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next turn year 1910

events

May[edit] Main article: May 1910

May 6: King George V May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII.

May 12 – The second National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting is held in New York City.

May 18 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet.

Main article: June 1910

June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo) without fanfare, and no announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole.[2]

June 5 – The 1910 Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China.[3][4]

June 6 – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established.[5]

June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole.

June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9 hours.

June 25 – The ballet The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame. [6]

July[edit] Main article: July 1910 July 4 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats white American boxer James J. Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match, sparking race riots across the United States.

July 22 – A wireless telegraph sent from the SS Montrose results in the identification, arrest and execution of murderer Dr. Hawley Crippen.

July 24 – Ottoman forces capture the city of Shkodër to put down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.

August[edit] Main article: August 1910 August – The International Commercial Bureau of the American Republics becomes the Pan-American Union.

August 14 – A fire at the Brussels International 1910 world's fair destroys exhibitions of Britain and France.