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'''1910''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMX''') was a
common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar or a
common year starting on Sunday of the 13-day slower
Julian calendar.
Events
{{Year B}}
January-April
* 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 of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom,
United Kingdom general election, 1910 (January) General Election held in response to
House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced
Liberal Party (UK) Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats;
Labour Party (UK) Labour, 40;
Irish Parliamentary Party Irish Nationalists, 82;
Unionists (the title then preferred by the British
Conservative Party (UK) 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 20 -
Boutros Ghali, first native born
prime minister of
Egypt, assassinated.
* March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in
Albania.
*
March 19 - In America,
Republican Party (United States) Republicans reduce the powers of the
Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
*
March 30 -
Mississippi Legislature founded
University of Southern Mississippi The University of Southern Mississippi.
* April -
Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
*
April 27 -
Louis Botha and James Hertzog (
James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found
South Africa Party.
*
April 27 - British
House of Commons passes
David Lloyd George's (1909) '
People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords,
28 April
*
April 29 -
Andrew Fisher becomes
Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May-July
*
May 6 -
George V of the United Kingdom George V becomes King of the
United Kingdom upon the death of his father,
Edward VII of the United Kingdom Edward VII.
*
May 11 -
Congress of the United States U.S. Congress establishes
Glacier National Park (US) Glacier National Park in
Montana.
*
May 16 - The
Congress of the United States U.S. 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 -
Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in
Scotland, presided over by
Nobel Peace Prize recipient
John Mott John R. Mott, launching the modern
Christian ecumenism ecumenical movement and the modern
Mission (Christian) missions movement.
*
June 22 - First flight of
Zeppelin airship.
*
July 2 - Demonstrations in
France against public executions.
*
July 4 -
African-American boxer
Jack Johnson (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 (lumberjack) Paul Bunyan in the
Detroit News.
August-October
*
August 14 -
fire at
World Exhibition in
Brussels destroys exhibitions of
United Kingdom Britain and
France.
*
August 22 -
Japan annexes
Korea.
*
August 28 -
Montenegro is proclaimed an independent
kingdom under
Nicholas I of Montenegro Nicholas I.
*
September 1 - the
Holy See 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 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 Fraternities and sororities Fraternity is established at
Columbia University.
*
October 18 -
Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of
Greece.
November-December
*
November 7 - First air flight for the purpose of delivering
commerce commercial freight occurs between
Dayton, Ohio and
Columbus, Ohio by the
Wright Brothers and
department store owner
Max Moorehouse.
*
November 20 -
Mexican Revolution:
Francisco I. Madero denounces President
Porfirio DÃaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the
Federal government of the United Mexican States government of Mexico.
*
November 23 - Last execution in
Sweden (by
guillotine) - murderer
Johan Ander
* 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 Party (UK) Labour, 42;
Ireland 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 City 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 (
Latvia Latvian)
Anarchism 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 United States.
Births
January-April
*
January 5 -
Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d.
1949)
*
January 7 -
Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d.
1994)
*
January 8 -
Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d.
1998)
*
January 12 -
Luise Rainer, German-born actress
*
January 16 -
Dizzy Dean, baseball player (d.
1974)
*
January 23 -
Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d.
1953)
*
January 29 -
Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (d.
1983)
*
January 30 -
C Subramaniam, Indian politician ( d.
2000)
*
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 in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1989)
*
February 27 -
Joan Bennett, American actress (d.
1990)
*
March 1 -
Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
2002)
*
March 1 -
David Niven, English actor (d.
1983)
*
March 9 -
Samuel Barber, American composer (d.
1981)
*
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 28 -
Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr. Bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library (d.
2001)
*
April 10 -
Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d.
1999)
*
April 10 -
Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d.
2004)
*
April 23 -
Simone Simon, French actress (d.
2005)
*
April 30 -
Al Lewis, American Actor (d.
2006
May-August
*
May 12 -
Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d.
1996)
*
May 12 -
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1994)
*
May 22 -
Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d.
1985)
*
May 23 -
Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d.
1986)
*
May 23 -
Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d.
2004)
*
May 28 -
T-Bone Walker, American blues singer (d.
1976)
*
May 30 -
Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d.
1978)
*
May 30 -
Inge Meysel, German actress (d.
2004)
*
June 8 -
Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (d.
2003)
*
June 12 -
Bill Naughton, British playwright (d.
1992)
*
June 14 -
Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d.
1976)
*
June 18 -
E.G. Marshall, American actor (d.
1998)
*
June 19 -
Paul Flory, American chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
*
June 22 -
Peter Pears, English tenor (d.
1986)
*
June 23 -
Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d.
1987)
*
June 23 -
Peaches Browning, American actress (d.
1956)
*
June 23 -
Gordon B. Hinckley, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
*
July 4 -
Gloria Stuart, American actress
*
July 11 -
Irene Hervey, American actress (d.
1998)
*
July 14 -
Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (d.
2004)
*
July 14 -
William Hanna, American animator (d.
2001)
*
July 30 -
Edgar de Evia, American photographer (d.
2003)
*
August 4 -
Anita Page, American actress
*
August 14 -
Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d.
1995)
*
August 27 -
Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (d.
1997)
*
August 28 -
Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1985)
September-December
*
September 3 -
Kitty Carlisle Hart, actress
*
September 16 -
Erich Kempka, chauffeur and bodyguard to
Adolf Hitler (d.
1975)
*September 16 -
Karl Kling, German race car driver (d.
2003)
*
September 23 -
Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d.
1990)
*
October 8 -
Ray Lewis (runner) Ray Lewis, Canadian runner (d.
2003)
*
October 14 -
John Wooden, American basketball coach
*
October 19 -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1995)
*
October 27 -
Jack Carson, Canadian actor (d.
1963)
*
November 14 -
Eric Malpass, English novelist (d.
1996)
*
December 1 -
Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d.
2004)
*
December 11-
Hari Singh, Inspector General of Forests of India Hari Singh , Inspector General of Forests of India (d.
2003)
*
December 15 -
John Hammond, American record producer (d.
1987)
*
December 19 -
Jean Genet, French writer (d.
1986)
*
December 29 -
Frank Abbandando, American gangster (d.
1942)
*
December 29 -
Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d.
1989)
*
December 29 -
Ronald Coase, British economist,
Nobel Prize in Economics Nobel Prize laureate
*
December 29 -
Konsta Jylhä, Finnish violinist (d.
1984)
*
December 30 -
Paul Bowles, American author (d.
1999)
Deaths
*
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 politician
Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b.
1879)
*
April 21 -
Mark Twain, American novelist (b.
1835)
*
April 26 -
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1832)
*
May 6 - King
Edward VII of the United Kingdom (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 4 -
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b.
1835)
* July 4 -
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)
*
September 2 -
Henri Rousseau, French painter (b.
1844)
*
September 17 Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeologist (b. 1826)
*
October 15 -
Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b.
1886)
*
October 23 - King
Chulalongkorn of
King of Siam 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)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize/Chemistry Chemistry -
Otto Wallach
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Paul Heyse
*
Nobel Prize/Physiology or medicine Medicine -
Albrecht Kossel
*
Nobel Prize/Peace Peace -
Permanent International Peace Bureau
*
Nobel Prize/Physics Physics -
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
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