Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 23 December
Posted 23-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.0oC - Innsworth, 1977
Minimum: -15.6oC - Cambridge, 1890
Average Max: 6.5oC
Average Min: 1.9oC
1544 - Birth of Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1688 - English King James II flees to France
1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France
1912 - Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1919 - First hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1920 - Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
1930 - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1933 - Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1941 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1943 - General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1947 - Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrate their new invention, the transistor (short for transfer resistor)
1951 - Last Belgian communities get electricity
1961 - Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1964 - India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1964 - Dr Richard Beeching who instigated major and controversial changes to the rail network will quit, says the government
1986 - Voyager airplane completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds
1987 - The first Scrooge Award by the Low Pay Unit was won by Wiltshire stable owner (paid a qualified groom £28/wk); A doctor who employed telephonist for 30p/hr runner up. Both winners received Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' as their prize
2005 - IBM discontinues all OS/2 operating system products
Minimum: -15.6oC - Cambridge, 1890
Average Max: 6.5oC
Average Min: 1.9oC
1544 - Birth of Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange (1561-71)
1688 - English King James II flees to France
1888 - Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France
1912 - Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
1919 - First hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
1920 - Ireland divided into two parts, each with its own parliament
1930 - Bette Davis arrives in Hollywood under contract to Universal Studios
1933 - Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
1941 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1943 - General Montgomery told he is appointed commandant for D-day
1947 - Three scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrate their new invention, the transistor (short for transfer resistor)
1951 - Last Belgian communities get electricity
1961 - Train accident in Italy, 70 die
1964 - India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
1964 - Dr Richard Beeching who instigated major and controversial changes to the rail network will quit, says the government
1986 - Voyager airplane completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds
1987 - The first Scrooge Award by the Low Pay Unit was won by Wiltshire stable owner (paid a qualified groom £28/wk); A doctor who employed telephonist for 30p/hr runner up. Both winners received Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' as their prize
2005 - IBM discontinues all OS/2 operating system products
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