On This Day: 24 Dec

Births:

John Glashan (1927); Martin Baxendale (1952); Mark Millar (1969)

Character Births:

Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (2039)

Deaths:

Charles Hamilton (1961); Harold Mack (1975); Jordi Buxadé Tonijuan (1997); Vic Neill (1999); Gino D'Antonio (2006); Ken Langstaff (2008)

Notable Events:

Father Christmas broadcast on Channel 4 in 1991.
Famous Fred broadcast on Channel 4 in 1996.
Ivor the Invisible animated short released in the UK in 2001.
The Snowman and the Snowdog broadcast on Channel 4 in 2012.
Mistress of Line, a documentary on Lorna Miller, uploaded in 2015.