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 he addressed the Third Congress of the International Society of Music at Vienna on the subject.

* 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.

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.

He announced the invention at a meeting of the American Chemical Society on February 5, 1909.

In 1909 at the age of 28, Bartók married Márta Ziegler ( 1893 – 1967 ), aged 16.

In June 1909, Bogdanov proposed the formation of Party Schools as " Proletarian Universities " at a Bolshevik mini-conference in Paris organised by the editorial board of the Bolshevik magazine Proletary in June 1909.

Proper Terms: An attempt at a rational explanation of the meanings of the Collection of Phrases in " The Book of St Albans ", 1486, entitled " The Compaynys of beestys and fowlys " and similar lists., Transactions of the Philological Society 1907-1910 Part III, pp 1 – 187, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Trübner & Co, Ltd, London, 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.

However, before this, some MPPC members got around this restriction by occasionally making longer stories in separate parts, and releasing them in successive weeks, starting with Vitagraph's The Life of Moses in five parts ( and five reels ) at the end 1909.

From 1909 a small number of American films, and even one or two European ones, came to include a few dialogue titles, or " spoken titles " as they were called at the time.

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

* 1909 – New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.

* The Interpretation of Radium ( 1909 ) ( a searchable facsimile at the University of Georgia Libraries ; DjVu & layered PDF format )

He then built a laboratory on the Champ de Mars at the foot of the tower in 1905, building his first wind tunnel there in 1909.

Afterwards, he attended the School of Medicine of the Universities of University of Jena and University of Rostock, receiving his doctorate at the latter in 1909.

Shortly after this publication, on February 26, 1909, Ebbinghaus developed pneumonia and died, at the young age of 60.

His lectures at Columbia and Stanford universities were published in 1909 as Principles of Mining, which became a standard textbook.

The British Indian Empire at its greatest extent ( in a map of 1909 ).

They demonstrated their process in the summer of 1909 by producing ammonia from air drop by drop, at the rate of about per hour

Albéniz died on 18 May 1909 at age 48 in Cambo-les-Bains of a kidney disorder, diagnosed as Bright's disease.

Lithograph of the President's House, Thornton Hall, Dartmouth Hall, and Wentworth Hall, circa 1834. Presidents Ernest Fox Nichols ( 1909 – 16 ) and Ernest Martin Hopkins ( 1916 – 45 ) continued Tucker's trend of modernization, further improving campus facilities and introducing selective admissions in the 1920s.

* 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.

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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.

* barque-rigged screw sloop ( 16 March 1877 – 1 October 1909 ), the fifth ship to bear this name

* Francis Alexander Anglin ( as Chief Justice, 16 September 1924 – 28 February 1933 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, 23 February 1909 )

To solve an impasse during the 1909 tariff debate, Taft proposed income taxes for corporations and a constitutional amendment to remove the apportionment requirement for taxes on incomes from property ( taxes on dividends, interest, and rents ), on June 16, 1909.

* October 16 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer ( b. 1909 )

* February 16 – Howard Da Silva, American actor ( b. 1909 )

* June 16 – Geronimo, Apache leader ( d. 1909 )

* May 16 – James Agee, American writer ( b. 1909 )

* October 16 – Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea ( d. 1909 )

* Geronimo, ( Goyaałé-" one who yawns "), ( June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909 ), warrior, medicine man of the Bedonkohe band

She was born on October 12, 1925, to Carrie " Tunch " Butler ( 1909 – 1948 ), who had worked for Thurmond's parents and was 16 years old when Thurmond, then 22 impregnated her.

The expedition's other main accomplishments included the first ascent of Mount Erebus, and the discovery of the approximate location of the South Magnetic Pole, reached on 16 January 1909 by Edgeworth David, Douglas Mawson, and Alistair Mackay.

Mackay, David and Mawson raise the flag at the Magnetic South Pole on 16 January 1909

Cover of The Boy Nihilist, by Allan Arnold in Pluck and Luck June 16, 1909

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.

The Great White Fleet was the popular nickname for the United States Navy battle fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909 by order of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt.

In the twilight of Roosevelt's administration, the president dispatched sixteen U. S. Navy battleships of the Atlantic Fleet on a worldwide voyage of circumnavigation from 16 December 1907 to 22 February 1909.

On April 16, 1909, the Kissimmee Valley Gazette announced the “ New Town of St. Cloud ,” a “ Soldiers Colony ” to be near Kissimmee.

The Idaho Legislature passed an act on March 16, 1909 establishing a permanent state school.