NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
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The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
The clip-on tie was designed.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was released in theaters in the US.
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' premiered in Los Angeles. It starred Tom Holland, Toby Maguire, and Andrew Garfield.
The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was 'Feminism.'
