Police seek ‘Quality Street killer’On this day in 1999, a short report in a local newspaper referred for the first time to a man known as the ‘Quality Street killer’.
‘D-Day’ drama as Britain goes decimalCenturies of tradition came to an end on this day in 1971, as decimal currency replaced the familiar British ‘LSD’
Jilly CooperThe English author Jilly Cooper was born on this day in 1937.
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7 December 1969
A dead star is born
The ‘Pet Shop Sketch’, better known as the ‘Dead Parrot Sketch’, was first broadcast on this day in 1969, in the ‘Full Frontal Nudity’ episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. Read on...