1910

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

Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s - 1910s - 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

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

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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 Martinques[?], 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.
• August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
• October 5th[?] - Portugal becomes a republic.
• December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.

Art, Culture & Fashion

• 1910 in film
• 1910 in literature
• 1910 in music
• 1910 in sports[?]

Births:

• January 7 - Orval Faubus[?], Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (+ 1994)
• January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova[?], dancer (+ 1988)
• January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
• January 16 - Dizzy Dean[?], Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1974)
• January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (+ 1953)
• February 6 - Irmgard Keun[?], author (+ 1982)
• February 7 - Max Bense[?], philosopher (+ 1990)
• February 9 - Jacques Monod[?], biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (+ 1976)
• February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator
• February 27 - Joan Bennett[?], actress (+ 1990)
• March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
• March 11 - Robert Havemann[?], chemist (+ 1982)
• March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (+ 1985)
• March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
• March 23 - Lale Andersen[?], singer and cabaretist (+ 1972)
• March 27 - John Pierce[?], electrical engineer
• April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German[?], writer (+ 1967)
• May 12 - ? Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin[?], chemist (+ 1994)
• May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (+ 1986)
• May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
• May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (+ 1975)
• May 30 - Inge Meysel[?], actress
• July 4 - Gloria Stuart[?], actress
• August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
• December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
• Mother Theresa
• Ronald Coase

Deaths:

• January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
• May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
• May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
• May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (*1843)
• May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
• November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace)
• Mark Twain

Nobel Prizes

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