December 8th 2014: On this day in history 100 years, 50 years and 25 years ago
December 8th: We look back at the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years and bring you what happened on this day in history
Labour leader Neil Kinnock was facing a party crisis in 1989
December 8:
1914 – The Probate Court continues to hear a sensational case trying to determine whether ‘Teddy’ Slingsby, aged four, is the son of Charles Slinsgby of Yorkshire’s Scriven Hall
1939 – Ledwidge Lawlor, who fired a shot in Belgrave Square as the Duchess of Kent was passing, is arrested in Australia on charges of intent to murder
1964 – Wealthy company director Lawrence Freedman admits that a cheque for more than £300,000 ‘will hardly change my life’ after scooping a world record pools win
1989 – Neil Kinnock’s ‘new look Labour party’ faces a crisis after militant left wingers oust MP Frank Field and call for a by-election in his Birkenhead constituency
2004 – Actress Julia Robert’s new-born premature twin daughter Hazel Patricia is seriously ill in intensive care in Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital with respiratory problems
2009 – The Tiger Woods saga takes another dramatic twist as his mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg collapses at his £1.5 million mansion in Florida