Explore 2221 historical events from 1910–1919.
John Robertson Duigan MC was an Australian pioneer aviator who built and flew the first Australian-made aircraft.
John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
The Ottoman Empire, historically also known as the Turkish Empire or Turkey, was a state that spanned much of Southeastern Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th century…
The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
The Slocum massacre was the killing of Black residents by whites on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. The de…
The two-day Slocum massacre commences in Texas, a race riot in which more than 100 African Americans are murdered.
National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) is used in the United States to provide a measure of the relative seriousness of burning conditions and threat of wildfires.
Extreme fire weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes many small wildfires to coalesce into the…
Clarence Berton Roueché Jr. was an American medical writer who wrote for The New Yorker magazine for almost fifty years. He wrote twenty books, including Eleven Blue Men (1954), Th…
Berton Roueché, American journalist and author (died 1994)
Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza was a Greek politician, leader of the New Democracy party (1981–1984), member of parliament, and author.
Evangelos Averoff, Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Defence (died 1990)
Ivan Goff was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger …
Ivan Goff, Australian screenwriter and producer (died 1999)
Helenio Herrera Gavilán was an Argentine and naturalised French football player and manager. He is best remembered for his success with the Inter Milan team known as Grande Inter i…
Helenio Herrera, French footballer and manager (died 1997)
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician. He was executed by hanging after the coup d'état in 1960 along with two other politicians.
Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician (died 1961)
Norman Earl Steenrod was an American mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.
Norman Steenrod, American mathematician and academic (died 1971)
Sheila Scott Macintyre FRSE was a Scottish mathematician best known for her work on the Whittaker constant. Macintyre is also known for co-authoring a German–English mathematics di…
Sheila Scott Macintyre, Scottish mathematician (died 1960)
Simone Thérèse Fernande Simon was a French film actress who began her film career in 1931. She is perhaps best remembered for her role in the American horror film Cat People and it…
Simone Simon, French actress (died 2005)
Arapeta Marukitepua Pitapitanuiarangi Awatere was a scholar, decorated military leader, Māori welfare officer, writer, linguist, and local politician. He served in the Māori Battal…
Arapeta Awatere, New Zealand interpreter, military leader, politician, and murderer (died 1976)
Tomoyuki "Yūkō" Tanaka was a Japanese film producer, best known as the creator of Godzilla. He produced most of the installments in the Godzilla series, beginning in 1954 with God…
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
Chiang Ching-kuo was a Chinese and Taiwanese statesman and diplomat who served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was…
Chiang Ching-kuo, Chinese politician, 3rd President of the Republic of China (died 1988)
Samuel Kimball Merwin Jr. was an American mystery fiction writer, editor and science fiction author. His pseudonyms included Elizabeth Deare Bennett, Matt Lee, Jacques Jean Ferrat …
Sam Merwin, Jr
Levi Celerio was a Filipino composer and lyricist who is credited with writing over 4,000 songs. Celerio was recognized as a National Artist of the Philippines for Music and Litera…
Levi Celerio, Filipino pianist, violinist, and composer (died 2002)
Raya Dunayevskaya, later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist humanism in the United States. At one time L…
Raya Dunayevskaya, Ukrainian-American philosopher and activist (died 1987)
Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific advisor to UFO studies underta…
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Alexander "Sandy" Bonnyman Jr. was a United States Marine Corps officer who was killed in action on Betio Atoll in the Gilbert Islands during World War II.
Alexander Bonnyman Jr
Edmund Norwood Bacon was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author. During his tenure as the executive director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission from 1…
Edmund Bacon, American urban planner, architect, educator, and author (died 2005)
Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and direc…
Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (died 2011)
Leo Lionni was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. Born in the Netherlands, he moved to Italy and lived there before moving to the United States in 1939, where …
Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (died 1999)
Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wro…
Mary Lou Williams, American pianist and composer (died 1981)