Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 26 December
Posted 26-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.0oC - Haddington, 1983
Minimum: -17.7oC - Braemar, 1981
Average Max: 6.7oC
Average Min: 1.4oC
153.7mm rain falls in Buttermere, 1924
Gust of 103mph recorded at Prestwick Airport, 1998
1492 - First Spanish settlement in New World, founded by Columbus
1717 - The first English pantomime 'Harlequin Executed' was presented by John Rich at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London
1848 - First gold seekers arrive in Panamá en route to San Francisco
1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed
1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis (don't collaborate again for four years)
1916 - Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1928 - Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan actor) announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1932 - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1941 - Winston Churchill becomes first British PM to address joint meeting of Congress
1943 - British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1946 - 35th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1963 - The US furnishes cereal to USSR
1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7hrs
1974 - The Soviet Salyut 4 space station is launched
1979 - In the UK a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurs, located about 30 km northeast of Carlisle
1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year is a computer, first non-human
1986 - Hijackers take over Iraqi Airways 737 with 91 people during flight from Baghdad. It lands in Saudi Arabia where it explodes, killing 62
1994 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked Air France jet at Marseille and kill four Islamist terrorists
1996 - Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado
2004 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history; strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Indian Ocean region. 9.3 magnitude earthquake generates enormous tsunami; 14 nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia affected. 228,000 people are killed or missing, and 1.7 million are left homeless. Recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
2006 - Hengchun earthquake (Taiwan) kills two people, damages 15 historical buildings and undersea cable, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia
Minimum: -17.7oC - Braemar, 1981
Average Max: 6.7oC
Average Min: 1.4oC
153.7mm rain falls in Buttermere, 1924
Gust of 103mph recorded at Prestwick Airport, 1998
1492 - First Spanish settlement in New World, founded by Columbus
1717 - The first English pantomime 'Harlequin Executed' was presented by John Rich at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre in London
1848 - First gold seekers arrive in Panamá en route to San Francisco
1870 - The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed
1871 - Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis (don't collaborate again for four years)
1916 - Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
1928 - Johnny Weissmuller (Tarzan actor) announces his retirement from amateur swimming
1932 - Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
1941 - Winston Churchill becomes first British PM to address joint meeting of Congress
1943 - British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
1946 - 35th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Melbourne (5-0)
1963 - The US furnishes cereal to USSR
1973 - Two Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7hrs
1974 - The Soviet Salyut 4 space station is launched
1979 - In the UK a magnitude 4.5 earthquake occurs, located about 30 km northeast of Carlisle
1982 - Time magazine's Man of the Year is a computer, first non-human
1986 - Hijackers take over Iraqi Airways 737 with 91 people during flight from Baghdad. It lands in Saudi Arabia where it explodes, killing 62
1994 - French anti-terrorist police storm a hijacked Air France jet at Marseille and kill four Islamist terrorists
1996 - Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado
2004 - One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history; strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Indian Ocean region. 9.3 magnitude earthquake generates enormous tsunami; 14 nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia affected. 228,000 people are killed or missing, and 1.7 million are left homeless. Recorded nearly world-wide on tide gauges in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
2006 - Hengchun earthquake (Taiwan) kills two people, damages 15 historical buildings and undersea cable, disrupting Internet and IDD telecommunication services in Asia
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