1910 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1910?
- January 6, 1910 – The Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal, the largest group of ships to pass through up to that time.
- February 10, 1910 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 8, 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
- March 14, 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- March 31, 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- April 12, 1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
- May 6, 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- June 17, 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- 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.
- 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.
- August 22, 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
- September 1, 1910 – Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- October 5, 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
- 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.
- October 22, 1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- November 10, 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- November 14, 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
- November 23, 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
- November 28, 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- December 21, 1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
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