Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
26th March 1830: The Book of Mormon first went on sale at E. B. Grandin’s book store
26th March 2020
On the 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin successfully landed the Eagle, the Lunar Module of Apollo 11, on the surface of the moon.
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space mission.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit
27th September 2020
26th September 1960: Kennedy and Nixon take part in their first televised debate
26th September 2020
25th September 1513: European ‘discovery’ of the Pacific Ocean
25th September 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018