Saturday 20 July 2013

First human on the Moon

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface.

Edmund Hillary

Edmund Percival Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. He was born on 20 July 1919. Hillary and  Nepalese mountaineer  Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed as having reached the summit of  Mount Everest. http://datesupdates.blogspot.in/2013/05/first-people-to-ever-reach-summit-of.html He died on 11 January 2008.