Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy fr…
The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in…
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf …
The form of government in the Republic of Finland is officially confirmed. For this reason, July 17 is known as the…
An airship, dirigible balloon or dirigible is a type of aerostat (lighter-than-air) aircraft that can navigate through the air flying under its own power. Aerostats use buoyancy fr…
The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a violent racial conflict between white Americans and black Americans that began on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, on July 27 and ended on A…
The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537…
Daniel Peter O'Herlihy was an Irish actor. His best-known roles included his Oscar-nominated portrayal of the title character in Luis Buñuel's Robinson Crusoe (1954), Brigadier Gen…
Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (died 2005)
Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. was an American film and television actor. He played Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953 and portrayed leading characters from Karl May's no…
Lex Barker, American actor (died 1973)
Ella Rosa Giovianna Oliva Grasso was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 83rd governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, …
Ella T
The Constitution of the German Reich, usually known as the Weimar Constitution, was the constitution that governed Germany during the Weimar Republic era. The constitution created …
Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
Licio Gelli was an Italian Freemason, businessman, and terrorist. A fascist volunteer in his youth, he is chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal and in the Bolo…
Licio Gelli, Italian financer (died 2015)
Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky, codenamed Hero and Yoga was a Soviet military intelligence (GRU) colonel during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Penkovsky informed the United States a…
Oleg Penkovsky, Russian colonel (died 1963)
David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. He …
David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (died 2010)
Peter Seeger was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and left-wing social activist. He was a fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s and had a string of hit records in the e…
Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (died 2014)
José Pascual Antonio Aguilar Márquez Barraza, known as Antonio Aguilar, was a Mexican singer and actor. He recorded over 150 albums, which sold 25 million copies, and acted in more…
Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, actor, and screenwriter (died 2007)
Gustav Naan was a Soviet and Estonian physicist and philosopher. According to the Estonian Encyclopedia's definition, he "wrote plenty of irritating publicist articles".
Gustav Naan, Russian-Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1994)
Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company,…
Margot Fonteyn, British ballerina (died 1991)
Władziu Valentino Liberace was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades o…
Liberace, American pianist and entertainer (died 1987)
Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the P…
Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1999)
María Eva Duarte de Perón, better known as Eva "Evita" Perón, was an Argentine politician, activist, and actress who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until her deat…
Eva Perón, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of Argentina (died 1952)
Ramon Margalef López was a Spanish biologist and ecologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, one of the most…
Ramon Margalef, Spanish ecologist and biologist (died 2004)
Georgie Auld was a Canadian jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader.
Georgie Auld, Canadian-American saxophonist, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1990)
Mitja Ribičič was a Slovenian and Yugoslav communist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia—the only Slovenian to hold the office—from 1969 to 1971.
Mitja Ribičič, Italian-Slovenian soldier and politician, 25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (died 2013)
George Leslie Goebel was an American humorist, actor, and comedian. He was best known as the star of his own weekly comedy variety television series, The George Gobel Show, on NBC …
George Gobel, American comedian (died 1991)
George Phydias Mitchell was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas.
George P
Paul Emile François Henri Vanden Boeynants was a Belgian politician. He served as the prime minister of Belgium for two brief periods.
Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2001)