Explore 1744 historical events from 1910–1919.
World War I, or the First World War, also known as the Great War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Central Powers. Major theatres of war included Eu…
World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
The anti-lynching movement was an organized political movement in the United States that aimed to eradicate the practice of lynching. Lynching was used as a tool to repress African…
Anti-lynching movement: The Silent Parade takes place in New York City, in protest against murders, lynchings, and…
Doña Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba y Fernández de Henestrosa, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli, GE was a Spanish noblewoman and Grandee of Spain. She was the head of the Spanish …
Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba, 18th Duchess of Medinaceli (died 2013)
Salvatore Anthony Maglie was an American pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB), and later a scout and a pitching coach. He played from 1945 to 1958 for the New York Giants, Clevel…
Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (died 1992)
Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian and Yugoslav statesman, economist, and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and r…
Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian politician and first president of the Republic of Macedonia (died 2012)
Domenico Bartolucci was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was the former director of the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and was rec…
Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal and composer (died 2013)
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English stage, film and television actor, singer and comedian. Having been described as both a leading actor and a character actor, he is pr…
David Tomlinson, English actor (died 2000)
William Blake Everett was an American comic book writer and artist best known for creating Namor the Sub-Mariner, as well as co-creating Daredevil and the zombie Simon Garth with w…
Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (died 1973)
Nicomedes "Nick" Marquez Joaquin was a Filipino writer and journalist best known for his short stories and novels in the English language. He also wrote using the pen name Quijano …
Nick Joaquin, Filipino writer, journalist and historian (died 2004)
Sir Cyrus Lenox Simson Hewitt was an Australian public servant. His career in the Commonwealth Public Service spanned from 1939 to 1980, and included periods as a senior adviser an…
Lenox Hewitt, Australian public servant (died 2020)
Lou Silver Harrison was an American composer, music critic, music theorist, painter, and creator of unique musical instruments. Harrison initially wrote in a dissonant, ultramodern…
Lou Harrison, American composer and critic (died 2003)
Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 5…
Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (died 2015)
James Cunningham Murray was a U.S. representative from Illinois from 1955 to 1957. He graduated from De Paul University Law School in 1940 and subsequently worked as a lawyer. He s…
James C
Juan Nepomuceno Carlos Pérez Rulfo Vizcaíno, best known as Juan Rulfo, was a Mexican writer, screenwriter, and photographer. He is best known for two literary works, the 1955 novel…
Juan Rulfo, Mexican author and photographer (died 1986)
Tony Cliff was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. …
Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (died 2000)
Guy Favreau was a Canadian lawyer, politician and judge.
Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 1967)
Raymond William Stacy Burr was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside.
Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor and director (died 1993)
George Tetsuo Aratani was a Japanese American entrepreneur, philanthropist and the founder of Mikasa china and owner of the Kenwood Electronics corporation.
George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
Jean-Louis Curtis, pseudonym of Albert Laffitte, was a French novelist best known for his second novel The Forests of the Night, which won France's highest literary award the Prix …
Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (died 1995)
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-…
Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (died 2008)
Alan Robertson Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway ERD QC was a British judge, barrister and author who sat in the House of Lords as a Conservative life peer.
Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (died 2013)
Steve Cochran was an American film, television and stage actor. He attended the University of Wyoming. After a stint working as a cowboy, Cochran developed his acting skills in loc…
Steve Cochran, American film, television and stage actor (died 1965)
Theodore Martin Hesburgh, C.S.C. was an American Catholic priest and academic who was a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He served as president of the University of Notre …
Theodore Hesburgh, American priest, theologian, and academic (died 2015)
Henry George Webster, CBE was a British automotive engineer. He is best known for his work at the Triumph Motor Company throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Harry Webster, English engineer (died 2007)