The temperature on March 29, 1910 was between 2.1 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Christening day March 30, 1910
The temperature on March 30, 1910 was between -0.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
August 20 » Extremely dry and windy weather in the Inland Northwest of the United States causes several small wildfires to coalesce into the Great Fire of 1910, burning approximately 3million acres (12,000km) and killing 87 people.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of death April 4, 1910
The temperature on April 4, 1910 was between 2.5 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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