Year '1910' ('
MCMX') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar (or a
common year starting on Friday
[1]
of the 13-day-slower
Julian calendar).
Events of 1910
January
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January - In
Greece, the Military League forces
parliament and
George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise
Constitution.
★
January 15 - In the
United Kingdom,
General Election held in response to
House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced
Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats;
Labour, 40;
Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British
Conservative Party), 273).
★
January 16 - Constant rains in
Paris,
France, cause the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the
Paris Métro become filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
February
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February 20 -
Boutros Ghali, first native born
prime minister of
Egypt, is assassinated.
March
★
March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in
Albania.
★
March 14 -
Lakeview Gusher vented to atmosphere.
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March 19 - In America,
Republicans reduce the powers of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
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March 21 -
Harry Houdini achieved the first controlled powered flight over Australia.
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March 26 - Norwegian football club
Bærum SK is founded.
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March 30 -
Mississippi Legislature founded
The University of Southern Mississippi.
April
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April 27 -
Louis Botha and James Hertzog (
James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found
South Africa Party.
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April 27 -
British House of Commons passes
David Lloyd George's (1909) '
People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords on
28 April.
★
April 29 -
Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May
★
May 6 -
George V becomes King of the
United Kingdom upon the death of his father,
Edward VII.
★
May 11 -
U.S. Congress establishes
Glacier National Park in
Montana.
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May 15 -
FC St. Pauli founded
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May 16 - The
U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the
United States Bureau of Mines.
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May 18 - The
earth passes through the tail of
Comet Halley.
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May 31 - creation of the
Union of South Africa.
June
★
June -
Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in
Scotland, presided over by
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
John R. Mott, launching the modern
ecumenical movement and the modern
missions movement.
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June 22 - First flight of
Zeppelin airship.
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June 25 -
The Firebird by
Stravinsky premieres.
July
★
July 2 - Demonstrations in
France against public executions.
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July 4 -
African-American boxer
Jack Johnson knocks out
American boxer
James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight
boxing match sparking
race riots across the
United States.
★
July 22 -
Wireless telegraph sent from
SS Montrose results in identification and later arrest and execution of murderer
Dr. Hawley Crippen
★
July 24 -
James MacGillivray publishes first account of
Paul Bunyan in the
Detroit News.
August
★
August 14 -
fire at
World Exhibition in
Brussels destroys exhibitions of
Britain and
France.
★
August 22 -
Japan annexes
Korea.
★
August 28 -
Montenegro is proclaimed an independent
kingdom under
Nicholas I.
September
★
September 1 - the
Vatican introduces a compulsory
oath against
modernism, to be taken by all
priests upon
ordination.
★
September 16 -
Australian Treasury given authority to issue
currency, replacing the use of the
British Pound.
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. King
Manuel II of Portugal flees to
England.
★
October 10 -
Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at
Columbia University.
★
October 11 -
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first president to ride in an
airplane.
★
October 18 -
Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of
Greece.
★
October 23 -
Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned
King of Siam, after the death of his father, King
Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
November
★
November 7 - First air flight for the purpose of delivering
commercial freight occurs between
Dayton, Ohio and
Columbus, Ohio by the
Wright Brothers and
department store owner
Max Moorehouse.
★
November 17 -
Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the
Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine broke apart in mid air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone became the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
★
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.
★
November 23 - Last execution in
Sweden (by
guillotine) - murderer
Johan Alfred Ander
December
★
December - British
Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the
House of Lords (Liberals, 272;
Labour, 42;
Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish
Home Rule).
★
December 12 -
New York socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the
police until six weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
★
December 16 -
Henri Coandă makes first short flight in a plane with a
jet engine.
★
December 16 - In Houndsditch,
London, four (
Latvian)
anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a
jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January
1911) cornered in the '
siege of Sidney Street'.
★
December 19 -
Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th
Chief Justice of the
US Supreme Court.
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December 31 - Two of America's premier pioneer aviators were killed on this day.
John Moisant in New Orleans. And Wright pilot
Arch Hoxsey in Los Angeles.
Undated
★ (none)
Ongoing
★ (none)
Fictional
★ Films: ''
Sarah, Plain and Tall'', ''
Behind the Sun'' and ''
The House of Sand''
★
★
Musical films: ''
The Rogue Song'', ''
Mary Poppins'', ''
The Aristocats'' and ''
Mrs. Santa Claus''
★ Television: ''
Upstairs, Downstairs'' (second series ends in 1910)
Births
January-February
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January 5 -
Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d.
