Today we are expecting a fine day apart from some low cloud in the morning and at night. Also light winds and sea breezes.

It's a one-clothing layer day today with a high of 21 and an overnight low of 12 degrees. Humidity is 95 per cent.

Low tide is at 12.30pm and high tide at 6.50 pm.(Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.2m and the water temperature is 16 degrees. Sunset today is at 7.35pm.

If you're going fishing, the next best fish bite time is between 11am and 1pm.

In NZ history this day in 1915 New Zealand nurses were lost in the Marquette sinking. The sinking of the transport ship Marquette in the Aegean Sea in late 1915 added to the grief of a nation still reeling from the heavy losses at Gallipoli.

In 1948 a Mt Ruapehu air crash killed 13 people. The Lockheed Electra airliner ZK-AGK Kaka went missing in poor weather on a flight from Palmerston North to Hamilton. Searchers did not reach the wreckage for a week.

In 2011 the All Blacks won their second World Cup. The All Blacks won the Webb Ellis Cup for the second time in seven attempts, defending grimly to hold onto an 8–7 lead over France in front of 61,000 spectators at Eden Park, Auckland.

In world history on this day in 4004 BC according to 17th century divine James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, and Dr John Lightfoot of Cambridge, the world was created on this day, a Sunday, at 9am.

In 1641 a rebellion took place in Ireland. Catholics, under Phelim O'Neill, rose against the Protestants and massacred men, women and children to the number of 40,000 (some say 100,000).

In 1707 the first Parliament of Great Britain met.

One hundred years ago today in 1918 President Woodrow Wilson felt satisfied that the Germans were accepting his armistice terms and agreed to transmit their request for an armistice to the Allies. The Germans have agreed to suspend submarine warfare, cease inhumane practices such as the use of poison gas, and withdraw troops back into Germany.

In 1929 the first transcontinental air service began from New York to Los Angeles. In 1952 the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Ukranian-born microbiologist Selman A. Waksman for his discovery of an effective treatment of tuberculosis.

In 1973 a UN sanctioned cease-fire officially ended the Yom Kippur war between Israel and Syria. In 1983 a truck filled with explosives, driven by a Muslim terrorist, crashed into the US Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon. The bomb killed 237 Marines and injured 80. Almost simultaneously, a similar incident occured at French military headquarters, where 58 died and 15 were injured.

In 1989 the Hungarian Republic replaced the communist Hungarian People's Republic. In 1998 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reached a 'land for peace” agreement. In 2002 Chechen terrorists took 700 theater-goers hostage at the House of Culture theater in Moscow. In 2004 an earthquake in Japan killed 35, injured 2,200, and left 85,000 homeless or displaced.

In 2012 the world's oldest teletext service, BBC's Ceefax, ceased operation.

Today is the birthday of Nicolas Appert, who invented canning. He was born in 1750. It's also the birthday of writer Michael Crichton. Born in 1942, he wrote Jurassic Park, and once said "If you don't know history, you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it was part of a tree".

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