On this day:
1969: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
1976: Viking I became the first American spacecraft to successfully land on Mars
Born on this day:
1919: Edmund Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer
1929: Rajendra Kumar, Indian actor, producer and director, born in Sialkot, Punjab
Gone on this day:
1937: Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor, developed Marconi’s law, Nobel Prize laureate
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