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Maximum: 33.9oC - Hodsock Priory, 1921
Average Max: 20.2oC
Average Min: 11.4oC
143.5mm rain falls at Chew Stoke, 1968
Last 'On This Day' post from merlin617 at 04:41hrs in 2009 - sadly missed by his friends at MWF
138 - Birth of Hadrian
988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey
1040 - Lady Godiva made her famous horse ride through Coventry as a dare from her husband, for which he reduced local taxes. Later legend added the peeping Tom, who disobeyed an order not to look at her and was struck blind
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton
1553 - Lady Jane Grey became Queen after the death of Edward VI, a reign which lasted only 9 days before she was imprisoned by Queen Mary I
1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white near Rotorua, New Zealand
1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States is at Death Valley, California today: 56.7oC (134oF)
1923 - 0.9kg (2lb) hailstones kill 23 and many cattle at Rostov, Russia)
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world
1940 - 64 German airplanes fly for Britain. Five squadrons of RAF Fighter Command are launched to intercept them. Twelve German planes are shot down, at a cost of three British planes. This is considered the start of the Battle of Britain
1943 - (0245 hours) Operation Husky begins, with an Allied invasion of Sicily. Four British divisions of the British 8th Army under General Sir Bernard Montgomery land on a 40-mile stretch on the southeast and four American divisions of the United States 7th Army under Lieutenant-General George Patton land on a 40-mile front to the west
1958 - First parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia, USA
1962 - The world's first communications satellite (Telstar) is launched into orbit
1966 - Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
1980 - Alexandra Palace in London destroyed by fire
1985 - French DGSE agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland harbor, New Zealand - les sale bâtardes
1985 - Coca-Cola Company announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
2000 - In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson
2003 - The last of the original Volkswagen Beetle cars is built at the assembly plant in Mexico. The car had been produced for 69 years and 21 million were built altogether
Average Max: 20.2oC
Average Min: 11.4oC
143.5mm rain falls at Chew Stoke, 1968
Last 'On This Day' post from merlin617 at 04:41hrs in 2009 - sadly missed by his friends at MWF
138 - Birth of Hadrian
988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey
1040 - Lady Godiva made her famous horse ride through Coventry as a dare from her husband, for which he reduced local taxes. Later legend added the peeping Tom, who disobeyed an order not to look at her and was struck blind
1460 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton
1553 - Lady Jane Grey became Queen after the death of Edward VI, a reign which lasted only 9 days before she was imprisoned by Queen Mary I
1886 - Eruption of Mount Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink and white near Rotorua, New Zealand
1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the United States is at Death Valley, California today: 56.7oC (134oF)
1923 - 0.9kg (2lb) hailstones kill 23 and many cattle at Rostov, Russia)
1938 - Howard Hughes sets a new record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world
1940 - 64 German airplanes fly for Britain. Five squadrons of RAF Fighter Command are launched to intercept them. Twelve German planes are shot down, at a cost of three British planes. This is considered the start of the Battle of Britain
1943 - (0245 hours) Operation Husky begins, with an Allied invasion of Sicily. Four British divisions of the British 8th Army under General Sir Bernard Montgomery land on a 40-mile stretch on the southeast and four American divisions of the United States 7th Army under Lieutenant-General George Patton land on a 40-mile front to the west
1958 - First parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
1962 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested during demonstration in Georgia, USA
1962 - The world's first communications satellite (Telstar) is launched into orbit
1966 - Orbiter 1 launched to Moon
1980 - Alexandra Palace in London destroyed by fire
1985 - French DGSE agents sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior ship in Auckland harbor, New Zealand - les sale bâtardes
1985 - Coca-Cola Company announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
2000 - In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline
2002 - At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson
2003 - The last of the original Volkswagen Beetle cars is built at the assembly plant in Mexico. The car had been produced for 69 years and 21 million were built altogether
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