April 1910 calendar

Events

• 01 Apr 1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania) completed a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk.
• 12 Apr 1910 The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
• 14 Apr 1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
• 19 Apr 1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4.
• 20 Apr 1910 Cleveland Indians Addie Joss second no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0.
• 21 Apr 1910 Cleveland Naps play first game at League Park, lose to Detroit Tigers 5-0.
• 23 Apr 1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels.
• 24 Apr 1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms.
• 27 Apr 1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights.
• 29 Apr 1910 Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt visits Amsterdam.
• 30 Apr 1910 Cleveland Indians pitcher Addie Joss wins second no-hitter beating Chicago White Sox.

Famous Birthday

• Francisco Xavier

  Brazilian mystic, a famous channeler from the time he was a teenager.

• António de Spinola
• Ruth Hale Oliver
• Belle Chrystall
• Lucie Rivel

  German/french artist, painter.

• Mesa Selimovic
• Harriet Doerr

  American award-winning author of a noted wealthy family, an heiress, who published her first novel at age 74 to critical acclaim.

• Dolly Haas
• Karin Hardt
• Alexandre Chevalier
• Agnes Patrick

  campaigner.

• Jamie L Whitten (Representative-Democrat-Mississippi

  1941-).

• Sylvia Fisher

  soprano (Albert Herring Opera).

• R J

  Ritchie tennis player.

• Henry William

  Collins artist.

• Joeri German

  Russian writer.

• Werner Wolf

  Glaser composer.

• Abu-Bakr Khairat

  composer.

• Antonio de Spinola

  Portuguese politician (d. 1996).

• David Gilroy

  Bevan politician.

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Famous Deaths

• William Quiller Orchardson

  British painter (Born 1835).

• Andreas Aschenbach German painter/engraver

  dies at age 94.

• Friedrich von Bodelschwingh German theologist

  dies at age 79.

• Boyd Alexander English explorer (Niger to the Nile)

  murdered at age 37.

• William G Sumner US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways)

  dies at age 69.

• William Orchardson British painter

  dies.

• Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] author(Tom Sawyer

  Huckleberry Finn), dies in Redding Connecticut at age 74.

• Jean Moreas

  Greek poet (Born 1856).

• Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

  Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (Born 1832).

• Mikhail Vrubel

  Russian painter (Born 1856).

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1. Vess Ossman - Moose March
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4. Peerless Quartet - Medley of Foster Songs
5. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - What Makes the World Go Round