On This Day July 20

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. The first words spoken on the moon were said by Neil Armstrong: “That's one small step for man, a giant leap for mankind." The speech, as written by his wife, read "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." Unfortunately he forgot the a in the between for and man, thus changing the meaning.

On July 20, 1969, an estimated 530 million people watched the live global broadcast of the Apollo 11 moon landing. This constituted around 14% of total population of the world at the time, despite the fact that the first moonwalk took place in the middle of the night in Europe.

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