Yorkshire on Thursday 19 October 2023
Then
Yorkshire in history:
- 1715/10/19 - Abraham Sharp of Halifax doubts he will find an heir for the scientific instruments he has built
- 1775/10/19 - Mayor Joseph Outram lays the first stone of Hull’s first dock and customs quay, dooming the town’s walls and commencing its great expansion
- 1808/10/19 - William Perigo of Bramley finds that Mary Bateman defrauded him in promising to cure his wife Rebecca’s palpitations, and suspects she died of poisoning
- 1816/10/19 - Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate completion after almost 50 years of the canal uniting east and west
- 1909/10/19 - Opening a nurses’ home in Dewsbury, Clifford Allbutt describes their colleagues in the Leeds fever hospital in the 1860s
Now
Heavenly data for Yorkshire:
- Sun: 07:35-17:56, zenith 12:46
- Moon: rise 13:42 set 19:44, waxing crescent
- Sun: 07:40-18:01, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 13:47 set 19:48, waxing crescent
- Sun: 07:41-17:58, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 13:53 set 19:40, waxing crescent
- Sun: 07:41-18:00, zenith 12:51
- Moon: rise 13:50 set 19:45, waxing crescent
- Sun: 07:39-18:01, zenith 12:50
- Moon: rise 13:43 set 19:52, waxing crescent
- Sun: 07:39-17:59, zenith 12:49
- Moon: rise 13:47 set 19:45, waxing crescent
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