1910 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1910?
- 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 8, 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
- 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.
- March 14, 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
- April 29, 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People’s Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
- May 4, 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
- May 6, 1910 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
- May 18, 1910 – The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
- 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 19, 1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
- August 20, 1910 – The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) occurred in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 e6acre.
- 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 1, 1910 – Sport Club Corinthians Paulista is created in São Paulo.
- 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 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 10, 1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis’ opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- November 23, 1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
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