It happened on a… July 20

2021

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos goes into space in first unpiloted suborbital flight with all-civilian crew, aboard rocket developed by his company Blue Origin.

2020

Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first man to score 50 goals in Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League with a double in Juventus’ 2-1 win over Lazio.

2005

Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.

1976

US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.

1969

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.

1968

Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117.

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.

1903

The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.

1871

British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.

1854

Laying of first stone of the Victoria Railway Bridge from Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence.

1620

Samuel de Champlain starts building Fort St. Louis on Cap Diamant; first fort built on the cliff at Quebec.