December 1910 calendar

Events

• 03 Dec 1910 Neon lights, first publically seen (Paris Auto Show).
• 09 Dec 1910 French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir.
• 10 Dec 1910 JD Van de Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics.
• 21 Dec 1910 Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies.
• 22 Dec 1910 US postal savings stamps first issued.
• 31 Dec 1910 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910

Famous Birthday

• Jean Genet

  French writer, a novelist, playwright and poet.

• Louis Prima

  American singer-songwriter trumpet player and actor (d. 1978).

• Paul Bowles

  American writer, novelist, musician, composer and critic who is often considered the first American existentialist.

• William Pickering
• Fritz Leiber

  American author and poet (d. 1992).

• Van Heflin

  Walters, Oklahoma -- Actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary).

• Edmundo Ros

  Trinidadian-English singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 2011).

• Sy Oliver

  American jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (Born 1910).

• Marc Lawrence
• Spade Cooley
• E H Troinski
• Willard R Espy
• Eric Tindill

  New Zealand rugby and cricket international player and referee/umpire (Born 1910).

• Marguerite Churchill
• Ada Rogato
• Budd Johnson
• Charles Olson

  American poet and educator (d. 1970).

• Jean Maitron

  French historian, specializing in the labour movement.

• Dick Kollmar in Rigewood

  New Jersey, USA; actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What).

• Richard Ainley

  Middlesex, England -- Actor (I Dood It, Above Suspicion).

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Famous Deaths

• Mary Baker Eddy

  Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist (Born 1821).

• Pablo Hernandez Salces composer

  dies at age 76.

• Arch Hoxsey

  American aviator (Born 1884).

• John Moisant

  American pilot and engineer (d. 1910).

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Henry Burr - All That I Ask of You is Love
2. Stanley & Burr - Silver Bell
3. Arthur Collins & Byron Harlan - Casey Jones
4. Ada Jones - Is There Anything Else I Can Do for You?
5. Peerless Quartet - Silver Bell