He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

O'Banion's first conflict with the police came in 1909, at seventeen, when he was committed to Bridewell Prison for three months for burglary ; ;

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.

Electric street lighting was introduced in 1900 and electric trams were transporting passengers in 1909.

Thomson theorized that multiple electrons revolved in orbit-like rings within a positively charged jelly-like substance, and between the electron's discovery and 1909, this " plum pudding model " was the most widely accepted explanation of atomic structure.

In 1909 Ernest Rutherford discovered that the positive half of atoms was tightly condensed into a nucleus,

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

Arthur William à Beckett ( 25 October 1844 Fulham-14 January 1909 London ) was an English journalist and intellectual.

The 1904 Thomson model was disproved by the 1909 gold foil experiment, which was interpreted by Ernest Rutherford in 1911

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.

By 1909 the mausoleum of the Shrine of the Báb was completed.

The Burgess Shale was discovered by palaeontologist Charles Walcott in 1909, towards the end of the season's fieldwork.

Pure boron was arguably first produced by the American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub in 1909.

The organobromine nature of the compound was not discovered until 1909 ( see Paul Friedländer ).

" 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.

In March 1909, Serbia was forced to accept the annexation and restrain anti-Habsburg agitation by Serbian nationalists.

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

Cyril Northcote Parkinson ( 30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993 ) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books, the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

He also has a South African spider named after him, Araneus drygalskii ( Strand, 1909 ), based on material collected on the Gauss expedition.

Beg vremeni ( The flight of time ), collected works 1909 – 1965, published in 1965, was the most complete volume of her works in her lifetime, though the long damning poem Requiem, condemning the Stalinist purges, was conspicuously absent.

The possum was not discovered until 1867 and was originally known only through five specimens, the last one collected in 1909.

Bjarni Þorsteinsson collected Icelandic folk music between 1906 and 1909, and any of the songs he encountered were accompanied by traditional instruments like the langspil and fiðla, which are among the few musical instruments traditionally played in Iceland.

" In 1909, he founded an agricultural research station in Atlit where he built up an extensive library and collected geological and botanical samples.

Starting in 1906, Kraus published the first of his aphorisms in Die Fackel ; they were collected in 1909 in the book Sprüche und Widersprüche ( Sayings and Gainsayings ).

* André de Lorde, nicknamed the " Prince of Terror ", a prolific playwright who wrote over one hundred and fifty plays for the Grand Guignol theater, collected in various volumes, including Théâtre d ' Épouvante Of Horror ( 1909 ), Théâtre Rouge Theater ( 1922 ), Les Drames Célèbres du Grand-Guignol Tragedies Of The Grand-Guignol ( 1924 ) and Théâtre de la Peur Of Fear ( 1924 ).

Another Moravian missionary, August Hermann Francke, collected and translated a version from Lower Ladakh between 1905 and 1909.

The song was first collected in Donegal by Longford poet Padraic Colum and musicologist Herbert Hughes, and published by Boosey & Hawkes in London in a work entitled Irish Country Songs in 1909.

The first known specimen of the plant was collected in 1909 on the Manongarivo Massif of central Madagascar at an elevation of 1700 meters.

In 1994 Malagasy plant collector Fanja Rasoavimbahoaka collected a specimen in Anjahanaribe-Sud Special Reserve 150 km from the location at which the 1909 specimen was collected, which George E. Schatz identified in May 1997 as Takhtajania.

John Morris Reeves ( 1 July 1909 – 1 May 1978 ) was a British writer known as James Reeves principally known for his poetry and contributions to children's literature and the literature of collected traditional songs.

The 190 different songs included in the Little Red Songbook between 1909 and 1973 are collected and annotated in The Big Red Songbook, edited by Archie Green, David Roediger, and Franklin Rosemont and published in 2007.

The league proceeded to collect signatures to oppose the movement to grant women the right to vote, and by 12 March 1909 it had collected 250, 000 signatures.

Oppenheim's published works include Monday Morning and Other Poems ( 1909 ); Pay Envelopes ( 1911 ); The Nine-Tenths ( 1911 ); The Olympian ( 1912 ); Idle Wives ( 1914 ); Songs For The New Age ( 1914 ); The Beloved ( 1915 ); War and Laughter ( 1916 ); The Book Of Self ( 1917 ); The Solitary ( 1919 ); The Mystic Warrior ( 1921 ); Golden Bird ( 1923 ); The Sea ( collected poetry-1924 ); Behind Your Front ( 1926 ); and American Types: A Preface To Analytic Psychology ( 1931 ).

* The sedge species Carex krascheninnikovii Komarov ex Hultén, which was collected by V. L. Komarov in 1909 on the same hillock that Krasheninnikov had found it on during the Second Kamchatka Expedition.

He collected and photographed plants for the Arboretum along China ’ s Yellow River for three years, 1909 – 1911.

With an excellent curveball, Camnitz collected three 20-win seasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1909 to 1912, leading his team to the 1909 World Series after winning 25 games in the regular season and tying Christy Mathewson for the National League lead winning percentage (. 806 ).

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.

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.

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.

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.