Timeline August 1910

Events in August 1910 8

• 1820 – 1910 Florence Nightingale The Lady with the Lamp Founder of modern nursing during the Crimean War.
• 1910 US Championships 1910 Men: Bill Larned · Women: Hazel Hotchkiss
• 1910 – 1999 Sylvia Sidney (1910-1999) American actress, a star of 1930s dramas for Lang and Hitchcock whose career ran to Beetlejuice and Mars Attacks!
• 1910 Sylvia Sidney born in New York Sylvia Sidney is born in New York.
• 1910 – 2006 Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) American actress, the mother in Father Knows Best and Spock's mother in Star Trek.
• 1910 Jane Wyatt born in Mahwah Jane Wyatt is born in Mahwah.
• 1910 – 1997 Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Died 5 September 1997, aged 87 Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta and devoted her life to caring for the poor and dying. She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. She died just days after Princess Diana, and was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church in 2016.
• 1910 Japan annexes Korea Korea becomes a colony of the Japanese Empire Under the Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty, the Korean Empire was formally absorbed into the Empire of Japan and ceased to exist as an independent state. Japanese colonial rule over Korea lasted until 1945. The annexation followed years of increasing Japanese control after the Russo-Japanese War.