Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 19

December 19:

Coat of arms for Hong Kong, prior to 1997

• 1972 - Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt aboard Apollo 17 returned to Earth. No human has visited the Moon since.
• 1974 - An early personal computer, the Altair 8800, went on sale.
• 1984 - The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
• 1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.

Recent days: December 18 – December 17 – December 16

More anniversaries:

• November 30
• December 1
• December 2