1910 in History

• Jan 2 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)

• Jan 3 British miners strike for 8 hour working day
• Jan 10 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
• Jan 10 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
• Jan 13 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows" premieres in Dublin
• Jan 15 Constructions ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming
• Jan 19 Germany & Bolivia end commerce and friendship treaty
• Jan 19 US National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
• Jan 21 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
• Jan 22 Opera "Germania" premieres in NYC
• Jan 25 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
• Jan 25 Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
• Jan 26 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
• Feb 1 1st British labour exchange opens
• Feb 1 Dragoumis government forms in Greece


• Feb 7 Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler" premieres in Paris
• Feb 8 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce

• Feb 21 John Galsworthy's "Justice" premieres in London
• Feb 23 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)

• Feb 25 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops

• Mar 1 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass, Wa, in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history
• Mar 2 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die

• Mar 5 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres
• Mar 8 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot
• Mar 10 Republic of China officially abolishes slavery
• Mar 10 Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing
• Mar 14 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere
• Mar 16 Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph)
• Mar 18 Frederick Converse's opera "The Pipe of Desire" is the first American opera to be performed at the Metropolitan Opera, NYC
• Mar 24 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
• Mar 25 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ


• Mar 26 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
• Mar 26 William H Lewis appointed US Assistant Attorney General
• Mar 28 1st seaplane takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
• Mar 30 Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi
• Apr 1 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
• Apr 3 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men
• Apr 8 1st race at the Playa Del Ray Motordrome near Los Angeles begins (1st US auto speedway)

• Apr 14 Pan American Union forms
• Apr 19 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
• Apr 20 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
• Apr 23 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
• Apr 24 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
• Apr 27 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights

• May 4 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent

• May 10 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
• May 10 Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
• May 10 The British House of Commons pass three major resolutions on political reform
• May 11 Montana's Glacier National Park forms

• May 14 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
• May 15 The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone
• May 16 US Bureau of Mines forms
• May 17 Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins
• May 19 Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic

• May 27 Reform of Prussian three-class voting system fails
• May 29 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
• May 31 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
• May 31 Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
• May 31 Union of South Africa declares its independence from the United Kingdom

• Jun 2 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
• Jun 9 A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
• Jun 13 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia
• Jun 13 William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed US minister to Liberia
• Jun 19 1st airship in service "Germany"
• Jun 19 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Washington)

• Jun 25 US Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
• Jun 30 Russia absorbs Finland
• Jul 1 Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
• Jul 4 The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation
• Jul 4 In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria
• Jul 9 Walter Brookins, flying a Wright biplane over Atlantic City, New Jersey, becomes 1st to fly an airplane to an altitude of 1 mile (actually reaching 6,175 feet or 1.169 miles) [1]
• Jul 20 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
• Jul 24 Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
• Jul 29 JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
• Jul 31 Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
• Jul 31 Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
• Aug 6 NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
• Aug 8 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
• Aug 9 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
• Aug 14 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, D.C.
• Aug 20 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
• Aug 22 Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
• Aug 23 Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
• Aug 25 Yellow Cab is founded.
• Aug 27 Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit

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Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228

• Jan 2 Ulrich Becher, German writer and playwright, born in Berlin (d. 1990)
• Jan 2 Srirangam Srinivasarao [Sri Sri], Telugu Poet, born in Visakhapatnam, India (d. 1983)
• Jan 3 Thomas Stuart Willan, historian
• Jan 4 Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
• Jan 6 Wright Morris, American novelist & photographer, born in Central City, Nebraska (d. 1998)
• Jan 7 Alain JG de Rothschild, French banker/baron
• Jan 7 Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
• Jan 7 Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
• Jan 11 Dorothy Stroud, English museum curator & biographer, born in London, United Kingdom (d. 1997)
• Jan 11 Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian Prime Minister (Labour: 1971-72, 1973-76), born in Nøtterøy, Norway (d. 1984)
• Jan 11 Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
• Jan 16 David McCampbell, US Navy captain, fighter pilot, and Medal of Honor recipient (WW II, Pacific theatre, downed 34 Japanese planes), born in Bessemer, Alabama (d. 1996)
• Jan 17 Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
• Jan 17 Michael Economides, restaurateur
• Jan 19 Willi Schmidt, German director

