Events January January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. February February 20 – Boutros Ghali, the first native-born Prime Minister of Egypt, is assassinated in Cairo. March March – Albanian revolt of 1910: An uprising against Ottoman rule breaks out in Albania. March 8 – In France, Raymonde de Laroche is awarded Pilot's license No. 36 by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, becoming the first woman authorized to fly an airplane. March 10 Slavery in China, which has existed since the Shang dynasty, is now made illegal. Nazareth Baptist Church, an African-initiated church, is founded by Prophet Isaiah Shembe in South Africa. March 17 – Progressive Republicans in the United States House of Representatives rebel against Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon, removing him from the Rules Committee, and stripping him of his power to appoint committee chairmen. March 18 – The first filmed version of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein comes out. Considered to be the first horror movie, it stars actor Charles Ogle as the monster. April April 5 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated. April 20 – Halley's Comet is visible from Earth (its next visit will be in 1986). May May 6 – George V becomes King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland upon the death of his father, Edward VII. May 12 – The second National Association for the Advancement of Colored People meeting is held in New York City. May 18 – The Earth passes through the tail of Halley's Comet. May 31 – The Union of South Africa is created. June June 3 – The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, led by Roald Amundsen on the steamer Fram, departs from Christiania (modern-day Oslo) without fanfare, and no announcement until later in the year of Amundsen's intention to reach the South Pole. June 5 – The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China. June 6 – The Holland Dakota Landbouw Compagnie is established. June 15 – The British Antarctic Expedition, led by Robert Falcon Scott on the whaler Terra Nova, departs from Cardiff for the South Pole. June 22 – DELAG Zeppelin dirigible Deutschland makes the first commercial passenger flight, from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany; the flight takes 9