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1910
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
Events
January-April
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January - In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and the king to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
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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).
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February 20- Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
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19 March - In USA, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
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April - Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
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27 April - Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog found South Africa Party.
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27 April - British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
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29 April - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
May-October
November-December
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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.
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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.
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November 23- Last execution in Sweden (by guillotine) - murderer Johan Ander
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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).
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December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a jet engine.
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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
Births
January-April
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January 5 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete
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January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (d. 1994)
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January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova , Russian dancer (d. 1988)
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January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
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January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
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January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (d. 1953)
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February 5 - Francisco Varallo, footballer
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February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (d. 1982)
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February 7 - Max Bense , philosopher (d. 1990)
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February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976)
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February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist and social commentator
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February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (d. 1990)
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March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
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March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (d. 1982)
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March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
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March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
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March 27 - John Pierce , electrical engineer
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April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German , writer (d. 1967)
May-December
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May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996)
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May 12 - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (d. 1994)
- May 12 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor
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May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer (d. 1985)
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May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (d. 1986)
- May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
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May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (d. 1975)
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May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress
- May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
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June 14 - Rudolf Kempe, German conductor (d. 1976)
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June 18 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (d. 1998)
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June 22 - Peter Pears, English tenor (d. 1986)
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June 23 - Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (d. 1987)
- June 23 - Peaches Browning, actress (d. 1956)
- June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
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July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress (d. 1998)
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July 14 - William Hanna, animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001)
- July 14 - Vincent Brome, biographer and novelist (d. 2004)
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August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrète
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August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa
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September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author, personality (d. 1990)
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October 14 - John Wooden, legendary basketball coach
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October 23 - Hayden Rorke , actor
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November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe , American spy in WW II
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December 15 - John Hammond, record producer (d. 1987)
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December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986)
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December 29 - Ronald Coase, economist
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Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman
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Konsta Jylhä, Finnish folk violinist
Deaths
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January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
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April 21 - Mark Twain, American novelist
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April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian writer (b. 1832)
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May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
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May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer and composer
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May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
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May 29 - Mily Balakirev, Russian composer (b. 1837)
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May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States
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July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (b. 1835)
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July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer
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October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, American middleweight boxer (murdered)
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November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe, German novelist
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November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
Last updated: 10-20-2005 10:36:33
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