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  • U.S.
    Monday Jun 13, 1910
    The Wright brothers

    The mountebank business

    U.S.
    Monday Jun 13, 1910

    There were not many customers for airplanes, so in the spring of 1910 the Wrights hired and trained a team of salaried exhibition pilots to show off their machines and win prize money for the company—despite Wilbur's disdain for what he called "the mountebank business". The team debuted at the Indianapolis Speedway on June 13.




  • Spokane, Washington, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1910
    Father's Day

    Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington

    Spokane, Washington, U.S.
    Sunday Jun 19, 1910

    On June 19, 1910, a Father's Day celebration was held at the YMCA in Spokane, Washington, by Sonora Smart Dodd. Her father, the civil war veteran William Jackson Smart, was a single parent who raised his six children there. She was also a member of Old Centenary Presbyterian Church (now Knox Presbyterian Church), where she first proposed the idea. After hearing a sermon about Jarvis' Mother's Day in 1909 at Central Methodist Episcopal Church, she told her pastor that fathers should have a similar holiday to honor them. Although she initially suggested June 5, her father's birthday, the pastors did not have enough time to prepare their sermons, and the celebration was deferred to the third Sunday in June. Several local clergymen accepted the idea, and on June 19, 1910, the first Father's Day, "sermons honoring fathers were presented throughout the city".




  • Wales, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1910
    Edward VIII

    Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester

    Wales, United Kingdom
    Thursday Jun 23, 1910

    He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester a month later on 23 June 1910, his 16th birthday.




  • Paris, France
    Saturday Jun 25, 1910
    Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird's Premiere

    Paris, France
    Saturday Jun 25, 1910

    Stravinsky became an overnight sensation following the success of the Firebird's premiere in Paris on 25 June 1910.The composer had travelled from his estate in Ustilug to Paris in early June to attend the final rehearsals and the premiere of The Firebird.




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