May 1910

Month of 1910


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The following events occurred in May 1910:

May 1, 1910 (Sunday)

  • Edward VII, the 68-year-old King of Great Britain and Ireland and its possessions, and Emperor of India, developed a bad cold after spending a cold and rainy weekend at his estate in Sandringham. Refusing to rest and ignoring medical advice, the popular monarch developed bronchitis, then pneumonia, and was dead by Friday.
  • Born:
  • **Died: **

May 2, 1910 (Monday)

May 3, 1910 (Tuesday)

  • The President of the United States returned to his hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, for the first time since his inauguration. At his own request, William Howard Taft was treated as an "ordinary" citizen as he renewed acquaintances.
  • The city of Robins, Iowa, was incorporated.
  • **Born: **
  • **Died: **

May 4, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • The Royal Canadian Navy came into existence when the Naval Service Act became law, creating a force separate from Britain's Royal Navy. The first two ships, designated "HMCS" for "His Majesty's Canadian Ship", were the and the Niobe.
  • Twelve years after the USS Maine had exploded and sunk in Havana Harbor, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to pay for the raising of the ship's remains at "all convenient speed", and the bill was signed into law.

May 5, 1910 (Thursday)

  • The city of Cartago, Costa Rica, was destroyed by an earthquake that killed more than 1,500 people.
  • Seventy coal miners were killed in an explosion at the Palos Coal and Coke Company at 1:30 p.m. at Walker County, Alabama.
  • The town of Hillsborough, California, was incorporated.
  • The U.S. Weather Bureau, predecessor to the National Weather Service, set a record, which still stands, for the highest altitude achieved by a kite. An altitude of 23826 ft was reached by the highest of ten kites on an 8 mile long steel wire.
  • Dearfield, Colorado, was founded as an all-black community by Oliver Toussaint Jackson. The town made a steady decline after World War I, and the last resident died in 1973.
  • Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, for 1909, in Christiana (now Oslo), Norway, and pledged to donate the money "as a nucleus for a foundation to forward the cause of industrial peace".

May 6, 1910 (Friday)

May 7, 1910 (Saturday)

  • USS Cyclops, a U.S. Navy coal hauling ship (collier), was launched. The ship would become famous in the world of the paranormal after its disappearance in 1918 while sailing, with 306 people on board, into the area known as the Bermuda Triangle.
  • A total eclipse of the Sun was visible in New Zealand and in parts of Antarctica.
  • The village of Acme, Alberta was incorporated.

May 8, 1910 (Sunday)

  • A fire at the General Explosives Company near Hull, Quebec set off a blast that killed fifteen people, and injured more than 100. Most were spectators who ignored warnings to leave the area. The blast shattered windows in neighboring Ottawa, Ontario.
  • In elections in Spain, Premier José Canalejas retained his majority.
  • For the first time in its history, the United States Supreme Court ordered the release of a convict from his sentence, on grounds that his punishment violated the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Paul Weems, who had served at a lighthouse in the Philippines, had been held in heavy chains for malfeasance of office.

May 9, 1910 (Monday)

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  • Three days after his father's death, King George V was formally proclaimed worldwide throughout the British Empire, starting with the Duke of Norfolk's reading of the proclamation at St James's Palace that closed with, "God Save the King!"
  • A total eclipse of the Sun was visible in the southernmost portions of the British Empire, including Tasmania and part of the Australian Antarctic territory.
  • President Taft approved an act passed by the United States Congress to remove the wreck of the battleship USS Maine, which had been destroyed 12 years earlier in Havana Harbor.

May 10, 1910 (Tuesday)

May 11, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • Glacier National Park (U.S.) was established in Montana by federal law. The park has an area of 1584 sqmi, and contains 653 lakes, 175 mountains, and 26 glaciers. After attracting 4,000 visitors in its first full year as a park (1911), the park had more than 2,000,000 visitors in 2009.
  • In the U.S., 12 people were killed when the steamer SS City of Saltillo struck rocks and sank in the Mississippi River near Pevely, Missouri. The boat was carrying 57 people, and seven of the 27 passengers drowned.
  • **Born: **Johnnie Davis, American actor and singer known for Hooray For Hollywood; in Brazil, Indiana (died 1983)

May 12, 1910 (Thursday)

May 13, 1910 (Friday)

  • Woolworth's became the first large retail chain to sell ice cream cones, test-marketing the treat at counters at several sites that had been supplied with modern refrigerator-freezers. The idea was successful enough that it would be introduced nationwide by the variety store, and then by other chain stores.
  • French aviator Gabriel Hauvette-Michelin became only the seventh person in history to be killed in an airplane accident, crashing while attempting a takeoff at a show in Lyons.

May 14, 1910 (Saturday)

May 15, 1910 (Sunday)

  • The Italy national football team played its first international, defeating France, 6–2, at Milan. Italy would win FIFA World Cup championships in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006.
  • The Reverend Henry Scott Holland, Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, delivered a sermon following the death of King Edward VII, entitled "Life Unbroken", but often referred to by its first line, "Death is nothing at all." Largely forgotten for nearly 80 years, the words would find new popularity in the late 1980s as part of the consolation of grief.

