WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JULY 1910
Find out what all happened January to July 1910

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (19. June 1910)

The University of the Philippines College of Engineering is established. This unit of the university is said to be the largest degree granting unit in the Philippines. (13. June 1910)

The Royal Canadian Navy is created. (4. May 1910)

The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. (8. February 1910)

Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France. (28. March 1910)

The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi. (30. March 1910)

The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910. (24. July 1910)

George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII. (6. May 1910)

Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members), since Horatio Nelson. (1. January 1910)

The Earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley. (18. May 1910)

The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come. (25. June 1910)

John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia. (16. July 1910)

Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vents to atmosphere. (14. March 1910)

A fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, kills 312. (27. March 1910)

SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched. (12. April 1910)

Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325 ft (99 m). (15. January 1910)

The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York. (13. January 1910)

French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. (8. March 1910)

Six North Staffordshire Pottery towns federate to form modern Stoke-on-Trent. (31. March 1910)

Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer. (25. June 1910)

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