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Man in the Moon / Exploration of Mars / Bruce Lee

On This Day (July 20): Your quick daily trip back in time.

Fatih Taskiran
July 20, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

🌟 Editor's Note

Good morning. It's Sunday, July 20, and today, we're exploring the First Moon Landing, Bruce Lee’s death, an incredibly strange story of a headless chicken, and more.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1921

Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.

-1969

NASA's Apollo 11 lunar module, carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the surface of the Moon.

At 10:56 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people at home: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon after stepping off Eagle, and Aldrin followed him soon after. Michael Collins remains in the command module in orbit.

-1973

Bruce Lee died at age 32 from a brain edema caused by a reaction to a prescription painkiller in Hong Kong.

-1976

U.S. planetary probe Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars on the seventh anniversary of Apollo 11's moon landing.

-2017

China announces a plan to ban “foreign garbage,” prohibiting the import of 24 categories of plastic and recyclable waste from 2018.

📸 Snapshot

The device helps to correct the application of make-up, invented by Max Factor, 1930

💬 Final Words

❝

I’m going to the bathroom to read.

Elvis Presley

🦄 Strange Times

Mike the Headless Chicken

In 1945, a chicken destined for the chop miraculously survived the farmer's axe and ran around without a head for two years.

The farmer and his new headless chicken (now named Mike) left their farm in Fruita, Colorado, and hit the road, showing off the incredible sight of a walking, breathing chicken.

Scientists poked and prodded Mike to try to figure out how he was still alive, as people around the country gawked and stared. The answer lies in a chicken's brain, located at the back. Much of Mike's brain was still intact after the farmer chopped off his head. Mike didn't die from bleeding to death because of a blood clot.