WHAT ALL HAPPENED JULY TO DECEMBER 1910
Find out what all happened July to December 1910

Tau Epsilon Phi: Tau Epsilon Phi Fraternity is founded on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, New York. (10. October 1910)

Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1910, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II. (22. August 1910)

Eleftherios Venizelos is elected Prime Minister of Greece for the first time (7 times in total). (6. October 1910)

Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. (3. December 1910)

The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. (22. September 1910)

In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer. (15. July 1910)

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

The hull of the RMS Olympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (20. October 1910)

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. (29. August 1910)

Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21. (1. October 1910)

Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter) (12. September 1910)

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910. (10. November 1910)

The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. (7. November 1910)

The ocean liner SS France, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched. (20. September 1910)

African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States. (4. July 1910)

HMS Niobe arrives in Halifax Harbour to become the first ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. (21. October 1910)

Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and exiled. (26. September 1910)

Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London. (22. October 1910)

Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher. (14. November 1910)

In Amsterdam, 25,000 demonstrate for general suffrage. (18. September 1910)

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