1910 in the United States

Incumbents

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• President: William Howard Taft
• Vice President: James S. Sherman
• Chief Justice: Melville Fuller , Edward Douglass White
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Joseph Gurney Cannon
• Congress: 61st

  Governors

Lieutenant Governors

Events

January–March

• January 10-20 - The 1910 Los Angeles International Air Meet at Dominguez Field is held near Los Angeles, California.
• February 8 - The Boy Scouts of America youth organization is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
• February 16–18 - The state of Ohio is crippled by a snowstorm.
• March 9 - The 17-month-long Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–11, which at its peak will involve 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers across 65 mines, begins in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
• March 14 - The Lakeview Gusher is vented into the atmosphere.
• March 19 - Republicans reduce the powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to influence committee membership.
• March 30 - The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.

  April–June

• April 6 - Wildwood Crest, New Jersey is incorporated as a borough of Cape May County, New Jersey.
• May 11 - The U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
• May 16 - The U.S. Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
• June 19 - The first unofficial Father's Day is observed.

  July–September

• July 4 - African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.
• July 22 - A wireless telegraph sent from the S.S. Montrose results in the identification and later arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.
• July 24 - James MacGillivray publishes the first account of Paul Bunyan in the Detroit News.
• August 20 & 21 - The Great Fire of 1910 wildfire burns about in northeast Washington, northern Idaho, and western Montana over 2 days and kills 86 people.

  October–December

• October 1 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A bomb explodes at the Los Angeles Times building, leaving 21 dead and several injured, James B. McNamara and John Joseph McNamara are later arrested and sentenced.
• October 10 - Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity was founded by ten Jewish men at Columbia University as a response to the existence of similar organizations which would not admit Jewish members.
• October 11 - Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first former president to ride in an airplane.
• November - John Lomax's pioneering collection Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is published by Sturgis and Walton with an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.
• November 4 - Antonio Rodríguez is burned at the stake near Rocksprings, Texas after being arrested a few days earlier for the murder of Mrs. Lem Henderson at her ranch. His murder incites race riots in both Texas and Mexico.
• November 7 - The first air flight for the purpose of delivering commercial freight is made between Dayton and Columbus, both in Ohio, by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse. Philip Parmalee was the pilot.
• November 17 - Ralph Johnstone, a pilot for the Wright Exhibition Team, dies at Denver, Colorado after his machine breaks apart in mid-air in full view of about 5,000 spectators. Johnstone becomes the first American pilot to die in the crash of an airplane in the United States.
• November 22 - U.S. Senator Aldrich and A.P. Andrews, along with many of the country's leading financiers, who together represent about 1/6 of the world's wealth, are witnessed leaving Hoboken, New Jersey on a train together. They later arrive at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event which some say is the impetus for the creation of the Federal Reserve.
• December 12 - New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold disappears. Her family does not notify the police until 6 weeks later, after their own investigations fail to produce any results.
• December 19 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.
• December 31 - Two of America's premier pioneer aviators are killed on this day: John Moisant in New Orleans and Wright pilot Arch Hoxsey in Los Angeles.

  Undated

• US census shows that 20.9% of the population classed as "Negro" are of mixed race.
• Henry Ford sells 10,000 cars.
• World Peace Foundation established.

  Ongoing

• Progressive Era
• Lochner era

  Births

January–February

• January 6 - Wright Morris, photographer and writer
• January 7 - Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas
• January 16 - Dizzy Dean, baseball player
• January 21 - Albert Rosellini, politician
• February 3 - Robert Earl Jones, actor
• February 19 - Dorothy Janis, actress
• February 27 - Joan Bennett, actress

  March–April

• March 3 - Kittens Reichert, silent movies child actor
• March 9 - Samuel Barber, composer
• March 10 - Albert Facchiano, Italian-American criminal
• March 24 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw
• March 28 - Frederick Baldwin Adams, Jr., librarian
• April 9 - Abraham A. Ribicoff, United States Senator from Connecticut from 1963 till 1981.
• April 10 - Paul Sweezy, economist and editor
• April 16
• *Eddie Mayo, baseball player
• *Berton Roueché, medical writer

