The launch of NASA's Apollo 17 spacecraft from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, 7th December 1972.

When Buzz Aldrin was nearly stranded on the Moon

Little-Known Facts About the Moon Landing

The Amazing Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11’s Moon Voyage

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Sports

Englishman wins the first U.S. Open golf tournament

1895

Crime

Man who served 25 years for murder exonerated by DNA

2011

Space Exploration

Sputnik launched

1957

Vietnam War

Pope calls for end to the Vietnam War

1966

Brooklyn Dodgers win their first World Series

1955

U.S. Presidents

Work begins on Mount Rushmore

1927

Art, Literature and Film History

Janis Joplin dies of a heroin overdose

1970

“Beverly Hills, 90210” debuts

1990

1990s

Plane crashes into apartment building

1992

Televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted on federal charges

1988

Civil War

President Lincoln watches a balloon ascension

1861

Blues singer Bessie Smith, killed in Mississippi car wreck, is buried

1937

American Revolution

Both sides battered at Germantown

1777

World War I

Germany telegraphs President Wilson seeking armistice

1918

World War II

General Eisenhower warns of the risk of “shell shock”

1944

Cy Young pitches first perfect game in MLB history

1904

Roaring Twenties

Chanel No. 5 perfume launches

1921

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" is published

1967

“Spider-Man” becomes first movie to top $100 million in opening weekend

2002

European History

Napoleon dies in exile

1821

Latin American History

Outnumbered Mexican army defeats French at Battle of Puebla

1862

Six killed in Oregon by Japanese bomb

1945

1980s

IRA militant Bobby Sands dies

1981

Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

1961

Native American History

Sitting Bull leads his people into Canada

1877

The Examiner publishes John Keats’ first poem

1816

Human remains found in suitcase near Virginia Beach

2004

Cold War

Allies end occupation of West Germany

Italian delegates return to Paris peace conference

1919

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