Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
Marta Eggerth was a Hungary-born American actress and singer from "The Silver Age of Operetta". Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fr…
Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress and singer (died 2013)
Glenn Theodore Seaborg was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Pri…
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The Russian Empire spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the l…
Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150
Rhodes is the largest of Greece's Dodecanese islands and their historical capital; it is the ninth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Administratively, Rhodes constitutes a s…
Italy occupies the Ottoman island of Rhodes
Eve Arnold, OBE (honorary), FRPS (honorary) was an American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She…
Eve Arnold, Russian-American photojournalist (died 2012)
Marcel Camus was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro, which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Fi…
Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (died 1982)
Kathleen Mary Ferrier was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong a…
Kathleen Ferrier, English operatic singer (died 1953)
Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Ch…
Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Cong…
The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published
The Royal Flying Corps (RFC) was the air arm of the British Army before and during the First World War until it merged with the Royal Naval Air Service on 1 April 1918 to form the …
The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom
The cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century. Indian cinema…
The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of M…
Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage
On Sunday, June 30, 1912, a violent and deadly tornado devastated the city of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The tornado, also known as the Regina Cyclone or the Regina tornado of 1…
The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan
Ruth Osburn was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus. She was born in Shelbyville, Missouri, United States.
Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower (died 1994)
Eugene Earl Bostic was an American alto saxophonist. Bostic's recording career was diverse, his musical output encompassing jazz, swing, jump blues and the post-war American rhythm…
Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (died 1965)
Alfred Elton van Vogt was a Canadian-born American science fiction writer. His fragmented, bizarre narrative style influenced later science fiction writers, including Philip K. Dic…
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Jacques de Bourbon, Count of Busset was a French novelist, essayist and politician. He was elected to the Académie française on 4 June 1981. He was a senior member of the House of …
Jacques de Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (died 2001)
Zohra Mumtaz Sehgal was an Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer. Having begun her career as a member of a contemporary dance troupe, she transitioned into acting roles beginni…
Zohra Sehgal, Indian actress, dancer, and choreographer (died 2014)
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Cabral Couceiro was a Portuguese soldier, colonial governor, monarchist politician and counter-revolutionary; he was notable for his role during the colo…
Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in…
The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the sole ruling party of Mainland China from 1928 to 1949 until its relocation to Taiwan, …
The Kuomintang is founded for the first time in Peking.
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes,, also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Execut…
Odette Hallowes, French soldier and spy (died 1995)
Kaneto Shindō was a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film producer, and writer, who directed 48 films and wrote scripts for 238. His best known films as a director include Ch…
Kaneto Shindō, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)
Richard Dutoit Carlson was an American actor, television and film director, and screenwriter. He is best remembered for his leading roles in sci-fi classic It Came from Outer Space…
Richard Carlson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1977)
Otto Kretschmer was a German naval officer and submariner in World War II and the Cold War.
Otto Kretschmer, German admiral (died 1998)