Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 19

December 19:

The Apollo 17 crew

• 1916 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun on the Western Front ended as the French drove the Germans back to their starting positions.

• 1972 - Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt (all pictured) 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 on July 1, 1997.

• 1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives passed articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.

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