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 succesfully 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
