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1910 Calendar

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•  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.
•  February 10, 1910 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 14, 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
•  March 30, 1910 – The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
•  May 11, 1910 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
•  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.
•  July 4, 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
•  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.
•  October 11, 1910 – Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri.
•  December 3, 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

•  February 27, 1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
•  March 1, 1910 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
•  March 5, 1910 – Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (d. 2007)
•  June 8, 1910 – John W. Campbell, American publisher and editor (d. 1971)
•  June 14, 1910 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
•  June 17, 1910 – Red Foley, American musician (d. 1968)
•  July 24, 1910 – Harry Horner, American art director (d. 1994)
•  September 19, 1910 – Jack Dunham, American animator and television producer (d. 2009)
•  October 1, 1910 – José Enrique Moyal, Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)