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The following events occurred in March 1910: ==March 1, 1910 (Tuesday)== *The deadliest avalanche in American history killed 96 people, mostly railroad passengers who had been stranded by snow since February 24. Two different Great Northern Railway trains, on their way from Spokane to Seattle, had been halted at Stevens Pass by heavy snowfall. Shortly after 1:00 a.m., a violent thunderstorm triggered the slide, which tossed the trains down into a canyon.〔Edgar Haine, ''Railroad Wrecks'' (Cornwall Books, 1993), p73; Gary Krist, ''The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche (Henry Holt & Co., 2007); "Snowslides Snuff Out Lives of 59 in Mountain Ranges", ''Indianapolis Star'', March 2, 1910, p1〕 *General Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca, formerly the Minister of War, was elected President of Brazil, with 233,882 votes 126,690 for Ruy Barbosa〔"Brazil", in ''The New International Yearbook 1911'' p112〕 to take office on November 15.〔"Record of Current Events", ''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (April 1910), pp418-422〕 *Born: David Niven, English actor (d. 1983); and Archer John Porter Martin, English biochemist, 1952 Nobel laureate, (d. 2002); both in London *Died: José Domingo de Obaldía, 65, President of Panama since 1908. Obaldía was succeeded by Carlos Antonio Mendoza.〔''Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics'' (April, 1910)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「March 1910」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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