Ralph Vaughan Williams produced his most famous settings of six songs, the cycle On Wenlock Edge, for string quartet, tenor and piano ( dedicated to Gervase Elwes ) in 1909, and it became very popular after Elwes recorded it with the London String Quartet and Frederick B. Kiddle in 1917.

In 1909, the citizens of Berkeley adopted a new charter, and the Town of Berkeley became the City of Berkeley.

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.

* 1909 – Selma Lagerlöf became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature " in appreciation of the lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception that characterize her writings ".

Munch's stay in hospital stabilized his personality, and after returning to Norway in 1909, his work became more colorful and less pessimistic.

He had two children, Graham ( born 1907 ) and Mary ( born 1909 ), who each also became illustrators.

Sorel became a supporter of reactionary Maurrassian nationalism beginning in 1909 that influenced his works.

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

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

It was not the world's first air force, because France's embryonic army air service, which eventually became the French Air Force ( Armée de l ’ Air ), was founded in 1909.

* 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, 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.

In 1909, he became Canada's first Deputy Minister of Labour, a civil service position.

Although he and the very-private Rogers openly became visible to the public as friends, and Washington was a frequent guest at Rogers ' New York office, his Fairhaven, Massachusetts summer home, and aboard his steam yacht Kanawha, the true depth and scope of their relationship was not publicly revealed until after Rogers ' sudden death of an stroke in May 1909.

One of them, Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan, became chairman of the SAID in 1909.

The White City of the World's Colombian Exposition inspired the Merchant's Club of Chicago to commission Daniel Burnham to create the Plan of Chicago in 1909, which became the first modern comprehensive city plan in America.

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

The 35 mm width with 4 perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard gauge in 1909, and has remained by far the dominant film gauge for image origination and projection despite challenges from smaller and larger gauges, and from novel formats, because its size allowed for a relatively good tradeoff between the cost of the film stock and the quality of the images captured.

It was Edison's format, however, that became first the dominant standard and then the " official " standard of the newly formed Motion Picture Patents Company, a trust established by Edison, which agreed in 1909 to what would become the standard: 35 mm gauge, with Edison perforations and a 1. 3 aspect ratio.

His box kite designs were widely adopted and became the prevalent type of aircraft until 1909.

He became battalion adjutant in 1909 and then engineer officer at Fort Leavenworth in 1910.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The fair was originally conceived in 1955 to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, but it soon became clear that that date was too ambitious.

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.

Historic urban centers of the Deutsch Rheinland ( German Rhineland ), from Mainz to Cologne ( map of 1909 )

Willy Millowitsch ( January 8, 1909 – September 20, 1999 ) was a German stage and TV actor and the director of the Volkstheater Millowitsch in Cologne.

He left Linz at the end of 1909 and set up a new studio in Cologne.

* Cologne: Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, established in 1909

He had completed a fast of 21 days, one of 24 days, one of 32 days, and one of 49 days which he commenced on 26 June 1909 at Kastan's Panoptikum ( waxworks ), in Cologne under the watch of a notary from the Royal Court.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Merseburg was transformed into an industrial site, which is largely due to the pioneering work done by people like Carl Bosch and Friedrich Bergius, who laid down the scientific fundamentals of the catalytic high-pressure ammonia synthesis from 1909 to 1913.

Zoning laws are, of course, the classic example, see Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U. S. 394 ( 1915 ) ( prohibition of brickyard operations within certain neighborhoods ); Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U. S. 365 ( 1926 ) ( prohibition of industrial use ); Gorieb v. Fox, 274 U. S. 603, 608 ( 1927 ) ( requirement that portions of parcels be left unbuilt ); Welch v. Swasey, 214 U. S. 91 ( 1909 ) ( height restriction ), which have been viewed as permissible governmental action even when prohibiting the most beneficial use of the property.

Some of the most bitter industrial disputes have been fought in Broken Hill in 1892, 1909 and 1919.

From 1909 until 1913 he transformed Fritz Haber's tabletop demonstration of a method to fix nitrogen using high pressure chemistry into an important industrial process to produce megatons of fertilizer and explosives.

Much of Lowry's early years were spent in the leafy Manchester suburb of Victoria Park, Rusholme but in 1909, due to financial pressures, the family moved to 117 Station Road in the industrial town of Pendlebury.

This group was reorganized in 1909 as the Industrial Workers of Great Britain, with a move made to actually recruit industrial unionists in opposition to the established trade union officialdom, regarded by the SLP as among the most bitter and incorrigible enemies of the radical working class.

The Trade Boards Act 1909 created industrial panels to fix minimum wages.

A station for Doomben Racecourse was opened in 1909 alongside the Nudgee Road level crossing, and in 1976 a new station – Whinstanes-Doomben – opened slightly further east ; Whinstanes was the name of the industrial branch line that crosses Kingsford Smith Drive to the Hamilton Cold Stores.

< sup > ( 349 )</ sup > His paper Psychology and the Market ( 1909 ) suggested that psychology could be used in many different industrial applications including management, vocational decisions, advertising, job performance and employee motivation.

In 1909 Porter, in an attempt to resist the new industrial system born out of the popularity of nickelodeons, left Edison and joined with others in organizing Rex, an independent motion picture company.

* Shigeo Shingo ( 新郷重雄 1909 – 1990 ), a Japanese industrial engineer who was one of the lesser-known but still highly regarded people to work with quality systems

The original Royal Warrant was amended by a further Royal Warrant on 1 December 1909 to encompass acts of bravery by all industrial workers in factory accidents and disasters, creating two versions of the Edward Medal: Mines and Industry.