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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 8, 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
•  May 6, 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
•  May 31, 1910 – Creation of the Union of South Africa.
•  August 22, 1910 – Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
•  September 22, 1910 – The Duke of York’s Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.
•  October 6, 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total).
•  October 22, 1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
•  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).
•  November 23, 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

•  January 28, 1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
•  April 26, 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer and creator of Godzilla (d. 1997)
•  May 8, 1910 – Mary Lou Williams, American singer (d. 1981)
•  May 23, 1910 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
•  June 9, 1910 – Robert Cummings, American actor (d. 1990)
•  June 10, 1910 – Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
•  June 11, 1910 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
•  August 8, 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress (d. 1999)
•  August 23, 1910 – Giuseppe Meazza, Italian footballer (d. 1979)
•  August 28, 1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)