1910

• On March 16, Barney Oldfield driving a Benz automobile sets a new land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• On April 14, William Howard Taft becomes the first president to throw out the first ball of the baseball season at a game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
• On April 7, Jack Johnson successfully defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Jim Jeffries in a fifteenth-round technical knockout.
• On April 19, Fred L. Cameron of Amherst, Nova Scotia, wins the fourteenth Boston Marathon in 2:28:52.
• On May 7, Jockey R. Estep rides Layminster to victory in the thirty-fifth annual Preakness Stakes.
• On May 10, Robert Herbert rides Donau to victory in the thirty-sixth annual Kentucky Derby.
• On May 19, Cy Young earns his 500th career victory, beating the Washington Senators 5–4 in eleven innings.
• On May 30, Jimmy...