1910
|
|
| Years: 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913 | |
| Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s | |
| Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century | |
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
| Contents |
Events
January-April
- January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
- January 15- In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (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).
- February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
- March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
- 19 March - In USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
- April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
- 27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found South Africa Party.
- 27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
- 29 April - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May-July
- May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- May 11 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
- May 16 - The 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 R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
- June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship.
- 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-October
- 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 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
- September 16 - Australian Treasury given power to issue currency
- 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 18 - Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of Greece.
November-December
- 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 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 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, 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 16 - Henri Coanda 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'.
Unknown dates
- Japan occupies Korea.
- Bubonic Plague in Manchuria
- TNT- exempted from the British 1875 Explosives Act from being considered as an explosive for the purposes of manufacture and storage.
- Ajaha cymbals founded.
Births
January to April
- January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
- January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
- January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1988)
- January 12 - Luise Rainer, German-born actress
- January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
- January 23 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
- February 5 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
- February 6 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
- February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)
- February 9 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
- February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, English physicist and social commentator (b. 1989)
- February 27 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
- 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.
- March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer
- April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
- April 10 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
May to August
- May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist (d. 1994)
- May 22 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
- May 23 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
- 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)
- Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
- June 14 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
- June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
- 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, president of 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)
- William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
- August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
- August 26 - Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian (d. 1997)
September to December
- September 16 - Karl Kling, Formula 1 driver (d. 2003)
- September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d. 1990)
- October 14 - John Wooden, American basketball coach
- October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor (d. 1987)
- November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II (d. 1963)
- December 15 - John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)
- December 19 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
- December 29 - Ronald Coase, British economist
- Frank Abbandando, American Mafia hitman (d. 1942)
- Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989)
- Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist (d. 1984)
- December 30 - Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999)
Deaths
- January 27 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
- April 21 - Mark Twain, American novelist (b. 1835)
- April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (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 bacteriologist (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 12 - Charles Stewart Rolls (Hon C S Rolls), British aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce motor company (b. 1877)
- July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
- October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
- October 30 - Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross (b. 1828)
- November 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
- November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
- November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)
Nobel Prizes
- Chemistry - Otto Wallach
- Literature - Paul Heyse
- Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
- Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau
- Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waalsaf:1910
ast:1910 bg:1910 be:1910 ca:1910 cs:1910 cy:1910 da:1910 de:1910 et:1910 el:1910 es:1910 eo:1910 eu:1910 fr:1910 fy:1910 gl:1910 ko:1910년 hr:1910 io:1910 id:1910 is:1910 it:1910 he:1910 csb:1910 la:1910 lt:1910 lb:1910 hu:1910 nl:1910 ja:1910年 nb:1910 nn:1910 os:1910 pl:1910 pt:1910 ro:1910 ru:1910 se:1910 sq:1910 scn:1910 sk:1910 sl:1910 sr:1910 fi:1910 sv:1910 tt:1910 tr:1910 uk:1910 wa:1910 zh:1910年