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
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 '.
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Births
January-April
January 5 - Jack Lovelock , New Zealand athlete
January 7 - Orval Faubus , Governor of Arkansas , segregationist (d. 1994 )
January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova , Russian dancer (d. 1988 )
January 12 - Luise Rainer , actress
January 16 - Dizzy Dean , Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974 )
January 23 - Django Reinhardt , guitarist (d. 1953 )
February 5 - Francisco Varallo , footballer
February 6 - Irmgard Keun , author (d. 1982 )
February 7 - Max Bense , philosopher (d. 1990 )
February 9 - Jacques Monod , biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (d. 1976 )
February 13 - William Bradford Shockley , physicist and social commentator
February 27 - Joan Bennett , actress (d. 1990 )
March 9 - Samuel Barber , American composer (d. 1981 )
March 11 - Robert Havemann , chemist (d. 1982 )
March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt , Danish actor (d. 1985 )
March 23 - Akira Kurosawa , Japanese film director
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 , chemist (d. 1994 )
May 12 - Rudolf Kempe , German conductor
May 22 - Johnny Olson , game show announcer (d. 1985 )
May 23 - Scatman Crothers , actor, musician (d. 1986 )
May 23 - Artie Shaw , clarinetist, bandleader
May 28 - T-Bone Walker , blues singer (d. 1975 )
May 30 - Inge Meysel , actress
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 , actress (d. 1956 )
June 23 - Gordon B. Hinckley , president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
July 4 - Gloria Stuart , actress
July 11 - Irene Hervey , actress (d. 1998 )
July 14 - William Hanna , animator, half of Hanna-Barbera animation team (d. 2001 )
July 14 - Vincent Brome , biographer and novelist (d. 2004 )
August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer , composer and pioneer of musique concrète
August 26 - Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa
September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt , author, personality (d. 1990 )
October 14 - John Wooden , legendary basketball coach
October 23 - Hayden Rorke , actor
November 22 - Amy Elizabeth Thorpe , American spy in WW II
December 15 - John Hammond , record producer (d. 1987 )
December 19 - Jean Genet , French novelist, playwright and poet (d. 1986 )
December 29 - Ronald Coase , economist
Frank Abbandando , Mafia hitman
Konsta Jylhä , Finnish folk violinist
Deaths
January 27 - Thomas Crapper , inventor
April 21 - Mark Twain , American novelist
April 26 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian writer (b. 1832 )
May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot , singer and composer
May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch , German bacteriologist
May 29 - Mily Balakirev , Russian composer (b. 1837 )
May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell , first female physician in the United States
July 4 - Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer (b. 1835 )
July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle , German astronomer
October 15 - Stanley Ketchel , American middleweight boxer (murdered)
November 15 - Wilhelm Raabe , German novelist
November 20 - Leo Tolstoy , Russian novelist
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