What Happened in 1910 — Events, Births & Deaths

Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft).

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.

French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.

Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from water runway Étang le Barre, near Marseille.

The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.

The oldest indoor ice hockey arena used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.

Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.

The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

The Royal Canadian Navy is created.

George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.

The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.

Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.

Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for "immoral purposes"; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.

Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.

In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.

John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.

The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.

Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2) and killing 87 people.

The Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, also known as the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty, becomes effective, officially starting the period of Japanese rule in Korea.

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain.

In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first of seven times.

Piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane.

Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.

British ocean liner RMS Olympic is launched.

HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

In their campaign for women's voting rights, hundreds of suffragettes march to the British Parliament in London. Several are beaten by police, newspaper attention embarrasses the authorities, and the march is dubbed Black Friday.

Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.

Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.

Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.

An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

Lucy Stanton, American activist (born 1831)