International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash. 1 September A lockout begins at Ely Pit in Penygraig, starting a chain of events leading to the Tonypandy riots. Ninian Park football stadium is opened in Cardiff to serve Cardiff City F.C. 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay. 30 September - The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales. 13 October - Three crew members from the St David's life-boat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island. 1 November - Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike. 4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, City of Cardiff, having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead. 8 November - Tonypandy riots: Striking coal miners battle with police and damage shops in Tonypandy. 9 November - Soldiers and police battle with striking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries. 3–19 December - The second 1910 United Kingdom general election results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs. Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart takes Cardiff for the Conservatives and John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan. 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth. date unknown Reconstruction of an abbey on Caldey Island is begun by Anglican Benedictines. Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company begins sinking Britannia Colliery, Pengam, Monmoutshire, the UK's first to be sunk and worked by electricity. Harry Grindell-Matthews invents the “aerophone”. The Royal Commission on the Church of England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, appointed in 1906, presents its report. The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed at Carmarthen. Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes a King's Counsel. The Davies Bryan Company opens a large drapery store in Cairo, designed by Robert Williams. Aneurin Bevan leaves school, aged thirteen. Arts and literature Arthur Machen joins the staff of the Evening News (London). Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Colwyn Bay