December 14th – On This Day
1984 - Miners’ leader Arthur Scargill was found guilty of obstruction during a picket at a Yorkshire coal works earlier in the year. He was fined £250 and ordered to pay £750 in costs.
December 13th – On This Day
1972 - Last human landing on the Moon. Apollo 17 was the last mission of the United States’ Apollo lunar landing program. It was also the sixth and the last time humans landed on the Moon.
December 12th – On This Day
1988 - Britain’s worst rail crash for 20 years killed 35 and injured 113 people when a packed express train ran into the back of a stationary commuter train near Clapham Junction.
December 11th – On This Day
2005 - A huge fire continued to burn at Buncefield oil depot near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest of its kind in peacetime Europe and the noise of the explosions could be heard as far away as the Netherlands.
December 10th – On This Day
1979 - Twenty year old stuntman Eddie Kidd accomplished a "death-defying" motorcycle leap when he crossed an 80ft gap over a 50ft sheer drop above a viaduct at Maldon, Essex.
December 9th – On This Day
2021 – More than 40 camels are disqualified from the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival beauty contest after Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements are discovered.
December 8th – On This Day
1980 - John Lennon was shot five times by 25 year old Mark Chapman outside the Dakota building in New York City where John and Yoko lived.
December 7th – On This Day
1941 - Pearl Harbor was attacked. The Imperial Japanese Navy used 353 planes to attack the US fleet at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor Naval Base. The attack killed 2,403 people.
December 6th – On This Day
2017 - Scientists discovered the most distant supermassive black hole. It’s estimated to be 13 billion light-years away and 800 million times the mass of our Sun.