Yorkshire on Monday 17 March 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 17 March 1190: Jewish survivors of preceding massacres and overnight suicides plead from York castle walls to be allowed to convert to Christianity
- 17 March 1854: Samuel Jackson of Green Hammerton (Harrogate) writes to his 18-year-old son, John Hughlings Jackson, a student at York Medical and Surgical School
- 17 March 1914: Months before murdering his lover, the painter John Currie lectures at Leeds University and has a late-night heart-to-heart with its vice-chancellor, Michael Sadler
- 17 March 1990: J. Salter encounters a swarm of ladybirds on the North York Moors
Proverbially:
Munday flitte
Neaver sitte.
(Best 1857)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:08-18:10, zenith 12:09
- Moon: set 06:46 rise 22:14, waning gibbous
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:13-18:15, zenith 12:14
- Moon: set 06:51 rise 22:19, waning gibbous
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:11-18:14, zenith 12:13
- Moon: set 06:47 rise 22:21, waning gibbous
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:12-18:15, zenith 12:14
- Moon: set 06:52 rise 22:17, waning gibbous
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Sun: 06:11-18:13, zenith 12:12
- Moon: set 06:49 rise 22:18, waning gibbous
Red-letter days and other special events:
- ✝ Patrick – patron of Ireland, protection against snakes
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