Today in history

Neil Armstrong

Armsrong walks on moon, 1969: At 10:56 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening at home: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.

Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee dies at age 32, 1973: On this day in 1973, the actor and martial-arts expert Bruce Lee dies in Los Angeles at age 32 from a brain edema possibly caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller. During Lee’s all-too-brief career, he became a movie star in Asia and, posthumously, in America Sir 

Edmund Hillary born, 1919: On July 20, 1919, Edmund Hillary is born in Auckland, New Zealand. A beekeeper by trade, Hillary became the first human, along with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to reach the peak of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. At 29,035 feet, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth, as well as one of the most forbidden.

Adolf Hitler

 Assassination plot against Hitler fails, 1944: On this day in 1944, Hitler cheats death as a bomb planted in a briefcase goes off, but fails to kill him.