Moon landings

The first Moon landing - 50th anniversary quiz

9 October 2019 / 0 Comments
Quiz

How much do you really know about the Moon landing in 1969? Try the GetHistory.co.uk 50th anniversary quiz and find out!

Author Info

Debbie Kilroy

Having read history at the University of Birmingham as an undergraduate, where I won the Kenrick Prize, I worked as a trouble-shooter in the public sector until I took a career break in 2009. Thereafter, I was able to pursue my love of history and turn it into a career, founding Get History in 2014 with the aim of bringing accessible yet high quality history-telling and debate to a wide audience. Since then, I have completed a Masters in Historical Studies at the University of Oxford, from which I received a distinction and the Kellogg College Community Engagement and Impact Award. As well as continuing to write for and expand Get History, I am now a freelance writer and historian. I have worked with Histories of the Unexpected and Inside History, and my article for Parliaments, Estates and Representation won the ICHRPI Emile Lousse essay prize (2019).

Fact of the Day

In 1875 the king of Fiji brought back measles from a state visit to Australia and wiped out 25% of his own people.

Quote of the Day

"Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. "
~ Mark Twain

On This Day

86 BCE Lucius Cornelius Sulla's army finally broke through the walls of Athens during the First Mithridatic War, brutally sacking the city and making the streets run with Athenian blood.
40 Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial), wisecracking Roman poet, was born.
991 A peace between King Æthelred the Unready and Duke Richard of Normandy was ratified at Rouen, banning the Normans from harbouring the Vikings, and improving relations between England and Normandy.
1244 Gruffudd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great, fell to his death while trying to escape from the Tower of London. He was being forcibly held by Henry III as a 'guest'.
1555 Nostradamus published his first prophecies about impending disasters. They have rarely been out of print since and have allegedly successfully predicted world events.
1815 Following his escape from Elba, Napoleon landed on the French coast between Cannes and Antibes with 1,000 men.
1946 The Bank of England was nationalised under the Bank of England Act.
1947 The International Monetary Fund began its financial operations. The first country to borrow from it was France in May 1947.
1950 Atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs was convicted of espionage under the Official Secrets Act for supplying information to the Soviets. He was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment.
1954 The US detonated an atomic bomb on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. They had promised residents they would be able to return after the tests. Unsurprisingly, this wasn't possible.
1966 The Chancellor of the Exchequer, James Callaghan, announced that Britain would introduce decimal coinage from 1971.
1966 The Soviet Venera 3 space probe probably crash-landed on Venus, making it the first spacecraft to 'land' on another planet.