- 1909 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year
1909 in theUnited Kingdom .Incumbents
*Monarch -
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Prime Minister -H. H. Asquith , LiberalEvents
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1 January - National old agepension scheme comes into force.cite book |last=Palmer |first=Alan & Veronica |year=1992 |title= The Chronology of British History|publisher= Century Ltd|location=London|pages= 342-343|isbn= 0-7126-5616-2]
*9 January -Ernest Shackleton 'sNimrod Expedition to theSouth Pole forced to turn back eleven miles from the pole.cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-141-02715-0|year=2006]
*26 February - First film shown in colour using "Kinemacolor " at thePalace Theatre, London .
*10 March -Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909 signed inBangkok .
*15 March -Selfridges department store opens inLondon .
*16 March -Port of London Authority established.
*15 June - Representatives fromEngland ,Australia andSouth Africa meet at Lord's and form the Imperial Cricket Conference.
*26 June - King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra open theVictoria and Albert Museum , designed byAston Webb .
*23 August - The Secret Service Bureaucounter-espionage unit (later known as MI5) is secretly established.
*3 September - the first Boy Scout rally held atThe Crystal Palace in London.
*26 September -Force-feeding of hunger strikingsufragette s begins.
*2 October - The firstrugby football match played inTwickenham .
*5 November - The first Woolworth's store in Britain opens inLiverpool .
*30 November -House of Lords rejects the Budget, forcing a general election.
*4 December - TheUniversity of Bristol was founded and received itsRoyal Charter .
*7 December -South Africa granteddominion status.Publications
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H. G. Wells ' novel "Tono-Bungay ".Births
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24 January -Martin Lings , Islamic scholar (died 2005)
*1 March -David Niven , actor (died 1983)
*30 April -F. E. McWilliam , sculptor (died 1992)
*15 May -James Mason , actor (died 1984)
*18 May -Fred Perry , tennis player (died 1995)
*19 May -Nicholas Winton , humanitarian
*20 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)
*28 October - Francis Bacon, painter (died 1992)
*23 November -Nigel Tranter , historian and writer (died 2000)
*23 December -Donald Coggan ,Archbishop of Canterbury (died 2000)Deaths
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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)
* 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 - SirAlfred Lewis Jones , shipping magnate (born 1845)References
ee also
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