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, working with the likes of Histories of the Unexpected.

Fact of the Day

Between 1040 and 1746, only three English monarchs did not invade Scotland and/or repel a Scottish invasion of England.

Quote of the Day

"There is only one way to avoid criticism: Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. "
~ Aristotle

On This Day

217 Caracalla, the emperor responsible for opening Roman citizenship to all free men living under Roman rule, was assassinated whilst relieving himself on the road to Carrhae.
1093 The new, Norman, Winchester Cathedral was consecrated. At the time, it was the biggest cathedral in northern Europe.
1886 William Gladstone introduced the first Irish Home Rule Bill into parliament. A majority of thirty voted against it two months later, perhaps partly because Gladstone had been so secretive in drafting it (largely by himself).
1904 Britain and France signed the Entente Cordiale, marking the end of almost 1,000 years of intermittent hostilities.
1945 German pilot, anti-Hitler plotter, and sister-in-law to some of the leaders of the 20 July Bomb Plot, Melitta von Stauffenberg was shot down by Allied aircraft. Despite making a perfect emergency landing, she died from her injuries.
1992 After over 150 years of publishing, the satirical weekly magazine Punch printed its final issue (later in the decade there were attempts to revive it, but they ultimately failed).
2013 Margaret Thatcher, the UK's divisive first female prime minister, died aged eighty-seven.