The 1910's??

Question

Tell me all about it! Please! 1909- 1919 PLEASE Anything of interest! Including the music, plays, shows, events, anything! Please include websites

Answer 1

Well the big news in April of 1912 was the sinking of the unsinkable Titanic. 1914-1918 was the 1st World War. at the time called the Great War...since on one knew there was going to be another in just 20 more years.

1902 to 1919 the women's suffrage movement was in full swing to give women the right to vote and to be elected to office. England, the Netherlands, Canada and many of the European nations were on line but the USA didn't approve it until 1920.............

http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/suffrage.htm

During this time frame George M Cohan his parents and his sister, The Four Cohans were tearing up the Broadway theatre circuit. He even had the gall to name one of his shows,"The Man Who Owns Broadway". Yankee Doodle was actuaqlly born on July 3rd...but fudged it a bit so he could sing about being "Born On The Fourth Of July".

http://www.musicals101.com/cohanbio2.htm

Answer 2

In 1910, two Boer Republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State, and two British colonies, Natal and the Cape, formed the Union of South Africa. That is when South Africa came into being as a single country. In 1914, World War 1 started. It ended in 1918. The treated of Versailles, a terrible treaty that would be almost entirely, if not entirely, responsible for the rise of Nazism and World War 2, was signed. In 1917, the Russian Revolution took place, with the Bolsheviks, who were in the minority, seizing power by force from the Mensheviks, who were supported by most Russians. In 1915, the Lusitania, a passenger ship, was sunk by the Germans, bringing the US closer to entering World War 1.

Answer 3

in 1913, Emily Davison threw herself under the king’s horse in the Derby.
Davison was a suffragette, a member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) whose life’s work was the cause of women’s suffrage.

Davison was born in Blackheath, London, educated at Royal Holloway College, London and later at St Hugh’s College Oxford where she took first-class honours in English Literature. Oxford awarded her, not a degree, but the title of ‘Lady Licentiate in Arts’ as, at that time, Oxford and Cambridge did not award degrees to women.

Davison joined Emeline Pankhurst’s WSPU in 1906, and at once became involved in aggressive action. She was arrested on several occasions, once for attacking a man she thought was Lloyd George. She went on hunger strike in prison and was force fed. On the night of the 1911 census, she crept into the Hose of Commons and spent the night in a cupboard, so that she could legally write down ‘Palace of Westminster’ as her address. Mr Tony Benn relates that he has placed a commemorative plaque in this cupboard.

What took place on the afternoon of 4th June 1913 is unclear. Some say that Davison heroically committed suicide for the cause. Others say that she intended to stop the king’s racehorse ‘Amner’ and place the ribbon of the WSPU on the beast. Cine film of the incident shows Davison stepping onto the course as the field were rounding Tattenham Park Corner. Some eyewitnesses stated that Davison attempted to pull down the king’s horse. The fact that she had purchased a return railway ticket, however, points away from the suicide theory. What is certain is that Davison fell under the hooves of the racehorse, had her skull fractured and died four days later.

Davison is buried in the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 2QT. Her tombstone bears the apposite WSPU slogan ‘Deeds Not Words’.

Answer 4

My grandpa was born 1910!
it is most important even for me