1910


Events:

   * January 13 - The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest
     broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan
     Opera.
   * February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D.
     Boyce.
   * March 3 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his
     retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full
     time to being a philanthropist.
   * March 17 - Luther Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls
     (formally announced in 1912).
   * March 28 - Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane after
     taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
   * May 6 - George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of
     his father, Edward VII.
   * May 11 - An act of the United States Congress establishes Glacier
     National Park in Montana.
   * May 16 - The United States 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.
   * July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim
     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 22 - Japan annexes Korea.
   * October 5th - Portugal becomes a republic.
   * December 16 - Henri Coanda makes first short flight in a plane with a
     jet engine.

Births:

   * January 7 - Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas, segregationist (+ 1994)
   * January 8 - Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, dancer (+ 1988)
   * January 12 - Luise Rainer, actress
   * January 16 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1974)
   * January 23 - Django Reinhardt, guitarist (+ 1953)
   * February 6 - Irmgard Keun, author (+ 1982)
   * February 7 - Max Bense, philosopher (+ 1990)
   * February 9 - Jacques Monod, biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in
     Physiology or Medicine in 1965 (+ 1976)
   * February 13 - William Bradford Shockley, physicist, social commentator
   * February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress (+ 1990)
   * March 9 - Samuel Barber, American composer
   * March 11 - Robert Havemann, chemist (+ 1982)
   * March 13 - Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (+ 1985)
   * March 23 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director
   * March 27 - John Pierce, electrical engineer
   * April 4 - Juri Pawlowitsch German, writer (+ 1967)
   * May 12 - ? Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, chemist (+ 1994)
   * May 23 - Scatman Crothers, actor, musician (+ 1986)
   * May 23 - Artie Shaw, clarinetist, bandleader
   * May 28 - T-Bone Walker, blues singer (+ 1975)
   * May 30 - Inge Meysel, actress
   * July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
   * August 14 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete
   * December 19 - Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
   * Frank Abbandando, Mafia hitman
   * Mother Theresa
   * Ronald Coase

Deaths:

   * January 27 - Thomas Crapper, inventor
   * April 21 - Mark Twain
   * May 6 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
   * May 18 - Pauline Garcia-Viardot, singer/composer
   * May 27 - Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (*1843)
   * May 29 - Mily Balakirev, composer
   * May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United
     States
   * July 19 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (* 1812)
   * November 20 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and
     Peace)

Nobel Prizes

   * Physics - Johannes Diderik van der Waals
   * Chemistry - Otto Wallach
   * Medicine - Albrecht Kossel
   * Literature - Paul Johann Ludwig Heyse
   * Peace - Permanent International Peace Bureau