1910

1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1910 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1910
MCMX
Ab urbe condita2663
Armenian calendar1359
ԹՎ ՌՅԾԹ
Assyrian calendar6660
Baháʼí calendar66–67
Balinese saka calendar1831–1832
Bengali calendar1317
Berber calendar2860
British Regnal year10 Edw. 7  1 Geo. 5
Buddhist calendar2454
Burmese calendar1272
Byzantine calendar7418–7419
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4606 or 4546
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4607 or 4547
Coptic calendar1626–1627
Discordian calendar3076
Ethiopian calendar1902–1903
Hebrew calendar5670–5671
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1966–1967
 - Shaka Samvat1831–1832
 - Kali Yuga5010–5011
Holocene calendar11910
Igbo calendar910–911
Iranian calendar1288–1289
Islamic calendar1327–1329
Japanese calendarMeiji 43
(明治43年)
Javanese calendar1839–1840
Juche calendarN/A
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4243
Minguo calendar2 before ROC
民前2年
Nanakshahi calendar442
Thai solar calendar2452–2453
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2036 or 1655 or 883
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
2037 or 1656 or 884

Events

January

  • January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. "The Old Sailor's Pirate Bay", came out in January 18th, it was the first Smithers Production to come out. A silent film put to color in 1937.

February

  • February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated.

March

  • March – Albanian revolt of 1910: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
  • March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's license No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane.[1]
  • March 10 – Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now made illegal.
  • March 17 – Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee, and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.
  • March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster.

April

May

June

July

  • July 4African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
  • July 11 : departure for France of amenokal Moussa ag Amastan as part of the "Tuareg mission".[8]
  • July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
  • July 24Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August

  • August – The International Commercial Bureau of the American Republics becomes the Pan-American Union.
  • August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 world's fair destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
  • August 20 - The Big Blowup, a wildfire that burned 4700 square miles in northwestern US, due to dry weather
  • August 22 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, by which the Empire of Japan formally annexes the Korean Empire, is signed (it becomes effectively void in 1945, which is formally recognised in 1965).
  • August 28 – Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom, under Nicholas I.
  • August 29 – Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates and the country's monarchy is abolished.

September

October

  • October
    • Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
    • Approximate date of origin of Manchurian plague, a form of pneumonic plague which by December is spreading through northeastern China, killing more than 40,000.[9][10][11]
  • October 5 – 5 October 1910 revolution: The First Portuguese Republic is proclaimed in Lisbon; King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
  • October 7 - Baudette fire of 1910 in Minnesota and Ontario burns several towns
  • October 18 – The lake freighter SS William C. Moreland runs aground on a reef near the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior, leading to its loss.[12]
  • October 20 – The hull of RMS Olympic is launched, at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.
  • October 23
    • Vajiravudh (Rama VI) is crowned King of Siam, after the death of his father, King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
    • The Philadelphia Athletics defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7–2, to win the 1910 World Series in Game 5 (Jack Coombs had been the winning pitcher in three of the Athletics' four wins).

November

December

  • December 3 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

Undated

  • The electric streetcars of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Great Britain are carrying 6.7 million riders per year.
  • Henry Ford sells 10,000 automobiles.

Births

Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January

February

March

Tancredo Neves
Masayoshi Ōhira
Ingrid of Sweden

April

May

  • May 1
    • Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian-born philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (d. 1987)
    • J. Allen Hynek, American astronomer, ufologist (d. 1986)
    • Mary Rockefeller, American heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. 1997)
  • May 6 – June Gittelson, American film actress (d. 1993)
  • May 12
    • Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (d. 2010)
    • Elwyn Flint, Australian linguist and academic (d. 1983)
    • Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
    • Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (d. 2010)
  • May 14Ne Win, 4th President of Burma (d. 2002)
  • May 23
    • Scatman Crothers, African-American actor, musician (d. 1986)
    • Artie Shaw, American clarinetist, bandleader (d. 2004)
  • May 25 – Edward Harrison, English cricketer, squash player (d. 2002)
  • May 28
    • Rachel Kempson, English actress (d. 2003)
    • T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
  • May 29 – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
  • May 30 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)

