Yorkshire on Sunday 16 June 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday in the minster on a desperate day during the siege of York by Parliament and the Scots, Thomas Mace hears “the most remarkable singing of psalms anywhere in these our latter ages”
- 16 June 1644: On Trinity Sunday, Parliament and the Scots breach York’s walls and destroy monastic records with a mine next to St Mary’s Tower
- 16 June 1863: William Allison (12) travels from Coxwold to the circus at Easingwold, hoping to see Tom King, ‘The fighting sailor’
Proverbially:
Sunday clipt, Sunday shorn,
Better t’ bairn had niver been born.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:27-21:36, zenith 13:02
- Moon: set 01:43 rise 15:33, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:32-21:41, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 01:48 rise 15:38, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:25-21:45, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 01:46 rise 15:38, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:34-21:38, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 01:48 rise 15:37, waxing gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:29-21:41, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 01:46 rise 15:36, waxing gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ! Father’s Day in the UK and other US-influenced countries – see also 19 March
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