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The following events occurred in July 1909: ==July 1, 1909 (Thursday)== *In the first political assassination in Britain since 1882, Sir William Curzon-Wyllie, chief aide to British India's Secretary of State, was shot and killed in London by Madan Lal Dhingra. Another bystander, Dr. Cawas Lalcaca, was fatally wounded by Dhingra's shots.〔"Sir William Wyllie Murdered By Hindu", ''New York Times'', July 2, 1909, p1〕 *Clark County, Nevada, Palm Beach County, Florida, and Lincoln County, Montana, all came into existence on the same day.〔( Las Vegas Sun, January 4, 2009 ); ( Palm Beach County Library ); ( Lincoln County, Montana, site )〕 *Alice Blériot, wife of Louis Blériot, saved a child from death, and the grateful family loaned the almost bankrupt aviator 25,000 francs, enough to help him perfect his Blériot XI airplane in an attempt to be the first person to fly across the English Channel.〔Piers Letcher, ''Eccentric France: The Bradt Guide to Mad, Magical and Marvellous France'' (Bradt Travel Guides, 2003), pp43–44〕 *Arctic explorer Joseph-Elzéar Bernier placed a plaque at Winter Harbour on Melville Island that proclaimed "The Memorial is erected today to commemorate the taking possession for the Dominion of Canada of the whole Arctic Archipelago lying to the north of America from long. 60 W to 141 W up to the latitude of 90 N."〔Donald Rothwell, ''The Polar Regions and the Development of International Law'' (Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp165–66〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「July 1909」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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