WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 1910
Find out what all happened January to June 1910

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

Robert Falcon Scott's second South Pole expedition leaves Cardiff. (1. June 1910)

Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno. (12. March 1910)

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

The Westmoreland County coal strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins. (9. March 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 creation of the Union of South Africa. (31. May 1910)

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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)

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

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. (2. June 1910)

Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight. (17. June 1910)

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