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| 1909 |
| | | Thomas Beecham uses his personal fortune from Beecham's Pills to found his first orchestra, the Beecham Symphony Orchestra | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Set-designer Leon Bakst begins a long association with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes | |
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| 1909 |
| | | President Taft sends marines to Nicaragua after the government there executes two US citizens | |
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| 1909 |
| | | In response to fears of German espionage a Secret Service Bureau, later to be divided into MI5 and MI6, is set up in Britain | |
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| 1909 |
| | | The Conservative majority in the House of Lords rejects Lloyd George's reforming budget, giving the Liberals the chance to call an election on an emotive issue | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel has its premiere in Moscow | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Joshua Slocum, the most famous sailor of the day, vanishes on another lone voyage | |
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| 1910 |
| | | D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood | |
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| 1910 |
| | | Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality | |
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| 1910 |
| | | British prime minister Herbert Asquith leads the Liberal party to a narrow victory, in an election fought on the issue of the House of Lords | |
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