1910
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution. January 15- In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273). February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated. 19 March - In USA, Republicanss reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership. April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army. 27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog found South Africa Party. 27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April 29 April - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May-October May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. May 11 - An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. May 16 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines. May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa. June - Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement. June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship. July 2 - Demonstrations in France against public executions. July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States. July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News. August 14 - fire at World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France. August 22 - Japan annexes Korea. September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination. October 1 - bomb explodes on the Los Angeles Times building - 21 dead, several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara later arrested and sentenced. October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England. October 10 - Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.
November-December November 7 - First air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico. November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander December British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule). December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine. December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.
unknown dates Japan occupies Korea. Bubonic Plague in Manchuria TNT Rebellion in Albania
BirthsJanuary-April January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994) January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1988) January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974) January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953) February 5 - Francisco Varallo, footballer February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982) February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990) February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976) February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist and social commentator February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990) March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981) March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (d. 1982) March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985) March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
May-December May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996) May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994) May 12 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer (d. 1985) May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (d. 1986) May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (d. 1975) May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978) June 14 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976) June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998) June 22 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986) June 23 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987) June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956) June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998) July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001) July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (d. 2004) August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990) October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987) December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986) December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist
Deaths January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor April 21 - Mark Twain, American novelist April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832) May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer and composer May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist May 29 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837) May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835) July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, American middleweight boxer (murdered) November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
Chemistry - Otto Wallach Literature - Paul Heyse Medicine - Albrecht Kossel Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
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