1910

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century

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Table of contents

1 Events 1.1 April 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Nobel Prizes

Events

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January

\n* January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera.\n* January 26 – Seine floods in Paris\n

February

\n* February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.\n* February 10 - Horace de Vere Cole pulls of the Dreadnought hoax\n

March

\n* March 1 – Avalanche in Cascade Range sweeps two trains into a canyon - 96 dead\n* March 1 - USS South Carolina commissioned\n* 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.\n* March 5 - Avalanche in Rogers valley in British Columbia buries 62 - 600 volunteers dig them up\n* March 17 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls (formally announced in 1912).\n* March 28 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.

April

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May

\n* May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.\n* May 11 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.\n* May 16 - The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.\n* May 18 - The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.\n* May 31 - creation of the Union of South Africa.\n

June

\n* June 22 - First flight of Zeppelin airship\n

July

\n* July 2 - Demonstrations in France against public executions\n* 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. \n* July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.\n

August

\n* August 14 - Fire on World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France\n* August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.\n

September

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October

\n* 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\n* October 5 - Portugal becomes a republic.\n

November

\n* 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.\n

December

\n* December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.\n* December 16 - In Sydney Street in London, four anarchists shoot three policemen - three are arrested, fourth escapes\n

Other

\n* Portugal becomes a republic - King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England\n* Japan occupies Korea\n* Bubonic Plague in Manchuria\n* Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander\n* TNT\n* Rebellion in Albania

Births

\n* January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete\n* January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)\n* January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, dancer (d. 1988)\n* January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress\n* January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)\n* January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)\n* February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)\n* February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)\n* February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)\n* February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator\n* February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)\n* March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer\n* March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (d. 1982)\n* March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)\n* March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director\n* March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer\n* April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)\n* May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)\n* May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer (d. 1985)\n* May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (d. 1986)\n* May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader\n* May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (d. 1975)\n* May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress\n* May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)\n* [[June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)\n* July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress\n* July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998)\n* July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001)\n* August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète\n* August 26 - Mother Theresa\n* September 23 - Elliot Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)\n* October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach\n* October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor well known as Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie\n* November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II\n* December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)\n* December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986)\n* December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist\n* Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman

Deaths

\n* January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor\n* April 21 - Mark Twain, U.S. novelist\n* May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom\n* May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer\n* May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist\n* May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer\n* May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States\n* July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer\n* October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, U.S. middleweight boxer murdered in Conway, Missouri\n* November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist

Nobel Prizes

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