Tiger Woods announced his indefinite leave from professional golf to focus on his marriage.
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The final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, successfully landed on the moon.
American science fiction movie 'Star Trek: Insurrection' was released in the US.
Wall Street film directed by Oliver Stone starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen, was released.
British physicist Stephen Hawking won the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most profitable academic prize in the world.
Time magazine called Susan Sontag 'one of Manhattan's brightest intellectuals' in a review of her groundbreaking essay 'Notes on Camp.'
