January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
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).
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death May 10, 1971
The temperature on May 10, 1971 was between 5.5 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
February 5 » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
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.
October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
December 7 » The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
December 16 » Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India.
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