1 Dec 1919       Lady Astor became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons.
1 Dec 1913       The Ford Motor Company launched the world’s first moving assembly line.
1 Dec 1953       Hugh Hefner published the first edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as their first centrefold.
1 Dec 1990       British and French workers meet in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel.
1 Dec 1994       Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere announced they are separating.

2 Dec 1804       Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
2 Dec 1927       The first Model A Ford was sold. The price $385.
2 Dec 1971       Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
2 Dec 1976       Fidel Castro became President of Cuba.
2 Dec 1988       Benazir Bhutto became Pakistan’s first female Prime Minister.
2 Dec 1995       Rogue trader Nick Leeson was jailed for six years.

3 Dec 1586       Sir Thomas Herriot introduced the potato to England from Colombia.
3 Dec 1967       The first human heart transplant was performed in South Africa by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.
3 Dec 1994       Sony released the first PlayStation in Japan.
3 Dec 1999       NASA lost radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
3 Dec 2017       The first pizza party in space took place on the International Space Station.
3 Dec 2019       Spotify announced Drake as the most streamed artist of the 2010s with 28 billion streams and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’ was the most streamed track of 2019 with 2.4 billion streams.

4 Dec 1791       The Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, was first published.
4 Dec 1954       The Burger King franchise opened their first location in Miami.
4 Dec 1961       The NHS made the birth control pill available to all.
4 Dec 1976       Elizabeth Taylor married for the seventh time.
4 Dec 2015       Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas were divorced after 19 years.

5 Dec 1766       Auctioneer James Christie held his first auction.
5 Dec 1872       The ship the Mary Celeste was discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean.
5 Dec 1958       The Preston By-pass, the UK’s first stretch of motorway, first opened to traffic.
5 Dec 2017       Russia was banned from the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea over state-sponsored doping.
5 Dec 2018       Nelson Mandela died.

6 Dec 1897       London became the world’s first city to host licensed taxicabs.
6 Dec 1969       300,000 attended a free concert featuring The Rolling Stones in Altamont, California.
6 Dec 2005       David Cameron beat David Davis to become the new leader of the Conservative Party.

7 Dec 1703       Over 9,000 died in the Great Storm of 1703 after 120mph winds hit the UK.
7 Dec 1941       Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attacked the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base killing 2,403 people.
7 Dec 1972       Apollo 17 the last Apollo moon mission was launched.
7 Dec 1979       ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’, the first of the series was released.
7 Dec 1995       The Grateful Dead broke-up following the death of Jerry Garcia.
7 Dec 1995       The Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter after a six year journey.
7 Dec 2001       ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Julia Roberts had its premiere.
7 Dec 2017       Cristiano Ronaldo won his fifth Ballon d’Or equalling Lionel Messi’s record.