On this day: January 7

POSTED: 02:29 AM PST Jan 05, 2013    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PST Jan 06, 2013 

Galileo spots some of Jupiter's moons, the Harlem Globetrotters play their first game, Truman announces the development of the H-bomb, and President Clinton's impeachment trial begins, all on this day.

OTD January 7 - Surveyor 7
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NASA

1968: Surveyor 7, the last lunar lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon, lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla. It would land on the Moon three days later.

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