Yorkshire on Monday 26 August 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 26 August 1600: Following the Restoration, powerful local Catholics invade the Hackness (Scarborough) home of Sir Thomas Hoby, Puritan commissioner and newcomer
- 26 August 1693: Thomas Sharp, a Leeds nonconformist minister, finds some dying words for his wife
- 26 August 1822: Tragedy interrupts the first day of a great cricket match between 15 Sheffield and 11 Nottingham men in the new ground at Darnall (Sheffield)
- 26 August 1914: From Pontefract to the mines on the Franco-Belgian border: Cpl. Frederick William Holmes wins a VC at Le Cateau
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 05:58-20:07, zenith 13:03
- Moon: set 15:40 rise 22:20, last quarter
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 06:03-20:12, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 15:46 rise 22:24, last quarter
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 06:00-20:12, zenith 13:06
- Moon: set 15:50 rise 22:17, last quarter
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 06:04-20:10, zenith 13:07
- Moon: set 15:42 rise 22:27, last quarter
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 06:01-20:10, zenith 13:05
- Moon: set 15:45 rise 22:21, last quarter
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ! Summer bank holiday – a “St Lubbock’s Day” proposed by the eponymous legislator in 1871, which facilitated seaside holidays
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