Modern Era · North America · Exploration
1969
Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
July 20, 1969
After a four-day flight in a craft with less computing power than a microwave, two Americans set their spider-legged lander down in the Sea of Tranquility. Neil Armstrong stepped onto another world and an estimated six hundred million people watched live. Then they came home. The Space Race was over. America had won it.
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Also in 1969 (6 other events on record)
- ARPANET sends first message · North America · Technology
- Stonewall riots · North America · Culture
- Gaddafi seizes Libya · Africa · Politics
- Woodstock · North America · Culture
- Jumbo jet era begins · North America · Technology
- Manson Family murders · North America · Politics
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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