1910 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1910?
- January 1, 1910 – Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear Admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson.
- January 6, 1910 – The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
- January 15, 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, US, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft.
- February 10, 1910 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 3, 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
- March 9, 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- March 30, 1910 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
- March 31, 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- April 23, 1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
- May 4, 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- May 18, 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
- June 25, 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
- July 15, 1910 – In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
- July 16, 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
- August 20, 1910 – The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) occurred in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 e6acre.
- September 1, 1910 – Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- September 20, 1910 – The ocean liner SS France, later known as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
- October 11, 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
- October 14, 1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
- November 7, 1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
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