1910

Events

January events

• 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 events

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

March events

• 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.

May events

• 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 events

• June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship.

July events

• 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 events

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

September events

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

October events

• 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 events

• 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 events

• 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.

Undated events

• 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 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 births

• February 5 - Francisco Varallo, footballer, became last survivor of the first World Cup Final
• 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 births

• 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 births

• April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)

May births

• 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 births

• June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
• June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
• June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

July births

• 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)
• July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novellis (d. 2004)

August births

• August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
• August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa

September births

• September 23 - Elliot Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)

October births

• October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach
• October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor

November births

• November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II

December births

• 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 deaths

• January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor

April deaths

• April 21 - Mark Twain, U.S. novelist

May deaths

• 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 deaths

• July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
• July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer

October deaths

• October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, U.S. middleweight boxer murdered in Conway, Missouri

November deaths

• 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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