1910 (original) (raw)

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s -

Events

January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.
February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
March 3 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist.
March 17 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).
March 28 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
May 11 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The United States 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.
July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim 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 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic.
November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio D�az, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.

Year in topic

Births

1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

Years: 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 - 1910 - 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915

January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, 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 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, social commentator
February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
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 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)
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
June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
August 26 - Mother Theresa
September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)
October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor well known as Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie
November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II
December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist
Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman

Deaths

January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
April 21 - Mark Twain
May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (b. 1843)
May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)

Nobel Prizes

Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Chemistry - Otto Wallach
Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau