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1 Events
1.1 January
Main article: January 1910
Halleys Comet's tail
January 10January 20 The rst aviation meeting March An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks
to be held in the United States, the 1910 Los Angeles out in Albania.
International Air Meet at Dominguez Field, is held
near Los Angeles. March 8 In France Raymonde de Laroche is
January 13 The rst public radio broadcast takes awarded pilots license #36 by the Federation Aero-
place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria nautique Internationale, becoming the rst woman
rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves authorized to y an airplane.[1]
from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
March 10 Slavery in China, which has existed
since the Shang dynasty, is now made illegal.
1.2 February March 18 The rst lmed version of Mary Shel-
leys Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the
Main article: February 1910
rst horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the
monster.
February 8 William D. Boyce founds the Boy
March 27 A re during a barn-dance in
Scouts of America.
kritflps, Hungary kills 312.
February 10 Old Traord opens to the public.
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2 1 EVENTS
1.7 July
1.8 August
May 12 Second NAACP meeting is held in New August 22 The JapanKorea Annexation Treaty is
York, New York. signed. It becomes null and void in 1965.
May 18 The Earth passes through the tail of August 28 Montenegro is proclaimed an indepen-
Halleys Comet. dent kingdom under Nicholas I.
May 31 The Union of South Africa is created. August 29 Emperor Sunjong of Korea abdicates
and the countrys monarchy is abolished.
1.6 June
1.9 September
Main article: June 1910
Main article: September 1910
October First publication of infrared photographs, Late December A form of pneumonic plague
by Professor Robert Williams Wood in the Royal spreads through northeastern China, killing more
Photographic Society's journal. than 40,000.[3][4][5]
1.11 November
Main article: November 1910
David Niven, British actor (d. 1983) March 25 Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d.
2014)
March 5
March 28 Ingrid of Sweden, Queen consort of
Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor and busi- Denmark (d. 2000)
nessman (d. 2007)
Ennio Flaiano, Italian screenwriter, play- April 1 Harry Carney, American jazz musician (d.
wright, novelist, journalist and drama critic (d. 1974)
1972)
April 2 Chico Xavier, Brazilian medium (d. 2002)
March 7 Will Glickman, American playwright (d.
1983) April 9 Nouhak Phoumsavanh, President of Laos
(d. 2008)
March 8 Claire Trevor, American actress (d.
2000) April 10 Paul Sweezy, American economist and
editor (d. 2004)
March 9 Samuel Barber, American composer (d.
1981) April 20 Brigitte Mira, German actress (d. 2005)
March 11
April 23 Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
April 24 Pupella Maggio, Italian actress (d. 1999)
Jacinta Marto, Portuguese, beatied (d. 1920)
March 13 Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. April 26 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese lm pro-
1985) ducer (d. 1997)
March 23 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, April 30 Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyri-
producer, and director (d. 1998) cist (d. 2002)
6 2 BIRTHS
May 12
May 23
May 6 June Gittelson, American lm actress (d. June 9 Robert Cummings, American actor (d.
1993) 1990)
2.4 JulyAugust 7
June 10
June 19
June 22
June 23
June 26
2.4 JulyAugust
Mother Teresa
July 4 Gloria Stuart, American actress (d. 2010)
July 17 James Coyne, second Governor of the September 11 Gerhard Schrder, German politi-
Bank of Canada, from 1955 to 1961 (d. 2012) cian (d. 1989)
July 18 Mamadou Dia, 1st Prime Minister of September 14 Jack Hawkins, British actor (d.
Senegal (d. 2009) 1973)
September 16
July 27
Erich Kempka, German chaueur and body-
Julien Gracq, French author (d. 2007) guard of Adolf Hitler (d. 1975)
Lupita Tovar, Mexican-American actress (d. Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
2016)
September 19 Margaret Lindsay, American lm
August 4 actress (d. 1981)
Anita Page, American actress (d. 2008) September 24 Ignatius J. Pete Galantin, United
States Navy admiral (d. 2004)
William Schuman, American composer (d.
1992) September 28
Diosdado Macapagal, 9th President of the
August 7 Lucien Herv, Hungarian-born French
Philippines (d. 1997)
photographer (d. 2007)
Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino politician and re-
August 10 Aldo Buzzi, Italian architect, director sistance leader (d. 1942)
and screenwriter (d. 2009)
September 29 Virginia Bruce, American actress
August 12 and singer (d. 1982)
September 30 Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (d.
Yusof bin Ishak, rst President of Singapore
1962)
(d. 1970)
Jane Wyatt, American actress (d. 2006) October 1 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw, mem-
ber of Barrow Gang (d. 1934)
August 14 Pierre Schaeer, French composer (d. October 8
1995)
Paulette Dubost, French actress (d. 2011)
August 22 Lucille Ricksen, American silent lm Gus Hall, American Communist leader (d.
actress (d. 1925) 2000)
August 25 October 10
George Cisar, American baseball player (d. Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of
2010) Sierra Leone (d. 1980)
Ruby Keeler, American actress and dancer (d. Julius Shulman, American architectural pho-
1993) tographer (d. 2009)
November 10 Toms Blanco, Spanish lm actor January 4 Lon Delagrange, French pioneer avia-
(d. 1990) tor (b. 1873)
November 21 Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Grand Mufti January 5 Lon Walras, French economist (b.
of Saudi Arabia (d. 1999) 1834)
November 26 Cyril Cusack, South Africanborn January 12 Bass Reeves, one of the rst black
actor (d. 1993) Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River
(b. 1838)
November 30 Harry Bauler, American politician
(d. 1962) January 13 Andrew Jackson Davis, American spir-
itualist (b. 1826)
December 1 Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d.
2004) January 27 Thomas Crapper, British plumber (b.
1836)
December 2 Russell Lynes, American art histo-
rian, photographer and author (d. 1991)
December 19 Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986) March 4 Knut ngstrm, Swedish physicist (b.
1857)
December 23 Kurt Panzermeyer Meyer, Ger-
man Generalmajor der Waen-SS and war criminal March 10 Karl Lueger, Austrian mayor (b. 1844)
(d. 1961)
March 18 Julio Herrera y Reissig, Uruguayan poet
December 29 and writer (b. 1875)
Michel Aaq, Syrian political theorist, founder March 26 An Jung-geun, Korean assassin (b.
of Ba'athism (d. 1989) 1879)
Ronald Coase, English-born economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2013) March 27 Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American
scientist (b. 1835)
December 30
March 30 Jean Moras, Greek poet, essayist and
Paul Bowles, American author (d. 1999) art critic (b. 1856)
Howard W. Jones, American surgeon and in
vitro fertilization specialist (d. 2015)
3.4 April
2.7 Unknown date April 21 Mark Twain, American writer (b. 1835)
Ralph Willis, American Piedmont blues and country April 26 Bjrnstjerne Bjrnson, Norwegian writer,
blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter (d. 1957) Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
10 3 DEATHS
Mark Twain
3.5 May
May 1 Pierre Nord Alexis, President of Haiti (b.
1820)
May 29 Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. May 31 Elizabeth Blackwell, British-born Ameri-
1837) can physician (b. 1821)
3.9 September 11
3.6 June
June 5 O. Henry, American novelist (b. 1862)
3.7 July
Florence Nightingale
July 4
3.9 September
Melville Fuller, American Chief Justice (b.
1833) September 2 Henri Rousseau, French painter (b.
Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1844)
1835)
September 7 William Holman Hunt, British Pre-
July 10 Johann Gottfried Galle, German as- Raphaelite painter (b. 1827)
tronomer (b. 1812)
September 16 Hormuzd Rassam, Iraqi archaeolo-
July 12 Charles Stewart Rolls, British aviator and gist (b. 1826)
automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
September 27 Jorge Chvez, Peruvian aviator (b.
1887)
3.8 August
September 29 Winslow Homer, American painter
August 13 Florence Nightingale, British nurse (b. (b. 1836)
1820)
August 14 Frank Podmore, British psychical re- 3.10 October
searcher (b. 1856)
August 15 Constantin Fahlberg, Russian chemist October 17 Julia Ward Howe, American abolition-
(b. 1850) ist and poet (b. 1819)
August 16 Pedro Montt, 15th President of Chile October 21 Charles van der Stappen, Belgian
(b. 1849) sculptor (b. 1843)
August 26 William James, American psychologist October 23 King Chulalongkorn of Siam (b.
and philosopher (b. 1842) 1853)
12 3 DEATHS
3.11 November
King Chulalongkorn
Leo Tolstoy
November 23
October 30 Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader
the Red Cross, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1828) (b. 1821)
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4 Nobel Prizes
5 References
[1] Lebow, Eileen F. (2002). Before Amelia: Women Pilots in
the Early Days of Aviation. Washington, D.C.: Brasseys,
Inc. p. 14. ISBN 1574884824.
[2] Schonberg, Harold C. (1997). The Lives of the Great Com-
posers. Norton. p. 479.
[3] Recalling the 1910 Harbin Plague. Sina.com (in Chi-
nese).
[4] Gamsa, Mark (February 2006). The Epidemic of Pneu-
monic Plague in Manchuria 19101911. Past & Present.
190 (1): 147183. doi:10.1093/pastj/gtj001. Retrieved
2013-03-08.
[5] Goh, L. G.; Ho, T. M.; Phua, K. H. (January 1987).
Wisdom and Western Science: The Work of Dr
Wu Lien-Teh (PDF). Asia-Pacic Journal of Pub-
lic Health. Historical Milestones. 1 (1): 99109.
doi:10.1177/101053958700100123. Retrieved 2013-03-
08.
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