1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.

1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus featuring The Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, The Dirty Mac, Yoko Ono, Sir Robert Fossett's Circus and the Nurses is filmed at the Intertel (V.T.R. Services) Studio, Wycombe Road, Wembley

1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.

1965 – The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.

1927 – The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air.

1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time.

1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.

1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).

1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object.

1962 – The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.

1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.

2010 – With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.

1813 – Premier of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello.

 gypsyman wrote: 

Nope.  It happened.  It is real. 

History is a review of the good, the bad and the ugly.

There are some things that cannot be swept under the rug and shouldn't be.

History is real.  Cherry picking is how revisionism begins.  What's next ?  WW II didn't happen ?

We already have a host of Holocaust deniers.

72 years ago, Japanese attack Pearl Harbor. The greatest generation comes to life on a day of infamy.

I couldn't just leave it blank.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
Okay.

 Alexandra wrote: 
trying to keep it positive...