The temperature on October 6, 1910 was between 10.7 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
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.
December 3 » Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
Day of death November 4, 1981
The temperature on November 4, 1981 was between 4.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Greece is admitted into the European Community.
February 6 » The National Resistance Army of Uganda launches an attack on a Ugandan Army installation in the central Mubende District to begin the Ugandan Bush War.
March 11 » Hundreds of students protest in the University of Pristina in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia, to give their province more political rights. The protests then became a nationwide movement.
May 5 » Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
May 25 » In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
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