• Jan 20 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician, born in Kiel, Germany (d. 1980)
• Jan 21 Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
• Jan 25 Harold Watkinson, British politician & businessman, born in Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom (d. 1995)
• Jan 26 Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
• Jan 28 Verda Bryant, American author
• Jan 29 Paul Hodder-Williams, publisher
• Jan 29 Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
• Jan 30 Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician, born in Pollachi taluk (d. 2000)
• Jan 31 Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society)
• Feb 2 Charlotte Auerbach, German-born British geneticist and zoologist, born in Krefeld, Germany (d. 1994)
• Feb 4 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
• Feb 5 Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WWII)
• Feb 5 Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
• Feb 6 Irmgard Keun, German author, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1982)
• Feb 6 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster, born in Tunis, Tunisia (d. 1993)
• Feb 9 Jacques Monod, French biochemist
• Feb 10 Dominique Pire, Belgian educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
• Feb 12 Forsyth Hardy, Scottish documentary film pioneer and critic, born in Bathgate, Scotland (d. 1994)
• Feb 12 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist, founder of Samsung, born in Uiryeong County, Korean Empire (d. 1987)

• Feb 16 Michael Milne-Watson, CEO (BUPA)
• Feb 20 Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
• Feb 20 Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
• Feb 21 Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WWII)
• Feb 21 Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
• Feb 22 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
• Feb 25 Millicent Fenwick, American (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury), born in NYC, New York
• Feb 27 Peter De Vries, author (Reuben, Reuben, Prick of Noon), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Feb 27 Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)

• Mar 2 Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
• Mar 4 Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist

• Mar 8 Bernard Benjamin, British health statistician, actuary and demographer, born in London (d. 2002)
• Mar 9 Ed Hoornik, Dutch writer and poet (Survivor), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1970)
• Mar 11 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
• Mar 12 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
• Mar 12 Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
• Mar 12 Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
• Mar 15 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
• Mar 16 Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer (Picture Page, Dressing Up), born in London, England (d. 1994)
• Mar 16 Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WWII)

• Mar 18 Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek/President (1978-88)
• Mar 19 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
• Mar 19 Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
• Mar 21 Nick Castle, American choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1968)
• Mar 21 M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
• Mar 22 Nicholas Monsarrat, English novelist (The Cruel Sea), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1979)
• Mar 27 Ai Qing, Chinese poet, born in Jinhua, Zhejiang province (d. 1996)
• Mar 28 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark, Wife of King Frederik IX, ruler of Denmark (1947-72), born in Stockholm Palace, Stockholm, Sweden (d. 2000)
• Mar 28 Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr., American librarian and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, born in Greenwich, Connecticut (d. 2001)
• Mar 30 Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
• Apr 2 Irene Mayer Selznick, American socialite and theatrical producer (Street Car Named Desire), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
• Apr 2 Joeri German, Russian writer
• Apr 2 Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer, born in Cabano, Quebec (d. 1980)
• Apr 6 Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
• Apr 9 Abraham Ribicoff, American politician, U.S. Senator from Connecticut, born in New Britain, Connecticut (d. 1998)
• Apr 10 David Gilroy Bevan, British politician (d. 1996)
• Apr 10 Paul Sweezy, American Marxist economist and editor (Monthly Review), born in NYC, New York (d. 2004)
• Apr 11 António de Spínola, Portuguese general and conservative President of Portugal (1974), born in Estremoz, Portugal (d. 1996)
• Apr 11 Henry William Collins, English artist, born in Colchester, Essex (d. 1994)
• Apr 12 Jürgen Rausch, German philosopher and author (End of the Playboys), born in Bremen, Germany (d. 1995)
• Apr 15 Ralph Grey, Baron Grey of Naunton, Governor of Northern Ireland (1968-73), born in Wellington, New Zealand (d. 1999)
• Apr 18 Jamie Whitten, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi), born in Cascilla, Mississippi (d. 1995)
• Apr 19 Andrew Gilchrist, British ambassador (Ireland, Indonesia, Iceland), born in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1993)
• Apr 20 Robert F. Wagner Jr., Mayor of New York City (Democrat: 1954-65), born in NYC, New York (d. 1991)
• Apr 22 Eric Scowen, English physician and Professor of Medicine (University of London, 1961-75), born in West Ham, London (d. 2001)
• Apr 22 Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (algebraic topology), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1971)
• Apr 26 Johan Hermanus Doorn, Dutch journalist and resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper), born in Amsterdam (d. 1944)
• Apr 28 Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer, born in Plainfield, New Jersey (d. 1996)
• May 2 Alexander Bonnyman Jr., U.S. Marine Corps officer, born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1943)
• May 5 William I Martin, US pilot/vice-admiral (WWII)
• May 6 Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, born in Ypres, Belgium (d. 1986)
• May 9 Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
• May 10 Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
• May 12 Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British biochemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964), born in Cairo (d. 1994)
• May 12 Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
• May 16 Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
• May 18 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
• May 23 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
• May 23 Hugh Casson CH, architect
• May 23 Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
• May 26 Adolfo López Mateos, 48th President of Mexico, born in Atizapán de Zaragoza, State of Mexico, Mexico (d. 1969)

