February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death October 30, 1991
The temperature on October 30, 1991 was between 2.2 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 5 » A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
June 7 » Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3mi) high.
August 21 » Latvia declares renewal of its full independence after its occupation by the Soviet Union since 1940.
August 25 » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
October 3 » Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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