Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 19
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- 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.
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