This Day in History How Do We Actually Know We Landed on the Moon? December 1, 2022 Gilles Messier On July 20, 1969, the world looked on in awe as 39-year-old astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped off a ladder of the Lunar Module Eagle and onto the surface of the moon, becoming the fi...
🏰 On this day in History - January 9, 2025 1903 Wind Cave National Park, SD established 1990 Boston Celtics worst ¬ ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery 1964 Anti-US rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone...
July 31st On this day in history in ... 1959 - Dick Gunkel defeats Fred Blassie for the NWA Southern Heavyweight Title in Atlanta, Georgia, ending Blassie's ninth reign with the title and starting his second reign.1967 - WWWF ran New York City, NY at Madison Square Gard...
1969 Dave Grohl American singer-songwriter, musician, director 1963 Steven Soderbergh American director, screenwriter, producer 1950 Rambhadracharya Indian religious leader 1875 Albert Schweitzer Alsatian physician, Nobel Prize laureate 1741 Benedict Arnold American/English general Deaths On This Day, January...
11/Nov/1918World War I Ends at the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month 12/Nov/1969Indira Gandhi expelled from Congress for indiscipline during President elections 13/Nov/1982Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim causing Kim’s death on November 17 which led to significant change...
1969 Aeneas Williams, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals) 1969 Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1995 Futures-Reims-FRA) 1969 Karen Fonteyne, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96) 1969 Robert Young, NFL player (St Louis Rams) 1970 Eric Gouka, cricketer (Netherlands pace bow...
The territory had been bought from Russia in 1867 for a mere $7.2 million. 1957 The first electric watch is available The Hamilton Electric 500 came in “modern” asymmetrical designs to reflect the revolutionary technology. Births On This Day, January 3 1969 Michael Schumacher German race car ...
The article offers information on what happened at the Cuyahoga River in Ohio on June 22, 1969. A spark from a passing train turned the Cuyahoga River in Ohio into a raging inferno, with flames reaching up to five stories high. ...
1959: Mr. and Mrs. Julian Frausto of 315 East Seventh, are the parents of Walsenburg’s first baby of 1959. She is Rita Eileen, born at 12:35 p.m. New Year’s Day. 1964: The Little Pig Inn was sold by Marie Lunis to Nick Morelli who says it will be reopened for business on...
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