January 10th, 2009

Today in History

1982:
The lowest ever UK temperature of -27.2°C was recorded at Braemar in Aberdeenshire. This equalled the record set in the same place on February 11, 1895.

1957:
Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

1922:
Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.

1920:
League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.

1776:
Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense.