909 after the Nimrod Expedition, and the two were exchanging polite letters about their respective ambitions in 1909 – 10.

In 1909, Frederick F. Russell, a U. S. Army physician, developed an American typhoid vaccine and two years later his vaccination program became the first in which an entire army was immunized.

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 ).

And later, in 1909, Tórshavn became a market town with the same municipal charter as Danish market towns.

It was an important predecessor of his later Bleriot XI Channel-crossing aircraft of the summer of 1909.

Other buildings whose demolition was seen as scandalous either already at the time of action or proved to be so in later years include The Nobel House ( subject to the very first photograph ever taken in Finland ) and the building of Old Hotel Börs ( almost directly opposite to Hotel Phoenix, Old Hotel Börs was built in jugendstil in 1909 by Frithiof Strandel ).

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.

1909 saw the founding of what would later become Portage Lake District Library.

* Prinzess Eitel Friedrich ( 1909 ) ( later as Dar Pomorza )

Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania, where his father, Theodore Thomson Flynn, was a lecturer ( 1909 ) and later professor ( 1911 ) of biology at the University of Tasmania.

In 1909, Pratt travelled to Canada and began appearing in stage shows throughout the country ; and some time later changed his professional name to " Boris Karloff ".

He later wrote libretti for several of his operas, including Elektra ( 1909 ), Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ) with Harry von Kessler, Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912, rev.

A new main stand was added in 1909, the East stand was also covered this year and extended further two years later.

The Ottoman court harem — within the Topkapı Palace ( 1465 – 1853 ) and later the Dolmabahçe Palace ( 1853 – 1909 ) in Istanbul — was under the administration of the eunuchs.

Segovia's first public performance was in Spain at the age of 16 in 1909, and a few years later he held his first professional concert in Madrid, playing works by Francisco Tárrega and some guitar transcriptions by J. S.