Yorkshire on Monday 15 July 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 15 July 1802: In the Hambleton Hills, Dorothy and William Wordsworth visit Rievaulx and see Scottish cattle travelling to London
- 15 July 1855: At Sevastopol in the Crimea, boatswain’s mate John Sheppard of Hull wins a VC trying to row through enemy lines on an improvised explosive punt to blow up a Russian warship
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:48-21:26, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 00:07 rise 15:47, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:53-21:31, zenith 13:12
- Moon: set 00:11 rise 15:52, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:47-21:34, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 00:08 rise 15:55, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:55-21:28, zenith 13:11
- Moon: set 00:12 rise 15:50, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:50-21:30, zenith 13:10
- Moon: set 00:09 rise 15:51, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Swithun – mending broken eggs, 40 days’ rain if it rains today ! Seamer Horse Fair
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