Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 8 November
Posted 08-Nov-2009 at 20:39 by lancer
Maximum: 19.1oC - Alston, 1881
Minimum: -8.9oC - Lenton Fields, 1923
Average Max: 10.2oC
Average Min: 4.3oC
1656 - Birth of Sir Edmond Halley first to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)
1793 - Louvre in Paris, opens
1939 - In Munich, a bomb explodes in Bürgerbräukeller, fifteen minutes after Adolf Hitler left the building. Eight are killed, 63 injured
1942 - Operation Torch begins, as Allied forces land in Northern Africa
1968 - Bruce Reynolds, the last of the Great Train Robbers, was finally arrested
1974 - Detectives are searching for British aristocrat Lord Lucan following the death of his children's nanny last night
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1987 - Eleven people are killed after an IRA bomb explodes during Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh
1990 - Voters in the Republic of Ireland choose their first female president, Mary Robinson
2003 - Birth of Price Edward and Sophie's daughter, Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor
2006 - A transit of Mercury occurs
2008 - New Zealand's National Party ends Prime Minister Helen Clark's nine-year Labour government
Minimum: -8.9oC - Lenton Fields, 1923
Average Max: 10.2oC
Average Min: 4.3oC
1656 - Birth of Sir Edmond Halley first to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)
1793 - Louvre in Paris, opens
1939 - In Munich, a bomb explodes in Bürgerbräukeller, fifteen minutes after Adolf Hitler left the building. Eight are killed, 63 injured
1942 - Operation Torch begins, as Allied forces land in Northern Africa
1968 - Bruce Reynolds, the last of the Great Train Robbers, was finally arrested
1974 - Detectives are searching for British aristocrat Lord Lucan following the death of his children's nanny last night
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1987 - Eleven people are killed after an IRA bomb explodes during Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh
1990 - Voters in the Republic of Ireland choose their first female president, Mary Robinson
2003 - Birth of Price Edward and Sophie's daughter, Louise Alice Elizabeth Mary Mountbatten-Windsor
2006 - A transit of Mercury occurs
2008 - New Zealand's National Party ends Prime Minister Helen Clark's nine-year Labour government
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1986- Mushyb86 was born
Posted 14-Nov-2009 at 01:20 by mushyb86 
