Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 28 December
Posted 28-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.6oC - Long Lawford, 1974
Minimum: -23.7oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6oC
Average Min: 1.6oC
1065 - Westminster Abbey opens in London
1694 - Queen Mary II of England dies after five years of rule, aged 32yrs
1850 - Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
1879 - 90 people are killed when the Tay railway bridge collapses as the Edinburgh to Dundee train crossed
1881 - The Savoy in London became the first theatre lit with incandescent electric lamps. A total of 1,158 bulbs were used
1887 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, first British race horse trainer knighted
1895 - The first clinical x-ray was taken by Franz Exner in Vienna. The plate was made of a gunshot wound in a forester's hand
1895 - The world's first commercial movie is shown at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film, by Louis and Auguste Lumière, showed series of short scenes from everyday French life
1904 - First daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1923 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies, aged 91yrs
1926 - Imperial Airways begins England - India mail and passenger service
1939 - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype first flies
1948 - US announces a study to launch an Earth satellite
1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (1936 Olympic gold medallist), dies aged 39yrs
1950 - The Peak District was designated Britain's first National Park
1954 - 43rd Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
1955 - 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in New York (5-0)
1957 - One of Britain's largest abattoirs closes down after foot-and-mouth disease is found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered
1968 - 57th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1973 - In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs
1983 - 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1985 - Warring Lebanese Muslim and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
1989 - A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Newcastle, Australia, killing 13 people
2003 - The British Government announces plans to tighten airline security by allowing armed guards on some British flights to the US
Minimum: -23.7oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6oC
Average Min: 1.6oC
1065 - Westminster Abbey opens in London
1694 - Queen Mary II of England dies after five years of rule, aged 32yrs
1850 - Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
1879 - 90 people are killed when the Tay railway bridge collapses as the Edinburgh to Dundee train crossed
1881 - The Savoy in London became the first theatre lit with incandescent electric lamps. A total of 1,158 bulbs were used
1887 - Sir John Layton Jarvis, first British race horse trainer knighted
1895 - The first clinical x-ray was taken by Franz Exner in Vienna. The plate was made of a gunshot wound in a forester's hand
1895 - The world's first commercial movie is shown at the Grand Cafe in Paris. The film, by Louis and Auguste Lumière, showed series of short scenes from everyday French life
1904 - First daily wireless weather forecasts published (London)
1923 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies, aged 91yrs
1926 - Imperial Airways begins England - India mail and passenger service
1939 - The Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber prototype first flies
1948 - US announces a study to launch an Earth satellite
1949 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (1936 Olympic gold medallist), dies aged 39yrs
1950 - The Peak District was designated Britain's first National Park
1954 - 43rd Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Sydney (3-2)
1955 - 44th Davis Cup: Australia beats US in New York (5-0)
1957 - One of Britain's largest abattoirs closes down after foot-and-mouth disease is found in cattle waiting to be slaughtered
1968 - 57th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1)
1973 - In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs
1983 - 72nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2)
1985 - Warring Lebanese Muslim and Christian leaders sign peace agreement
1989 - A magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits Newcastle, Australia, killing 13 people
2003 - The British Government announces plans to tighten airline security by allowing armed guards on some British flights to the US
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