May 16, 1910 (Monday)

  • While watching a parade of the Barnum and Bailey Circus, several thousand people in Newark, New Jersey, ran in panic caused by a false rumor. As the animals passed, a calliope had frightened a police horse, spectators scattered, and someone shouted that a lion or lions had broken loose. More than 20 people were injured, and five taken to the city hospital, but none fatally.
  • In Missouri, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde was convicted of murder, by poison, in the October 3, 1909, death of his patient, Kansas City philanthropist Thomas H. Swope. However, the conviction would be reversed and two retrials would end in hung juries. State law prohibited Hyde from being tried a fourth time, and he lived until 1934.
  • Troops from the armies of Peru and Ecuador massed on the common border between those two nations.
  • The case of Liliuokalani v. United States, 45 Ct.Cl 418 (1910) was decided by the United States Court of Claims, which ruled that the former Queen of Hawai'i was not entitled to compensation for the "Crown Lands" taken when the monarchy had been overthrown in 1893.
  • The United States Bureau of Mines was formed, coming into existence on July 1.
  • The city of Wedgeport, Nova Scotia was incorporated.

May 17, 1910 (Tuesday)

  • The chain reaction explosion of seven boilers at the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company in Canton, Ohio, killed thirteen employees and seriously injured thirty others.
  • The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts was created by legislation signed into law by President Taft.

May 18, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • Non-Aristotelian logic was born, when Nicolai A. Vasiliev presented the lecture "On Partial Judgments, the Triangle of Opposition, the Law of Excluded Fourth" at the Russian Kazan University.
  • Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth (15 million miles) and passed between the Earth and the Sun.
  • An explosion of 3,000 pounds of dynamite at Pinar del Río, Cuba, destroyed the barracks of the Rural Guards force there, and killed more than 100 soldiers.
  • **Died: **Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer (born 1821)

May 19, 1910 (Thursday)

May 20, 1910 (Friday)

May 21, 1910 (Saturday)

  • The settlement of Ahuzzat Bayit, founded on April 11, 1909, by Jewish settlers in Palestine, was given the name Tel Aviv, Hebrew for "spring hill", or more specifically for the newness of springtime built upon a pile of ancient ruins. The name was also used in the book of Ezekiel at 3:15 ("Telabib" in the KJV).
  • The United States and Canada signed a treaty in Washington to settle the dispute over the coastal boundary between Maine and New Brunswick.
  • Ecuador and Peru accepted an offer for their boundary dispute to be mediated by Argentina, Brazil and the United States

May 22, 1910 (Sunday)

May 23, 1910 (Monday)

May 24, 1910 (Tuesday)

  • After a year's delay, a renegotiated loan offer was made to the Imperial Chinese government for construction of railroads in China. Originally financed by British, German and French banks, the terms were renegotiated to include American lenders as well. Dissatisfaction over the loan was considered a major factor in the 1911 Revolution.
  • In Peking, an edict ordered the use of decimal coinage for China.
  • **Born: ** Jimmy Demaret, American professional golfer, three-time Masters winner (1940, 1947, 1950); in Houston (died 1983)

May 25, 1910 (Wednesday)

  • Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright flew on the same plane for the only time, with Orville piloting, at the Huffman Prairie airfield, near Dayton. Wilbur also made his last flight as a pilot on this day. Earlier in the day, their 81-year-old father, Bishop Milton Wright, went up on his only airplane flight, with Orville as pilot.

May 26, 1910 (Thursday)

  • The French submarine Pluviose was lost with all 27 crewmen in the English Channel after colliding with the steamer Pas de Calais. The lookout on the steamer had seen the sub's periscope, but mistook it for a buoy.

May 27, 1910 (Friday)

May 28, 1910 (Saturday)

May 29, 1910 (Sunday)

  • Aviator Glenn Curtiss made the first airplane flight between two major U.S. cities, departing from Albany, New York and, after one stop for refueling, to New York City. He completed the 137 mi flight in just under four hours and won a $10,000 prize offered by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, as well as permanent possession of the Scientific American Trophy.
  • **Died: **Mily Balakirev, 73, Russian composer

May 30, 1910 (Monday)

May 31, 1910 (Tuesday)

References

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  2. "Record of Current Events", ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (June 1910), pp670–672
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  7. "Lottie Collins Dead", ''The New York Times'', May 3, 1910
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  10. (May 5, 1910). "The Maine To Be Raised". The New York Times.
  11. "Quake Toll 1,500 Lives", ''Indianapolis Star'', May 8, 1910, p1
  12. "195 Trapped In Pit Blast", ''Indianapolis Star'', May 6, 1910, p1
  13. ''Guinness Book of World Records'' (Sterling Publishing, 1962), excerpt in ''Popular Science'' Magazine (June 1962), p65; "Kite Rises 23,800 Feet", ''New York Times'', May 6, 1910, p1
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  21. "Holds Punishment Cruel", ''New York Times'', May 9, 1910, p4
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