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* 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
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* 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist ( d. 1910 )
* 1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
* 1910 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, Telugu poet and lyricist ( d. 1983 )
* 1910 – Levi Celerio, Filipino composer and lyricist ( d. 2002 )
* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )
* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )
* 1823 – Goldwin Smith, English-Canadian historian and journalist ( d. 1910 )
* 1910 – Roger MacDougall, Scottish writer ( d. 1993 )
* 1962 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major ( b. 1910 )
* 1967 – Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese doctor and intellectual ( b. 1910 )
* 1979 – Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario ( b. 1910 )
* 1981 – Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader ( b. 1910 )
* 1910 – James Henry Govier, English painter ( d. 1974 )
* 1910 – Mohammad Nissar, Indian cricketer ( d. 1963 )
* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )
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Spanish historiography was influenced by the " Annales School " starting in 1950 with Jaime Vincens Vives ( 1910 – 1960 ).
Casa Milà (), better known as La Pedrera (, meaning the ' The Quarry '), is a building designed by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí and built during the years 1905 – 1910, being considered officially completed in 1912.
* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )
* 1910 – Berton Roueché, American writer ( d. 1994 )
* 1910 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
* 1910 – Willy Ronis, French photographer ( d. 2009 )
* 1910 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer ( d. 1995 )
* 1910 – Signe Hasso, Swedish actress ( d. 2002 )
* 1910 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore ( d. 1970 )
1910 and African-American
* January 10 – Howlin ' Wolf, African-American musician ( b. 1910 )
* October 29 – Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist ( d. 1910 )
* April 23 – Granville T. Woods, African-American inventor ( d. 1910 )
Following rapid growth during the Great Migration of African-Americans from the south between 1910 and 1920, it became home to numerous African-American owned businesses and cultural institutions and offered an alternative to the race restrictions that were prevalent in the rest of the city.
Two members of the town's African-American community — house builder Lewis Buckner ( 1856 – 1924 ) and brickmason Isaac Dockery ( 1832 – 1910 ) — would play a prominent role in Sevierville's post-war construction boom.
* Father Patrick Francis Healy ( 1830 – 1910 ), 29th president of Georgetown University in the United States, first Jesuit priest of African American ancestry, first person of acknowledged African-American ancestry to earn PhD
Between 1910 and 1930, the African-American population increased by about forty percent in Northern states as a result of the migration, mostly in the major cities.
In 1910, the African-American population of Detroit was 6, 000.
Granville T. Woods ( April 23, 1856 – January 30, 1910 ), was an African-American inventor who held more than 60 patents.
Vivien Theodore Thomas ( August 29, 1910 – November 26, 1985 ) was an African-American surgical technician who developed the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s.
Ralph Harold Metcalfe ( May 30, 1910 – October 10, 1978 ) was an African-American athlete and politician who came second to Jesse Owens in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
In 1910, former undefeated boxing champion James J. Jeffries sought to reclaim the heavyweight championship as the " great white hope " from African-American Jack Johnson.
This is one of a few operas written about the African-American experience ; other notable examples are George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess ( 1935 ) and Scott Joplin's Treemonisha ( 1910 / 1972 ).
The cover of the original Treemonisha score. Treemonisha ( 1910 / 1972 ) is an opera composed by the famed African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin.
Billy Williams ( December 28, 1910 – October 17, 1972 ) was an African-American singer, who had a successful cover recording of Fats Waller's " I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter " in 1957.
1910 and boxer
* 1874 – Joe Gans, American boxer ( d. 1910 )
* King Levinsky ( 1910 – 1991 ), American heavyweight boxer
* Tony Galento ( 1910 – 1979 ), heavyweight boxer.
Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo ( January 6, 1910 – August 8, 1988 ), better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s.
Stanisław Kiecal ( September 14, 1886 – October 15, 1910 ), better known in the boxing world as Stanley Ketchel, was a Polish American professional boxer who became one of the greatest World Middleweight Champions in history.
* Following victories in France against Georges Carpentier and Billy Papke, German-American boxer Frank Klaus re-establishes the lineage of the World Middleweight Championship, broken since the death of Stanley Ketchel in 1910.
His father, James Henriksen ( born as Jim Marino Henriksen in Tønsberg in 1910 ), was a Norwegian merchant sailor and boxer nicknamed " Icewater " who spent most of his life at sea.
* Vittorio Tamagnini ( 1910 – 1981 ), boxer
Domenico Antonio Galento ( March 12, 1910 – July 22, 1979 ) was an American heavyweight boxer.
King Levinsky ( 10 September 1910 – 30 September 1991 ), also known as Kingfish Levinsky, was an American heavyweight boxer who fought during the 1930s.
Johnny Dundee ( November 19, 1893 – April 22, 1965 ) was a featherweight and junior lightweight boxer who fought from 1910 until 1932.
* Erling Nilsen ( 1910 – 1984 ), Norwegian Olympic boxer
* William Warren Barbour ( 1888-1943 ) American amateur boxer: amateur heavyweight champion ( US 1910 ; Canada 1911 )
Between 1909 and 1910, Huo traveled to Shanghai twice to accept an open challenge posed by a British boxer, Hercules O ' Brien.
Burns was so respected as a trainer that he was even recruited to serve as the conditioning coach for boxer Jim Jeffries ’ 1910 title bout against Jack Johnson.
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