1910

1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. It was the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century and the first year of the 1910s.

Events 
 January – In Greece, the Military League forces parliament and George I of Greece to summon National Assembly to revise Constitution.
 January 15 – In the United Kingdom, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of David Lloyd George's (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party), 273).
 January 16 – Constant rains in Paris, France cause the Seine to overflow its banks, flooding the city. All but one line of the Paris Métro become filled with water, effectively draining water from the city.
 February 20 – Boutros Ghali, first native born prime minister of Egypt, assassinated.
 March – Uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania.
 March 19 – In America, Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence Committee membership.
 April – Albanian revolt suppressed by Turkish army.
 April 27 – Louis Botha and James Hertzog (James Barry Munnik Hertzog) found South Africa Party.
 April 27 – British House of Commons passes Lloyd George's 1909 'People's Budget' for second time; passed by House of Lords, 28 April
 April 29 – Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
 Korea becomes a colony of Japan.
 Albrecht Kossel, German doctor, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Births 
 January 5 – Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)
 January 7 – Orval Faubus, Governor of Arkansas (d. 1994)
 January 8 – Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian dancer (d. 1998)
 January 12 – Luise Rainer, German-born actress
 January 16 – Dizzy Dean, baseball player (d. 1974)
 January 21 – Albert Rosellini, Governor of Washington (d. 2011)
 January 23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
 January 30 – C Subramaniam, Indian politician ( d. 2000)
 February 5 – Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
 February 6 – Irmgard Keun, German writer (d. 1982)
 February 9 – Jacques Monod, French biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1976)
 February 10 – Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1969)
 February 13 – William Shockley, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
 February 15 – Stanley Vann, British musician (d. 2010)
 February 27 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
 March 1 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
 March 1 – David Niven, English actor (d. 1983)
 March 5 – Momofuko Ando, Taiwanese businessman (d. 2007)
 March 9 – Samuel Barber, American composer (d. 1981)
 March 11 – Robert Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
 March 13 – Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
 March 23 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (d. 1998)
 April 10 – Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter (d. 1999)
 April 10 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (d. 2004)
 April 23 – Simone Simon, French actress (d. 2005)
 April 30 – Al Lewis, American actor (died in 2006)
 May 8 – Mary Lou Williams, American musician (d. 1981)
 May 12 – Johan Ferrier, Surinamese President (d. 2010)
 May 12 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (d. 2010)
 May 19 – Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949)
 May 23 – Artie Shaw, American musician (d. 2004)
 May 28 – T-Bone Walker, American musician (d. 1975)
 September 3 – Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (d. 2006)
 October 6 – Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
 October 14 – John Wooden, Basketball coach (d. 2010)
 December 29 – Ronald Coase, British economist

 

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