Yorkshire on Sunday 14 April 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 14 April 1792: The ballad of Spence Broughton, hung this day at the York Tyburn for robbing the Sheffield and Rotherham mail
- 14 April 1843: John Nicholson, “the Airedale Poet,” “the Bingley Baron,” dies after falling into the Aire while drunk
- 14 April 1848: The tombstone epitaph and verse for James Myers, killed on this day while working in the Bramhope Tunnel, and for his daughter, who died three weeks later
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 05:59-20:03, zenith 13:01
- Moon: set 03:01 rise 08:55, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 06:04-20:08, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 03:06 rise 09:00, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 06:01-20:08, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 03:13 rise 08:51, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 06:05-20:06, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 03:02 rise 09:03, waxing crescent
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 06:02-20:06, zenith 13:04
- Moon: set 03:06 rise 08:56, waxing crescent
Red-letter days and other special events:
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