The year in history
1910
Someone born in 1910 turns 116 in 2026
1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
What happened in 1910
AbΓ© people in the French West Africa colony of CΓ΄te d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military.
The Great Flood of Paris begins when the Seine overflows its banks.
A coal mine explosion at the Jefferson Clearfield Coal Company mine at Ernest, Pennsylvania, kills 11 miners (10 Hungarian) but another 110 are able to escape.
The Wellington, Washington avalanche sweeps away two Great Northern Railway (U.S.) passenger trains in the Cascade Mountains, killing 96, making it the worst snowslide accident in United States history.
Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen.
The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China.
July β First Girl Guide troops registered in the United Kingdom, under the supervision of Agnes Baden-Powell.
The JapanβKorea Treaty of 1910, by which the Empire of Japan formally annexes the Korean Empire, is signed (it becomes effectively void in 1945, which is formally recognised in 1965).
Infrared photographs are first published by Professor Robert Williams Wood, in the Royal Photographic Society's journal.
The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight takes place in the United States. The flight, made by Wright brothers pilot Philip Parmalee, is between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio.
Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Famous people born in 1910
Josephine McKim
American Olympic swimmer (d. 1992)
January 4 β
Allal al-Fassi
Moroccan politician, writer, poet and Islamic scholar (d. 1974)
January 10 β
Edvard Kardelj
Yugoslav political leader, partisan (d. 1979)
January 27 β
Irena Sendler
Polish humanitarian (d. 2008)
February 15 β
Tancredo Neves
President of Brazil (d. 1985)
March 4 β
Masayoshi Εhira
Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
March 12 β
Hugh Nibley
American scholar and Latter-day Saint apologist (d. 2005)
March 27 β
Abdel Halim Muhammad
Sudanese physician and political activist (d. 2009)
April 10 β
Chiang Ching-kuo
President of the Republic of China (d. 1988)
April 27 β
Dorothy Hodgkin
British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
May 12 β
T-Bone Walker
American singer, guitarist (d. 1975)
May 28 β
Abdul Rahman al-Eryani
President of the Yemen Arab Republic (d. 1998)
June 10 β
Rudolf Kempe
German conductor (d. 1976)
June 14 β
Abe Fortas
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1982)
June 19 β
Govan Mbeki
South African anti-apartheid activist, politician (d. 2001)
July 9 β
Muriel Evans
American actress (d. 2000)
July 20 β
Jane Wyatt
American actress (d. 2006)
August 12 β
Mother Teresa
Macedonian-born Albanian-Indian nun, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
August 26 β
Margaret Lindsay
American film actress (d. 1981)
September 19 β
Attilio Pavesi
Italian Olympic cyclist (d. 2011)
October 3 β
Bianca Tchoubar
French Ukrainian chemist specialising in reaction mechanisms (d. 1990)
October 22 β
Pauli Murray
African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and Episcopal priest (d. 1985)
November 20 β
Louis Prima
American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1978)
December 7 β
Michel Aflaq
Syrian political theorist, founder of Ba'athism (d. 1989)
December 29 β