Yorkshire on Monday 6 July 2026
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 6 July 1381: John de Erghom and others in service of the Beverley oligarchy murder William Haldane and throw him in a pit on Walker Lane
- 6 July 1822: A journalist finds Aeolian harmony in a fall from York’s city walls
- 6 July 1825: James Backhouse, a Quaker nurseryman from York, triumphs with exotic varieties at the Yorkshire Horticultural Society’s summer meeting in Leeds
- 6 July 1831: “190 boats stranded in the Selby Canal by the Aire and Calder Company’s denial of water”, favouring the new Knottingley-Goole cut
- 6 July 1915: The Tory MP for York joins in the persecution of the professor of German at Leeds University, A.W. Schüddekopf, who is sacked and dies of a stroke
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:37-21:34, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 11:57 rise 23:50, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:42-21:39, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 12:02 rise 23:55, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:35-21:43, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 12:01 rise 23:53, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:44-21:37, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 12:02 rise 23:55, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 04:39-21:39, zenith 13:09
- Moon: set 12:00 rise 23:53, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- Religion: John Fisher (Beverley-born) and Thomas More – martyred by Henry VIII, celebrated by Rome 22 June.
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