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What Happened In History Year 1910

Historical Events for the Year 1910

  • 1st January » Captain David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for British Royal Family Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson Horatio Nelson.
  • 13th January » The Birth of public radio broadcasting first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera 'Cavalleria rusticana' is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House (39th St) Metropolitan Opera House in New York City New
  • 15th January » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at convert 325 ft m abbr=on.
  • 8th February » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
  • 1st March » The worst Wellington, Washington avalanche named avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway (U.S.) known as Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
  • 3rd March » Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
  • 9th March » The Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 or Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal mining or coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
  • 12th March » Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno.
  • 14th March » Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil gusher or oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere.
  • 27th March » A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312.
  • 28th March » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
  • 30th March » The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
  • 31st March » Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
  • 12th April » SMS or Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungary e.g Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
  • 16th April » The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Matthews Arena named Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
  • 23rd April » President of the United States e.g American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech.
  • 28th April » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
  • 4th May » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
  • 6th May » George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
  • 11th May » An act of the Congress of the United States or U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park (U.S.) or Glacier National Park in Montana.
  • 18th May » The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
  • 31st May » The creation of the Union of South Africa.
  • 2nd June » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
  • 13th June » The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
  • 17th June » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
  • 25th June » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
  • 4th July » African-American boxer Jack Johnson (boxer) known as Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries or Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
  • 16th July » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
  • 24th July » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
  • 20th August » The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the "Big Blowup" or the "Big Burn") occurs in northeast Washington (state) Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately convert 3 e6acre km2.
  • 22nd August » Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
  • 29th August » The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the Korea under Japanese rule called period of Japanese rule in Korea.
  • 18th September » In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
  • 20th September » The ocean liner SS France 1910 6, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
  • 26th September » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled.
  • 1st October » Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the 'Los Angeles Times' building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.
  • 5th October » In a 5 October 1910 revolution named revolution in Portugal the list of Portuguese monarchs named monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
  • 6th October » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
  • 10th October » Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York.
  • 11th October » Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 14th October » The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C..
  • 15th October » America (airship) known as Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
  • 20th October » The hull of the RMS called Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS called Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
  • 21st October » HMS Niobe 1897 6 arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.
  • 22nd October » Hawley Harvey Crippen or Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville (HM Prison) or Pentonville Prison in London.
  • 7th November » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
  • 14th November » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham (CL-2) USS 'Birmingham' in a Curtiss Model D Curtiss pusher.
  • 20th November » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan of San Luis Potosí named Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the Federal government of the United Mexican States known as govern
  • 23rd November » Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person Capital punishment in Sweden called to be executed in Sweden.
  • 28th November » The Liberal Party, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, wins the Greek legislative election, November 1910 or second Greek general election of the year.
  • 3rd December » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
  • 21st December » Pretoria Pit Disaster e.g An underground explosion at the Hulton Colliery Company known as Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

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