February 12: Oprah Winfrey shows photo of Julia Roberts and new twins ten years ago
February 12: 1915 - According to the ‘Fashion’s Reflections’ column women of ‘short stature and wider proportions’ will find the new trend for full skirts quite tricky
America TV host Oprah Winfrey
1940 – King Christian of Denmark orders the hot water supply to be cut off in his Copenhagen palace in line with all Danes, due to a serious coal shortage
1965 – The Government is planning to speed up action for the automatic prosecution of drivers with more than a certain level of alcohol in their blood
1990 – Coronation Street heartthrob Chris Quinten may quit America to return to the UK as rumours swirl about the state of his marriage to US TV star Leeza Gibbons
2005 – Oprah Winfrey broadcasts an intimate picture of actress Julia Roberts and her baby twins Phinnaeus and Hazel and reads out a letter from the star
2010 – The death of a 21-year-old Georgian luge racer in a horror 95mph crash casts a shadow over the Winter Olympics in Whistler