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Months in Year 1910: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 100 of 187
Jan 1st - Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs
Jan 2nd - 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley Calif)
Jan 3rd - British miners strike for 8 hour working day
Jan 7th - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games
Jan 10th - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
Jan 10th - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
Jan 13th - JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin
Jan 19th - Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
Jan 19th - National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
Jan 20th - Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910)
Jan 21st - British-Russian military intervention in Persia
Jan 22nd - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
Jan 25th - 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng)
Jan 25th - Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem
Jan 26th - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
Feb 1st - 1st British labour exchange opens
Feb 1st - Dragoumis govt forms in Greece
Feb 7th - Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris
Feb 8th - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
Feb 15th - The Boy Scouts of America is founded.
Feb 19th - English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
Feb 21st - John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London
Feb 23rd - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
Feb 23rd - George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London
Feb 25th - Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies
Mar 1st - 3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history
Mar 2nd - 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die
Mar 3rd - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
Mar 5th - Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres
Mar 5th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
Mar 8th - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
Mar 10th - China ends slavery
Mar 10th - Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
Mar 11th - Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
Mar 12th - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
Mar 14th - Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
Mar 16th - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
Mar 17th - DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
Mar 18th - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC
Mar 23rd - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
Mar 24th - 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
Mar 25th - Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
Mar 26th - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
Mar 26th - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
Mar 27th - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
Mar 28th - 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
Mar 30th - Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
Apr 1st - Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
Apr 3rd - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
Apr 14th - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
Apr 15th - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
Apr 19th - 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
Apr 19th - Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
Apr 20th - Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
Apr 20th - Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
Apr 21st - Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
Apr 23rd - International Exhibition opens in Brussels
Apr 24th - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
Apr 27th - Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
Apr 28th - 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
Apr 29th - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
Apr 30th - Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
May 4th - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
May 4th - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
May 4th - Tel Aviv founded
May 6th - King George V ascends to British throne
May 6th - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 7th - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
May 10th - 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
May 10th - 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4
May 10th - Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
May 11th - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
May 12th - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
May 12th - Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
May 14th - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
May 15th - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
May 16th - US Bureau of Mines forms
May 17th - Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins
May 18th - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
May 19th - Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
May 20th - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
May 29th - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
May 30th - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
May 31st - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
May 31st - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
May 31st - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
Jun 1st - SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede
Jun 2nd - 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
Jun 2nd - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
Jun 9th - Passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland)
Jun 12th - PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle
Jun 13th - Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila
Jun 13th - William D Crum, a SC physician, appointed minister to Liberia
Jun 18th - 16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA
Jun 19th - 1st airship in service "Germany"
Jun 19th - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
Jun 20th - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
Jun 22nd - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
Jun 24th - 50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
Jun 25th - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 100 of 481
Jan 1st - Russ Bender, actor/writer (Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster)
Jan 2nd - Ulrich Becher, writer
Jan 2nd - Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu Poet (d. 1983)
Jan 3rd - Thomas Stuart Willan, historian
Jan 3rd - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
Jan 4th - Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
Jan 5th - Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist
Jan 5th - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
Jan 6th - Wright Morris, US writer
Jan 7th - Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron
Jan 7th - Jack Lovelock, NZ/US surgeon/runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
Jan 7th - Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistani poet (d. 1984)
Jan 7th - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
Jan 8th - Richard Cromwell, [LeRoy Melvin Radabaugh], LA Calif, actor (Jezebel)
Jan 9th - Dick Henry Jurgen, bandleader
Jan 10th - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian
Jan 10th - Galina Ulanova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)
Jan 10th - Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer
Jan 11th - Izler Solomon, St Paul, Minn, conductor
Jan 11th - Trygve Martin Bratteli, Norwegian PM (Labour) (1971-72, 1973-76)
Jan 11th - Sir Shane Paltridge, Australian politician (d. 1966)
Jan 12th - Charles Martin, cartoonist
Jan 12th - Luise Rainer, Austria, actress (Escapade, Good Earth, Big City)
Jan 12th - Patsy Kelly, Bkln, actress (Rosemary's Baby, North Ave Irregulars)
Jan 14th - Renier van der Velden, composer
Jan 16th - David McCampbell, US pilot/capt (WW II-Pacific-downed 34 Jap planes)
Jan 17th - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
Jan 17th - Michael Economides, restaurateur
Jan 18th - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage)
Jan 19th - Willi Schmidt, Germany, director
Jan 20th - Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder (American Negro Theater)
Jan 20th - Ennio Porrino, composer
Jan 20th - Joy Adamson, naturalist/author (Born Free)
Jan 20th - Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
Jan 20th - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher
Jan 21st - Lord Cayzer, British financier/swcheeps magnate/multi-millionaire
Jan 21st - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (d. 1981)
Jan 23rd - Django Reinhardt, Belgium, Gypsy jazz guitarist
Jan 25th - Harold Watkinson, politician/businessman
Jan 25th - Hendrik Willem Hans Osieck, composer
Jan 26th - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Adrift)
Jan 26th - Marijan Lipovsek, composer
Jan 26th - Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
Jan 28th - Arnold Moss, Bkln, actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata)
Jan 28th - John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor (Sgt Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes)
Jan 28th - Verda Bryant, American author
Jan 29th - Paul Hodder-Williams, publisher
Jan 29th - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
Jan 30th - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union)
Jan 30th - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (d. 2000)
