Today in History for September 1910
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 14 of 14
5th - Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
6th - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
10th - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
11th - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
12th - Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
12th - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
13th - Regina Rugby Club forms
15th - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
18th - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
19th - George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in NYC
22nd - England's 1st aircraft flight
22nd - Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
22nd - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
27th - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 35 of 35
1st - Jack Hawkins, London, actor (Ben-Four Just Men, Zulu, Malta Story)
2nd - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
3rd - Dorothy Maynor, Norfolk Va, soprano/founder (Harlem School of Arts)
3rd - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (d. 2007)
6th - Frank Fidler, artist
7th - John Shea, US, 500m/1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1932)
8th - Gella Allaert, Flemish actress (La Round)
8th - Jean-Louis Barrault, Vesinet France, actor (Les Enfants du Paradis)
14th - Gaston Deferre, French politician
14th - Lehman Engel, Jackson Miss, conductor/comp (Streetcar Named Desire)
14th - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (d. 2003)
15th - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
15th - Richard Baerlein, racing writer
16th - Joan Alice Chetwode Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury
16th - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
16th - Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur (d. 1975)
17th - Vernon Thompson, thoracic surgeon
18th - Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
18th - Josef Tal, composer
18th - Leon Stein, composer
19th - Margaret Lindsay, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Take a Guess)
20th - Jacques-Baptise LeBrun, France, finn yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1932)
22nd - Klement Slavicky, composer
23rd - Elliot Roosevelt, son of FDR/writer (Murder in the Oval Office)
23rd - Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist (Igor's son)
24th - Cao Yu, dramatist
24th - Frank Pelleg, composer
24th - Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
24th - Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder (LSE)
27th - Donald Lindsay, headmaster (Malvern College)
27th - Eve March, CA, actress (Curse of the Cat People)
27th - Giles William Playfair, writer
28th - Diosdado Macapagal, Philippines president (1961-65)
28th - Fran Lee, NYC, actress (Ms Wong-Major Dell Conway)
29th - Virginia Bruce, actress (Action in Arabia)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies
5th - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70
5th - Julian Edwards, composer, dies at 54
14th - Huo Yuan Jia, Chinese martial artist
23rd - H J H "Tup" Scott, cricketer (Australian Test captain 1886), dies
24th - Rudolf Dellinger, composer, dies at 53
29th - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
30th - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
