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.
• March - Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
• 19 March - In USA, Republicans 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-July

• 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-October

• August 14 - fire at World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
• August 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
• August 28 - Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
• September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
• September 16 - Australian Treasury given power to issue currency
• 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.
• October 18 - Eleutherios Venizelos becomes prime minister of Greece.

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- exempted from the British 1875 Explosives Act from being considered as an explosive for the purposes of manufacture and storage.
• Ajaha cymbals founded.

Births

January to April

• January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
• January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
• January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1988)
• January 12 - Luise Rainer, German-born actress
• January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
• January 23 - Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
• February 5 - Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
• February 6 - Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
• February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)
• February 9 - Jacques Monod, French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
• February 13 - William Shockley, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1989)
• February 27 - Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
• March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• March 11 - Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
• March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1998)
• March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer
• April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)
• April 10 - Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)

May to August

• May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist (d. 1994)
• May 22 - Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
• May 23 - Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
  • Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
• May 28 - T-Bone Walker, American blues singer (d. 1976)
• May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
  • Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• 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)
  • Peaches Browning, American actress (d. 1956)
  • Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• July 4 - Gloria Stuart, American actress
• July 11 - Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
• July 14 - Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (d. 2004)
  • William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
• August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
• August 26 - Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian (d. 1997)

September to December

• September 16 - Karl Kling, Formula 1 driver (d. 2003)
• September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d. 1990)
• October 14 - John Wooden, American basketball coach
• October 19 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor (d. 1987)
• November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II (d. 1963)
• December 15 - John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)
• December 19 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
• December 29 - Ronald Coase, British economist
• December 29 - Frank Abbandando, American Mafia hitman (d. 1942)
• December 29 - Michel Aflaq, Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989)
• December 29 - Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist (d. 1984)
• December 30 - Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999)

Deaths

• January 27 - Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
• April 21 - Mark Twain, American novelist (b. 1835)
• April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832)
• May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• May 27 - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (b. 1843)
• May 29 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
• May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
• July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
• July 12 - Charles Stewart Rolls (Hon C S Rolls), British aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce motor company (b. 1877)
• July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
• October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
• October 30 - Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross (b. 1828)
• November 6 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
• November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
• November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)

Nobel Prizes

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