1910

Years:
1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913

Decades:
1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s

Centuries:
19th century - 20th century - 21st century

1910 in art
1910 in aviation
1910 in film
1910 in literature
1910 in music
1910 in science
1910 in sports
1910 in Canada

List of state leaders in 1910
List of religious leaders in 1910
List of international organization leaders in 1910

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Events

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January

January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.
January 26 ? Seine floods in Paris

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February

February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
February 10 - Horace de Vere Cole pulls of the Dreadnought hoax

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March

March 1 ? Avalanche in Cascade Range sweeps two trains into a canyon - 96 dead
March 1 - USS South Carolina commissioned
March 3 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
March 5 - Avalanche in Rogers valley in British Columbia buries 62 - 600 volunteers dig them up
March 17 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).
March 28 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

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April

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May

May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 11 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa.

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June

June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship

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July

July 2 - Demonstrations in France against public executions
July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.

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August

August 14 - Fire on World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France
August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.

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September

September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.

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October

October 1 - bomb explodes on the Los Angeles Times building - 21 dead, several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara later arrested and sentenced
October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic.

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November

November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.

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December

December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
December 16 - In Sydney Street in London, four anarchists shoot three policemen - three are arrested, fourth escapes

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Unknown Date

Portugal becomes a republic - King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England
Japan occupies Korea
Bubonic Plague in Manchuria
Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
TNT
Rebellion in Albania

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Births

January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, dancer (d. 1988)
January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)
February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)
February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)
February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator
February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (d. 1982)
March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer
April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)
May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer (d. 1985)
May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (d. 1986)
May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (d. 1975)
May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress
May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998)
July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001)
August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
August 26 - Mother Theresa
September 23 - Elliot Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)
October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach
October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor well known as Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie
November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II
December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)
December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986)
December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist
Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman

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Deaths

January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
April 21 - Mark Twain, U.S. novelist
May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer
October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, U.S. middleweight boxer murdered in Conway, Missouri
November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist

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Nobel Prizes

Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Chemistry - Otto Wallach
Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau


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