December 1972 - December 11, 1972 (Monday)

December 11, 1972 (Monday)

• Mankind landed on the Moon for the sixth and last time, as the Apollo 17 lunar module Challenger touched down at 1955 GMT at the Taurus-Litrow crater at 1:54 pm Houston time (1954 GMT).
• Soviet and Chinese soldiers clashed at the border, with several of the Soviet soldiers being killed.
• "Don't Buy Farah Day" was declared by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers union, which asked Americans nationwide to boycott the non-union Farah Manufacturing, in protest over low wages and benefits paid by one of the largest clothing makers in the United States. During the course of a strike that lasted from May 1972 to March 1974, Farah's sales dropped by twenty million dollars.
• Born: Daniel Alfredsson, Swedish NHL player, in Gothenburg