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  • France
    Apr, 1910
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle was promoted to corporal

    France
    Apr, 1910

    In April 1910 he was promoted to corporal. His company commander declined to promote him to sergeant, the usual rank for a potential officer, commenting that the young man clearly felt that nothing less than Constable of France would be good enough for him.




  • Wiesbaden, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 19, 1910
    Antibiotic

    Ehrlich and Hata announced Their Discovery

    Wiesbaden, Germany
    Tuesday Apr 19, 1910

    In 1910 Ehrlich and Hata announced their discovery, which they called drug "606", at the Congress for Internal Medicine at Wiesbaden.




  • Jamaica
    Apr, 1910
    Marcus Garvey

    First assistant secretary

    Jamaica
    Apr, 1910

    Garvey involved himself with the National Club, Jamaica's first nationalist organization, becoming its first assistant secretary in April 1910. The group campaigned to remove the British Governor of Jamaica, Sydney Olivier, from office, and to end the migration of Indian "coolies", or indentured workers, to Jamaica, as they were seen as a source of economic competition by the established population. With fellow Club member Wilfred Domingo he published a pamphlet expressing the group's ideas, The Struggling Mass.




  • United Kingdom
    Apr, 1910
    Winston Churchill

    Lords relented and the People's Budget passed into law

    United Kingdom
    Apr, 1910

    In April, the Lords relented and the People's Budget passed into law.




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