{"id":3395,"date":"2005-07-20T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:07:50","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:07:50","slug":"today-in-history-july-20-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3395","title":{"rendered":"Today In History: July 20, 1969"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man walked on the moon for the first time.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading the original articles right now (here’s what was on the front page of The New York Times<\/i><\/a> on July 21, 1969. Read the article. You can so get the sense of awe and momentous import.)<\/p>\n

Here’s an incredible photo of their approach to the landing spot, taken from the lunar module:<\/p>\n

And here is the telecast of Neil Armstrong’s descent:<\/p>\n

\nFrom The New York Times<\/i> article:<\/p>\n

His first step on the moon came at 10:56:20 P.M., as a television camera outside the craft transmitted his every move to an awed and excited audience of hundreds of millions of people on earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On this day. This momentous day!! What a moment!<\/p>\n

Anyone who remembers this moment in their lives – please share in the comments. I’d love to hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man walked on the moon for the first time. I’ve been reading the original articles right now (here’s what was on the front page of The New York Times on July 21, 1969. Read the article. You can so get … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178598,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions\/178598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}