Walter Haut, the public information officer of the Roswell Army Air Field, issued a press release saying that the military had recovered the remains of a ‘flying disc.’
In what Kenneth Arnold later complained was an ‘historic misquote’, the press coined the now-ubiquitous phrase ‘flying saucers’ to describe the UFOs.
The flight lasted for 15 minutes and 22 seconds and reached a maximum altitude of 116 miles before returning to earth for splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean.
On the morning of 14th April 1561, the people of Nuremberg in Germany witnessed a “dreadful apparition” in the sky.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of Ensisheim.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on NBC.
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.
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