1910

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Years: 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 Unknown Date 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Events

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

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

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.

April

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.

June

• June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship

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.

August

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

September

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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