12th December anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1538
  • Henry VIII excommunicated by Pope Paul III
  • 1804
  • Spain declares war on Britain
  • 1901
  • Great Britain
  • Marconi sends 1st transatlantic wireless message
  • 1939
  • "DuPont began producing nylon commercially at its new plant in Seaford, Delaware, USA"
  • 1988
  • Clapham Junction rail crash kills 35 and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains
• Death
  • 1939
  • United States
  • "Death of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., American film actor and producer." more
  • 1968
  • "Death of Tallulah Bankhead, American actress ."
  • 1999
  • "Death of Joseph Heller, American novelist and playwright (Catch-22)"