Sunday, January 31, 2010

Monday, January 31, 1910. Disaster at Primero, Colorado.

An explosion at Colorado Fuel and Iron's mine at Primero, Colorado, killed 75 miners.

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Saturday, January 29, 1910. Skates.

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Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Wednesday January 26, 1910 and Thursday, January 27, 1910. The Mann Act, Nation's last saloon assault, a famous name.

January 26:

The Hague Convention of 1907 governing naval warfare went into effect.

The Mann Act went into effect.  The act famously addresses taking a woman across state lines for illegal or immoral purposes.

Glenn Curtis tested the first seaplane.

Carrie Nation attacked a saloon, in Butte Montana, for the last time.  It was a failure.

January 27.

Wollert Konow became Prime Minister of Norway.

Thomas Crapper, toilet manufacturer, died at age 73.

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Monday, January 24, 1910. Setting the season.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Monday, January 24, 1910. Setting the season.

The major leagues held their annual meeting in Pittsburgh.  The National League approved a resolution to add 14 games to each teams schedule, brining the total up to 168 games.  The American Leauge delined so the season remained at 154 games.

The American League went to the current 162 in 1961, the National League in 1962, so we never made it to 168.

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Saturday, January 15, 1910. Work completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Friday, January 14, 1910. Airships, Female Native American Lawyer and Coups.

King Alfonso of Spain took action against Spanish military figures suspected of plotting a coup.

Eliza "Lyda" Burton Conley became the first Native American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 1910 airship sightings, sort of similar to the 2024 drone sightings, were in full bloom.


An episode of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World deals with this mystery.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Thursday, January 13, 1910. First live radio broadcast.

The first live radio broadcast of a musical performance took place. The New York Metropolitan Opera was broadcast. The broadcast was a demonstration to show that radio could transmit more than Morse Code.

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Saturday, January 8, 1910. Bhutan and the British Empire.

Friday, January 8, 2010

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Friday, January 7, 1910. Pinchot fired.

President Taft fired Forestry Director Gifford Pinchot over his open criticism of Interior Secretary Richard A. Ballinger.  The dispute was over whether there could be corporate control of Forest assets, such as water.  Pinchot opposed that, and rightly so.

Theodore Roosevelt supported Pinchot, Taft Ballinger, which would eventually lead to the split in the GOP which opened the door for Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

Pinchot would later to on to be Governor of Pennsylvania.  Ballinger returned to private life after the election of 1912 and resumed the practice of law.

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Tuesday, January 4, 1910. Disaster in Lander.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Tuesday, January 4, 1910. Disaster in Lander.

Today In Wyoming's History: January 41910  Orchard Opera house destroyed by fire in Lander.  Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

Forces of Muhammad Salih bin Yusuf, the last independent ruler, or kolak, of the Wadai Empire, defeated the French at Darfur.

The USS Michigan was commissioned.



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Sunday, January 3, 2010

Monday, January 3, 1910. Junior High.

A junior high school, in Berkeley California, opened in the US for the very first time.

Two of them actually, both in Berkeley.

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Saturday, January 1, 1910. 5, 576 handshakes.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Saturday, January 1, 1910. 5, 576 handshakes.


Imperial Russia extended its boundaries to 12 miles off of its coast.

President Taft opened the New  Year by shaking the hands of 5,575 people visiting the White House.

Ick.

Railroads operating in the American South implemented a quota against further hiring of African Americans, pursuant to an agreement with the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, providing that "No larger percentage of Negro trainmen or yardmen will be employed on any division or in any yard than was employed on January 1, 1910".

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Thursday, December 30, 1909. Regulating religious processions.