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December 7th in 1972 - Apollo 17 was launched at Cape Canaveral. It was the last U.S. moon mission.
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December 7th in 1982 - Charlie Brooks Junior, a convicted murderer, became the first prisoner in the U.S. to be executed by injection, at a prison in Huntsville, TX.
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December 7th in 1987 - Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time. He had come to the U.S. for a Washington summit with U.S. President Reagan.
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December 7th in 1987 - 43 people were killed when a gunman opened fire on a fellow passenger and the two pilots aboard a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner.
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December 7th in 1992 - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Mississippi abortion law which, required women to get counseling and then wait 24 hours before terminating their pregnancies.
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December 7th in 1993 - Six people were killed and 17 were injured when a gunman opened fire on a Long Island Rail Road commuter train.
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