1909 in the United Kingdom

1909 in the United Kingdom:
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Sport
1909 English cricket season Football: England \| Scotland

Events from the year 1909 in the United Kingdom.

Incumbents

Monarch - Edward VII
Prime Minister - H. H. Asquith (Liberal)

Events

1 January - National old age pension scheme comes into force.^[1]
9 January - Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole forced to turn back 112 miles from the pole.^[2]
23 January - The Tottenham Outrage, an armed robbery and the murder of a ten-year-old boy and a police constable in Tottenham, North London, carried out by two Latvian anarchists.
16 February - West Stanley Pit Disaster, a coal mining disaster in Stanley, County Durham, in which more than 160 miners die in an explosion.^[3]^[4]
26 February - First film shown in colour using Kinemacolor at the Palace Theatre, London.^[2]
March - Construction of Rosyth Dockyard for the Royal Navy on the east coast of Scotland begins.
10 March - Anglo-Siamese Treaty signed in Bangkok.
15 March - Selfridges department store opens in London.^[2]
16 March - Port of London Authority established.^[2]
11 April - Coming into effect of Children Act 1908, establishing separate juvenile courts for 10–16-year-olds; abolishing the use of custody for under-14s and of hanging for under-16s; introducing the registration of foster parents; and restricting access by under-16s to cigarettes and alcohol.
24 April - The FA Cup final is won by Manchester United for the first time, as they beat Bristol City 1-0 at Crystal Palace.^[5]
29 April - People's Budget introduced in the British Parliament by David Lloyd George.^[6]
2 May - John Moore-Brabazon becomes the first resident British citizen to make a recognised powered heavier-than-air flight in the UK, flying from The Aero Club's ground at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey in his Voisin biplane Bird of Passage.^[7]
13 May - Lonmin is incorporated in the UK as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company Limited.^[8]
26 May - The King's horse, Minoru, wins the Epsom Derby.^[9]
15 June - Representatives from England, Australia and South Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
26 June
- Edward VII and Queen Alexandra open the Victoria and Albert Museum, designed by Aston Webb.^[1]
- The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
25 July - Louis Blériot flies a Blériot XI monoplane across the English Channel from Calais to Dover, winning a prize of £1000 from the Daily Mail.^[10]
23 August - The Secret Service Bureau counter-espionage unit (later known as MI5) is secretly established.^[1]
3 September - The first Boy Scout rally held at The Crystal Palace in London.^[2]
17 September - Militant suffragette Mabel Capper is among the first to suffer force-feeding while on hunger strike, at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham.^[11]
October - The Trade Boards Act, a form of minimum wage legislation, is passed.
2 October - The first rugby football match played in Twickenham.
15–23 October - 'Aviation week' of demonstration flying held at Doncaster.^[12]
5 November - The first Woolworth's store in Britain opens in Liverpool.^[2]
30 November - House of Lords rejects the Budget, forcing a general election.^[1]
3 December - The Ellan Vannin sinks in Liverpool Bay.
4 December - The University of Bristol is founded and receives its Royal Charter.
7 December - South Africa granted dominion status.^[1]

Undated

Labour Exchanges Act sets up labour exchanges as a source of information on employment.
Thomas Beecham establishes the Beecham Symphony Orchestra.^[13]
The mass-circulation Daily Mail (London) hysterically informs its readers in a series of reports that Germany is deliberately preparing to destroy the British Empire.
First British bird ringing programme initiated by Arthur Landsborough Thomson at Aberdeen.^[14]

Publications

Florence Barclay's novel The Rosary.^[15]
Angela Brazil's schoolgirl story The Nicest Girl in the School.
Daniel Jones' introductory The Pronunciation of English.
H. G. Wells' novels Ann Veronica and Tono-Bungay.

Births

24 January - Martin Lings, Islamic scholar (died 2005)
26 March - Martin Hodgson, rugby league footballer (died 1991)
30 April - F. E. McWilliam, sculptor (died 1992)
11 May - Herbert Murrill, organist and composer (died 1952)
15 May - James Mason, actor (died 1984)
18 May - Fred Perry, tennis player (died 1995)
19 May - Nicholas Winton, humanitarian (died 2015)
26 May - Matt Busby, football manager (Manchester United) (died 1994)
7 June - Jessica Tandy, actress (died 1994)
28 June - Eric Ambler, novelist and playwright (died 1998)
28 July - Malcolm Lowry, novelist (died 1957)
30 July - C. Northcote Parkinson, historian and author (died 1993)
25 August - Michael Rennie, actor (died 1971)
14 September - Peter Scott, ornithologist and painter (died 1989)
6 October - Robert Potter, architect (died 2010)
28 October - Francis Bacon, painter (died 1992)
19 November - Griffith Jones, actor (died 2007)
23 November - Nigel Tranter, historian and writer (died 2000)
23 December - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)

Deaths

14 January - Arthur William a Beckett, journalist (born 1844)
10 April - Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet (born 1837)
31 May - Thomas Price, Welsh-born Prime Minister of South Australia (born 1852)
22 June - Edward John Gregory, painter (born 1850)
1 August - Hugh Rowlands, first Welshman to win a VC (born 1828)
10 November - George Essex Evans, Welsh-Australian poet (born 1863)
11 December - Ludwig Mond, industrialist (born 1839)
13 December - Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (born 1845)

References

1 2 3 4 5 Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 342–343. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
1 2 3 4 5 6 Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
↑ "Ceremony to remember dead miners". BBC News. 4 March 2005. Retrieved 2010-10-14.
↑ "Memorial marks pit deaths tragedy". BBC News. 16 February 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
↑ "F A Cup Final 1909". F A Cup Final Programmes. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007.
↑ Raymond, E. T. (1922). Mr. Lloyd George: a biography. New York: George H. Doran Co. p. 118.
↑ Fryer, Jonathan (September 2008). "Where British aviation began". The Journal of Kent History. 67: 18–19.
↑ Page, Melvin E., ed. (2003). Colonialism: an International Social, Cultural and Political Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. pp. 350–351. ISBN 1-57607-335-1.
↑ "Minoru Wins Derby; Sir Martin Falls". The New York Times. 27 May 1909. p. 1.
↑ Blériot, Louis (25 July 1909). "Bleriot Tells of his Flight" (PDF). The New York Times (published 1909-07-26). ISSN 0362-4331. OCLC 1645522. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
↑ WSPU Hunger Strike Medal with Fed by Force bar 17.9.09.
↑ Blake, Richard. The Book of Postal Dates, 1635-1985. Caterham: Marden. p. 20.
↑ Jefferson, Alan (2004). "Beecham, Sir Thomas, second baronet (1879–1961)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2011-02-03. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
↑ Williamson, Kenneth (1977). "Sir Arthur Landsborough Thomson" (PDF). Bird Study. 24 (3): 202–3. doi:10.1080/00063657709476557.
↑ Leavis, Q.D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (rev. ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.

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