12 December IT Happened Today
1863 Birth of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter.
1901 Marconi sends radio signal across Atlantic Ocean. Signal sent from Cornwall in England to St John’s in Newfoundland.
1913 The Mona Lisa which had been stolen from the Louvre two years earlier is recovered under a bed in Florence.
1915 Birth of American singer Frank Sinatra.
1982 More than 20000 women joined hands around Greenham Common airbase in England to protest at plans to site nuclear missiles at the base.
1989 Leona Helmsley the New York billionairess is sentenced to four years in prison and fined $7 million for tax evasion. She is quoted as saying “only little people pay taxes”.
