1910 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1910?
- 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.
- March 9, 1910 – The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
- March 31, 1910 – Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent.
- June 1, 1910 – Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition leaves England.
- June 13, 1910 – The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines.
- June 17, 1910 – Aurel Vlaicu pilots a A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
- June 19, 1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- July 16, 1910 – John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
- July 24, 1910 – The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
- 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.
- 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.
- September 12, 1910 – Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler’s rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter)
- October 1, 1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
- October 5, 1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared .
- October 14, 1910 – The English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman Aircraft biplane on Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington, D.C.
- 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 28, 1910 – Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
- December 3, 1910 – Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
- December 21, 1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
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