August 1910 calendar

Events

• 06 Aug 1910 New York City Mayor Wm J Gaynor seriously wounded during assassination attempt
• 08 Aug 1910 The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer.
• 09 Aug 1910 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
• 14 Aug 1910 6th International Congress of Esperantists held in Washington, DC.
• 20 Aug 1910 US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
• 22 Aug 1910 Korea is annexed by Japan with the signing of the Japan : Korea Annexation Treaty, beginning a period of Japanese rule of Korea that lasted until the end of World War II.
• 23 Aug 1910 Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
• 25 Aug 1910 30th US Mens Tennis: Wm Larned beats Thomas Bundy (61 57 60 68 61)
• 27 Aug 1910 Using 20,137,000 candlepower arc lights, 2 amateur baseball teams play a night game at White Sox Park
• 28 Aug 1910 Montenegro is proclaimed an independent kingdom under Nicholas I.
• 29 Aug 1910 Japan changes Korea's name to Chosen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.

Famous Birthday

• Mère Teresa
• Bruno Coquatrix

  French entertainment producer, mainly known as the owner and manager of the Paris Olympia, Europe’s biggest music hall.

• Tom Anderson (fiddler)
• Gordon Joseph Gray
• Jane Wyatt

  American actress and singer (d. 2006).

• Philippe Agostini

  French cinematographer, director and screenwriter, who died on 20 October 2001.

• Willy Ronis

  French photographer (Born 1910).

• Pierre Schaeffer

  French pioneer of electronic music, inventor of the.

• Anita Page

  American actress and singer (d. 2008).

• Sylvia Sydney

  American character actress of stage, screen and film, who rose to prominence in the 1930s appearing in numerous crime dramas.

• Pierre Vago
• Jean Martinelli
• Sylvia Sidney

  Bronx, New York -- Actress (WKRP, Sabotage, Beetlejuice, Demon).

• Giuseppe Meazza

  Italian footballer (Born 1910).

• Charles Crichton

  English director producer and screenwriter (d. 1999).

• Gloria Blondell

  American actress (d. 1986).

• Dorothea Tanning

  American painter sculptor and poet (d. 2012).

• Yvette Lebon
• Charles Wegg-Prosser

  Solicitor.

• Josef Klaus

  Chancellor of Austria (1966-70).

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Famous Deaths

• Nicolas Kinet

  Belgian pilot.

• Wojciech Gawronski

  Composer, dies at 42.

• Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Clement of Maasdijk

  1st Dutch aircraft death.

• Albert Vandal

  French Earl / Historian (Napoleon), dies at 57.

• Johann O Backlund

  Swedish astronomer, dies at 64.

• John YWJ Eilerts de Cock

  Sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44.

• Emils Darzins

  Composer, dies at 34.

• Huo Yuan Jia

  Chinese martial artist (Born 1868).

• Arthur Coquard

  French composer and music critic.

• William James

  American artist, a painter and violin maker, a grandson of the philosopher William James and a grandnephew of the writer Henry James.

• Florence Nightingale

  Italian nurse who learned nursing at the age of 33, eventually becoming a hospital superintendent.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Frances Alda - Ave Maria
2. Frank Stanley & Henry Burr - We Shall Meet Bye and Bye
3. Kitty Cheatham - I've Got a Pain in My Sawdust
4. Harry Macdonough & Lucy Isabelle Marsh - Ring O' Roses
5. John McCormack - Carmen - Il Flor Che Aveci A Me (Flower Song)