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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
Dec 11 Astronauts Cernan and Harrison become 11th and 12th on the Moon. 
Dec 11 John Mills, cricketer (7 Tests for NZ in early 1930's, 241 runs), dies
Dec 12 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)
Dec 13 An HC-1 Detachment Five SH-3G Sea King helicopter, stationed aboard Oriskany, rescued a VFP-63 pilot involved in operations in the Tonkin Gulf while on Yankee Station. This was the fifteenth pilot rescued by HC-1.
Dec 15 Edward Earle, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight), dies at 90
Dec 16 Miami Dolphins become inaugural undefeated NFL team (14-0-0).
Dec 17 Erwin Dressel, composer, dies at 63.
Dec 17 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Dec 18 US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam.
Dec 19 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth.
Dec 21 Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
Dec 21 Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
Dec 22 Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell receives a gold record for her album, For the Roses; includes the single, You Turn Me on, I'm a Radio.
Dec 23 16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70 days, survived by cannibalism.
Dec 23 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84.
Dec 23 Earthquake destroys central Managua, Nicaragua.
Dec 24 Charles Atlas, bodybuilder, dies at 79
Dec 26 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the U.S., dies in Kansas City, Missouri
Dec 26 Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53), dies in KC Mo at 88.
Dec 27 "Purlie" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 14 performances
Dec 27 Former Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Lester B. 'Mike' Pearson 1897-1972 dies at age 75;
Dec 27 Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1957), dies at 75.
Dec 27 New North Korean constitution comes into effect
Dec 29 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
Dec 29 Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83
Dec 30 President Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks.
Dec 30 The US formally ends the bombing of North Vietnam
Dec 31 Roberto Clemente, slugger (Pitts Pirate), dies in a plane crash at 38.
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