In today's weather we are expecting a fine day with light winds.

It's a four-clothing layer and one-windproof layer day today with a high of 15 and an overnight low of 3 degrees. Humidity is 94 per cent.

Low tide is at 1.40pm and high tide is at 8pm. There's a sea swell of 0.1m with a sea temperature of 16 degrees. Sunset tonight is at 5.02pm.

If you're going fishing the next best fish bite time is between 3 and 6pm.

In NZ history on this day in 1862 no human lives but many irreplaceable government records were lost when the White Swan steamer was wrecked on the Wairarapa coast.

In world history on this day in 1888 Professor Frederick Treves performed the first appendectomy in England.

In 1905 Russian troops intervened as riots erupted in ports all over the country, leaving many ships looted. In 1917 the Ukraine proclaimed independence from Russia. In 1925 an earthquake ravaged Santa Barbara, California.

In 1927 the Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker trimotor, completed the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.

The airplane's two-ton carrying capacity gave it the ability to carry sufficient fuel for the 2,500-miles flight, and its three engines were judged to provide an acceptable safety factor in the event one engine failed.

In 1951 the United States invited the Soviet Union to the Korean peace talks on a ship in Wonsan Harbour.

Today is the birthday of William James Mayo. Born in 1861, he was the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. He once said "The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician."

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Have a great day!