  May–June

• May 3 - Norman Corwin, screenwriter
• May 12 - Charles B. Fulton, jurist
• May 22 - Johnny Olson, game show announcer
• May 23
• *Scatman Crothers, actor and musician
• *Artie Shaw, clarinetist and bandleader
• May 28 - T-Bone Walker, singer
• May 30 - Ralph Metcalfe, athlete
• June 3 - Paulette Goddard, actress
• June 17 - H. Owen Reed, composer
• June 18 - E. G. Marshall, actor
• June 19 - Paul Flory, chemist, Nobel laureate
• June 23
• *Peaches Browning, actress
• *Gordon B. Hinckley, fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  July–August

• July 4 - Gloria Stuart, actress
• July 11 - Irene Hervey, actress
• July 14 - William Hanna, animator
• July 30 - Edgar de Evia, photographer
• August 4
• *Anita Page, actress
• *Hedda Sterne, Romanian-born painter and printmaker
• August 10 - Ruby Keeler, actress and dancer
• August 12 - Jane Wyatt, actress
• August 15 - Thomas Kuchel, United States Senator from California from 1953 till 1969.
• August 23 - Lonny Frey, baseball player
• August 25 - Dorothea Tanning, artist

  September–October

• September 3 - Kitty Carlisle Hart, singer and actress
• September 6 - Walter Giesler, soccer coach
• September 23 - Elliott Roosevelt, author and World War II hero
• September 29 - Virginia Bruce, actress and singer
• October 1 - Bonnie Parker, outlaw
• October 7 - Henry P. McIlhenny, art collector, socialite and philanthropist
• October 8 - Gus Hall, communist leader
• October 10 - Julius Shulman, architectural photographer
• October 12
• *Bob Sheppard, baseball announcer
• *Robert Fitzgerald, poet and translator
• October 14 - John Wooden, basketball coach
• October 20 - Bob Sheppard, sportscaster
• October 21 - William Vitarelli, educator and architect

  November–December

• November 9 - Carroll Quigley, historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations
• November 13 - William Bradford Huie, journalist, editor, publisher and author
• November 17 - Jean Potts, mystery novelist
• December 11 - Mildred Cleghorn, chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe
• December 15 - John Hammond, record producer
• December 18 - Abe Burrows, playwright
• December 29 - Frank Abbandando, gangster
• December 30 - Paul Bowles, author
• date unknown - Hilda Conkling, child poet

  Deaths

January to June

• January 12 - Bass Reeves, one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals west of the Mississippi River
• January 25 - Lotta Faust, Broadway actress
• March 27 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, scientist
• March 28 - William Paul Roberts, Confederate brigadier general
• March 29 - Thomas L. Rosser, Confederate major general
• April 12 - William G. Sumner, social scientist, Yale professor
• April 21 - Mark Twain, writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer
• May 3 - Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist
• May 31 - Elizabeth Blackwell, physician
• June 5 - O. Henry, novelist
• June 23 - John McGraw, 2nd Governor of Washington
• June 28 - Samuel D. McEnery, United States Senator from Louisiana from 1897 till 1910.

  July to September

• July 5 - Melville Fuller, Chief Justice
• July 31 - John G. Carlisle, United States Senator from Kentucky from 1890 till 1893.
• August 10 - Joe Gans, professional boxer, World Lightweight Champion from 1902-1908
• August 24 - Wilkinson Call, United States Senator from Florida from 1879 till 1897.
• August 26 - William James, psychologist and philosopher
• September 5 - Julian Edwards, composer
• September 11 - Isaac L. Ellwood, businessman, rancher and inventor
• September 29 - Winslow Homer, painter

  October to December

• October 3 - Rufus Blodgett, United States Senator from New Jersey from 1887 till 1893.
• October 15 - Stanley Ketchel, boxer
• October 17 -
• * Julia Ward Howe, abolitionist and poet
• * William Vaughn Moody, dramatist and poet
• October 20 - David B. Hill, 29th Governor of New York
• November 17 - Ralph Johnstone, aviator
• November 18 - William A. B. Branch, politician
• November 23 - Hawley Harvey Crippen, murderer
• December 3 - Mary Baker Eddy, Christian science founder
• December 31
• * John Moisant, aviator
• * Arch Hoxsey, aviator

  Full date unknown

• Neil Burgess, comedian