Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
 | Posted 01-Jan-2010 at 00:15 by lancer (On This Day)
Maximum: 15.0oC - Colwyn Bay & Welshpool, 1922 Minimum: -17.2oC - Wallingford, 1962 Average Max: 6.6oC Average Min: 1.3oC 155.5mm rain falls in Achnagart, 1992 A North Sea storm in 1999 reveals 'Seahenge' [dated 2050BC], a circle of wooden timbers on the Norfolk Coast 404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome 1651 - Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland 1766 - James III Edward Old Pretender/king of Great Britain/Ireland, dies aged 77yrs...
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| Posted 30-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)
Maximum: 16.1oC - Wistanstow, 1925 Minimum: -27.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995 (UK equal record mimimum) Average Max: 6.4oC Average Min: 1.5oC 1621 - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament 1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die 1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from New Zealand to Sydney 1851 - Birth of Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola 1865 - Birth of Rudyard Kipling in Bombay, author - Nobel Prize 1907...
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| Posted 29-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)
Maximum: 16.1oC - Usk, 1925 Minimum: -24.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995 Average Max: 6.6oC Average Min: 1.5oC 170mm rain falls in Glaspwll, 1986 1170 - Thomas Beckett archbishop, assassinated by four knights of King Henry II 1800 - Birth of Charles Goodyear inventor (vulcanization process for rubber) 1860 - HMS Warrior, Britain's first iron-clad warship launched at Blackwall. It was the world's largest warship and cost £239,640 0s.3d 1885 - Gottlieb...
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| Posted 28-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)
Maximum: 16.6oC - Long Lawford, 1974 Minimum: -23.7oC - Altnaharra, 1995 Average Max: 6.6oC Average Min: 1.6oC 1065 - Westminster Abbey opens in London 1694 - Queen Mary II of England dies after five years of rule, aged 32yrs 1850 - Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire 1879 - 90 people are killed when the Tay railway bridge collapses as the Edinburgh to Dundee train crossed 1881 - The Savoy in London became the first theatre lit with incandescent...
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| Posted 27-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)
Maximum: 16.7oC - Ashburton, 1921 Minimum: -21.4oC - Grantown-on-Spey, 1995 Average Max: 6.5oC Average Min: 1.7oC 1571 - Birth of Johann Kepler in Germany; (discovers planets have elliptical orbits) 1822 - Birth of Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasteurisation) 1825 - First public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England 1831 - Charles Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle 1836 - "AVALANCHE...
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