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1910 January 1 Simpson-Hayward (England) takes 6-43 on debut with underarm lobs. [1] January 2 First junior high schools in US open in Berkeley California. [1] January 3 British miners strike for 8 hour working day. [1] January 4 Léon Delagrange French aviation pioneer, dies. [1] January 10 First international air meet in US held, in Los Angeles. [1] Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th Steet New York City, New York. [1] January 12 Birth of Charles Martin cartoonist. [1] January 13 JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows" premieres in Dublin. [1] January 17 Thomas Crapper inventor (flush toilet), dies. [1] Wilhelm F Kohlrausch Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69. [1] January 19 Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty. [1] National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated byUS Congress. [1] January 21 British-Russian military intervention in Persia. [1] January 22 The opera "Germania" is first performed in New York City, New York. [1] January 25 First stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, South Africa vs England). [1] Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem. [1] Léon Walras French economist (School of Lausanne), dies at 75. [1] January 26 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris. [1] January 28 Jose Garcia Robles composer, dies at 74. [1] January 29 Edouard Rod French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e), dies at 52. [1] February 1 First British labour exchange opens. [1] Dragoumis government forms in Greece. [1] Otto Julius Bierbaum German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44. [1] February 7 Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler" premieres in Paris. [1] February 8 Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D Boyce-Chicago). [1] February 15 Albert Fuchs composer, dies at 51. [1] February 16 Albert Heinrich Zabel composer, dies at 75. [1] February 19 English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra". [1] February 20 Boetros Ghali Egyptian premier, murdered. [1] February 21 John Galsworthy's "Justice" premieres in London. [1] February 23 First radio contest held (Philadelphia). [1] George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" premieres in London. [1] February 25 Dali Lama flees Tibet from Chinese troop to British-Indies. [1] March 1 Three passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range: 118 die; Worst snowslide in US history. [1] March 2 Two trains crash in snow storm in Wellington Washington, 118 die. [1] March 5 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon" premieres. [1] March 8 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris France becomes first licensed female pilot. [1] March 10 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke composer, dies at 85. [1] China ends slavery. [1] Karl Lueger Austrian anti-semite/mayor of Vienna, dies at 65. [1] Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing. [1] March 16 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona. [1] Eduard FW Pflüger German physiologist, dies at 80. [1] March 17 Joaquin Valverde composer, dies at 64. [1] March 18 First opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, New York City, New York. [1] March 20 Félix Tournachon [Nadar], French writer/photographer, dies at 89. [1] March 23 First race at Los Angeles Motordrome (first US auto speedway). [1] March 24 83 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March. [1] March 25 Kálmán Mikszáth Hungarian author (Szent Péter Esernyöje), dies at 63. [1] March 26 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick. [1] William H Lewis appointed Assistant Attorney General of US. [1] March 27 Alexander E Agassiz US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74. [1] David Duffle Wood composer, dies at 72. [1] March 28 Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane (the Fabre Hydravion) after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. [1] [5] Edouard [Judas] Colonne French violinist/conductor, dies. [1] March 30 Jean Moréas [Y Papadiamantopoulos], Greek/French poet, dies at 53. [1] April 1 Andreas Aschenbach German painter/engraver, dies at 94. [1] Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk. [1] April 2 Boyd Alexander English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37. [1] Friedrich von Bodelschwingh German theologist, dies at 79. [1] April 3 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mount McKinley climbed. [1] April 12 William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69. [1] April 13 William Orchardson British painter, dies. [1] April 19 Halley's comet seen by naked eye first time this trip (Curacao). [1] April 20 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km. [1] April 21 Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding Connecticut at 74. [1] April 23 International Exhibition opens in Brussels. [1] April 24 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms. [1] April 26 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel Prize 1903), dies at 77. [1] April 27 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights. [1] April 28 First night air flight (Claude Grahame-White, England). [1] April 29 Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam. [1] May 4 Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent. [1] Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy. [1] Tel Aviv founded. [1] May 6 Edward VII King of England (1901-10), dies at 68. [1] England replaces King Edward VII stamp series with King George V. [1] King George V ascends to British throne. [1] May 10 First aircraft air display held (Hendon, England). [1] Halley's Comet closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass. [1] Stanislao Cannizzaro Italian chemist, dies at 85. [1] William Huggins discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies. [1] May 11 Montana's Glacier National Park forms. [1] May 12 Second NAACP conference (New York City). [1] May 14 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins. [1] May 16 Henri E Cross [Delacroix] French painter, dies at 53. [1] US Bureau of Mines forms. [1] May 17 Canada sets the designs for the 1- through 50-cent coins. [1] May 18 Flor van Duyse composer, dies at 66. [1] Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic. [1] May 20 Funeral for Britain's King Edward VII. [1] Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin composer, dies at 88. [1] May 22 Jules Renard French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46. [1] May 27 Robert Koch German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies. [1] May 29 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73. [1] Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers. [1] May 30 44th Belmont Stakes: