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January 10–20 – The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field is held near Los Angeles, California (the first aviation meet to be held in the United States). [1] January 10 – Joyce Hall founds Hallmark Cards. January 24 – Dyer, Indiana is incorporated.
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 ...
1910s in North America by city (2 C) 1910s in Costa Rica (9 C) 1910s in Cuba (11 C, 5 P) D. 1910s in the Dominican Republic (8 C) G. 1910s in Greenland (1 C) 1910s in ...
The Homestead Act granted 160 acres (65 hectares) to farmers who lived on the land for 5 years or allowed the farmer to purchase the land after 6 months for $1.25 per acre ($3.1/ha). Even as America's westward expansion allowed over 400 million acres (1,600,000 km 2) of new land to be put under cultivation, between 1870 and 1910 the number of ...
1910s in the United States by state or territory (63 C) 1910s disestablishments in the United States (61 C, 3 P) 1910s establishments in the United States (65 C)
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.
December 1910 events in North America (1 C) C. 1910 events in Canada by month ...
1910 Headset. A headset is a headphone combined with a microphone. Headsets provide the equivalent functionality of a telephone handset with hands-free operation. They are used in call centers and by people in telephone-intensive jobs. The first-ever headset was invented in 1910, by a Stanford University student named Nathaniel Baldwin. [132]