Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 8 December
Posted 08-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Minimum: -17.8oC - Cambridge, 1879
Average Max: 7.3oC
Average Min: 1.9oC
1292 - John Peckham English archbishop of Canterbury, dies aged 62yrs
1587 - Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
1777 - Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
1841 - Prince Albert Edward (later Edward VII) becomes Prince of Wales
1864 - Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon was opened
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa
1914 - British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1923 - Salary and price freeze in Germany
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1941 - Japanese aircraft attack the Kai Tak airport on Hong Kong, destroying or damaging all six RAF aircraft
1946 - US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes first powered flight
1948 - Jordan annexes Arabic Palestine
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1956 - First test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1965 - The new Race Relations Act comes into force today making racial discrimination unlawful in public places
1966 - US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, Greece; 93 killed
1972 - United Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1978 - Golda Meir, Israeli PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem aged 80yrs
1980 - Beatle, John Lennon, dies after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards Air Force Base
1989 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1991 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States
1993 - Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1995 - St George's Roman Catholic School Head teacher, Philip Lawrence, 48, died after being stabbed outside his west London school while protecting a pupil who was being assaulted
2005 - Hurricane Epsilon dies in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is the longest-lived December hurricane on record
617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Urft dam
Average Max: 7.3oC
Average Min: 1.9oC
1292 - John Peckham English archbishop of Canterbury, dies aged 62yrs
1587 - Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
1777 - Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
1841 - Prince Albert Edward (later Edward VII) becomes Prince of Wales
1864 - Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon was opened
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South Africa
1914 - British and German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1923 - Salary and price freeze in Germany
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1941 - Japanese aircraft attack the Kai Tak airport on Hong Kong, destroying or damaging all six RAF aircraft
1946 - US Army rocket plane XS-1 makes first powered flight
1948 - Jordan annexes Arabic Palestine
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1956 - First test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1965 - The new Race Relations Act comes into force today making racial discrimination unlawful in public places
1966 - US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, Greece; 93 killed
1972 - United Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1978 - Golda Meir, Israeli PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem aged 80yrs
1980 - Beatle, John Lennon, dies after being shot outside his New York City apartment by Mark David Chapman
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards Air Force Base
1989 - Great Britain performs nuclear test
1991 - Leaders of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine meet and sign an agreement ending the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States
1993 - Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1995 - St George's Roman Catholic School Head teacher, Philip Lawrence, 48, died after being stabbed outside his west London school while protecting a pupil who was being assaulted
2005 - Hurricane Epsilon dies in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is the longest-lived December hurricane on record
617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Urft dam
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quite a busy day with some landmark events there. Was a max temp listed?Posted 08-Dec-2009 at 23:55 by Grant 
