1910
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Events
- Huey P. Long is expelled from school for distributing a petition against adding a 12th year of schooling as a graduation requirement.
- Japan annexes Korea, Choson Dynasty (establsihed in 1392) falls.
- China abolishes slavery.
- Italian-Abyssinian Demarcation Commission begins work in Dule.
- Standard Oil of New Jersey begins to explore for oil for Iraq.
- Washington becomes the fifth American state to grant women the right to vote.
- Democrat Lee Cruce defeats Republican Joe McNeal to become Governor of Oklahoma and the capital of Oklahoma is moved from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.
- U.S. Marines continue to occupy the Isthmus of Panama, which they will do until January 21, 1914.
Timeline
- February 10: Egyptian Prime Minister Boutros Ghali is assassinated.
- May 19-September 4: U.S. Marines occupy Bluefields, Nicaragua.
- October 18: U.S. special agent Thomas C. Dawson arrives in Managua, Nicaragua for 10 days of meetings with Nicaraguan political leaders, who agree to call an election for members of a constitutional convention. The convention is to elect a president and vice-president for two years.