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Deep snow near Burrow-with-Burrow, Lancashire, England, January 1963. The winter of 1962–1963, known as the Big Freeze of 1963, was one of the coldest winters (defined as the months of December, January and February) on record in the United Kingdom. [2] Temperatures plummeted and lakes and rivers began to freeze over.
January–April – Winter of 1963: The UK experiences the worst winter since 1946–47.Low temperatures keep snow lying around until early-April in some areas. 7 January – Granada Television first broadcasts World in Action, its influential investigative current affairs series, which will run for thirty-five years.
5 January 1963: The Big Freeze of 1963 impacts the third round of the FA Cup with only 3 of 32 fixtures played. [1] 12 January 1963: Only eight League fixtures are played due to the bad weather. [1] 23 January 1963: The Pools Panel is used to forecast the results of postponed matches for the first time. [1]
List of UK rail accidents by year On 26 December 1962, two trains collided near Coppenhall Junction, United Kingdom, killing 18 people and injuring 34. On that evening, cold weather and snow in and around Crewe had caused points to become frozen and trains were being detained at signals.
The "Big Freeze of 1963" in the United Kingdom caused the cancellation of all but three of the scheduled third round matches of the 1962–63 FA Cup. [24] [25] The blizzard was "the worst snow in Britain's 100 years of recorded weather history". [26] NASA made tentative plans to extend the Mercury 9 flight from 18 to 22 orbits. [27]
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Because of the severe winter weather – the so-called "Big Freeze of 1963" – Birmingham played no matches for ten weeks, between 22 December and 2 March. Their opening third-round FA Cup-tie against Bury was postponed 14 times and abandoned once before finally being played two months after the originally scheduled date.
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