Hot spell August 1990 At the beginning of August 1990 there was a widespread hot spell, during which a new UK temperature record was set A maximum of 37.1 °C was measured at Cheltenham on the 3rd, beating the record of 36.7 °C set at Raunds (Northamptonshire), Epsom (Surrey) and Canterbury (Kent) on 9 August 1911. Temperatures exceeded 32 °C

03 Aug : UK temperatures reach record high: 10 Aug : Magellan starts mapping Venus: 12 Aug : Briton shot by Iraqis: 14 Aug : One in five yet to pay poll tax: 24 Aug : Irish hostage released in Lebanon: 23 Aug : Outrage at Iraqi TV hostage show: 27 Aug 'Guinness Four' guilty: 08 Oct : Britain's first full day in ERM: 22 Oct : Aral Sea is 'world's worst disaster' 01 Nov

02/05/2019 · A lmost three decades on, 1990 is often remembered as one of the hottest summers on record. Temperatures in early August peaked at 37.1C (98.9F), in the Gloucestershire town of Cheltenham, beating...

That time was 1990, where the England team got to the semi-finals of the World Cup. We cried when Gazza cried getting a second yellow card in the quarters which meant he was banned from playing in the semis and then we cried when we lost on penalties – but all the while, the BBC had the stroke of genius to use Nessun Dorma as their coverage theme, gripping the nation with a …

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28th August » 1990 Plainfield tornado An F5 tornado strikes the Illinois cities of Plainfield, Illinois Plainfield and Joliet, Illinois Joliet, killing 29 people. 2nd September » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet Union or Soviet republic; the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet called Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.