Parachuting Santas and the weather

Video and photos by Rosalie Liddle Crawford.

In today's weather forecast we are expecting a fine day at first. Showers following in the afternoon and evening, possibly heavy with hail and thunderstorms. Also northwest breezes.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 17 and an overnight low of 8 degrees. Humidity is 76 per cent.

Low tide is at 11.10am and high tide at 5.20pm (Tay St). There's a sea swell of 0.8m and sea temperature is 19 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 8.05pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 9.30 and 11.30am.

On this day in NZ history in 1841 there was a mass murder in the Bay of Islands. Maketū Wharetōtara, the 17-year-old son of the Ngāpuhi chief Ruhe, killed five people at Motuarohia in the Bay of Islands. In March 1842 he became the first person to be legally executed in this country.

In 1937 a parachuting Santa crashed in Auckland. George Sellars narrowly escaped serious injury when he was able to swing his parachute away from the glass roof of the Winter Gardens during the Farmers' Christmas parade in Auckland.

In world history on this day in 1700 Sweden's 17-year-old King Charles XII defeated the Russians at Narva.

In 1914 Bulgaria proclaimed its neutrality in the First World War.

In 1945 the Nazi war crime trials began at Nuremberg. In 1947 Princess Elizabeth married Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in Westminster Abbey.

In 1967 the U.S. census reported the population at 200 million.

In 1981Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released. In 1992 fire in England's Windsor Castle caused over £50 million in damages. In 1998 the first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched. In 2008 the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank to its lowest level in 11 years in response to failures in the US financial system.

Today is the birthday of Edwin Hubble, the American astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies far from our own. Born in 1889, he once said 'Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.”

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Have a great day!

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