Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 22 December
Posted 22-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.1oC - Hoylake, 1910
Minimum: -17.4oC - Stokesay, 1890
Average Max: 6.7oC
Average Min: 1.4oC
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1440 - Bluebeard, the pirate, is executed
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1808 - Birth of Thomas Cook, England, tour director - Thomas Cook Travel
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1882 - First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1922 - In Egypt, the first official press viewing of Tutankhamen's tomb takes place
1939 - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in second wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1941 - PM Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1950 - Two trains on Long Island, New York, collide killing 77
1956 - Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 - Great Britain sets maximum driving speed at 70mph
1970 - SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment
1972 - The Chilean Air Force finds 16 survivors two months after their plane crashed in the Andes
1974 - Second cease-fire between Irish Republican Army and British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1978 - Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1985 - 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1988 - Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gallons on 300 miles of Western Australia and British Columbia coast
1991 - Britain's first wind farm, the great white turbines at Delabole, Cornwall, start generating electricity
1992 - Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
2001 - A flight from France to Florida is diverted to Massachusetts after Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire
2003 - Guerrillas in Colombia release the Briton Mark Henderson and four Israelis who were kidnapped in September
2006 - Space shuttle Discovery lands, concluding a two-week mission to the International Space Station
617 Squadron
1943 - Sortie to Pas de Calais
Minimum: -17.4oC - Stokesay, 1890
Average Max: 6.7oC
Average Min: 1.4oC
1135 - Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1440 - Bluebeard, the pirate, is executed
1715 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1808 - Birth of Thomas Cook, England, tour director - Thomas Cook Travel
1832 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1882 - First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1922 - In Egypt, the first official press viewing of Tutankhamen's tomb takes place
1939 - 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in second wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1941 - PM Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1950 - Two trains on Long Island, New York, collide killing 77
1956 - Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1964 - Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 - Great Britain sets maximum driving speed at 70mph
1970 - SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka is sentenced to life imprisonment
1972 - The Chilean Air Force finds 16 survivors two months after their plane crashed in the Andes
1974 - Second cease-fire between Irish Republican Army and British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1978 - Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1985 - 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1988 - Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gallons on 300 miles of Western Australia and British Columbia coast
1991 - Britain's first wind farm, the great white turbines at Delabole, Cornwall, start generating electricity
1992 - Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
2001 - A flight from France to Florida is diverted to Massachusetts after Richard Reid attempts to set his shoe, filled with explosives, on fire
2003 - Guerrillas in Colombia release the Briton Mark Henderson and four Israelis who were kidnapped in September
2006 - Space shuttle Discovery lands, concluding a two-week mission to the International Space Station
617 Squadron
1943 - Sortie to Pas de Calais
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