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On Ths Day: 1 January

Posted 01-Jan-2010 at 00:15 by lancer (On This Day)

Maximum: 15.0^oC - Colwyn Bay & Welshpool, 1922
Minimum: -17.2^oC - Wallingford, 1962
Average Max: 6.6^oC
Average Min: 1.3^oC
155.5mm rain falls in Achnagart, 1992
A North Sea storm in 1999 reveals 'Seahenge' [dated 2050BC], a circle of wooden timbers on the Norfolk Coast

404 - Last gladiator competition in Rome
1651 - Charles II Stuart crowned king of Scotland
1766 - James III Edward Old Pretender/king of Great Britain/Ireland, dies aged 77yrs...

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On This Day: 30 December

Posted 30-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)

Maximum: 16.1^oC - Wistanstow, 1925
Minimum: -27.2^oC - Altnaharra, 1995 (UK equal record mimimum)
Average Max: 6.4^oC
Average Min: 1.5^oC

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
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On This Day: 29 December

Posted 29-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)

Maximum: 16.1^oC - Usk, 1925
Minimum: -24.2^oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6^oC
Average Min: 1.5^oC
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...

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On This Day: 28 December

Posted 28-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)

Maximum: 16.6^oC - Long Lawford, 1974
Minimum: -23.7^oC - Altnaharra, 1995
Average Max: 6.6^oC
Average Min: 1.6^oC

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...

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On This Day: 27 December

Posted 27-Dec-2009 at 06:00 by lancer (On This Day)

Maximum: 16.7^oC - Ashburton, 1921
Minimum: -21.4^oC - Grantown-on-Spey, 1995
Average Max: 6.5^oC
Average Min: 1.7^oC

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...

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