On This Day in History
Apollo 12 lifts off for the Moon
1969Apollo 12 lifted off from Kennedy Space Center and later became the second crewed flight to land on the Moon. (Apollo 12)
Also on this day
- 1967 Theodore Maiman is granted a patent for the ruby laser — American physicist Theodore Maiman was granted a patent for his ruby-laser systems, the world's first laser.
- 1960 Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three desegregate New Orleans schools — Ruby Bridges and the McDonogh Three became the first Black children to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana, during the New Orleans school-desegregation crisis.
- 1910 Eugene Ely takes off from a ship — Aviator Eugene Burton Ely made the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1851 Moby-Dick is published in the United States — Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick was published for the first time in the United States.
Born this day in 1840: Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter.
Events from Wikipedia’s On This Day list, CC BY-SA 4.0. See also the Library of Congress essay Today in History.