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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
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