On March 8, 1931, media theorist, author, and cultural critic Neil Postman was born. He is best known for his works criticizing the increase of the role of technology in every human's life not seeing the dangerous side effects.
On July 20, 1969 (for us western Europeans it was July 21, 3:56 MEZ) United States' space mission Apollo 11 reached the moon and the lunar module Eagle and the astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.