Explore 2613 historical events from 1910–1919.
Paul Anthony Samuelson was an American economist who was the first American to win the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. When awarding the prize in 1970, the Swedish Royal…
Paul Samuelson, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)
Henrik Sandberg was a Danish film producer. He produced 39 films between 1955 and 1979. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father was the Danish film director A. W. Sandberg.
Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (died 1993)
Mario Alberto Ettore Monicelli was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2010)
Dorothy Renée Ascherson, known professionally as Renée Asherson, was a British actress. Much of her theatrical career was spent in Shakespearean plays, appearing at such venues as …
Renée Asherson, English actress (died 2014)
Peter Copley was an English television, film and stage actor.
Peter Copley, English actor (died 2008)
The United States occupation of Haiti began on July 28, 1915, when 330 US Marines landed at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the National City Bank of New York convinced US President W…
The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
Patrick Henry Pearse was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in …
Patrick Pearse gives his famous speech "Ireland unfree shall never be at peace" at O'Donovan Rossa's funeral in Dublin.
The 12th Army was an army level command of the German Army in World War I formed in August 1915 by the redesignation of Armee-Gruppe Gallwitz. It served exclusively on the Eastern …
World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explos…
A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from…
Leo Max Frank was an American lynching victim wrongly convicted of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintend…
Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John…
The 1915 Galveston hurricane was a tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage in the Galveston area in August 1915. Widespread damage was also documented throughout its path acr…
A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h).
Moshe Dayan was an Israeli military leader and politician. As commander of the Jerusalem front in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces…
Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1981)
Joff Ellen, was an Australian entertainer, TV pioneer, actor and comedian.
Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (died 1999)
Chakravarthi Vijayaraghava Narasimhan MBE, ICS was an Indian Civil Service officer and a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.
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Stanley Donald Stookey was an American inventor. He had 60 patents in his name related to glass and ceramics. His discoveries and inventions have contributed to the development of …
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The Great Phenol Plot was a clandestine effort by the German government during the early years of World War I to divert American-produced phenol from the manufacture of high explos…
A story in the New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from…
The Zimmerwald Conference, held in Zimmerwald, Switzerland, from September 5 to 8, 1915, was the first of three international conferences convened by anti-militarist socialists in …
The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
British heavy tanks were a series of related armoured fighting vehicles developed by the UK during the First World War. The Mark I was the world's first tank, a tracked, armed, and…
World War I: The first tank prototype, developed by William Foster & Co. for the British army, was completed and given…
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and …
French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
The New Culture Movement was a progressive sociopolitical movement in China during the 1910s and 1920s. Participants criticized many aspects of traditional Chinese society, favorin…
New Culture Movement: Chen Duxiu establishes the New Youth magazine in Shanghai.
Vernon Alley was an American jazz bassist.
Vernon Alley, American bassist (died 2004)
Ester Soré was the main singer of Chilean melodies of the 20th century. She recorded for the first time, the successful one "Chile Lindo" ("Pretty Chile"), of Clara Solovera, and d…
Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (died 1996)
Herman Wouk was an American author. He published 15 novels, many of them historical fiction such as The Caine Mutiny (1951), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1952…
Herman Wouk, American novelist (died 2019)
Joseph Harold Greenberg was an American linguist, known mainly for his work concerning linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
Joseph Greenberg, American linguist and academic (died 2001)