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| 1909 |
| | | The opera Elektra, the first collaboration between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, has its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Michel Fokine becomes the choreographer for the ballet company that Sergei Diaghilev is taking to Paris | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Ralph Vaughan Williams sets poems by Housman in On Wenlock Edge | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Italian educational pioneer Maria Montessori publishes The Montessori Method | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Rugby Union acquires new headquarters and a state-of-the-art stadium at Twickenham | |
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Museum of Rugby, Twickenham
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| 1909 |
| | | Alexandre Benois becomes the first artistic director of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes | |
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| 1909 |
| | | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in response to two lynchings in Illinois | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Arnold Schoenberg composes his opera for a single voice, Erwartung, which remains unperformed until 1924 in Prague | |
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| c. 1909 |
| | | Leo Baekeland announces his discovery of Bakelite, calling it 'the material of a thousand uses' | |
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| 1909 |
| | | National delegates from the four provincial parliaments draw up a draft constitution for a South African union | |
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