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- Pittsburgh Pirates (16589 bytes)
13: ...nants won''' (9): [[1901]], [[1902]], [[1903]], [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1927]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979...
14: :'''[[World Series]] championships won''' (5): [[1909]], [[1925]], [[1960]], [[1971]], [[1979]]
19: ...years and got their first World Series title in [[1909]], defeating the [[Detroit Tigers]] in seven game...
25: ...ers and right fielders. However, the Pirates struggled for the remainder of the decade, and Murtaugh w...
33: ...broken leg in [[1999 in sports|1999]]. (Interestingly, video footage of Kendall's leg breaking from un... - Computer (32773 bytes)
24: ...he [[United States]] and [[UK]]). The [[Oxford English Dictionary|OED2]] lists the year [[1897]] as t...
29: ... only a handful would ever be required to satisfy global demand. By contrast, modern computers are ord...
56: ...-constricted channels, and between [[1903]] and [[1909]] [[Percy E. Ludgate]] developed a design for a p...
76: ...ded into three main types based on capability: Single-Purpose devices that can compute only one functi...
99: ====Single-purpose computers==== - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
8: *[[Arthur Aikin]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
14: *[[Neil Bartlett]], (born 1932), English/Canadian/American chemist
50: ...st Carl Emil Erlenmeyer |Emil Erlenmayer]], (1825-1909), German chemist
77: *[[Charles Hatchett]], (1765-1847), English chemist who discovered [[niobium]]
85: * Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] (1893-1970), English chemist - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
106: ...a landmark break with the classical physics. In [[1909]], Einstein presented his first paper to a gather...
133: ...ntal forces]] as different manifestations of a single force. His attempt was in a way doomed to failur...
136: ...article. Einstein was guided by a belief in a single statistical measure of variance for the entire s...
142: Einstein became increasingly isolated in his research on a generalized theory...
157: ...e. From a letter written in [[English language|English]], dated [[March 24]], [[1954]], Einstein wrot... - Alexander Graham Bell (18688 bytes)
19: ... instructor at Somersetshire College at [[Bath, England]]. While still in Scotland he is said to have ...
52: ... July [[1877]]. In 1879, it merged with the New England Telephone Company forming the National Telepho...
70: ...ers were four young men, American [[Glenn Curtiss|Glenn H. Curtiss]], a motorcycle manufacturer who wo...
72: In [[1909]], Bell's ''[[Silver Dart]]'' made the first cont... - Garrett A. Morgan (5956 bytes)
13: ...he first of several businesses he would own. In [[1909]], he expanded his business to include a tailorin...
20: ...rotector after hearing about the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. He was able to sell his inve...
27: .... Morgan later had his technology patented in [[England]] and [[Canada]] as well. - Henry Ford (16324 bytes)
18: ...ean" (across the [[United States|USA]]) race in [[1909]], and setting a one-mile oval speed record at De... - List of sculptors (9151 bytes)
39: *[[Gutzon Borglum]] (1867 - 1941)
145: *[[Idel Ianchelevici]] (1909-1994)
202: *[[Amedeo Modigliani]] (1884 - 1920)
242: *[[Frederic Remington]] (1861 - 1909)
268: *[[Paula Sigley]] (1970 - ) - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
11: ...ight damage the cable, or even worse, become entangled in the cable. In the latter case, the cable ca...
25: ... did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's ''California Cars'', C...
29: ...e, though, among which was the [[Glasgow Subway | Glasgow District Subway]], the first underground cab...
36: ...lar, but many more cars can be operated with a single cable, making it more flexible, and allowing a h...
38: ...and is now a standard funicular, although confusingly it retains its old cable car name. - Dwight D. Eisenhower (37513 bytes)
22: ...]] and he worked at Belle Springs Creamery from [[1909]] to [[1911]].
34: ...hen served as chief military aide to General [[Douglas MacArthur]], Army Chief of Staff, until [[1935]...
139: * Mexican [[Aztec Eagle]]
163: ...nate, Colonel [[Joseph Mobutu]]. The initial struggle came to a close in December [[1960]], after Kasa...
165: In [[1956]] Eisenhower strongly disapproved of the actions of [[United Kingdom|B... - Franklin D. Roosevelt (74009 bytes)
36: ...ndash;[[1991]]), Franklin Jr (March to November [[1909]]), [[Elliott Roosevelt|Elliott]] ([[1910]]&ndash...
44: In [[1909]] Theodore Roosevelt left the White House and was...
89: ...h powers to increase farm prices and support struggling farmers. Following these emergency measures ca...
102: ...Frankfurter]], [[Hugo Black]] and [[William O. Douglas]], reducing the possibility of further clashes.
