Yorkshire on Monday 27 May 2024
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 27 May 1576: The Elizabethan Ecclesiastical Commission at York prohibits performance of a Corpus Christi play at Wakefield
- 27 May 1730: John Hobson writes off two thirds of a £48 debt because the debtor has fled to Crayke (Easingwold) in the Liberty of Durham
- 27 May 1746: Advertisement for a cockfight featuring 86 roosters at Pocklington (East Riding)
- 27 May 1776: Samuel Hick, apprentice blacksmith, overcomes his pacifist leanings to rescue the Wesleyan Richard Burdsall from an Anglican assailant at York
- 27 May 1849: Scarborough on the last evening of Anne Brontë’s life, as told by Ellen Nussey
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Heavenly data for Hull:
- Sun: 04:39-21:17, zenith 12:58
- Moon: rise 01:03 set 07:24, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Leeds:
- Sun: 04:44-21:22, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 01:08 set 07:28, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Middlesbrough:
- Sun: 04:38-21:25, zenith 13:02
- Moon: rise 01:14 set 07:20, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for Sheffield:
- Sun: 04:46-21:20, zenith 13:03
- Moon: rise 01:05 set 07:32, waning gibbous
Heavenly data for York:
- Sun: 04:41-21:21, zenith 13:01
- Moon: rise 01:08 set 07:25, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ! Spring bank holiday – statutory substitute for Whit Monday
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