Notable Historical Events - 1910
1910 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs |
Jan 2 |
1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California) |
Jan 3 |
British miners strike for 8 hour working day |
Jan 7 |
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators sweep Galt (Ont) in 2 games |
Jan 10 |
1st international air meet in US held, in LA |
Jan 10 |
Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC |
Jan 13 |
JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin |
Jan 19 |
Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty |
Jan 19 |
National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress |
Jan 20 |
Ottawa Senators sweep Edmonton in 2 for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1910) |
Jan 21 |
British-Russian military intervention in Persia |
Jan 22 |
Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC |
Jan 25 |
1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf v Eng) |
Jan 25 |
Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem |
Jan 26 |
Heavy rains cause floods in Paris |
Feb 1 |
1st British labour exchange opens |
Feb 1 |
Dragoumis government forms in Greece |
Feb 7 |
Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris |
Feb 8 |
The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. |
Feb 15 |
The Boy Scouts of America founded. |
Feb 19 |
English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" |
Feb 19 |
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area |
Feb 21 |
John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London |
Feb 23 |
1st radio contest held (Philadelphia) |
Feb 23 |
George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance," premieres in London |
Feb 25 |
Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies |
Feb 26 |
Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the day of arrival of the Prince of Wales in South Africa as a day of mourning in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans in the upcoming Union of South Africa |
Mar 1 |
3 passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range. 118 die. Worst snow slide in US history |
Mar 2 |
2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die |
Mar 3 |
Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist |
Mar 5 |
Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres |
Mar 5 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1 |
Mar 8 |
Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot |
Mar 10 |
China ends slavery |
Mar 10 |
Pittsburgh Courier begins publishing |
Mar 11 |
Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket |
Mar 12 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3 |
Mar 14 |
Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere. |
Mar 16 |
Barney Oldfield uses a Benz to break the existing records at Daytona Beach Road Course (131.25mph) |
Mar 17 |
DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth |
Mar 18 |
1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC |
Mar 23 |
1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway) |
Mar 24 |
83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March |
Mar 25 |
Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ |
Mar 26 |
US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick |
Mar 26 |
William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US |
Mar 27 |
Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312 |
Mar 28 |
1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre) |
Mar 30 |
Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi. |
Apr 1 |
Dumitru Dan (Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk |
Apr 3 |
Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed |
Apr 14 |
President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day |
Apr 14 |
Pan American Union forms |
Apr 15 |
Taft is 1st pres to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game |
Apr 19 |
14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4 |
Apr 19 |
Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao) |
Apr 20 |
Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0 |
Apr 20 |
Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km |
Apr 21 |
Cleve Naps play 1st game at League Park, lose to Det Tigers 5-0 |
Apr 23 |
International Exhibition opens in Brussels |
Apr 24 |
German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms |
Apr 27 |
Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights |
Apr 27 |
Louis Botha and James Hertzog establish the moderate nationalists South African Party promising equality of Britons and Boers |
Apr 28 |
1st night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England) |
Apr 29 |
Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam |
Apr 30 |
Cleve Indian Addie Joss wins 2nd no-hitter beating White Sox |
May 4 |
Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent |
May 4 |
Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy |
May 4 |
Tel Aviv founded |
May 4 |
Wilfrid Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy |
May 6 |
George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. |
May 7 |
35th Preakness: R Estep aboard Layminster wins in 1:40.6 |
May 10 |
1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England) |
May 10 |
36th Kentucky Derby: Fred Herbert aboard Donau wins in 2:06.4 |
May 10 |
Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass |
May 10 |
The British House of Commons pass three major resolutions on political reform |
May 11 |
Montana's Glacier National Park forms |
May 12 |
2nd NAACP conference (NYC) |
May 12 |
Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0 |
May 14 |
Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins |
May 15 |
The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone. |
May 16 |
US Bureau of Mines forms |
May 17 |
Canada sets the designs for the 1-50 cent coins |
May 19 |
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic |
May 20 |
Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII |
May 29 |
Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers |
May 30 |
44th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22 |
May 31 |
Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa |
May 31 |
Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to NYC |
May 31 |
Union of South Africa declares independence from UK |
Jun 1 |
SC Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
Jun 2 |
1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England) |
Jun 2 |
Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea |
Jun 9 |
A passenger on SS Arawatta throws bottle with note overboard (found June 6, 1983 in Queensland) |
Jun 12 |
PEC soccer team forms in Zwolle |
Jun 13 |
Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Phila |
Jun 13 |
William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia |
Jun 18 |
16th US Golf Open: Alex Smith shoots a 298 at Phila Cricket Club PA |
Jun 19 |
1st airship in service "Germany" |
Jun 19 |
Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) |
Jun 20 |
"Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal |
Jun 22 |
1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland |
Jun 24 |
50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot |
Jun 25 |
Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes) |
Jun 26 |
24th US Womens Tennis: H Hotchkiss Wightman beats L Hammond (6-4 6-2) |
Jun 26 |
Hazel Hotchkiss wins US Lawn Tennis Association championship |
Jun 30 |
Russia absorbs Finland |
Jun 30 |
27th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats D Boothby (6-2 6-2) |
Jun 30 |
34th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Anthony Wilding beats A Gore (6-4 7-5 4-6 6-2) |
Jul 1 |
Chicago's Comiskey Park opens - St Louis Browns beat White Sox 2-0 |
Jul 1 |
Union of South Africa becomes a dominion |
Jul 1 |
White Sox Park (Comiskey Park) opens with 2-0 loss to Browns |
Jul 4 |
Jack Johnson KOs james j jeffries in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jul 4 |
The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation |
Jul 4 |
In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria |
Jul 9 |
Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude |
Jul 10 |
Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0 |
Jul 19 |
Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings |
Jul 20 |
Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper acquitted of corruption |
Jul 24 |
Matador Juan Belmonte (18) kills his 1st bull |
Jul 29 |
JWEL Hilgers is 1st Dutchman to fly above Dutch territory |
Jul 31 |
Chic Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game |
Jul 31 |
Clement van Maasdijk gives flying demonstration |
Aug 4 |
A's Jack Coombs & White Sox Ed Walsh pitch a 16 inn scoreless tie |
Aug 6 |
NYC Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt |
Aug 8 |
The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer. |
Aug 9 |
Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine |
Aug 13 |
Dodgers & Pirates play to 8-8 tie, both have 38 at bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, 1 pass ball & 1 hit by pitch |
Aug 14 |
6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC |
Aug 20 |
US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua |
Aug 22 |
Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate |
Aug 23 |
Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh |
Aug 25 |
30th US Men's Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (6-1 5-7 6-0 6-8 6-1) |
Aug 25 |
Yellow Cab is founded. |
Aug 27 |
Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park |
Aug 27 |
Wash Red Killefer sacrifices record 4 times against Detroit |
Aug 28 |
Nicholas I, who first assumed power in 1860 and had his reign interrupted by Turkish rule, again proclaims himself king |
Aug 29 |
Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony. |
Aug 30 |
Yank Tom Hughes pitches 9 no-hit innings but loses to Cleve 5-0 in 11 |
Aug 31 |
Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth' |
Sep 5 |
Jack Coombs begins a record streak of 53 shutout innings |
Sep 6 |
Saskatchewan (then Regina) Roughrider football club formed |
Sep 7 |
In the Hague, the International Court arbitrates a fishing-rights dispute between Newfoundland (still seperate from Canada) and the US |
Sep 10 |
Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber |
Sep 11 |
1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) |
Sep 12 |
Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony premieres in Munich with 1028 musicians |
Sep 12 |
World's 1st female cop, Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD) |
Sep 13 |
Regina Rugby Club forms |
Sep 15 |
Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa |
Sep 18 |
25,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam for general male/female suffrage |
Sep 19 |
George Cohan's "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" premieres in NYC |
Sep 22 |
Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms |
Sep 22 |
The Duke of York's Cinema opened in Brighton. It is still operating today, making it the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. |
Sep 27 |
1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France) |
Oct 1 |
Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair) |
Oct 1 |
Explosion at LA Times kills 21 |
Oct 1 |
Regina Rugby Club's 1st game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6 |
Oct 2 |
1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) |
Oct 2 |
Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) |
Oct 4 |
Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England |
Oct 4 |
Adoption of the Flag of Bermuda. |
Oct 5 |
Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic |
Oct 6 |
Braves beat Phillies 20-7 |
Oct 9 |
Nap Lajorie challenges Ty Cobb batting avg with 8 hits, 6 were bunts as Brown's 3rd baseman Red Corriden played deep, Cobb still won |
Oct 18 |
E.M. (Edward) Forster publishes "Howards End" |
Oct 20 |
1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series |
Oct 20 |
Soccer team KFC forms in Alkmaar |
Oct 20 |
The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Ireland. |
Oct 22 |
Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and was subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. |
Oct 23 |
Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight |
Oct 23 |
Phila A's beat Chicago Cubs 4 games to 1 in 7th World Series |
Oct 23 |
Ritz Hotel in Madrid opens: 200 chambers/100 bathtubs |
Oct 29 |
Bob Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks record 11 singles in a game |
Nov 1 |
First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois |
Nov 4 |
Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained |
Nov 4 |
Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East |
Nov 6 |
SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage |
Nov 7 |
The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. |
Nov 8 |
1st Washington State election in which women could vote |
Nov 8 |
For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee |
Nov 8 |
William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer |
Nov 10 |
The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910. |
Nov 12 |
1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon |
Nov 14 |
1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va |
Nov 19 |
Ferenc Molnàr's "Tester" premieres in Budapest |
Nov 20 |
Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero |
Nov 22 |
Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs |
Nov 26 |
2nd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Hamilton Tigers, 16-7 |
Nov 27 |
NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal |
Nov 29 |
The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. |
Dec 3 |
Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show) |
Dec 9 |
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir |
Dec 10 |
Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics |
Dec 19 |
1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) |
Dec 19 |
Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn |
Dec 21 |
Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies |
Dec 22 |
US postal savings stamps 1st issued |
Dec 24 |
Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain |
Dec 28 |
Opera "Konigskinder" is produced (NYC) |
Dec 31 |
US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910 |
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