1910 - Definition

January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
January 15- In Britain, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
19 March - In USA, 'Insurgent' Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found South Africa Party.
27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April

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 U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The U.S. 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 at 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. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.

November-December

November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio D�az, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
December British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.

unknown dates

Japan occupies Korea.
Bubonic Plague in Manchuria
* 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 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
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 concr�te
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
Konsta Jylh�, Finnish folk violinist

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 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist
November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist

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 U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
May 16 - The U.S. 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 at 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. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.

November-December

November 20 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio D�az, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
December British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
December 16 - In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers - three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.

unknown dates

Japan occupies Korea.
Bubonic Plague in Manchuria
* 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 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
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 concr�te
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
Konsta Jylh�, Finnish folk violinist

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 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist
November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist

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