Historical Events in 1909
57 curated events dated to this year, and 248 musicalized poets on V2Melody were alive then.
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1909
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Founding Member of the NAACP
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Marinetti Publishes the Futurist Manifesto
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Move to New York City
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Nimrod Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
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Publication of 'The New Humour'
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Publication of 'The Poet's Dream'
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Charles Doolittle Walcott Discovers the Burgess Shale
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Early Stage Career in Leeds
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Education at Vanderbilt University
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Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford
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Final Work: 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'
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First Airplane Flight Across the English Channel
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First Major Publication: 'Three Lives'
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First Published Poem
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Flecker's First Published Poetry Collection
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Founding of the NAACP
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Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne showcases aviation
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Lawrence's poems published in the English Review
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Marriage to Concha Méndez
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Marriage to Leonor Izquierdo
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Paul Ehrlich Develops Salvarsan, the First Chemotherapy Drug
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Publication of 'An Essay on the Nature of Lyric'
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Publication of First Poetry Collection 'Insurrections' (1909)
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Robert Millikan measures the elementary electric charge in Chicago
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Robert Peary Claims North Pole
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Selma Lagerlöf Becomes the First Woman Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Bakelite Commercial Production
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Birth of First Child, Rose
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Birth of Son James Naoise (1909)
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First Federal Drug Prohibition in the U.S. (Opium Importation Ban)
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Jean Toomer Attends M Street High School
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Marriage to Catherine Gwatkin
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Marriage to Elsie Violet Kachel
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Opening of Selfridges Department Store in London
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Professionalization of Policing under August Vollmer
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Publication of 'The Duke of Berwick'
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Publication of Chronicle of a Pilgrimage
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Publication of The Creators and further Brontë criticism
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Putumayo Rubber Atrocities Against Indigenous Amazonians
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Relocation to Beaconsfield
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Relocation to Colorado Springs
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Republic Sinks After the First Major Wireless Rescue
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Sami 'Yoik' Oral Poetry Recorded on Phonograph Cylinders
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Cherry Mine Disaster
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Early Literary Aspirations of Herbert Gorman
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First Electric Toaster Commercialized
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First International Opium Commission Meets in Shanghai
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First Publication in Harvard Monthly
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Friendship with George Bernard Shaw
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Igor Sikorsky's Early Helicopter Experiments
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Lorca's Early Education in Granada
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Marriage to Charles H. Pickthall
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Publication of The Romantic Movement in English Poetry
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The Intense Romance of Rupert Brooke and Ka Cox
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Briefly attends Washington University in St. Louis
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Friendship with John Reed
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Netherlands Prohibits Absinthe
Poets alive in 1909
248 poets
Poets in 1909
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