Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
George Orson Welles was an American actor and filmmaker. Remembered for his innovative work in film, radio, and theatre, he is considered among the greatest and most influential fi…
Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1985)
Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist and historian, first known for his 1946 best-seller Thunder Out of China, reporting from China during World War II and th…
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Sir Denis Thatcher, 1st Baronet, was an English businessman and the husband of Margaret Thatcher, who served as the first female British prime minister from 1979 to 1990; thus, he …
Denis Thatcher, English businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 2003)
Hilda Bernstein OLG was a British-born author, artist, and an activist against apartheid and for women's rights.
Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author and activist (died 2006)
Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal…
Paul Samuelson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced US President W…
The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in …
Patrick Pearse gives his famous speech "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" at O'Donovan Rossa's funeral in Dublin.
The 12th Army was an army level command of the German Army in World War I formed in August 1915 by the redesignation of Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz. It served exclusively on the Eastern …
World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explos…
A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from…
Leo Max Frank was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintend…
Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John…
The 1915 Galveston hurricane was a tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in the Galveston area in August 1915. Widespread damage was also documented throughout its path acr…
A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
Henrik Sandberg was a Danish film producer. He produced 39 films between 1955 and 1979. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was the Danish film director A. W. Sandberg.
Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (died 1993)
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was a British actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as …
Renée Asherson, English actress (died 2014)
Peter Copley was an English television, film and stage actor.
Peter Copley, English actor (died 2008)
Major Warren Frederick Martin Clemens was a British-Australian colonial administrator and military officer. In late 1941 and early 1942, while serving as a District Officer in the …
Martin Clemens, Scottish soldier (died 2009)
Doris Fisher was an American singer and songwriter, collaborating both as lyricist and composer. She co-wrote many popular songs in the 1940s, including "Whispering Grass", "You Al…
Doris Fisher, American singer-songwriter (died 2003)
Margaret Rose Mount was an English actress. As a child, she found acting an escape from an unhappy home life. After playing in amateur productions, she was taken on by a repertory …
Peggy Mount, English actress (died 2001)
Stewart Edward Hart was a Canadian amateur and professional wrestler, wrestling booker, promoter, and coach. He is best known for founding and handling Stampede Wrestling, a profes…
Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (died 2003)
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces…
Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1981)
Joff Ellen, was an Australian entertainer, TV pioneer, actor and comedian.
Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (died 1999)
Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan MBE, ICS was an Indian Civil Service officer and a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.
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Stanley Donald Stookey was an American inventor. He had 60 patents in his name related to glass and ceramics. His discoveries and inventions have contributed to the development of …
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Vernon Alley was an American jazz bassist.
Vernon Alley, American bassist (died 2004)