June

Juan Velasco Alvarado
  • June 1 – Gyula Kállai, 48th Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1996)
  • June 2 – Annie Lee Cooper, American civil rights activist (d. 2010)
  • June 4 – Christopher Cockerell, British engineer, inventor of the Hovercraft (d. 1999)
  • June 8 – Lauro Ortega Martínez, governor of Morelos, Mexico 1982–1988 (d. 1999)
  • June 9 – Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
  • June 10
    • Abdul Rahman al-Eryani, President of the Yemen Arab Republic (d. 1998)
    • Armen Takhtajan, Soviet-Armenian botanist (d. 2009)
    • Howlin' Wolf, African-American blues musician (d. 1976)
    • Ted Richmond, American film producer (d. 2013)
  • June 11Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer (d. 1997)
  • June 12 – Ahmadu Bello, Nigerian statesman (d. 1966)
  • June 13 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
  • June 14
    • Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
    • J. Harold Smith, American pastor, evangelist (d. 2001)
  • June 15 – Suleiman Frangieh, 10th President of Lebanon (d. 1992)
    • Alf Pearson, British variety performer with his brother Bob as half of Bob and Alf Pearson (d. 2012)
  • June 16 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, military President of Peru (d. 1977)
  • June 17 – Red Foley, American country music singer, musician (d. 1968)
  • June 19
    • Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
    • Abe Fortas, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1982)
  • June 22
  • June 23
  • June 25 – Ian McTaggart-Cowan, Scottish-Canadian zoologist (d. 2010)
  • June 26
    • Margaret Dunning, American philanthropist (d. 2015)
    • Roy J. Plunkett, American chemist noted for discovering Teflon (d. 1994)
  • June 27 – Pierre Joubert, French illustrator (d. 2001)
  • June 28 – Ingrid Luterkort, Swedish actress, stage director (d. 2011)

July

Gloria Stuart
Lupita Tovar
  • July 2 – Louise Laroche, one of the last remaining survivors of the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912 (d. 1998)
  • July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
  • July 5 – S. Poniman, Indonesian singer, actor (d. 1978)
  • July 6
    • John Knott, Australian public servant (d. 1999)
    • Jayna Rowley, American model (d.2000)
    • René Le Grèves, French cyclist (d. 1946)
  • July 8 – Carlos Betances Ramírez, first Puerto Rican to command a battalion in the Korean War (d. 2001)
  • July 9 – Govan Mbeki, South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d. 2001)
  • July 10
    • Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, Vietnamese politician (d. 1996)
    • Ne Win, Burmese politician, military commander (d. 2002)
  • July 11
    • Sally Blane, American actress (d. 1997)
    • John Stapp, American career U.S. Air Force officer, flight surgeon, physician and biophysicist (d. 1999)
  • July 12
    • Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr., American counsel (d. 2011)
    • Laszlo Szapáry, Austrian sports shooter (d. 1998)
  • July 14William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
  • July 15
    • Bettie du Toit, South African trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2002)
    • Ken Lynch, American actor (d. 1990)
  • July 17 – James Coyne, 2nd Governor of the Bank of Canada (1955–1961) (d. 2012)
  • July 18 – Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of Senegal (d. 2009)
  • July 19 – Mamadou M'Bodje, Malian politician (d. 1958)[14]
  • July 20 – Muriel Evans, American actress (d. 2000)
  • July 21 – Pietro Pasinati, Italian football player (d. 2000)
  • July 22
    • Gordon Blake, U.S. Air Force lieutenant general (d. 1997)
    • Ruthie Tompson, American animator, artist (d. 2021)
  • July 27
    • Julien Gracq, French author (d. 2007)
    • Lupita Tovar, Mexican-born American actress (d. 2016)

