December 11, 1972: Apollo 17 Lands at Taurus-Littrow
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Mo...
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December 17, 1903: The Wright Brothers Make The First Sustained Motorized Aircraft Flight
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were Ame...
December 9, 1979: Smallpox is officially declared eradicated
On December 9, 1979, a commission of scientists declare smallpox has been eradicated. The disease, which carries around a 30 percent...
December 6, 1921: Irish Free State declared
The Irish Free State, comprising four-fifths of Ireland, is declared, ending a five-year Irish struggle for independence from B...
December 16, 1897: 1st Submarine with an Internal Combustion Engine Demonstrated
Designed in 1896 by Irish-American inventor John Phillip Holland and his Holland Torpedo Boat Company, the Holland VI was built at t...
January 20, 1893: Bessy Coleman, first African American Aviator.
Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a pilot’s license....
December 6, 1884: Washington Monument completed
On December 6, 1884, in Washington, D.C., workers place a nine-inch aluminum pyramid inscribed with “Laus Deo,” mea...
December 17, 1986: World’s First Heart-Lung and Liver Transplant
Thirty eight years ago Davina Thompson became the world's first patient to receive a heart, lung and liver transplant. The groundbre...
December 8, 1987: Worldpowers agree to reduce nuclear arsenals
At a summit meeting in Washington, D.C., President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty between t...
December 6 1917: The Great Halifax Explosion
At 9:05 a.m., in the harbor of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, the most devastating manmade explosion in the p...