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On This Day, June 20: Arctic Circle reaches record-setting 100 degrees
1 of 5 | On June 20, 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. File Photo by Anatoli Zhdanov/UPI | License Photo On this date in history: In 1893, a jury in Fall River, Mass., acquitted Lizzie Borden in the ax murders of her father and stepmother. In 1898, the U.S. Navy seized Guam, the largest of the Mariana Islands in the Pacific, during the Spanish-American War. The people of Guam were granted U.S. citizenship in 1950. In 1900, in response to widespread foreign encroachment upon China's national affairs, Chinese nationalists launched the so-called Boxer Rebellion in Beijing. In 1945, Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr. approved the resettlement of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to the United States. Von Braun would go on to lead the U.S. space program. File Photo courtesy of NASA In 1963, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to establish a hot line communications link between Washington and Moscow. In 1967, the American Independent Party was formed to back George Wallace of Alabama for president. In 1977, oil began to flow through the $7.7 billion, 789-mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline. In 1988, armed forces commander Lt. Gen. Henri Namphy declared himself leader of Haiti in a military coup overthrowing President Leslie Manigat. In 1991, the German Parliament voted to move its capital from Bonn to Berlin. In 2004, Pakistan and India reached agreement on banning nuclear testing. In 2009, insurgents, striking in a series of attacks as U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq as planned, set off a truck bomb near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, killing 82 people and injuring 250. In 2010, Juan Manuel Santos easily defeated former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus to become Colombia's president. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI In 2020, the town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, reached a temperature of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle. In 2023, Romanian authorities charged self-styled lifestyle coach and social media personality Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, with rape and human trafficking. As of 2025, the brothers were expected to stand trial on the charges. File Photo by Robert Ghement/EPA-EFE
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08-06-2025
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Powderham Castle's attic 'treasures' make £540k at auction
Unusual "treasures" from a Devon castle's attic have been sold at auction for more than half a million Earl of Devon detailed some of the items discovered at Powderham Castle, which were auctioned on Tuesday, including canon and some pieces from Charlie Courtenay said: "We had a famous uncle who was the commander of the Royal Welch Fusiliers in about 1900, [he] went off to Peking during the Boxer Rebellion and managed to bring back a bunch of treasures from China including the carrying poles of the sedan chair of the last emperor of China." The chair poles were expected to receive between £8,000 and £12,000 at auction but achieved £40,000, auctioneers Dreweatts said. Lord Courtenay said the process of deciding what would stay and what would be auctioned had been "really fun".He said it was "giving old objects new life". "These things will be really interesting and will be an absolute star of the show in their home, whereas at Powderham they've been sitting sort of undisturbed in an attic for 60 or 70 years." Of the sedan chair poles, Lord Courtenay said: "We figured it's probably about time that they returned either to China or to some Chinese enthusiast rather than being hidden away in the corner of a castle in Devon."He added: "There are so many things squirreled away in the castle attics and in the tops of the towers. There are a few real treasures."He said items that would not be auctioned included a crusading coin of Jocelyn de Courtenay, which was found in a picture frame, and a banyan silk dressing gown that had belonged to the third viscount. The auction on Tuesday achieved a total of £540,890, which will go towards restoring parts of the castle."We reroofed the castle during the pandemic, built the new welcome centre but there's a whole bunch of rooms that sort of require refreshing," Lord Courtenay added the upstairs library "got quite damaged a couple of years ago but [we] managed to do the major repairs and now we need to do the interiors."It's jobs like that, where you are sort of restoring heritage. And you know if we raise sufficient funds we'll be able to put some of those projects in place."
