In 1620, the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower.
In 1962, President John F Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold MacMillan announced the formation of a multilateral nuclear NATO force.
In 2003, a secret list of 300 people who had refused knighthoods and other honours was released. It included Nigella Lawson, John Cleese and David Bowie.
25 years ago
Taken from the Telegraph & Argus of December 21, 1982...
A tussle over Oxenhope Village infants school could be decided at a public meeting on Tuesday night. Village Society members want local folk to back their plan to convert the church into a community complex.
50 years ago
Taken from the Telegraph & Argus of December 21, 1957...
For a quarter of an hour today six-year-old Richard Mawson, of Buras Lane, Otley, had a small boy's dream come true. After winning a national competition he was turned loose in a toy shop to take as much as he could carry.
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