1949)
★
January 6 -
Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (d.
1998)
★
January 7 -
Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas (d.
1994)
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January 8 -
Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d.
1998)
★
January 11 -
Maurice Buckmaster, head of
Special Operations Executive (d.
1992)
★
January 12 -
Luise Rainer, German-born actress
★
January 16 -
Dizzy Dean, baseball player (d.
1974)
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January 21 -
Albert Rosellini, American politician
★
January 23 -
Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d.
1953)
★
January 25 –
Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (d.
1984)
★
January 29 -
Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d.
1983)
★
January 30 -
C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d.
2000)
★
February 3 -
Robert Earl Jones, American actor and father of James Earl Jones (d.
2006)
★
February 5 -
Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
★
February 6 -
Irmgard Keun, German author (d.
1982)
★
February 9 -
Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d.
1976)
★
February 10 -
Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1969)
★
February 13 -
William Shockley, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989)
★
February 15 -
Irena Sendler, Polish humanitarian
★
February 19 -
Dorothy Janis, American actress
★
February 27 -
Joan Bennett, American actress (d.
1990)
March-April
★
March 1
★
★
Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
★
★
David Niven, English actor (d.
1983)
★
March 3 -
Kittens Reichert, American silent movies child actor (d.
1990)
★
March 5 -
Momofuku Ando, Japanese Inventor and Businessman (d.
2007)
★
March 9 -
Samuel Barber, American composer (d.
1981)
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March 10 -
Albert Facchiano, Italian-American criminal
★
March 11 -
Robert Havemann, German chemist (d.
1982)
★
March 13 -
Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d.
1985)
★
March 23 -
Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (d.
1998)
★
March 24 -
Clyde Barrow, American outlaw (d.
1934)
★
March 25 -
Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
★
March 28 -
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American librarian (d.
2001)
★
April 2 -
Chico Xavier, popular medium in
Brazil´s
spiritism movement (d.
2002)
★
April 10 -
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American
Democratic Party politician (d.
1998).
★
April 10
★
★
Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d.
1999)
★
★
Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d.
2004)
★
April 16 -
Eddie Mayo, American baseball player (d.
2006)
★
April 23 -
Simone Simon, French actress (d.
2005)
May-June
★
May 6 -
Norman Corwin, American screenwriter
★
May 12
★
★
Johan Ferrier,
Suriname President
★
★
Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano
★
★
Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d.
1996)
★
★
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1994)
★
May 22 -
Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d.
1985)
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May 23
★
★
Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d.
1986)
★
★
Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d.
2004)
★
May 28 -
T-Bone Walker, American singer (d.
1976)
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May 30
★
★
Harry Bernstein, Jewish author
★
★
Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d.
1978)
★
★
Inge Meysel, German actress (d.
2004)
★
June 8 -
Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d.
2003)
★
June 11 -
Jacques Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher (d.
1997)
★
June 12 -
Bill Naughton, British playwright (d.
1992)
★
June 13 -
Mary Whitehouse, British TV campaigner (d.
2001)
★
June 14 -
Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d.
1976)
★
June 17 -
H. Owen Reed, American composer
★
June 18 -
E.G. Marshall, American actor (d.
1998)
★
June 19 -
Paul Flory, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
★
June 22 -
Peter Pears, English tenor (d.
1986)
★
June 23
★
★
Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d.
1987)
★
★
Peaches Browning, American actress (d.
1956)
★
★
Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth president of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
July-August
★
July 2 -
Lorne Carr, Canadian hockey player
★
July 4 -
Gloria Stuart, American actress
★
July 11 -
Irene Hervey, American actress (d.
1998)
★
July 14
★
★
Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (d.
2004)
★
★
William Hanna, American animator (d.
2001)
★
July 17 -
James Coyne, Canadian Bank of Canada Governor
★
July 18 -
Mamadou Dia, Senegal Prime Minister
★
July 29 -
Julien Gracq, French author
★
July 30 -
Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d.
2003)
★
August 4 -
Anita Page, American actress
★
August 7 -
Lucien Hervé, Hungarian born French photographer
★
August 10 -
Aldo Buzzi, Italian architect, director and screenwriter
★
August 14
★
★
Willy Ronis, American photographer
★
★
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d.
1995)
★
August 23 -
Lonny Frey, American baseball player
★
August 25 -
Dorothea Tanning, American artist
★
August 27 -
Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1997)
★
August 28 -
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
September-October
★
September 3 -
Kitty Carlisle Hart, American singer and actress (d.
