What happened in 1910

19 entries recorded for 1910, listed by date. That was 116 years ago.

1910 at a glance

January 15
Buffalo Bill Dam
Historical event
Construction was completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam, then the tallest dam in the world, on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

February 8
William D. Boyce
Historical event
William D. Boyce established the Boy Scouts of America, expanding the Scout Movement into the United States.
February 19
Old Trafford
Historical event
Old Trafford, a football stadium in Greater Manchester, England, hosted its inaugural match, between Manchester United and Liverpool.

March 8
Raymonde de Laroche
Historical event
French aviator Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot's licence.
March 9
1910–1911 Westmoreland County coal strike
Historical event
A seventeen-month-long strike, which at its peak involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, U.S.
March 15
Midway-Sunset Oil Field
Historical event
Prospectors drilled into a pressurized deposit within the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in California, resulting in the largest accidental oil spill in history, which eventually released 9 million barrels (1.4 million m3) of crude oil over 18 months.
March 31
Federation of Stoke-on-Trent
Historical event
Six English towns amalgamated to form a single county borough called Stoke-on-Trent, the first union of its type.

April 12
SMS Zrínyi
Historical event
SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, was launched in Trieste.
April 28
Louis Paulhan
Historical event
Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester, having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race.
April 29
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Historical event
Parliament passed the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the express intent of redistributing wealth.

May 11
Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Historical event
Glacier National Park was established in the U.S. state of Montana.

June 25
United States Congress
Historical event
The United States Congress passed the Mann Act, which prohibited the interstate transport of females for "immoral purposes".

July 24
Ottoman Empire
Historical event
Ottoman forces captured the city of Shkodër, ending the Albanian revolt of 1910 (depicted).

August 20
Washington (state)
Historical event
Hurricane-force winds combined hundreds of small fires in the U.S. states of Washington and Idaho into the Devil's Broom fire, which burned about 4,700 square miles (12,100 km²), the largest fire in recorded U.S. history.

September 12
Gustav Mahler
Historical event
Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, one of the largest-scale choral works in the classical concert repertoire and popularly known as the "Symphony of a Thousand", was first performed in Munich.

October 21
HMS Niobe (1897)
Historical event
HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy.

November 14
Eugene Burton Ely
Historical event
Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
November 22
South American dreadnought race
Historical event
The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.

December 3
Freda Du Faur
Historical event
Freda Du Faur became the first woman to climb Aoraki / Mount Cook, the highest peak in New Zealand.

This site records 19 entries for 1910, including Buffalo Bill Dam on January 15. They are listed below by date.

116 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 1910 turns 116 this year.

1910 falls in the 20th century, in the 1910s.

Greatest Generation (1901–1927). Grew up in the Depression and fought in the Second World War.

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