A decade in review

The 1910s

11 moments we logged from 1910–1919.

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People born in the 1910s Vikram, Indira, Mother…

Notable figures who grew up in this decade.

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    Vikram Sarabhai

    Father of the Indian space program.

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    Indira Gandhi

    India's first woman Prime Minister.

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    Mother Teresa

    Nobel peace laureate, lived and worked in India.

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    Alan Turing

    Father of computer science and AI.

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    Nelson Mandela

    South Africa's anti-apartheid leader and first Black president.

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    Ronald Reagan

    President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911-2004).

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    John F. Kennedy

    President of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963).

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  • culture1913

    Albert Camus

    French philosopher, author, and journalist (1913–1960).

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Worldwide

  • 1910science

    Halley's Comet 1910 passage

    Halley's Comet passed Earth. People bought 'comet pills' fearing the tail would poison the atmosphere.

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    Superconductivity discovered

    Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that mercury loses all electrical resistance at extreme cold.

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    Titanic sinks

    The 'unsinkable' ship sank on its maiden voyage. 1,500 people died. The story haunts us still.

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  • 1914world

    World War I begins

    The Great War broke out across Europe. By its end in 1918, over 16 million would be dead.

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    Einstein's General Relativity

    Einstein published the General Theory of Relativity. Spacetime, gravity, and the universe got reimagined.

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    Spanish Flu pandemic

    An influenza pandemic killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide - more than WWI itself.

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  • 1919world

    Treaty of Versailles

    The treaty ending WWI imposed harsh terms on Germany, planting seeds for the next war.

India

  • 1911culture

    Capital shifts to Delhi

    British India moved its capital from Calcutta to Delhi. The new capital city, New Delhi, would be built over the next two decades.

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    Tagore wins Nobel Prize

    Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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    First Indian film: Raja Harishchandra

    Dadasaheb Phalke directed India's first full-length feature film. The Hindi film industry was born.

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  • 1919world

    Jallianwala Bagh massacre

    British troops fired on unarmed civilians at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. Hundreds were killed. A turning point in Indian independence.

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