August

Lucille Ricksen

September

October

  • October 1
    • Bonnie Parker, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (d. 1934)
    • Attilio Pavesi, Italian Olympic cyclist (d. 2011)
  • October 8
    • Paulette Dubost, French actress (d. 2011)
    • Gus Hall, American Communist leader (d. 2000)
  • October 10
    • Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (d. 1980)
    • Julius Shulman, American architectural photographer (d. 2009)
  • October 13 – Robert McKimson, American animator, director (d. 1977)
  • October 19
  • October 23
    • Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)
    • Hayden Rorke, American actor (d. 1987)
  • October 24 – Gunter d’Alquen, German journalist, propagandist, and SS unit commander (d. 1998)
  • October 25
    • Tyrus Wong, Chinese-born American artist (d. 2016)
    • David Lichine, Russian-American ballet dancer, choreographer (d. 1972)
  • October 27
    • Jack Carson, Canadian-born actor (d. 1963)
    • Herschel Daugherty, American television director (d. 1993)
  • October 31 – Trevor Housley, Australian public servant (d. 1968)

November–December

Date unknown

  • Fawzi Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan (d. 1962)

Deaths

January

February

Miguel Febres Cordero

March

H. Maria George Colby

April

May

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

June

July

Johann Gottfried Galle

August

September

October

November

December

Mary Baker Eddy
  • December 1 – William Pryor Letchworth, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1823)
  • December 3
    • Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (b. 1821)
    • Wesley Merritt, American general (b. 1836)
  • December 8 – Paškal Buconjić, Herzegovinian Catholic bishop (b. 1834)
  • December 28 – Benjamin Pitman, English-born American stenographer and crafts promoter (b. 1822)
  • December 29 – Reginald Doherty, British tennis player (b. 1872)
  • December 31 – John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)[19]

Date unknown

  • Emma Bedelia Dunham, American poet and teacher (b. 1826)

Nobel Prizes

References

  1. Lebow, Eileen F. (2002). Before Amelia: Women Pilots in the Early Days of Aviation. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, Inc. p. 14. ISBN 1-57488-482-4.
    • March 10, Nazareth Baptist Church, African initiated church founded by Prophet Isaiah Shembe in South Africa.
  2. "Expansión ferroviaria en Chile". Colecciones digitales (in Spanish). Archivo Nacional de Chile. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
  3. Paul Simpson-Housley, Antarctica: Exploration, Perception, and Metaphor (Routledge, 1992), p26
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  6. 6 June 1910, page 7, Middelburgsche Courant, Krantenbank, Zeeland.
  7. Schonberg, Harold C. (1997). The Lives of the Great Composers. Norton. p. 479. ISBN 9780393038576.
  8. Voir Valérie Chébiri, 2019," Mission Touareg ", ou le voyage de l'Aménokal Moussa ag Amastan, Paris, Editions Saint-Honoré, for the chronology and details of this trip, as well as the "SMDBast Production" on YouTube for videos on this subject.
  9. "Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague". Sina.com (in Chinese).
  10. Gamsa, Mark (February 2006). "The Epidemic of Pneumonic Plague in Manchuria 1910–1911". Past & Present. 190 (1): 147–183. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtj001.
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  12. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 27, 2020. Retrieved December 20, 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. "Magda Olivero obituary". The Guardian. September 14, 2014. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
  14. "Anciens sénateurs IVème République : M'BODJE Mamadou". www.senat.fr.
  15. "Mark Twain | Biography & Facts". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
  16. "Edward VII". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved October 7, 2022.
  17. British Medical Journal. British Medical Association. 1910. p. 917. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
  18. EDWARDS, RALPH W. (1951). "The First Woman Dentist Lucy Hobbs Taylor, D. D. S. (1833-1910)". Bulletin of the History of Medicine. 25 (3): 277–283. ISSN 0007-5140. JSTOR 44443642. PMID 14848611. Retrieved February 21, 2022.
  19. Magazine, Smithsonian. "The Daring Mr. Moisant". Smithsonian Magazine.

Primary sources and year books

  • New International Year Book 1910 970pp of detailed global coverage.
  • Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900–1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 206–24.
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