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29-Dec-2009, 07:13
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 On This Day: 29 December 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 Click here to be taken to lancer's Blog... Midlands Weather Forum |
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