ON THIS DAY- On the stroke of midnight of this day in 1990, the flag of West Germany was raised over Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, becoming the symbol of a reunified Germany. In 1995, OJ Simpson has been found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman in a pivotal trial in US recent history. Also on this day in 1952, tea rationing ended in England for the first time in 12 years as the Ministry of Food said it had taken advantage of a steady improvement in supplies of tea since the end of the Second World War. This time last year, we were taking note of investment banks expecting devaluation to happen that week (they were off only by a month), and trying really hard to avoid using profanity when describing yet another heinous suggestion by the House of Representatives resident misogynist, The Thing Called Agina.