Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 29 December
Posted 29-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.1oC - Usk, 1925
Minimum: -24.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
170mm rain falls in Glaspwll, 1986
1170 - Thomas Beckett archbishop, assassinated by four knights of King Henry II
1800 - Birth of Charles Goodyear inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
1860 - HMS Warrior, Britain's first iron-clad warship launched at Blackwall. It was the world's largest warship and cost £239,640 0s.3d
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents first bike (Germany)
1914 - The first Zeppelin appeared over the British coast
1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party
1930 - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam Minnesota, to New Orleans
1937 - Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 - Pan Am starts San Francisco (US) to Auckland (NZ) service
1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London
1949 - Hungary nationalizes its industries
1952 - First transistorised hearing aid offered for sale
1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
1973 - In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs
1975 - Eleven killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York
1983 - Princess Caroline married Stefano Casiraghiin Monte Carlo
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi claims victory for his assassinated mother's (Indhira) Congress Party in the Indian general election
1986 - [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, former British PM (1957-63), dies in Sussex, England, aged 92yrs
1991 - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crashes into mountain at Taipei
1994 - Boeing 737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughter of all chickens within it's territory (1.25 million) to halt spread of bird 'flu
1998 - Six people have died after mountainous seas smashed yachts taking part in Sydney - Hobart race
1999 - In Henley-on-Thames, George Harrison (Beatles) is stabbed in chest by Michael Anram, who had broken into his home
2000 - A blanket of snow descends on GB as Arctic conditions disrupt travel - Sound familiar? [lancer - Thanks goodness for global warming
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617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Rotterdam
Minimum: -24.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
170mm rain falls in Glaspwll, 1986
1170 - Thomas Beckett archbishop, assassinated by four knights of King Henry II
1800 - Birth of Charles Goodyear inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
1860 - HMS Warrior, Britain's first iron-clad warship launched at Blackwall. It was the world's largest warship and cost £239,640 0s.3d
1885 - Gottlieb Daimler patents first bike (Germany)
1914 - The first Zeppelin appeared over the British coast
1920 - Yugoslav government bans communist party
1930 - Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam Minnesota, to New Orleans
1937 - Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 - Pan Am starts San Francisco (US) to Auckland (NZ) service
1940 - Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London
1949 - Hungary nationalizes its industries
1952 - First transistorised hearing aid offered for sale
1963 - 52nd Davis Cup: US beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
1973 - In the New Hebrides Islands, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake occurs
1975 - Eleven killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York
1983 - Princess Caroline married Stefano Casiraghiin Monte Carlo
1984 - Rajiv Gandhi claims victory for his assassinated mother's (Indhira) Congress Party in the Indian general election
1986 - [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, former British PM (1957-63), dies in Sussex, England, aged 92yrs
1991 - Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crashes into mountain at Taipei
1994 - Boeing 737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1997 - Hong Kong begins slaughter of all chickens within it's territory (1.25 million) to halt spread of bird 'flu
1998 - Six people have died after mountainous seas smashed yachts taking part in Sydney - Hobart race
1999 - In Henley-on-Thames, George Harrison (Beatles) is stabbed in chest by Michael Anram, who had broken into his home
2000 - A blanket of snow descends on GB as Arctic conditions disrupt travel - Sound familiar? [lancer - Thanks goodness for global warming
]617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Rotterdam
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