1910 Events January-March January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera. January 26 ? Seine floods in Paris. February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. February 10 - Horace de Vere Cole pulls off the Dreadnought hoax. March 1 ? Avalanche in Cascade Range sweeps two trains into a canyon - 96 dead. March 1 - USS South Carolina commissioned. 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 5 - Avalanche in Rogers valley in British Columbia buries 62 - 600 volunteers dig them up. 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-October 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. 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 14 - Fire on World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France. August 22 - Japan annexes Korea. September 1 - the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination. 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. November-December 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. December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine. December 16 - In Sydney Street in London, four anarchists shoot three policemen - three are arrested, fourth escapes. unknown dates Portugal becomes a republic - King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England. Japan occupies Korea. Bubonic Plague in Manchuria Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander TNT Rebellion in Albania Births January-April January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete 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 5 - Francisco Varallo, footballer, became last survivor of the first World Cup Final 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-December May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994) May 12 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (b. 1910) 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 May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978) 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 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956) June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998) July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001) July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novellis (d. 2004) August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa September 23 - Elliot Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990) October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach October 23 - Hayden Rorke, actor November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in WW II December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987) December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986) December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman Deaths January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor April 21 - Mark Twain, U.S. novelist May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835) July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, U.S. middleweight boxer murdered in Conway, Missouri November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist Nobel Prizes Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals Chemistry - Otto Wallach Medicine - Albrecht Kossel Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau ast:1910 Most Popular Articles: Music    Musical Instruments    Guitar    Classical Music    History    Music Definition    Country Music    Rock Music    Pop Music    Hip Hop    Rap    DJ    Video Games    Casino Games    Poker    Blackjack    Casinos    Real Estate    Loan    Auction    eBay    Marketing    Search Engine Optimization    File Sharing    MP3    Music Industry    Kazaa    Internet    Supermodel    Fashion    Fashion Designers    Erotica    Modeling    Clothing    Boots    Shoes    Diamond Engagement Rings    Diamond    Rugs    Gospel Music    Affiliate    E-Commerce    Radio This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. 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