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1910 Calendar

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•  February 10, 1910 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dog in Chinese astrology.
•  March 3, 1910 – Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
•  April 23, 1910 – Theodore Roosevelt made his The Man in the Arena speech.
•  June 2, 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
•  July 24, 1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
•  September 22, 1910 – The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
•  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.
•  November 20, 1910 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
•  November 21, 1910 – Sailors onboard Brazil’s most powerful military units, including the brand-new warships Ship Brazilian battleship, Ship Brazilian battleship, and Ship Brazilian cruiser, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
•  December 3, 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

•  January 3, 1910 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (d. 2000)
•  April 27, 1910 – Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese-born Taiwanese politician; son of Chiang Kai-shek (d. 1988)
•  June 13, 1910 – Mary Wickes, American actress (d. 1995)
•  June 19, 1910 – Abe Fortas, American jurist (d. 1982)
•  June 29, 1910 – Burgess Whitehead, American baseball player (d. 1993)
•  August 14, 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
•  October 4, 1910 – Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
•  November 20, 1910 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)
•  November 29, 1910 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer, stage actor and director (d. 1961)
•  December 31, 1910 – Carl Dudley, American film director (d. 1973)