Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 27 December
Posted 27-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.7oC - Ashburton, 1921
Minimum: -21.4oC - Grantown-on-Spey, 1995
Average Max: 6.5oC
Average Min: 1.7oC
1571 - Birth of Johann Kepler in Germany; (discovers planets have elliptical orbits)
1822 - Birth of Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasteurisation)
1825 - First public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1831 - Charles Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle
1836 - "AVALANCHE KILLS EIGHT IN SURREY" read the headlines when thaw causes a cornice of snow on chalk cliffs in Lewes to break off and fall, crushing houses 100m below
1901 - Birth of Marlene Dietrich, Berlin, Germany
1904 - Duke of York Theatre opens in London; first musical Peter Pan
1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1943 - Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith
1945 - International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
1951 - 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in Sydney (3-2)
1956 - 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in Adelaide (5-0)
1965 - Four men are dead and nine are still missing after Britain's first North Sea drilling rig capsizes
1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1971 - World's first cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
1975 - The Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay acts came into force in Britain, making it an offence to discriminate in employment, training and education on grounds of sex
1985 - At least 16 people are killed and more than 100 injured during twin terrorist attacks in Rome and Vienna
1985 - Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered in Rwanda, aged 53yrs
1987 - Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro-Chinese communist, dies at age 90 in Beijing
1991 - In Sweden, flight SK751 crashes and breaks into three pieces; there is no explosion, no fire, and no fatalities among the 129 aboard
1996 - In Moscow, Andrei Maslich, on death row for cannibalism, is sentenced to death a scond time after attempting to eat his cellmate while awaiting news of pardon
1997 - A leading protestant paramilitary, Billy Wright, is shot dead at the maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland
2007 - At an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, former President Benazir Bhutto, is assassinated
2008 - Israel launches air strikes on dozens of Hamas security compounds in the Gaza Strip, killing 230, wounding over 400
Minimum: -21.4oC - Grantown-on-Spey, 1995
Average Max: 6.5oC
Average Min: 1.7oC
1571 - Birth of Johann Kepler in Germany; (discovers planets have elliptical orbits)
1822 - Birth of Louis Pasteur, Dole, France, bacteriologist (pasteurisation)
1825 - First public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
1831 - Charles Darwin begins his voyage to South America on board the HMS Beagle
1836 - "AVALANCHE KILLS EIGHT IN SURREY" read the headlines when thaw causes a cornice of snow on chalk cliffs in Lewes to break off and fall, crushing houses 100m below
1901 - Birth of Marlene Dietrich, Berlin, Germany
1904 - Duke of York Theatre opens in London; first musical Peter Pan
1927 - Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
1943 - Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower and Bedell Smith
1945 - International Monetary Fund established - World Bank founded
1951 - 40th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in Sydney (3-2)
1956 - 45th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in Adelaide (5-0)
1965 - Four men are dead and nine are still missing after Britain's first North Sea drilling rig capsizes
1968 - Apollo 8 returns to Earth
1971 - World's first cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
1975 - The Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay acts came into force in Britain, making it an offence to discriminate in employment, training and education on grounds of sex
1985 - At least 16 people are killed and more than 100 injured during twin terrorist attacks in Rome and Vienna
1985 - Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in the Mist), murdered in Rwanda, aged 53yrs
1987 - Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro-Chinese communist, dies at age 90 in Beijing
1991 - In Sweden, flight SK751 crashes and breaks into three pieces; there is no explosion, no fire, and no fatalities among the 129 aboard
1996 - In Moscow, Andrei Maslich, on death row for cannibalism, is sentenced to death a scond time after attempting to eat his cellmate while awaiting news of pardon
1997 - A leading protestant paramilitary, Billy Wright, is shot dead at the maximum security Maze prison in Northern Ireland
2007 - At an election rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, former President Benazir Bhutto, is assassinated
2008 - Israel launches air strikes on dozens of Hamas security compounds in the Gaza Strip, killing 230, wounding over 400
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