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1909

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1909 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1909
MCMIX
Ab urbe condita2662
Armenian calendar1358
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԸ
Assyrian calendar6659
Baháʼí calendar65–66
Balinese saka calendar1830–1831
Bengali calendar1316
Berber calendar2859
British Regnal yearEdw. 7 – 9 Edw. 7
Buddhist calendar2453
Burmese calendar1271
Byzantine calendar7417–7418
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4606 or 4399
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4607 or 4400
Coptic calendar1625–1626
Discordian calendar3075
Ethiopian calendar1901–1902
Hebrew calendar5669–5670
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1965–1966
 - Shaka Samvat1830–1831
 - Kali Yuga5009–5010
Holocene calendar11909
Igbo calendar909–910
Iranian calendar1287–1288
Islamic calendar1326–1327
Japanese calendarMeiji 42
(明治42年)
Javanese calendar1838–1839
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4242
Minguo calendar3 before ROC
民前3年
Nanakshahi calendar441
Thai solar calendar2451–2452
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2035 or 1654 or 882
    — to —
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2036 or 1655 or 883

1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1909th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 909th year of the 2nd millennium, the 9th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1909, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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January–February

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March–April

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May–June

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July–August

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July 25: Louis Blériot crosses the English Channel

September–October

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November–December

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Undated

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Births

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January to April

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January

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Dana Andrews
Barry Goldwater
Ann Sothern
U Thant

February

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Dean Rusk
Miep Gies

March

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Héctor José Cámpora

April

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Guillermo León Valencia
Juliana of the Netherlands

May to August

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May

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Margaret Sullavan
Adolfo López Mateos
Benny Goodman

June

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Errol Flynn

July

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Andrei Gromyko

August

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September to December

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September

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Elia Kazan
Kwame Nkrumah

October

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Piotr Jaroszewicz
Francis Bacon

November

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December

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Deaths

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January

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Saint Arnold Janssen
A. C. Swinburne

February

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Geronimo

March

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April

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Miguel Angel Juarez Celman

May

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Saint Alexis Toth

June

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Afonso Pena

July

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August

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Saint Mary McKillop

September

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October

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Ito Hirobumi

November

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Renée Vivien

December

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King Leopold II of Belgium

Date unknown

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Martha Foster Crawford

Nobel Prizes

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References

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  2. ^ Morris, Charles (1909). Finding the North Pole. W. E. Scull. pp. 448–49.
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  12. ^ "Malcolm Lowry BRITISH NOVELIST". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Archived from the original on April 28, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2019.
  13. ^ Honan, William H. (May 4, 1993). "Michael Gordon, Comic Director On Stage and Screen, Dies at 83". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved September 6, 2022.
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  15. ^ Lane, Nancy (1994). Understanding Eugène Ionesco. Columbia, S.C: University of South Carolina Press. p. 1. ISBN 9780872499812.
  16. ^ "George Dixon | American boxer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Archived from the original on October 18, 2021. Retrieved October 18, 2021.
  17. ^ David A Jasen; Gene Jones(Gordon Gene) (1998). Spreadin' rhythm around : Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930. Schirmer Books, Prentice Hall International. p. 40. ISBN 9780028647425.
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Primary sources and year books

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Further reading

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  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 185 – 205.