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Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States. November 22 – U.S. Senator Aldrich and A.P. Andrews (Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Department), along with many of the country's leading financiers, who together represent about 1/6 of the world's wealth, are witnessed leaving Hoboken ...
1910 – Mann–Elkins Act; 1910 – Mann Act; 1911 – Supreme Court breaks up Standard Oil; 1911 – Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire; 1911 – First Indianapolis 500 is staged; Ray Harroun is the first winner; 1912 – RMS Titanic sank; 1912 – New Mexico and Arizona become states; 1912 – Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette ...
The 1910s (pronounced "nineteen-tens" often shortened to the "'10s" or the "Tens") was the decade that began on January 1, 1910, and ended on December 31, 1919.. The 1910s represented the culmination of European militarism which had its beginnings during the second half of the 19th century.
March 10 – Harriet Tubman, African-American abolitionist, humanitarian and Civil War Union spy (born c. 1822) March 11 – John Shaw Billings, military and medical leader (born 1838) March 31 – J. P. Morgan, financier and banker (born 1837) May 1 – John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (born 1850)
Adams, James Truslow, ed. Dictionary of American History (5 Vols. 1940) Kutler, Stanley I. ed. Dictionary of American History (3rd Edition 10 Volumes, 2003) Martin, Michael. Dictionary of American History (Littlefield, Adams 1989) Morris. Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of American History (7th ed. 1996) Purvis, Thomas L.
1910 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1910th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 910th year of the 2nd millennium, the 10th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1910, the ...
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic (15th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin., university textbook; Lynch, Timothy J., ed. (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, 2 vol. Oup USA. ISBN 978-0199759255. Paxson, Frederic L. Recent History Of The United States 1865–1929 (1929) online old survey by scholar
January 28 – U.S. troops leave Cuba after being there since the Spanish–American War. February 2 – Centennial anniversary of the foundation of Miami University (Ohio), which is celebrated. February 12 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of Abraham ...