110: ... broke out in [[1939]], Roosevelt became increasingly eager to assist Britain and France, and he began... - Louis Bleriot (3099 bytes)
8: ...-Voisin]] Company. The company built a floatplane glider, which flew during [[1905]]. They also develo...
13: ==English Channel==
14: ...]] he made the trip from [[Calais]] to [[Dover, England|Dover]] in 37 minutes, delighting the French a...
16: ...ckage of Blériot's plane, Reims Air Meet, August 1909.]]
19: ...lso opened flying schools before World War I in England at [[Brooklands]] and Hendon Aerodromes as wel... - Charles Kingsford Smith (4894 bytes)
4: ...ia]], and was one of seven children. From 1905 to 1909, he and his family lived in [[Vancouver]], [[Brit...
6: ...e was met by a huge crowd at [[Brisbane Airport|Eagle Farm Airport]], and was feted as a hero. Austra...
8: In [[1930]], he competed in an England to Australia [[air race]], and, flying solo, w...
10: ...sford Smith met his end. Once again flying from England to Australia, he and his copilot departed [[Al... - Wright brothers (19926 bytes)
10: ...e]], [[Otto Lilienthal]] and [[Samuel Pierpont Langley]], they began their mechanical aeronautical exp...
17: ...to keep the front and rear posts that hold up the glider unbraced. The warping was then controlled by ...
19: ...the Wright Brothers were perhaps the most skilled glider pilots in the world.
35: ...he brothers became world famous in [[1908]] and [[1909]] when, weary of continuing doubt, they took thei...
39: ...nd the [[Statue of Liberty]] in [[New York]] in [[1909]]. - Adolf Hitler (51456 bytes)
31: ...ited some money from an aunt. He worked as a struggling painter in Vienna, copying scenes from postcar...
35: ...h was helping him sell his postcards— seemingly contrary to statements he later made in ''Mein K...
62: ... his political book ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' (''My Struggle'') to his deputy [[Rudolf Hess]]. The first volu...
94: ... on to gain their support and remained overwhelmingly popular until the very end of his regime. He was...
96: ...of the military. Nazi policies towards women strongly encouraged them to stay at home to bear children... - Frederick Cook (12772 bytes)
2: ...year before [[Robert Peary]] claimed to, April 6, 1909.<ref>Henderson, B. 2009, pp. 58-69</ref>
13: ...rra del Fuego]], where he met [[Thomas Bridges (Anglican missionary)|Thomas Bridges]] shortly before h...
24: ...rom McKinley and 3 miles below its top. Barrill's 1909 affidavit included a map correctly locating the [...
28: ...ok Expedition.gif|thumb|right|A photo from Cook's 1909 arctic expedition, which he alleged was taken at ...
29: ...o Annoatok on the Greenland side in the spring of 1909, allegedly almost dying of starvation during the ... - Roald Amundsen (8034 bytes)
14: ...coast. 500 miles (800 km) away, [[Eagle, Alaska|Eagle City, Alaska]], had a [[telegraph]] station; Amu...
18: ...lans to go to the [[North Pole]]. On hearing in [[1909]] that first [[Frederick Cook]] and then [[Robert...
22: ...ered by [[Ernest Shackleton]], up the [[Beardmore Glacier]] to the [[Antarctic Plateau]]. Amundsen wou...
38: ...rederick Cook|Cook]] in 1908, [[Robert Peary]] in 1909, and [[Richard Byrd]] in 1926 (just a few days be... - March 18 (10594 bytes)
16: *[[1909]] - [[Einar Dessau]] uses a [[short-wave radio]] ...
67: *[[1909]] - [[Ernest Gallo]], American winemaker
103: *[[978]] - King [[Edward the Martyr]] of England - March 19 (9902 bytes)
27: *[[1972]] - [[India]] and [[Bangladesh]] sign a friendship [[treaty]].
36: *2004 - A Swedish [[Douglas DC-3|DC-3]] shot down by a Russian [[Mikoyan-Gu...
48: *[[1871]] - [[Schofield Haigh]], English cricketer (d. [[1921]])
61: *[[1909]] - [[Louis Hayward]], actor (d. [[1985]])
81: *[[1947]] - [[Glenn Close]], actress - March 20 (10075 bytes)
7: ...[Henry V of England|Henry V]] becomes King of [[England]].
20: *[[1922]] – The [[USS Langley|USS ''Langley'']] is commissioned as the first [[United State...
22: *[[1942]] – General [[Douglas MacArthur]], at [[Terowie]], [[South Australia]...
36: ...arrington, Warrington|Warrington]], northwest [[England]], killing two children.
55: *[[1890]] - [[Beniamino Gigli]], Italian tenor (d. [[1957]])
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