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19 July 19, 1969 (Saturday) 20 July 20, 1969 ... (0700 UTC July 19). ... But Mr. Fairfax happened to beach his rowboat on a Florida beach on Saturday, while the whole ...
Ted Kennedy in 1968. U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, aged 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, aged 39, [Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta, because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. [13]
1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ... July 19. Chappaquiddick incident: ...
Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted by the United States and launched by NASA from July 16 to July 24, 1969. It marked the first time that humans landed on the Moon .
July 21 – A. D. King, younger brother of Martin Luther King Jr., dies at age 38. July 24 – Apollo program: Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins return safely to Earth after the first landing on the Moon. July 25 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies ...
July 19 is the 200th day of the year (201st in leap years) ... 1894 – Percy Spencer, American physicist and inventor of the microwave oven (d. 1969)
Eagle entered lunar orbit on July 19, 1969. On July 20, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin entered into the LM and separated it from Command Module Columbia. Eagle was landed at 20:17:40 UTC on July 20, 1969, with 216 pounds (98 kg) of usable fuel remaining. After the lunar surface operations, Armstrong and Aldrin returned to the Lunar Module Eagle ...
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's 1962 challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...