1876 - NY Mutuals and Philadelphia A's expelled from NL for not completing sked 1889 - W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's comic opera "The Gondoliers" premieres at the Savoy Theatre‚ London 1941 - Adolf Hitler issues "Nacht und Nebel Erlass" (Night and Fog Directive)‚ against anti-Nazi resistance fighters in occupied territories; targets sent to concentration camps and/or murdered 1968 - Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit 1972 - Apollo 17 launched‚ the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous "blue marble" photo of the entire Earth 1988 - 6.9 earthquake in Spitak‚ Armenia kills 25‚000-50‚000 people and leaves up to 500‚000 homeless 1991 - A J Kitt‚ US‚ wins World Skiing Cup 1992 - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) 2018 - Comedian Kevin Hart steps down as 2019 Oscars host after his history of homophobic statements is revealed 2020 - Bob Dylan sells his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs to the Universal Music Publishing Group for over $300 million More Historical Events »