Timeline February 1910

Events in February 1910 4

• 1910 Boy Scouts of America founded Youth movement incorporated in Washington, D.C. The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by publisher William D. Boyce after he encountered the Scouting movement in Britain. It grew rapidly into one of the largest youth organizations in the United States. The organization adapted the scouting principles founded by Robert Baden-Powell three years earlier.
• 1910 – 1976 Jacques Monod (1910-1976) Died 31 May 1976, aged 66 Jacques Monod, the French biochemist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries in gene regulation, died in Cannes. His work with Francois Jacob established the operon model explaining how genes are switched on and off. He was also known as the author of the philosophical work Chance and Necessity.
• 1910 – 1990 Joan Bennett (1910-1990) American actress, a blonde ingenue turned film noir star in Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street.
• 1910 Joan Bennett born in Fort Lee Joan Bennett is born in Fort Lee.