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Months in Year 1910: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Results 101 - 187 of 187

Jun 26th - 24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (64 62)
Jun 26th - Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Assn championship
Jun 30th - Russia absorbs Finland
Jul 1st - Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0
Jul 1st - Union of South Africa becomes a dominion
Jul 1st - White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns
Jul 4th - Jack Johnson KOs James J Jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Jul 9th - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude
Jul 10th - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0
Jul 19th - Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
Jul 20th - Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption
Jul 24th - Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull
Jul 29th - JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory
Jul 31st - Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game
Jul 31st - Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration
Aug 4th - A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie
Aug 6th - NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
Aug 8th - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
Aug 9th - Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
Aug 13th - Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch
Aug 14th - 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC
Aug 20th - US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
Aug 22nd - Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
Aug 23rd - Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
Aug 25th - 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
Aug 25th - Yellow Cab is founded.
Aug 27th - Using 20, 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
Aug 27th - Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit
Aug 29th - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
Aug 30th - Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11
Sep 5th - Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings
Sep 6th - Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed
Sep 10th - Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber
Sep 11th - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
Sep 12th - Gustav Mahlers 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians
Sep 12th - World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)
Sep 13th - Regina Rugby Club forms
Sep 15th - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
Sep 18th - 25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage
Sep 19th - George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," premieres in NYC
Sep 22nd - England's 1st aircraft flight
Sep 22nd - Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms
Sep 22nd - The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
Sep 27th - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)
Oct 1st - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
Oct 1st - Explosion at LA Times kills 21
Oct 1st - Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
Oct 2nd - 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
Oct 2nd - Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
Oct 4th - Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
Oct 4th - Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda.
Oct 5th - Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
Oct 6th - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
Oct 9th - Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won
Oct 18th - Edward Forster publishes "Howards End"
Oct 20th - 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series
Oct 20th - Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar
Oct 20th - The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland.
Oct 22nd - Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
Oct 23rd - Blanche Scott became 1st woman solo a public airplane flight
Oct 23rd - Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series
Oct 23rd - Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs
Oct 29th - Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game
Nov 1st - 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois
Nov 4th - Start of S Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust) It rained
Nov 6th - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
Nov 7th - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Nov 8th - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
Nov 10th - The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Nov 12th - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
Nov 14th - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
Nov 19th - Ferenc Molnàrs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
Nov 20th - Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
Nov 22nd - Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
Nov 26th - 2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
Nov 27th - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
Nov 29th - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
Dec 3rd - Neon lights, 1st publically seen (Paris Auto Show)
Dec 9th - French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
Dec 10th - JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
Dec 19th - 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
Dec 19th - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
Dec 21st - Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
Dec 22nd - US postal savings stamps 1st issued
Dec 24th - Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
Dec 28th - Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC)
Dec 31st - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910

Famous Birthdays

Results 101 - 200 of 481

Mar 5th - Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
Mar 8th - Bernard Benjamin, statistician, actuary and demographer (d. 2002)
Mar 9th - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
Mar 9th - Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)
Mar 11th - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist
Mar 12th - Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
Mar 12th - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
Mar 12th - Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
Mar 12th - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
Mar 13th - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
Mar 13th - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
Mar 15th - An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
Mar 16th - Aladar Gerevich, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1948)
Mar 16th - Andrew Miller-Jones, British TV pioneer
Mar 16th - Iftikhar Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, England & India)
Mar 16th - Martijn Lijnema, boer/resistance fighter (WW II)
Mar 16th - Norman Wooland, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Hamlet)
Mar 17th - Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader
Mar 18th - Chiang Ching-huo, son of Chinese pres Chiang Kai-shek/pres (1978-88)
Mar 19th - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
Mar 19th - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
Mar 21st - Nick Castle, Bkln, choreographer (Dinah Shore, Judy Garland)
Mar 21st - M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978)
Mar 22nd - Nicholas Monsarret, England, writer (Cruel Sea)
Mar 23rd - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
Mar 23rd - Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer/actress (Der Pott)
Mar 24th - Jacques Chailley, composer
Mar 24th - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
Mar 25th - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
Mar 25th - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
Mar 27th - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
Mar 28th - Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark
Mar 28th - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., American Librarian (d. 2001)
Mar 28th - Jimmie Dodd, American actor (d. 1964)
Mar 30th - Józef Marcinkiewicz, mathematician (d. 1940)
Apr 2nd - Arnie Herber, NFL QB (Green Bay Packers, NY Giants)
Apr 2nd - Irene Mayer Selznick, producer (Street Car Named Desire)
Apr 2nd - Joeri German, Russian writer
Apr 2nd - Paul Triquet, Canadian military officer (d. 1980)
Apr 4th - Agnes Patrick, campaigner
Apr 6th - Desmond Dreyer, British admiral
Apr 8th - George Musso, NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
Apr 8th - Wendell Bill, cricketer (NSW bat 1929-36 Century on debut 1930)
Apr 9th - Abraham A Ribicoff, (Sen-D-Ct)
Apr 9th - Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
Apr 10th - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
Apr 10th - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
Apr 10th - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
Apr 11th - Anna Magnani, Ital's actress (Awakening, Roma)
Apr 11th - Antonio Sebastiao Ribiero de Spinola, general/president Portugal
Apr 11th - Henry William Collins, artist
Apr 12th - Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys)
Apr 14th - Werner Wolf Glaser, composer
Apr 15th - Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
Apr 17th - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
Apr 18th - Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941- )
Apr 18th - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
Apr 19th - Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat
Apr 20th - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15]
Apr 22nd - Eric Scowen, physician
Apr 22nd - R J Ritchie, tennis player
Apr 22nd - Norman Steenrod, American mathematician (d. 1971)
Apr 26th - Erland von Koch, composer
Apr 26th - Ernst Tittel, composer
Apr 26th - Johan Doorn, Dutch journalist/resistance fighter (Orange Newspaper)
Apr 26th - Tomoyuki Tanaka, director (Godzilla)
Apr 28th - Sam Merwin, Jr., American mystery fiction writer (d. 1996)
Apr 29th - John Beavan, newspaper editor
Apr 30th - Al Lewis, actor (Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters)
May 1st - Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
May 2nd - Laurie Nash, cricketer (Tasmanian fast-bowler, 2 Tests for Australia)
May 2nd - Alexander Bonnyman, U.S. Marine (d. 1943)
May 3rd - Alceo Galliera, composer
May 3rd - Norman Corwin, American radio pioneer
May 4th - Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
May 5th - William I Martin, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II)
May 6th - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist
May 8th - Mary Lou Williams, US jazz pianist/composer (Zodiac Suite)
May 8th - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We are Angels, Little Dorrit)
May 9th - Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
May 9th - P E Palia, cricketer (appeared in India's 1st Test-Lord's 1932)
May 10th - Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
May 10th - Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
May 11th - Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, composer
May 12th - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)
May 12th - Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
May 12th - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
May 15th - Constance Cummings, Wash, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
May 15th - Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65) [or Apr 20]
May 16th - Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
May 18th - Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
May 19th - Alan Melville, cricketer (graceful South African batsman 1938-49)
May 22nd - Johnny Olson, TV announcer (Price is Right)
May 23rd - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
May 23rd - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
May 23rd - Hugh Casson CH, architect
May 23rd - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)
May 23rd - Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
May 24th - Margers Zarins, composer
May 24th - Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer

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