December 11th: On this day in history
December 11th: We look back at the last 100 years, 50 years and 25 years and bring you what happened on this day in history
On this day in history: Bette Davis' husband was granted a divorce
1914 – Postmaster General Charles Hobhouse explains to Express readers the need for care in packing and addressing parcels for British troops at the front
1939 – Harmon Nelson, husband of Hollywood star Bette Davis, is granted a final divorce decree on grounds that the actress was more concerned with career than marriage
1964 – Nineteen white men arrested by the FBI in connection with the murder of three young Civil Rights workers walk free from a Mississippi courthouse
1989 – More than a thousand of the world’s most exotic birds, including flamingos, have suffocated to death in the cargo hold of a flight from Holland to Heathrow
2004 – 22 million viewers are expected to tune in for the ‘great reality TV clash’ of the year – the finals of Strictly Come Dancing and the X Factor
2009 – Retired optician Harry Marsland, from Northamptonshire, who suffers from an untreatable eye condition claims his sight was saved by marigold flowers