1st December 1135 Englands King Henry I died. 1420 Henry V of England enters Paris. 1581 Edward Campion (later St. Edward) and three other Jesuits were martyred. 1761 Birth of Madame Marie Tussaud (Grosholz), Swiss-born French waxworks modeller. During the French Revolution she made death masks from the severed heads of the famous. In 1800, separated from her husband, she toured Britain with her waxworks, eventually setting up a permanent exhibition in London. 1868 The opening of Londons Smithfield meat market. 1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual went on sale, with A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which first introduced the detective, Sherlock Holmes. 1895 Henry Williamson, author of the classic book Tarka The Otter, was born. Otter picture. 1930 The birth of the singer Matt Monro, who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s. 1942 The Beveridge Report, written by Sir William Beveridge, proposed a welfare state for Britain, offering care to all from the cradle to the grave. 1965 The Government put forward a plan to improve the lot of both farmers and consumers by encouraging intensive farming. 1966 Britain issued its first special edition Christmas stamps. 1969 A statue of former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill was unveiled in the House of Commons. 1987 The Department of Trade inspectors were ordered into the giant Guinness company to investigate allegations of misconduct which ended up with four arrests being made, including the chairman Ernest Saunders. 1990 Britain and France were joined for the first time in thousands of years as the last wall of rock separating two halves of the Channel Tunnel was removed. 2010 Large parts of the UK were brought to a standstill by the early freeze. Temperatures plunged again overnight to -16C (3F) in the Scottish Highland after one of the coldest starts to December in more than 20 years. 2013 Official industry figures showed that some of Britain’s biggest wind farms were, at times, taking electricity out of the National Grid to run basic power supplies on site, rather than actually supplying electricity to households.
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