Explore 1013 historical events from 1910–1919.
Mahn Win Maung was a Burmese politician who served as the third president of Burma.
Win Maung, 3rd President of Union of Myanmar (died 1989)
Arumugam Thiagarajah was a Sri Lankan Tamil teacher, politician and Member of Parliament. He died in May 1981, a day after being shot and injured an attack by a militant Tamil grou…
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Carl Burgos was an American comic book and advertising artist best known for creating the original Human Torch in Marvel Comics #1, during the period historians and fans call the G…
Carl Burgos, American illustrator (died 1984)
Nasiba Jahangir gizi Zeynalova was a Soviet and Azerbaijani actress. People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1967).
Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (died 2004)
Estella B. Diggs was an American businesswoman, writer and politician from New York.
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Hanfried Lenz was a German mathematician, who is mainly known for his work in geometry and combinatorics.
Hanfried Lenz, German mathematician and academic (died 2013)
Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, was an American-born British and Swiss violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain. He is widely considered one of the…
Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (died 1999)
Yiannis Moralis was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s". He is a person who carried weight in many fields and found himself to be eq…
Yiannis Moralis, Greek painter and educator (died 2009)
The mines on the Italian front during the First World War comprised a series of underground explosive charges of varying sizes, secretly planted between 1916 and 1918 by Austro-Hun…
World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against B…
Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic. He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the…
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Is
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia, New Zealand and Tonga that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, confli…
Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at ANZAC Cove
Sinah Estelle Kelley was an American chemist who worked on the mass production of penicillin.
Sinah Estelle Kelley, American chemist (died 1982)
Aloysius Martin Thesz, known by the ring name Lou Thesz, was an American professional wrestler and wrestling coach. Considered to be one of the last true shooters in professional w…
Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (died 2002)
Carl Jerome Barber was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. He had seven wins on tour, including a major title, the PGA Championship in 1961.
Jerry Barber, American golfer (died 1994)
Eyvind Earle was an American artist, author and illustrator, noted for his contribution to the background illustration and styling of Disney's animated films in the 1950s. The Metr…
Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (died 2000)
Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions o…
Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (died 2013)
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against B…
Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge
World War I, or the First World War, also known as The Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major areas of conflict included …
World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrend
The Easter Rising, also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against B…
Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easte
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of Mainland Southeast Asia. With an area of about 331,000 square kilometres and a pop…
Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed
The voyage of the James Caird was a journey of 1,300 kilometres (700 nmi) from Elephant Island in the South Shetland Islands through the Southern Ocean to South Georgia, undertaken…
Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles fr
Morris Langlo West was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels The Devil's Advocate (1959), The Shoes of the Fisherman (1963) and The Clowns of God (1981).…
Morris West, Australian author and playwright (died 1999)
Robert Hugh McWilliams Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.
Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr