January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death May 4, 1971
The temperature on May 4, 1971 was between 2.3 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 5 » In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
April 10 » Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit.
April 17 » The Provisional Government of Bangladesh is formed.
April 19 » Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
August 21 » A bomb exploded in the Liberal Party campaign rally in Plaza Miranda, Manila, Philippines with several anti-Marcos political candidates injured.
October 25 » The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
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