Today in History for April 1910
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Months in 1910: January February March May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 15 of 15
1st - Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
3rd - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
14th - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
15th - Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
19th - 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
19th - Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
20th - Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
20th - Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
21st - Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0
23rd - International Exhibition opens in Brussels
24th - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
27th - Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
28th - 1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England)
29th - Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
30th - Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 34 of 34
2nd - Arnie Herber, NFL QB (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
2nd - Irene Mayer Selznick, producer (Street Car Named Desire)
2nd - Joeri German, Russian writer
2nd - Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980)
4th - Agnes Patrick, campaigner
6th - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
8th - George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
8th - Wendell Bill, cricketer (NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
9th - Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
9th - Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
10th - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
10th - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
10th - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
11th - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
11th - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
11th - Henry William Collins, artist
12th - Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys)
14th - Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
15th - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
17th - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
18th - Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941- )
18th - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
19th - Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat
20th - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15]
22nd - Eric Scowen, physician
22nd - R J Ritchie, tennis player
22nd - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
26th - Erland von Koch, composer
26th - Ernst Tittel, composer
26th - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
26th - Tomoyuki Tanaka, director (Godzilla)
28th - Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
29th - John Beavan, newspaper editor
30th - Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
1st - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94
2nd - Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37
2nd - Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79
12th - William G Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69
13th - William Orchardson, British painter, dies
14th - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
21st - Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], auther (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74
26th - Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77
