1910 Calendar
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1910 Historical Event(s)
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 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 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 28, 1910
– Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
May 6, 1910
– George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
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.
July 15, 1910
– In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer’s disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
September 18, 1910
– In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage.
October 20, 1910
– The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Who Were Born On 1910?
January 28, 1910
– Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
February 21, 1910
– Douglas Bader, British pilot (d. 1982)
March 1, 1910
– David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
April 11, 1910
– António de Spínola, Portuguese politician (d. 1996)
May 28, 1910
– T-Bone Walker, American singer (d. 1975)
August 29, 1910
– Vivien Thomas, African American surgeon (d. 1985)
September 5, 1910
– Phiroze Palia, Indian cricketer (d. 1981)
October 8, 1910
– Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party (d. 2000)
October 12, 1910
– Robert Fitzgerald, American poet and translator (d. 1985)
October 23, 1910
– Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (d. 1993)