Jan 31st - Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society)
Feb 1st - H Stanley Cayzer
Feb 1st - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
Feb 1st - Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
Feb 2nd - Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
Feb 2nd - Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician (CHU)
Feb 3rd - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
Feb 3rd - Nelson Case, Long Beach Calif, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
Feb 4th - Alfred Mendelsohn, composer
Feb 4th - Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
Feb 5th - Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II)
Feb 5th - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
Feb 5th - Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
Feb 6th - George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
Feb 6th - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
Feb 6th - Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
Feb 7th - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
Feb 9th - Jacques Monod, French biochemist
Feb 10th - Dominique Pire, Belgium, educator, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958)
Feb 10th - Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return)
Feb 10th - Joyce Grenfell, actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily)
Feb 10th - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
Feb 12th - Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
Feb 12th - Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business)
Feb 13th - William B Shockley, London, US physicist (Nobel 1956), racist
Feb 15th - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
Feb 16th - Michael Milne-Watson, CEO (BUPA)
Feb 16th - Miguel Bernal Jiminez, composer
Feb 17th - Ai Qing, poet
Feb 17th - Marc Lawrence, NYC, actor (Man With Golden Gun)
Feb 20th - Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
Feb 20th - Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
Feb 21st - Douglas R S Bader, British pilot (WW II)
Feb 21st - Carmine Galante, Italian-born gangster (d. 1979)
Feb 21st - Eddie Waring, British sports commentator (d. 1986)
Feb 22nd - Al Sears, jazz performer
Feb 22nd - Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
Feb 22nd - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
Feb 24th - Lord Hazlerigg
Feb 25th - Millicent Fenwick, NYC, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82) (Doonesbury)
Feb 27th - Joan Bennett, Palasades NJ, actress (Little Women, Disraeli)
Feb 27th - Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon)
Feb 27th - Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
Feb 27th - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, American aircraft engineer (Lockheed Skunk Works; d. 1990)
Feb 28th - Roman Maciejewski, composer
Feb 28th - Vincente Minnelli, Chicago IL, director (American in Paris, Gigi)
Mar 1st - Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
Mar 2nd - Hope Clara Chenhalls, food inspector
Mar 3rd - Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)
Mar 4th - Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 98 of 98
Jan 4th - Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
Jan 17th - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
Jan 17th - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
Jan 25th - Leon Walras, French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75
Jan 28th - Jose Garcia Robles, composer, dies at 74
Jan 29th - Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52
Feb 1st - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
Feb 6th - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
Feb 8th - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
Feb 15th - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51
Feb 16th - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75
Feb 20th - Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
Mar 4th - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
Mar 10th - Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
Mar 10th - Karl Lueger, Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65
Mar 17th - Joaquin Valverde, composer, dies at 64
Mar 20th - Félix Tournachon, [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89
Mar 26th - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
Mar 26th - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
Mar 27th - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
Mar 27th - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
Mar 28th - Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
Mar 28th - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
Apr 1st - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
Apr 2nd - Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
Apr 2nd - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
Apr 12th - William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69
Apr 13th - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
Apr 14th - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
Apr 21st - Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
Apr 26th - Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77
May 3rd - Artie Shaw, bandleader
May 6th - Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
May 10th - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
May 10th - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
May 16th - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
May 18th - Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
May 18th - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
May 20th - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
May 22nd - Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
May 27th - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
May 29th - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
May 31st - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
Jun 1st - Francis S Haden, English surgeon/graphic artist, dies at 91
Jun 5th - O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
Jun 16th - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
Jun 17th - Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
Jun 22nd - Marie, Princess of Wied/Orange Nassau, dies
Jun 28th - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer, dies at 67
Jul 1st - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies
Jul 3rd - Julius Slabbe, Belgian writer, dies
Jul 3rd - Mordecai Sherwin, English cricket wicketkeeper (Aust 1886-88), dies
Jul 4th - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
Jul 4th - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer, dies at 70
Jul 4th - Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1833)
Jul 10th - Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies
Jul 12th - Charles Stewart Rolls, British engineer and aviator (b. 1887)
Jul 15th - Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies
Jul 21st - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66
Jul 24th - Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (b. 1841)
Jul 26th - Philipus J Hoedemaker, theologist, dies at 71
Aug 3rd - Nicolas Kinet, Belgian pilot, dies
Aug 5th - Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
Aug 13th - Florence Nightingale, English nurse, dies at 90
Aug 16th - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
Aug 20th - Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
Aug 22nd - George Palmer, cricketer (17 Tests for Aust 1880-86, 78 wickets), dies
Aug 26th - William James, American psychologist and philosopher (b. 1842)
Aug 27th - Clement of Maasdijk, 1st Dutch aircraft death
Aug 29th - Allen Hill, cricket bowler (England, 2 Tests), dies
Aug 29th - Johann O Backlund, Swedish astronomer, dies at 64
Aug 29th - John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44
Aug 30th - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57
Aug 31st - Emils Darzins, composer, dies at 34
Sep 2nd - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies
Sep 5th - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
Sep 5th - Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
Sep 14th - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
Sep 23rd - H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886), dies
Sep 24th - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
Sep 29th - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
Sep 30th - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
Oct 4th - Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician, and President of the First Imperial Duma (b. 1850)
Oct 10th - Willem Maris, painter (Hague School), dies at 66
Oct 15th - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, heavy weight boxing champ, shot & killed
Oct 17th - Julia Ward Howe, composer (Battle Hymn of Republic), dies at 91
Oct 17th - William V Moody, US poet (Sabine Woman, Great Divide), dies
Oct 20th - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
Oct 23rd - Chulalongkorn, King of Thailand (b. 1853)
Oct 30th - J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies
Nov 7th - Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]
Nov 15th - Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79
Nov 20th - Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS]
Nov 23rd - Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed
Dec 3rd - Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
Dec 10th - Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer, dies at 76
Dec 31st - John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
Dec 31st - Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (b. 1884)
