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December 7, 1972
America sent its last manned mission to the moon as Apollo seventeen blasted
off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
December 13, 1577
Sir Francis Drake of England set out with five ships on a nearly three-year
journey that would take him around the world.
December 17, 1903
Orville and Wilbur Wright went on the first successful manned powered-airplane
flights, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
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