Space dogs and the weather

Video and photos by Rosalie Liddle Crawford.

In today's forecast we are expecting showers developing in the morning then rain from the afternoon, with a chance of it being heavy. Northeasterly will be tending northwest.

A severe weather watch is in place for the eastern ranges

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 17 and an overnight low of 9 degrees. Humidity is 96 per cent.

High tide is at 2pm and low tide is at 8pm. There's a sea swell of .2m with a sea temperature of 15 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.40pm.

If you're going fishing today the best fish bite time is between 9.30am and 12.30pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1904 was the first known use of kiwi as unofficial national symbol. The New Zealand Free Lance printed a J.C. Blomfield cartoon in which a plucky kiwi morphed into a moa as the All Blacks defeated Great Britain 9–3 in the first rugby test between Motherland and colony. This may have been the first use of a kiwi to symbolise the nation in a cartoon.

In 1940 Turakina was sunk by German raider in the Tasman Sea. It was the first naval battle in the Tasman Sea. The New Zealand Shipping Company freighter Turakina was intercepted and sunk by the Orion nearly 500 km off the Taranaki coast with the loss of 36 lives. Twenty survivors were taken prisoner.

In world history on this day in 1619 the first group of twenty Africans was brought to Jamestown, Virginia.

In 1913, 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud became the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely. In 1940 radar was used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain. Also on this day, in a radio broadcast, Winston Churchill made his famous homage to the Royal Air Force: 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

In 1953 the USSR publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb eight days earlier. In 1960 the USSR recovered two dogs, Belka and Strelka, the first animals to be launched into orbit and returned alive. In 1961 East Germany began erecting a wall along its western border to replace barbed wire put up August 13.

In 1978 NASA launched Viking 1; with Viking 2, launched a few days later, it provided high-resolution mapping of Mars, revolutionizing existing views of the planets.

Today is the birthday of Benjamin Harrison,who was the 23rd President of the United States. Born in 1833, he once said "Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given."

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Have a great day!

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