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Labels: 1900s, 1909, 1910, 1910s, California, Costa Rica, Disaster, Geology, Kites, Mining, National Weather Service, Nobel Prize, Russo Japanese War, Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, May 10, 2010
Tuesday, May 10, 1910. Powell incoporated.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Thursday, May 5, 1910. T.R. takes the prize.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, for 1909. He pledged to donate the money "as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial peace".
Cartago, Costa Rica, was destroyed by an earthquake which killed more than 1,500 people.
Seventy coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Palos Coal and Coke Company at Walker County, Alabama.
The town of Hillsborough, California, was incorporated.
The U.S. Weather Bureau, predecessor to the National Weather Service, set a standing record for the highest altitude achieved by a kite 23,826 feet.
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Wednesday, May 4, 1910. The Royal Canadian Navy came into being.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, April 27, 1910. Elephants on the rampage.
A herd of nine escaped circus elephants rampaged through Danville, Illinois.
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Thursday, April 21, 1910. Samuel Clemens passes.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Thursday, April 21, 1910. Samuel Clemens passes.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, died at the age of 74 at his home in Redding, Connecticut.
His last word were written, being "Give me my glasses". He wrote them to his daughter.
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Wednesday, April 20, 1910. Halley's Comet was visible to the naked eye for the first time since its return to the Solar System.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Tuesday, April 19, 1910. 606.
Paul Ehrlich announced his discovery of what was termed "606", the first medicine that could cure syphilis.
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The Philadelphia General Strike of 1910 came to an end.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Thursday, April 14, 1910. Taft throws out the first pitch.
William Howard Taft threw the first pitch of the 1910 Washington Senators game, the first "first pitch" to be thrown by a U.S. President.
The Senators played the Philadelphia Athletics and won 3 to 0.
The Sperry Gyroscope Company was founded.
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Saturday, April 9, 1910. Transfer of Lourdes.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Catholic, Christianity, Communism, France, France (Lourdes), Indochina, Laos, Laotian Civil War, Pathet Lao, religion, Thailand
Friday, April 9, 2010
Saturday, April 9, 1910. Transfer of Lourdes.
Under the French confiscatory policy of disestablishment, the shrine at Lourdes was turned over to the local commune. The town council, in turn, turned it's ownership into a trust under the authority of the local Bishop.
Nouhak Phoumsavan, Pathed Lao revolutionary and President of Laos 1992 to 1998; in Ban Phalouka, Mukdahan province, Thailand.
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Saturday, March 26, 1910. The Immigration Act of 1910.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Saturday, March 26, 1910. The Immigration Act of 1910.
The Immigration Act of 1910 passed prohibiting entry into the United States of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons.
Court House Square, Shreveport, La. March 26, 1910.
Panoramic view of San Antonio, Texas, March 26, 1910.
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Wednesday, March 23, 1910. End of the Spanish Rif War, Kurosawa.
Labels: 1900s, 1910, Akira Kurosawa, Alaska, Japan, Morocco, Movies, National Park Service, Rif War, Spain, Spanish Empire
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Wednesday, March 23, 1910. End of the Spanish Rif War, Kurosawa.
The Rif War came to an end in Spain with Spain victorious.
The Sitka National Monument was established.
Japanese film maker Akira Kurosawa was born.
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Saturday, March 12, 1910. The first star.
Labels: 1910, 1910 at the movies, 1910s, 1930s, 1938, actors and actresses, Hockey, Movies, Sports, Women
Friday, March 12, 2010
Saturday, March 12, 1910. The first star.
Actress Florence Lawrence became "the first movie star", after movie mogul Carl Laemmle of Independent Moving Pictures announced in advertisements that he had signed the leading lady who had only been billed as "The Biograph Girl" by Biograph Studios.
Prior to that time movie studies did not release the names of their actors.
She'd act up until her death by suicide in 1938, at age 52, at which time she was suffering from chronic illness.
The Montreal Wanderers retained the Stanley Cup.
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Tuesday, March 8, 1910. First pilot's license issued to a woman.
Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Saturday, March 5, 1910. Культура, Kultur, and Ramen noodles.
The Queen of Spades, by Tchaikovsky, was performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera, in German.
Momofuku Ando (Japanese: 安藤 百福, Hepburn: Andō Momofuku) born Go Pek-Hok, Chinese: 吳百福; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Pek-hok) in Taiwan. He invented ramen noodles in 1958.
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Thursday, March 3, 1910. Economic exploitation of lesser powers.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, 2020s, 2025, Capitalism, Casablanca, Colonialism, Dallas Texas, Diplomacy, France, French Empire, Morocco, Racism, Red Summer of 1919, Spain, Texas (Dallas), Ukraine, United States
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Thursday, March 3, 1910. Economic exploitation of lesser powers.
Morocco signed an accord with France, which they no doubt regretted, allowing the French to occupy Casablanca and Quijada in return for military training. It was part of a loan deal. Morocco would ultimately end up being bent over by France, and Spain.
This is similar to the current proposal, in a way, to bend Ukraine over and take its minerals, proposed by Donny Trump. It's another bad idea that Ukraine probably would like to give the US the middle finger salute for, but Donny is too dense to understand that life isn't transactional, the pathetic bloated twit.
Well, if nothing else, it gave us a great movie in the end. . .
Stock in Sears began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
I miss Sears being what it once was.
Allen Brooks, a black man in his 50s or 60s and accused of raping a young white girl of about 2 years old was lynched in Dallas, Texas.
Was he guilty?
Well, without knowing more, and I don't, it seems awfully unlikely. And that's the point. He was deprived of a fair trial and murdered.
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Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1954, Colonialism, German Empire, German Resistance Movements, Germany, Heroes, Nazi Germany, Samoa
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Wednesday, March 2, 1910. First US military pilot.
1st Lt. Benjamin Foulois became the first US military pilot after making a solo flight on a Wright Flyer.
He'd go on to serve a long, but not uncontroversial career. As a result, he retried unceremoniously under a cloud in 1935. He thereafter warned of the dangers of resurgent German airpower, and he offered to return to service, with a combat command, during World War TWo, but was not taken up on the offer. He died in 1967 at age 87.
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Tuesday, March 1, 1910. The Wellington Washington AvalanchLabels: 1910, 1910s, Brazil, Disaster, Washington, Weathere.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Tuesday, March 1, 1910. The Wellington Washington Avalanche.
An avalanche in Washington killed 96 people, mostly passengers of a stranded passenger train.
A thunderstorm triggered the tragic event at Wellington, Washington. It's the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history.
General Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was elected President of Brazil.
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Monday, February 28, 1910. Last Bare Knuckle.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, February 28, 1910. Last Bare Knuckle.
The last bare knuckle boxing match in the US took place in Passaic, New Jersey, between boxers Leo Baker and Dave Smith. They fought 32 rounds without gloves, with the match ending in a draw.
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Friday, February 25, 1910. Dealing with monopolists.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Capitalism, Crime, Economics, Food, law, New Jersey, New York, Progressive Era, Progressivism, Railroads
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Friday, February 25, 1910. Dealing with monopolists.
A grand jury in Newark, New Jersey indicted the National Packing Company and its subsidiaries, Armour, Swift, Morris, and G.H. Hammond of conspiracy to monopolize the nation's meatpacking industry. Executives were also indicted.
Funny. . . it's every bit as monopolized now. . .
The early 20th Century, of course, saw a dedicated effort to deal with the excesses of capitalism. Those efforts were, to a large degree, successful.
And forgotten.
Thomas Edison's electric street car was demonstrated in New York.
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Friday, February 18, 1910. Morocco held hostage by its own tariffs.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Friday, February 18, 1910. Morocco held hostage by its own tariffs.
France gave Morocco 48 hours to ratify an agreement to replay $12,000,000 owed as indemnities or face tariff forfeitures. Morocco, depending upon the tariffs, agreed.
It's almost like you shouldn't make your finances the captive of foreign nations. . . .
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Thursday, February 17, 1910. John Browning applies for a safety patent.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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