WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1910
Find out what all happened January to May 1910

American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his "The Man in the Arena" speech. (23. April 1910)

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

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. (29. April 1910)

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

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

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

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)

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

An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana. (11. May 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)

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

Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England. (28. April 1910)

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

Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy. (3. March 1910)

The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins. (9. March 1910)

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

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

The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people. (1. March 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)