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 13, 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
- 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 8, 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
- February 10, 1910 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
- March 1, 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- March 14, 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- May 4, 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- May 6, 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- May 31, 1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa.
- June 1, 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- 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 24, 1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
- August 29, 1910 – The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.
- September 12, 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
- October 15, 1910 – Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
- 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 28, 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- December 3, 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
- 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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