The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was “Feminism.”
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NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
Driving Miss Daisy, directed by Bruce Beresford, was released.
A civil rights protest march in Washington, D.C., took place.
The third and last moonwalk of the Apollo 17 mission began.
New Zealand made history by passing the world’s first tobacco ban.