2007)
★
September 3 -
Maurice Papon, French Official and Nazi collaborator (d.
2007)
★
September 16
★
★
Erich Kempka, chauffeur and bodyguard of
Adolf Hitler (d.
1975)
★
★
Karl Kling, German race car driver (d.
2003)
★
September 23 -
Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d.
1990)
★
September 29 -
Virginia Bruce, American actress and singer (d.
1982)
★
October 1 -
Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d.
1934)
★
October 1 -
José Enrique Moyal, mathematical physicist (d.
1998)
★
October 7 -
Henry P. McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum (d.
1986)
★
October 8 -
Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d.
2003)
★
October 10 -
Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer
★
October 12
★
★
Bob Sheppard, American announcer
★
★
Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d.
1985)
★
October 13 -
Otto Joachim, German-born Canadian composer
★
October 13 - Edna L. Patton Rayl (d.
1992)
★
October 14 -
John Wooden, American basketball coach
★
October 19 -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
★
October 27 -
Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d.
1963)
November-December
★
November 8 -
Denis Mahon, British art historian and collector
★
November 9 -
Carroll Quigley, American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (d.
1977)
★
November 13 -
William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (d.
1986)
★ November 13 -
Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, French politician
★
November 14 -
Eric Malpass, English novelist (d.
1996)
★
November 19 -
Griffith Jones, British actor (d.
2007)
★
November 26 -
Cyril Cusack, South African-born actor (d.
1993)
★
December 1 -
Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d.
2004)
★
December 4 -
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Indian President (1987-2002)
★
December 7 -
Edmundo Ros,
Trinidadian musician
★
December 11
★
★
Mildred Cleghorn, chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe (d.
1997)
★
★
Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (d.
1937)
★
★
Hari Singh, Inspector General of Forests of India (d.
2003)
★
December 15 -
John Hammond, American record producer (d.
1987)
★
December 18
★
★
Abe Burrows, American playwright (d.
1985)
★
★
Eric Tindill, New Zealand cricketer
★
December 19 -
Jean Genet, French writer (d.
1986)
★
December 29
★
★
Frank Abbandando, American gangster (d.
1942)
★
★
Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d.
1989)
★
★
Ronald Coase, British economist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
★
Konsta Jylhä, Finnish violinist (d.
1984)
★
December 30 -
Paul Bowles, American author (d.
1999)
Unknown dates
Deaths
January - March
★
January 5 -
Léon Walras, French economist (b.
1834)
★
January 27 -
Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b.
1836)
★
March 26 -
An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Japanese resident general
April - June
★
April 21 -
Mark Twain, American novelist (b.
1835)
★
April 26 -
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1832)
★
May 6 - King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom, eldest son of
Queen Victoria (b.
1841)
★
May 18 -
Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b.
1821)
★
May 27 -
Robert Koch, German physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1843)
★
May 29 -
Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b.
1837)
★
May 31 -
Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b.
1821)
July - September
★
July 4 -
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b.
1835)
★
July 5 -
Melville Fuller,
Chief Justice of the United States (b.
1833)
★
July 12 -
Charles Stewart Rolls, British aviator and automobile manufacturer (b.
1877)
★
July 19 -
Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b.
1812)
★
August 13 -
Florence Nightingale, English nurse (b.
1820)
★
August 26 -
William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b.
1842)
★
September 2 -
Henri Rousseau, French painter (b.
1844)
★
September 17 -
Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeologist (b.
1826)
October - December
★
October 15 -
Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b.
1886)
★
October 17 -
Julia Ward Howe, American
abolitionist and poet (b.
1819)
★
October 23 - King
Chulalongkorn of
Siam (b.
1853)
★
October 30 -
Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1828)
★
November 6 -
Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b.
1838)
★
November 15 -
Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b.
1831)
★
November 20 (N.S.) -
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b.
1828)
★
November 23 -
Hawley Harvey Crippen, American murderer (b.
1862)
Nobel Prizes
★
Chemistry -
Otto Wallach
★
Literature -
Paul Heyse
★
Medicine -
Albrecht Kossel
★
Peace -
Permanent International Peace Bureau
★
Physics -
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
See also
★
1910s - the decade.
Notes
1.
"Calendar in year 1910 (Russia)" (Julian on Friday), webpage:
Julian-1910
(Russia used the Julian calendar until 1919).
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