Independence Day in Albania, Panama and Mauritania
Anniversary of:
• women voting in a national election for the first time, in New Zealand’s general election (1893)
• Margaret Thatcher stepping down as PM of the UK (1990)
She resigned as prime minister and party leader in 1990, after a challenge was launched to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords.
• the deaths of author Enid Blyton (1968), artist Sidney Nolan (1992)
1979 – Antarctica — DC-10 Crashes
1979 : An Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus, Antarctica while on a sight seeing tour, killing all 257 on board .
