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* 1910 – The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of females for “ immoral purposes ”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
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* 1910 – The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
* 1877 – Charles Rolls, English engineer and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited ( d. 1910 )
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 – 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.
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The United States and most Latin American countries instead entered into the Buenos Aires Convention in 1910, which required a copyright notice ( such as all rights reserved ) on the work, and permitted signatory nations to limit the duration of copyrights to shorter and renewable terms.
By 1910, the profession, " chemical engineer ", was already in common use in Britain and the United States.
He served as the 36th Governor of New York ( 1907 – 1910 ), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1910 – 1916 ), United States Secretary of State ( 1921 – 1925 ), a judge on the Court of International Justice ( 1928 – 1930 ), and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1930 – 1941 ).
The emergence of secondary education in the United States did not happen until 1910, caused by the rise in big businesses and technological advances in factories ( for instance, the emergence of electrification ), that required skilled workers.
After decades of growing interest in and development of experiential education and scouting ( not Scouting ) in the United States, and the emergence of the Scout Movement in 1907, in 1910 Boy Scouts of America was founded in the merger of three older Scouting organizations: Boy Scouts of the United States, the National Scouts of America and the Peace Scouts of California.
* 1833 – Melville Weston Fuller, American jurist and 8th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1910 )
The United States was particularly apprehensive about the role of the German community in Haiti ( approximately 200 in 1910 ), who wielded a disproportionate amount of economic power.
Rivalries between the companies, however, escalated in 1910, when the United Fruit came to Honduras to set up company operations ; the company had already been a local producer of bananas in Honduras.
Elizabeth Blackwell ( 1821 – 1910 ) became the first woman to formally study, and subsequently practice, medicine in the United States.
* 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at.
* 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.
The United States had a long history of intervening in Liberia's internal affairs, occasionally sending naval vessels to help the Americo-Liberian ( freed slave ) ruling minority put down insurrections by indigenous tribes ( in 1821, 1843, 1876, 1910, and 1915 ).
* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
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