28 December 1952 Double Decker bus jumps Tower Bridge
On 28 December 1952, Albert Gunter, the driver of the number 78 bus was heading across Tower Bridge when he realised that it was being raised to allow a ship to pass...
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17 December 1939 Graf Spee battleship scuttled
During the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December 1939, Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she also suffered damage and was forced to put into port at Montevideo. Hans Langsdorff,...
11 December It happened today…….
1769 Venetian blinds patented by Edward Beran. 1894 The first motor show opens in Paris. 1914 In the Battle of the Falklands, four German cruisers are sunk with no British losses. 1920 Britain...
10 December It happened today…….
1901 The first Nobel Prizes awarded. 1902 Aswan Dam completed. 1914 Dorothy Lamour, actress in the “Road” films with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, is born. 1921 Albert Einstein receives Nobel Physics Prize....
9 December It happened today…….
1783 Newgate Prison in London sees it’s first executions. 1917 The British capture Jerusalem from the Turks. 1945 US General George Patton paralysed from neck down in a road accident. 1955 Sugar Ray...
