Dec1 

1990  Phillipe Cozette and Graham Fagg shook hands beneath the English Channel having removed the last piece of chalk separating England and France

Dec2 

1942  Enrico Fermi split the atom

1929  UK public telephone boxes came into service - how much longer will they last?

1916  The lights on the Statue of Liberty were turned on

1901  King Camp Gillette patented the safety razor

Dec3 

1940  The wartime Food Minister, Lord Woolton, announced extra Christmas rations of 4 oz sugar and 2 oz tea

Dec4 

1937  Desperate Dan first appeared in The Dandy

1918  The poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action

1808  Napoleon abolished the Spanish Inquisition

1154  Nicolas Breakspear was made Adrian IV, the first and only English pope

Dec6 

1988  Roy Orbison died

Dec7 

1981  Joanna Bunkham became the first woman jobber on the London Stock Exchange