Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
International Business Machines Corporation, doing business as IBM, is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 count…
IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York
Nakhla is a Martian meteorite which fell in Egypt in 1911. It was the first meteorite reported from Egypt, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, and the prot…
The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt
SMS Panther was one of six Iltis-class gunboats built for the German Kaiserliche Marine in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The ships were built to modernize the German gunboat forc…
Germany dispatches the gunboat SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
The 1911 Eastern North America heat wave was an 11-day severe heat wave that killed at least 380 people, though estimates have put the death toll as high as 2,000 people. The heat …
A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature…
The Mexican Revolution was an extended sequence of armed regional conflicts in Mexico from 20 November 1910 to 1 December 1920. It has been called "the defining event of modern Mex…
Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana
The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911, formally known as the Convention between the United States and Other Powers Providing for the Preservation and Protection of Fur Seal…
The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal…
Harry Nelson Atwood was an American engineer and inventor known for pioneering work in the early days of aviation, including setting long-distance flying records and delivering the…
Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, is greeted by president William Howard Taft after he lands…
Hiram Bingham III was an American academic, explorer and politician. In 1911, he publicized the existence of the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu which he rediscovered with the guid…
Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was a 1911–1914 expedition headed by Douglas Mawson that explored the largely uncharted Antarctic coast due south of Australia. Mawson had bee…
The Australasian Antarctic Expedition began as the SY Aurora departed London.
Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue was a Portuguese lawyer who served as the first president of Portugal from 1911 to 1915. Manuel de Arriaga also served as the …
Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn in as the first President of Portugal.
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess was a British diplomat and Soviet double agent, and a member of the Cambridge Five spy ring that operated from the mid-1930s to the early years of the …
Guy Burgess, English-Russian spy (died 1963)
Hervé Bazin was a French writer, whose best-known novels covered semi-autobiographical topics of teenage rebellion and dysfunctional families.
Hervé Bazin, French author and poet (died 1996)
Harriet Quimby was an American pioneering aviator, journalist, and film screenwriter. In 1911, she became the first woman in the United States to receive a pilot's license and in 1…
Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's…
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance, it has been described as …
The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
Lester Rodney was an American journalist who helped break down the color barrier in baseball as sports writer for the Daily Worker.
Lester Rodney, American soldier and journalist (died 2009)
Maurice Goldhaber was an American physicist.
Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (died 2011)
Ivan DeBlois Combe was the American inventor of personal-care products, most notably Clearasil and Odor Eaters. In 1949 he established his eponymous company Combe Incorporated in W…
Ivan Combe, American businessman, developed Clearasil (died 2000)
Kemal Satır was a Turkish physician and politician.
Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician (died 1991)
Ronald Neame CBE, BSC was an English filmmaker and cinematographer. Beginning his career as a cinematographer, for his work on the British war film One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (…
Ronald Neame, English-American director, cinematographer, producer, and screenwriter (died 2010)
Conrado Eugenio Marrero Ramos, nicknamed "Connie", was a Cuban professional baseball pitcher. The right-handed Marrero pitched in Major League Baseball from 1950 to 1954 for the Wa…
Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach (died 2014)
George Helm Roth was an American gymnast and Olympic champion who competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic …
George Roth, American gymnast (died 1997)
Paul Verner was a German communist politician. He joined the communist movement at a young age and went into exile during Adolf Hitler's rule. Verner became a prominent political p…
Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (died 1986)
Bruno Beger was a German racial anthropologist, ethnologist, and explorer who worked for the Ahnenerbe. In that role he participated in Ernst Schäfer's 1938–1939 expedition to Tibe…
Bruno Beger, German anthropologist and ethnologist (died 2009)
Christiaan David "Chris" Berger was a Dutch athlete, competing in the sprints.
Chris Berger, Dutch sprinter and footballer (died 1965)