On This Day On This Day December 1, 1990: Channel Tunnel breakthrough as British and French make undersea rendezvous
On This Day On This Day December 3, 1988: Edwina Currie sparks outrage with ‘salmonella in most eggs’ claim
On This Day On This Day December 4, 1961: Birth control pill becomes available on the NHS for first time
On This Day On This Day December 6, 1963: Christine Keeler, Profumo's model lover, is jailed for perjury
On This Day On This Day December 7, 1941: Japan launches deadly attack on US Navy base at Pearl Harbor
On This Day On This Day December 8, 1980: Music world mourns as Beatle John Lennon is shot dead in New York
On This Day On This Day December 9, 1992: Prince and Princess of Wales to separate after 11 years of marriage
On This Day On This Day December 10, 1948: United Nations adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On This Day On This Day December 11, 1936: King Edward VIII abdicates to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson
On This Day On This Day December 13, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts become the last men to walk on the Moon
On This Day On This Day December 15, 1979: Trivial Pursuit, the board game that became a global hit, is invented
On This Day On This Day December 17, 1968: Britain in shock as Mary Bell, 11, is found guilty of toddler murders
On This Day On This Day December 18, 1952: Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men, first appear on TV's Watch with Mother
On This Day On This Day December 19, 1956: Thick fog causes six deaths and many injuries on Britain's roads
On This Day On This Day December 21, 1988: 270 people die as Pan Am Flight 103 explodes over Lockerbie
On This Day On This Day December 22, 1972: Survivors of air crash found alive after 10 weeks in 'the Miracle of the Andes'
On This Day On This Day December 23, 1966: Ready Steady Goes as groundbreaking sixties TV music show signs off
On This Day On This Day December 25, 1957: The Queen makes the first televised royal Christmas broadcast
On This Day On This Day December 28, 1895: The cinema is born as Lumiere Brothers hold first paid-for screening
On This Day On This Day December 29, 1940: St Paul's stands defiant as second Great Fire of London rages
On This Day On This Day On this day in January: Concorde takes flight, the euro arrives, Britain gets breakfast TV and more
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