MetServ: On This Day - MetServ

Maximum: 32.2^oC - Bridgwater, 1934
Average Max: 20.1^oC
Average Min: 11.6^oC
39 miners drown 'in a moment' after a thunderstorm in Truro floods a mine, 1846...

Maximum: 33.3^oC - Cambridge, 1893
Average Max: 20.3^oC
Average Min: 11.4^oC

1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death; observers are unsure if Joan turned in her grave or just laughed...

Maximum: 34.4^oC - Cromer, 1959
Average Max: 20.2^oC
Average Min: 11.4^oC

1687 - Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in England
1781 - Birth of Sir Stamford Raffles founded Singapore
1841 - Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
1865 - William Booth founded Salvation Army...

Maximum: 35.9^oC - Cheltenham, 1976
Average Max: 20.1^oC
Average Min: 11.3^o...

Maximum: 34.8^oC - Jersey, 1952
Average Max: 20.1^oC
Average Min: 11.2^o...