The Eagle landed today in 1969 when America became the first country to put its astronauts on the moon. Conspiracy theorists of course claim that the filmed landing took place in a Paramount Films lot and that the moon rock later brought back is actually made of green cheese. As cosmonaut Neil Armstrong said at the time, 'That's one small step for a man, hundred of backward steps for conspiratorkind.'
In other news ...
Not only was he the most brilliant general of the modern world, but he had some great one-liners too. Today in 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Mamelukes at the Battle of the Pyramids. He would have another sixteen years of victories like that. And on the day he said, 'Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on you.'
Oh, wow!
