WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1910
Find out what all happened June to October 1910

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

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

Airship America launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft. (15. October 1910)

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

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

Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright Brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert-St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. (11. October 1910)

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

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

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

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 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)

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

The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the "Big Blowup" or the "Big Burn") occurs in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2). (20. August 1910)

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

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)

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