James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22. [1] May 31 Cape of Good Hope becomes part of the Union of South Africa. [1] Elizabeth Blackwell first woman physician, dies at 89. [1] Glenn Curtiss flies from Albany to New York City. [1] June 2 First roundtrip flight over the English Channel (C.S. Rolls, England). [1] Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea. [1] June 5 J Helffrich discovers asteroids #699 Hela and #700 Auravictrix. [1] June 13 Pilot Charles Hamilton makes first one-day round-trip from New York to Philadelphia. [1] William D Crum, a South Carolina physician, appointed minister to Liberia. [1] June 19 Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash). [1] June 20 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in New York Journal. [1] June 22 First airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland. [1] July 1 Chicago's Comiskey Park opens. [1] Union of South Africa becomes a dominion. [1] July 4 Jack Johnson knocks out James Jeffries in 15 rounds, ending come-back try. [1] July 9 Walter Brookins becomes first to pilot an airplane to one mile altitude. [1] July 10 Johann Galle discoverer of Neptune with telescope, dies. [1] July 12 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #701 Oriola. [1] July 16 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #702 Alauda. [1] August 14 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC. [1] August 22 Japan annexes Korea. [1] September 10 Great Idaho Fire destroys three million acres of timber. [1] September 11 First commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood). [1] September 27 First test flight of a twin-engined airplance (France). [1] October 1 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (first state fair). [1] October 2 First two aircraft collision (Milan Italy). [1] October 4 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England. [1] October 5 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic. [1] October 6 Braves beat Philadelphia Phillies 20-7. [1] October 17 Julia Ward Howe composer (Battle Hymn of the Republic), dies at 91. [1] October 23 Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight. [1] November 1 First issue of "The Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois. [1] November 8 First Washington State election in which women could vote. [1] November 12 First Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon. [1] November 14 First airplane take-off from a naval vessel equipped with a flight-deck, a 50hp Curtiss pusher biplane, from US light cruiser Birmingham at Chesapeake Bay in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. [1] [55.12] November 20 Leo Tolstoy Russia, author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82. [1] Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero. [1] November 27 NY's Pennsylvania Station opens as world's largest railway terminal. [1] December 3 Mary Baker Eddy founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies. [1] Neon lights, first publically seen (Paris Auto Show). [1] December 9 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir. [1] December 10 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics. [1] Pablo Hernandez Salces composer, dies at 76. [1] December 19 First city ordinance requiring white and black residential areas (Baltimore). [1] Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook Pennsylvania. [1] December 21 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies. [1] December 22 US postal savings stamps first issued. [1] December 24 Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain. [1] December 28 The opera "Königskinder" is produced (New York City, New York). [1] December 31 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910. [1] 1911 January 1 Belgian Mining law introduces 9.5-hour work day. [1] South Australia transfers Northern Territory to federal government. [1] January 3 US postal savings bank inaugurated. [1] January 5 Portuguese expel Jesuits. [1] San Francisco has its first air meet. [1] January 7 First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco. [1] Dutch Scouts Organization established in Amsterdam. [1] January 9 Edwin Arthur Jones composer, dies at 57. [1] January 10 First photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego. [1] Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified). [1] January 13 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten" premieres in Berlin. [1] Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay. [1] South Africa's first win over Australia, at Adelaide. [1] January 15 Wilhelm Berger composer, dies at 49. [1] January 16 Pandora becomes first two-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east. [1] January 17 Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly. [1] Francis Galton English scholar, dies at 88. [1] Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] January 18 First aircraft landing on deck of ship, a Curtiss aircraft on armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Bay, California. [1] [55.12] January 24 Carl Eilhardt composer, dies at 67. [1] January 26 Charles Wentworth Dilke English undersecretary of State, dies at 67. [1] Glenn Curtiss pilots first successful hydroplane, San Diego California. [1] Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" premieres, Dresden. [1] January 28 Frenchman Henri Rougier wins first Rally of Monte Carlo. [1] January 30 First rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba. [1] January 31 US Congress names San Francisco as Panamá Canal opening celebration site. [1] February 4 Peter A "Piet" Cronje South Africa Boer General, dies at about 75. [1] February 5 Petrus A Cronjé Transvaal Boer General, dies. [1] Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam. [1] February 6 First old-age home opened in Prescott Arizona. [1] Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey. [1] February 8 Gustaf Fröding Swedish poet (Grabstänk), dies at 50. [1] US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras. [1] Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] February 11 Albert von Rothschild baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66. [1] February 17 First amphibian flight to and from a ship, by Glenn Curtiss, San Diego. [1] February 20 Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov composer, dies at 56. [1] Peter Nicolai von Wilm composer, dies at 76. [1] February 21 Gustav Mahler conducts his last concerto (Berceuse élégique). [1] February 25 The opera "Natoma" is produced (Philadelphia). [1] March 1 Jacobus H van 't Hoff Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel Prize 1901), dies at 58. [1] March 3 First US federal cemetery with Union and Rebel graves opens, Missouri. [1] March 4 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes first socialist congressman in US. [1] March 7 Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68. [1] US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border. [1] Willis Farnsworth, Petaluma California, patents coin-operated locker. [1] March 8 International Women's Day (first celebrated). [1] March 13 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] Jacob M van Bemmelen Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80. [1] March 18 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law. [1] March 20 Jean-Theodore Radoux composer, dies at 75. [1] Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634 Broadway New York City. [1] March 25 146 die in a fire at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City, New York. [1] L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay. [1] March 29 Felix Alexandre Guilmant composer, dies at 74. [1] March 30 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 metre) completed. [1] April 3 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh", premieres in New York City. [1] April 5 MCC tour match vs Jamaica finishes in a tie. [1] Waldorf W Aster acquires the Daily Observer. [1] April 10 Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis composer, dies at 35. [1] April 12 First non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3 hours 56 minutes). [1] April 13 Polo Grounds grandstand and left field bleachers go up in flames. [1] April 15 Georg Knorr German engineer, dies. [1] Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th Steet New York City, New York. [1] April 19 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play", premieres in London. [1] April 30 Portugal approves woman suffrage. [1] May 2 French troops occupy Fès El Bali Morocco. [1] May 9 Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland. [1] May 15 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill. [1] Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates. [1] Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act). [1] May 16 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey United Kingdom. [1] Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf. [1] May 18 Gustav Mahler Austrian composer (Children's Death Songs), dies at 50. [1] President/dictator José Porfirio Diaz of México term ends. [1] May 19 Maurice Ravel's opera "L'Heure Espagnole" premieres in Paris France. [1] May 20 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts vs Sussex. [1] May 23 New York Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft. [1] May 25 Revolution in México overthrows President José Porfirio Diaz. [1] May 28 Stephanus J du Toit South African theologist/journalist (African Bond), dies. [1] May 29 First Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 74.59 mph (120 kph). [1] William Schwenck Gilbert England, writer (Gilbert and Sullivan), dies at 74. [1] June 1 First US group insurance policy written, Passaic, New Jersey. [1] June 6 Nicaragua signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified). [1] June 20 NAACP incorporates (New York). [1] June 22 King George V of England crowned. [1] June 26 Nieuport sets an aircraft speed record of 83 mph (133 kph). [1] June 30 US Assay Office in Saint Louis, Missouri closes. [1] July 3 Ty Cobb hits in his 40th straight game. Does not get a hit next day. [1] July 4 Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 and ends a 40 game hit streak. [1] July 8 Nan Aspinwall is first woman to make solo transcontin. trip by horse. [1] July 14 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Phillipines. [1] July 15 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Phillipines. [1] July 30 J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley. [1] August 10 Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords. [1] August 21 In Paris, France, the Mona Lisa painting is stolen by former Louvre employee Vincenzo Perugia, by hiding it under his coat. His intention is to sell it to an Italian museum. (The painting is recovered in 1914.) [5] [66.9] (August 22 [1]) September 1 M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km. [1] September 4 Garros sets world altitude record of 4,250 m (13,944 ft). [1] September 9 First airmail service (British Post Office). [1] September 14 Piotr Stolypin Russia's Prime Minister assassinated by Mordka Bogrov. [1] September 17 First transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hours 4 min. [1] September 18 Britain's first twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown. [1] September 22 Cy Young at 44, wins his 511th and final game. [1] September 25 Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park. [1] October 10 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day). [1] October At the British Royal Mint, trial strikings are made of a Canadian 1911 silver $1 coin. These pieces later become Canada's most valuable coins, though not truly coins. [3] October 20 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole. [1] October 23 First aerial operation carried by an airplane in warfare, a reconnaissance mission by Italian military over a Turkish encampment at Azizia. [55.8] October 24 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole. [1] October 29 Joseph Pulitzer American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, South Carolina. [1] November 1 First air raid, Italian pilot drops a 4.5-pound bomb on Turkish position at Ain Zara. [55.8] November 5 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing first transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, New York, Sept 17). [1] Italy attacks Turkey, takes Tipoli and Cyrenaica. [1] November 6 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico. [1] November 18 Britain's first seaplane flies. [1] The opera "Lobetanz" first American performance. [1] November 23 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital. [1] December 7 Leslie J Stuart's musical "Betsy" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] December 10 Calbraith Rogers completes first crossing of US by airplane (84 days). [1] Joseph D Hooker British botanist, dies at 94. [1] Tobias Asser given Nobel Prize for peace. [1] December 11 Thomas Ball US sculptor/painter/singer, dies at 92. [1] December 14 Norwegian Roald Amundsen's team, including Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, become the first to reach the South Pole. [1] [5] December 18 Alberto Randegger composer, dies at 79. [1] December 23 Frank Wedekind's "Oaha, die Satire der Satire" premieres in Munich. [1] Karl L Hoschna composer, dies at 34. [1] The opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin). [1] December 25 Birth of Burne Hogarth strip-cartoon artist. [1] Edward Knoblock's "Kismet" premieres in New York City, New York. [1] December 29 San Francisco Symphony is formed. [1] December 30 Sun Yat-sen elected first President of Republic of China. [1] December 31 Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize. [1]