DECEMBER 11
1946:To provide humanitarian relief to children affected by the devastation of World War II, the U.N. General Assembly votes to establish the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, better known as UNICEF. The organization will become a permanent part of the U.N. system in 1953 and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965.
1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor irrevocably pushed America into World War II.
1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt become the 11th and 12th men to make a lunar landing; to date, they are the last humans to set foot on the moon.
1941: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor irrevocably pushed America into World War II.
1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt become the 11th and 12th men to make a lunar landing; to date, they are the last humans to set foot on the moon.
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