1972 Captain Eugene A. Cernan, USN, commander of Apollo 17, walks on the Moon. Commander Ronald E. Evans, USN, was the Command Module Pilot. The mission lasted 12 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes. Recovery by HC-1 helicopters from USS Ticonderoga (CVS-14).

1975 Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)

1975 Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

1976 QB Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet

1979 Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce

1979 Rhodesia becomes the independent nation of Zimbabwe

1980 US's copyright law amended to include computer programs

1981 Wayne Gretsky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)

1983 A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait

1985 248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash in Newfoundland

1986 Microlite aircraft circles world non-stop

1988 NYC Subway system adds new stations (the Z line)

1988 Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment

1989 First revenue train runs through the CP Rail 9.1 mile Mount MacDonald Tunnel. This is the longest rail tunnel in the Americas.

1990 US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait

1991 Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford

1991 Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection

1993 Ultra-Nationalists make strong gains in Russian elections dec13

1955 Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell

1991 Salman Rushdie faces new death threats, after a paperback edition of 'The Satanic Verses' is published

1863 The birth of Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter

1893 The birth of Edward G. Robinson, American actor

1915 The birth of Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor

2005 Scientists announced that they had created mice with small amounts of human brain cells in an effort to make realistic models of neurological disorders.

2006 Peugeot produce their last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in a city that was once a major centre of the British motor industry; Coventry.

2007 Election by the Swiss Parliament of Switzerland's highest executive authority, the Swiss Federal Council (7 members). All the sitting members are confirmed, except Christoph Blocher, who in an upset is replaced by Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. This is only the sixth time in Swiss history a sitting member is not reconfirmed.

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