Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 24 December
Posted 24-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 15.6oC - Rhyl, 1910
Minimum: -15.6oC - Braemar, 1935
Average Max: 6.8oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
1167 - Birth of John "without a land" king of England (1199-1216)
1515 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1582 - Water piped to houses by the London Bridge Waterworks began flowing
1660 - Mary I princess of England, dies aged 29yrs
1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed bringing an end to the War between America and Britain
1818 - Silent Night composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; sung for first time the next day
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1865 - Confederate Army veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee
1893 - Henry Ford completes his first useful internal combustion engine
1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover
1922 - First BBC broadcast from Newcastle Upon Tyne (5NO)
1922 - London Coloseum opens
1933 - Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300
1941 - First ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1942 - First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemünde, Germany
1953 - The Wellington-Auckland (NZ) overnight express train crashes off the Tangiwai Bridge, swept away in lahar from Mt Ruapehu, 166 killed
1965 - A meteorite (approx 100lbs) landed on Leicestershire, the largest recorded meteorite to fall in Britain in modern times
1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts' Christmas reading (Book of Genesis) while orbiting Moon
1974 - Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found in Australia after apparently faking his own death
1979 - The first European-built rocket, Ariane 1, successfully blasts off into space
1988 - Three North Sea oil fields shut down after giant floating storage vessel, the Medora, broke free of its moorings in gale-force winds
1999 - Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi is hijacked and taken to Afghanistan
2007 - Complletion of FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand
Minimum: -15.6oC - Braemar, 1935
Average Max: 6.8oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
1167 - Birth of John "without a land" king of England (1199-1216)
1515 - Thomas Wolsey appointed English Lord Chancellor
1582 - Water piped to houses by the London Bridge Waterworks began flowing
1660 - Mary I princess of England, dies aged 29yrs
1724 - Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1814 - The Treaty of Ghent was signed bringing an end to the War between America and Britain
1818 - Silent Night composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; sung for first time the next day
1832 - HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver
1865 - Confederate Army veterans form the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee
1893 - Henry Ford completes his first useful internal combustion engine
1914 - German plane drops bombs on Dover
1922 - First BBC broadcast from Newcastle Upon Tyne (5NO)
1922 - London Coloseum opens
1933 - Paris express train derails and kills 160, injures 300
1941 - First ships of Admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1942 - First powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemünde, Germany
1953 - The Wellington-Auckland (NZ) overnight express train crashes off the Tangiwai Bridge, swept away in lahar from Mt Ruapehu, 166 killed
1965 - A meteorite (approx 100lbs) landed on Leicestershire, the largest recorded meteorite to fall in Britain in modern times
1966 - Luna 13 lands on Moon
1968 - Apollo 8 astronauts' Christmas reading (Book of Genesis) while orbiting Moon
1974 - Former UK minister John Stonehouse has been found in Australia after apparently faking his own death
1979 - The first European-built rocket, Ariane 1, successfully blasts off into space
1988 - Three North Sea oil fields shut down after giant floating storage vessel, the Medora, broke free of its moorings in gale-force winds
1999 - Indian Airlines Flight 814, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi is hijacked and taken to Afghanistan
2007 - Complletion of FAI World Grand Prix Gliding Championship at Omarama, New Zealand
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