Today in History for May 1910
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Months in 1910: January February March April June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 24 of 24
4th - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
4th - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
4th - Tel Aviv founded
6th - King George V ascends to British throne
6th - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
7th - 35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6
10th - 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
10th - 36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4
10th - Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
11th - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
12th - 2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
12th - Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
14th - Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
15th - The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
16th - US Bureau of Mines forms
17th - Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins
18th - Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
19th - Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
20th - Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII
29th - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
30th - 44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
31st - Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
31st - Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC
31st - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 43 of 43
1st - Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
2nd - Laurie Nash, cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
2nd - Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
3rd - Alceo Galliera, composer
3rd - Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
4th - Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
5th - William I Martin, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II)
6th - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist
8th - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
8th - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
9th - Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
9th - P E Palia, cricketer (appeared in India's 1st Test-Lord's 1932)
10th - Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
10th - Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
11th - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer
12th - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
12th - Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
12th - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
15th - Constance Cummings, Wash, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
15th - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65) [or Apr 20]
16th - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
18th - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
19th - Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49)
22nd - Johnny Olson, TV announcer (Price is Right)
23rd - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
23rd - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
23rd - Hugh Casson CH, architect
23rd - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)
23rd - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
24th - Margers Zarins, composer
24th - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer
25th - Ernest Anderson, publicist
26th - Adolfo Lopez Mateos, president of Mexico
26th - Laurance S Rockefeller, NYC, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
27th - Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
28th - Rachel Kempson, actress (Captive Heart)
28th - Stuart Piggott, archaeologist
28th - T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
29th - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker
30th - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
30th - Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
31st - Elizabeth Blackwell, Hastings, 1st woman doctor of medicine
31st - Francis Avery Jones, British gastro-enterologist
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 12 of 12
3rd - Artie Shaw, bandleader
6th - Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
10th - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
10th - William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
16th - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
18th - Flor van Duyse, composer, dies at 66
18th - Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (b.1841)
20th - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
22nd - Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
27th - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
29th - Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
31st - Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
