12th December: Today In History

Today is 12th December,  the 346 day of 2015. There are 19th days left in the year.

Today's Highlight In History;


Birthdays:
  1863Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter
  1893Edward G. Robinson, American actor; ('Scarface','Little Caesar' & Key Largo')
  1915Frank Sinatra, American singer and 'Oscar' winning actor
  1929John Osborne, Playwright,actor and producer
  1932Lionel Blair, Dancer, TV presenter and director
  1941Dionne Warwick, US 'Soul' star, and Whitney Houston's aunt
  1960Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian racing driver

Events:
  1889Robert Browning, the renowned English poet, died
  1915The German Junkers J1, the worlds first all metal aeroplane, had its first test flight
  1917The worlds worst train accident took place at Modane, France, when 543 people were killed
  1939Douglas Fairbanks Snr., star of stage and screen, died
  1955The 'Hovercraft' was patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell
  1977Winston Churchill's widow, Lady Spencer Churchill, died aged 92
  1987Local Government elections are held in the 301 Local Government councils in the country.
  1991Salman Rushdie faced new death threats, after a paperback edition of his controversial book was to be published
  1999Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu and his entourage escape attack by suspected members of the militant Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC)

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