On This Day: 06 Dec

Warlord and Bullet (D.C. Thomson & Co., Ltd.) #220 (09 Dec 1978).

Grandville: Bete Noir (2013)

Births:

Reg Carter (1886); Bruce Angrave (1912); Nick Park (1958); Robin Riggs (1961); Paul Jenkins (1965); Noel Clarke (1975)

Deaths:

Jane star Christabel Leighton–Porter (2000); Lesley Hatch (2014)

Notable Events:

Little Willie, the first British tank, was completed in 1915. The name derived from William Kerridge Haselden's cartoons of Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince.
A Trip into the Future newspaper strip began in The Daily Mirror in 1924.