Temperature extremes recorded On This Day in history throughtout the UK and other worldwide events
On This Day: 30 December
Posted 30-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer
Maximum: 16.1oC - Wistanstow, 1925
Minimum: -27.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995 (UK equal record mimimum)
Average Max: 6.4oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
1621 - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from New Zealand to Sydney
1851 - Birth of Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Birth of Rudyard Kipling in Bombay, author - Nobel Prize 1907
1873 - American Metrological Society forms weights, measures and money
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' was performed for the first time in Devon
1887 - Petition to Queen Victoria with signatures of >1,000,000 women appealing for public houses to shut on Sundays
1903 - Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
1922 - The USSR is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
1927 - Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long)
1932 - The London to Brighton line was electrified, with the Southern Belle becoming the Brighton Belle
1934 - Birth of Barry Briggs MBE, in Christchurch, NZ (World Speedway Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1941 - Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1947 - 36th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1959 - The USS George Washington becomes first ballistic missile submarine commissioned
1972 - US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks
1975 - Birth of Tiger Woods, USA; golfer
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1986 - More than 200 canary birds are to be phased out of Britain's mining pits and replaced by hand-held gas detectors
1991 - 81yr old Mother Teresa lies seriuosly ill in California hospital following heart attack
1995 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 degrees C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982
2004 - A fire in a Buenos Aires night club (República Cromagnon) kills 194 people during a rock concert
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad
617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Ijmuiden U-boat pens
Minimum: -27.2oC - Altnaharra, 1995 (UK equal record mimimum)
Average Max: 6.4oC
Average Min: 1.5oC
1621 - English king James I cracks Protestation of Parliament
1703 - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails from New Zealand to Sydney
1851 - Birth of Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
1865 - Birth of Rudyard Kipling in Bombay, author - Nobel Prize 1907
1873 - American Metrological Society forms weights, measures and money
1879 - Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' was performed for the first time in Devon
1887 - Petition to Queen Victoria with signatures of >1,000,000 women appealing for public houses to shut on Sundays
1903 - Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
1922 - The USSR is established, comprising a confederation of Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine, and the Transcaucasian Federation
1927 - Japan dedicates first subway in the Orient (route under two miles long)
1932 - The London to Brighton line was electrified, with the Southern Belle becoming the Brighton Belle
1934 - Birth of Barry Briggs MBE, in Christchurch, NZ (World Speedway Champion 1957, 58, 64, 66)
1935 - Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
1941 - Winston Churchill addresses Canadian parliament
1947 - 36th Davis Cup: US beats Australia in New York (4-1)
1959 - The USS George Washington becomes first ballistic missile submarine commissioned
1972 - US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks
1975 - Birth of Tiger Woods, USA; golfer
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
1986 - More than 200 canary birds are to be phased out of Britain's mining pits and replaced by hand-held gas detectors
1991 - 81yr old Mother Teresa lies seriuosly ill in California hospital following heart attack
1995 - The lowest ever United Kingdom temperature of -27.2 degrees C is recorded at Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. This equals the record set at Braemar, Aberdeenshire in 1895 and 1982
2004 - A fire in a Buenos Aires night club (República Cromagnon) kills 194 people during a rock concert
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former Iraq president, is executed in Baghdad
617 Squadron
1944 - Sortie to Ijmuiden U-boat pens
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