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unusual facts about December 1909


Radisson Hotels

The original Radisson Hotel, founded by heiress Edna Dickerson, was opened on December 15, 1909 at 41 South Seventh Street in Minneapolis.



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Gustav Breddin

Gustav Breddin (25 February 1864, Magdeburg - 22 December 1909, Oschersleben) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hemiptera.

Infante Alvaro, Duke of Galliera

Prince Alvaro married Carla Parodi-Delfino (Milan, 13 December 1909 – Sanlúcar, 27 July 2000), daughter of Leopoldo Girolamo Parodi-Delfino, Senator of the Kingdom of Italy, and Lucie Henny, on 10 July 1937 at Rome, Italy.

Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart

Ismay Catherine Crichton-Stuart (23 December 1909 - 1989); she married, firstly, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, 3rd Earl of Halsbury on 1 October 1930, but they divorced in 1936, having produced one son together.

Paul Claudel

He was French consul in China (1895–1909), including consul in Shanghai (June 1895), and vice-consul in Fuzhou (October 1900), consul in Tianjin (Tientsin) (1906–1909), in Prague (December 1909), Frankfurt am Main (October 1911), Hamburg (October 1913), ministre plénipotentiaire in Rio de Janeiro (1916), Copenhagen (1920), ambassador in Tokyo (1922–1928), Washington, D.C. (1928–1933) and Brussels (1933–1936).

Percy Humphreys

He remained with Chelsea until December 1909 when he lost his place to Vivian Woodward.

Protectory

Another large protectory, St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys in charge of the Xaverian Brothers at Baltimore, Md., had a juvenile population of 748 on 1 December 1909.

Ripon Building

Earl of Minto, the then Viceroy and Governor General of India laid the foundation on 12 December 1909.

Rivett-Carnac baronets

On 11 March 1924 an order was issued in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, presuming his death to have occurred on 31 December 1909.

The King's Way

The song was written on 27 December 1909 to celebrate the opening of London's Kingsway, a wide street in central London connecting High Holborn to the centre of the crescent south of it called Aldwych.

Vpered

The Vperedists created experimental proletarian universities on the Isle of Capri from August to December 1909, and then in Bologna from November 1910 to March 1911.

William MacGregor

MacGregor assisted in the inauguration of the University of Queensland, he agreed to the handing over of his residence Old Government House to be its first home, and one of his first acts as governor was to attend the dedication ceremony on 10 December 1909.