1910

1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

January-April

• January – In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
• January 15- In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
• February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
• 19 March – In USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
• April – Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
• 27 April – Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog found South Africa Party.
• 27 April – British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
• 29 April – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.

May-October

• May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
• May 11 – An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
• May 16 – The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
• May 18 – The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
• May 31 – creation of the Union of South Africa.
• June – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by Nobel Peace Prize recipient John R. Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.
• June 22 – First flight of Zeppelin airship.
• July 2 – Demonstrations in France against public executions.
• July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
• July 24 – James MacGillivray publishes first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
• August 14 – fire at World Exhibition in Brussels destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.
• August 22 – Japan annexes Korea.
• September 1 – the Vatican introduces a compulsory oath against modernism, to be taken by all priests upon ordination.
• October 1 – bomb explodes on the Los Angeles Times building – 21 dead, several injured. James B. McNamara and Joseph J. McNamara later arrested and sentenced.
• October 5 – Portugal becomes a republic. King Manuel II of Portugal flees to England.
• October 10 – Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is established at Columbia University.

November-December

• November 7 – First air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight occurs between Dayton, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
• November 20 – Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero denounces President Porfirio Díaz, declares himself president, and calls for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico.
• November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) – murderer Johan Ander
• December British Prime Minister Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour, 42; Irish Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 – making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
• December 16 – Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
• December 16 – In Houndsditch, London, four (Latvian) anarchists shoot three policemen in botched raid on a jewellers – three are arrested, other members of the gang escape but are later (January 1911)cornered in the 'siege of Sidney Street'.

Unknown dates

• Japan occupies Korea.
• Bubonic Plague in Manchuria
• TNT
• Rebellion in Albania
• Ajaha cymbals founded.

Births

January-April

• January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
• January 7 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
• January 8 – Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1988)
• January 12 – Luise Rainer, German-born actress
• January 16 – Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
• January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
• February 5 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
• February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982)
• February 7 – Max Bense, philosopher (d. 1990)
• February 9 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
• February 13 – William Bradford Shockley, English physicist and social commentator (b. 1989)
• February 27 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
• March 9 – Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
• March 11 – Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
• March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)
• March 27 – John Pierce, electrical engineer
• April 4 – Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (d. 1967)

May-December

• May 12 – Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
• May 12 – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, British chemist (d. 1994)
• May 22 – Johnny Olson, American game show announcer (d. 1985)
• May 23 – Scatman Crothers, American actor and musician (d. 1986)
• May 23  – Artie Shaw, American clarinetist and bandleader (d. 2004)
• May 28 – T-Bone Walker, American blues singer (d. 1976)
• May 30 – Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
• May 30  – Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
• June 14 – Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
• June 18 – E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
• June 22 – Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
• June 23 – Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
• June 23 – Peaches Browning, American actress (d. 1956)
• June 23 – Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• July 4 – Gloria Stuart, American actress
• July 11 – Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
• July 14 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
• July 14  – Vincent Brome, English biographer and novelist (d. 2004)
• August 14 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (d. 1995)
• August 26 – Mother Teresa, Albanian nun and humanitarian (d. 1997)
• September 23 – Elliott Roosevelt, American author and World War II hero (d. 1990)
• October 14 – John Wooden, American basketball coach
• October 23 – Hayden Rorke, actor
• November 22 – Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, American spy in World War II
• December 15 – John Hammond, American record producer (d. 1987)
• December 19 – Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
• December 29 – Ronald Coase, British economist
• Frank Abbandando, American Mafia hitman (d. 1942)
• Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist (d. 1984)

Deaths

• January 27 – Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
• April 21 – Mark Twain, American novelist (b. 1835)
• April 26 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832)
• May 6 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
• May 18 – Pauline Garcia-Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (b. 1821)
• May 27 – Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (b. 1843)
• May 29 – Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
• May 31 – Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
• July 4 – Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
• July 19 – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
• October 15 – Stanley Ketchel, American boxer (murdered) (b. 1886)
• October 30 – Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss founder of the Red Cross (b. 1828)
• November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer (b. 1831)
• November 20 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer (b. 1828)

Nobel Prizes

• Chemistry – Otto Wallach
• Literature – Paul Heyse
• Medicine – Albrecht Kossel
• Peace – Permanent International Peace Bureau
• Physics – Johannes Diderik van der Waals