🎒🐰💭’On 12 Dec 2001, Prime Minister of Vietnam Phan Văn Khải announces the decision on upgrading the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng nature reserve to a national park, providing information on projects for the conservation and development of the park and revised maps.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 11 Dec 2001, the People’s Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).‘

🎒🐰💭’On 10 Dec 1948, the Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 9 Dec 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as “The Mother of All Demos”, publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).‘

🎒🐰💭’On 8 Dec 2010, with the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 7 Dec 1972, Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 6 Dec 2006, NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 5 Dec 2009, the 2009 East Asian Games: an international multi-sport event took place in Hong Kong.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 4 Dec 1791, the first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.‘

🎒🐰💭’On3 Dec 1992, a test engineer for Sema Group uses a personal computer to send the world’s first text message via the Vodafone network to the phone of a colleague.‘