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• Jan 1 Harriet Powers, African-American slave & quilt maker (Bible Quilt 1886), dies at 72
• Jan 4 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
• Jan 17 Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, German physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
• Jan 25 Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
• Jan 27 Thomas Crapper, English plumber and inventor (ballcock), dies at 73
• Jan 29 Édouard Rod, French-Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52
• Feb 1 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
• Feb 6 Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
• Feb 8 Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
• Feb 20 Boutros Ghali, Prime Minister of Egypt (1908-1910), assassinated by a nationalist at 64
• Mar 4 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
• Mar 10 Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65
• Mar 20 Nadar [Félix Tournachon], French photographer and balloonist, took the first aerial photograph, dies at 89
• Mar 26 Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
• Mar 26 An Jung-geun, Korean independence activist and assassin of Japanese Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, executed by Japanese authorities at 30
• Mar 27 Alexander Agassiz, American biologist and geologist, dies at 74
• Mar 28 David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• Mar 28 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
• Mar 29 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 73
• Apr 1 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
• Apr 2 Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
• Apr 2 Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
• Apr 12 William Graham Sumner, American sociologist (Folkways), dies at 69
• Apr 13 William Orchardson, British painter, dies at 78
• Apr 14 Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
• Apr 17 Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican lawyer and diplomat (Secretary of Foreign Affairs), dies at 80
• Apr 20 Samuel Gibbs French, American Major General (Confederate Army), dies at 91

• Apr 26 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate 1903, dies at 77
• May 3 Howard T Ricketts, American pathologist (studied typhus fever), dies of typhus at 39

• May 10 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
• May 10 William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
• May 16 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
• May 18 Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (Dziurdziowie), dies at 68
• May 22 Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46

• Jun 1 Francis Seymour Haden, English surgeon and etcher, dies at 91

• Jun 22 Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
• Jun 22 Marie of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange Nassau, dies at 69
• Jun 23 John McGraw, 2nd Governor of Washington (1893-97), dies at 59
• Jul 3 Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
• Jul 4 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars), dies at 75
• Jul 4 Melville Fuller, American 8th Chief Justice of the United States, dies at 77
• Jul 10 Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies
• Jul 12 Charles Stewart Rolls, British auto manufacturer (Rolls-Royce Ltd), dies at 32
• Jul 24 Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
• Jul 26 Philippus Jacobus Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist, dies at 71
• Aug 3 Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
• Aug 9 Huo Yuanjia, Chinese martial artist (mizongy), dies at 42

• Aug 15 Constantin Fahlberg, Russian chemist who discovered Saccharin (artificial sweetener), dies at 59 [1]

• Aug 27 Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
• Aug 28 Paolo Mantegazza, Italian neurologist and anthropologist, dies at 78
• Aug 29 John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
• Aug 29 Johan Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer (Lucie R, Suriname), dies at 44
• Aug 30 Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
• Sep 2 Henri Rousseau, French post-impressionist painter (The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope), dies of a blood clot at 66
• Sep 7 William Holman Hunt, English painter (Light of the World), dies at 83
• Sep 29 Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
• Sep 30 Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
• Oct 10 Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
• Oct 17 William V Moody, American poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
• Oct 17 Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer, politician and President of the First Imperial Duma, dies at 60
• Oct 17 Julie Ward Howe, American poet and author, dies of pneumonia at 91
• Oct 20 David B. Hill, American politician and Governor of New York (1885-91), dies at 67
• Oct 23 Rama V [Chulalongkorn], King of Thailand (1868-1910), dies at 57
• Oct 30 Henri Dunant, Swiss humanitarian, Founder of Red Cross (Nobel 1901), dies at 82
• Nov 6 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, dies at 72
• Nov 15 Wilhelm Raabe [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor), dies at 79
• Nov 19 Rudolf Fittig, German chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74

• Nov 23 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, dies by hanging at 48

• Dec 8 George Doherty Johnston, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 78
• Dec 31 John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
• Dec 31 Archibald Hoxsey, American pioneer aviator (worked for the Wright brothers), dies at 26