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THE LAST HUMANS TO WALK ON THE MOON
Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt were last 2 individuals to walk on the moon as of today.
The U.S.-crewed spaceflight to the moon on Dec. 7, 1972, was
known as Apollo 17 — also known as the final flight of the
Apollo program.
This particular spaceflight included two historic astronauts:
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
These Apollo 17 astronauts would become — on this day in
history, Dec. 11, 1972 — the last humans to walk on the moon
thus far.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
ED DONAHUE
NOTE: Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 –
8 September 2022)
The series ran from December 11, 1980, to May 8, 1988,
during its first-run broadcast on CBS.
Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top 20 U.S. television
programs in the Nielsen ratings during the first five years of
its original run, finishing as high as number three for the 1982–
83 season.
SOUL LEGEND DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1967
On its final approach to Madison, Wisconsin on December 10,
1967, the private plane carrying soul-music legend Otis Redding
(26)crashed into the frigid waters of a small lake three miles short
of the runway, killing seven of the eight men aboard, including
Redding. “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay”, which he had been
recording, would be released in its “unfinished” form several
weeks later, with Redding’s whistled verse a seemingly
indispensable part of the now-classic record and would soon
become history’s first posthumous #1 hit and the biggest pop
hit of Redding’s career.
FIRST NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED ON THIS DAY
The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in
the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature and peace
on December 10, 1901.
The ceremony came on the fifth anniversary of the death of
Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite and other high explosives. In his will, Nobel directed that the bulk of his vast
fortune be placed in a fund in which the interest would be
“annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during
the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.”
Although Nobel offered no public reason for his creation of the
prizes, it is widely believed that he did so out of moral regret
over the increasingly lethal uses of his inventions in war.
First award ceremony at the Royal Swedish Academy of
Music.
Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel
(21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896)
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