🎂 Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is born (1930)
Where: Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA
📅 On This Day: January 20
January 20, 1930: Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is born. Buzz Aldrin was born in 1930 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA. In 1969, on Apollo 11, he became the second person to walk on the Moon, after Neil Armstrong. Their command module, Columbia, is now in the Air and Space Museum in Washington.
✨ More events on this day
- 1573 🚀 Astronomer Simon Marius was born in Germany; he watched Jupiter's moons and gave them the names we still use: Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.
- 1741 🌿 Carl Linnaeus the Younger was born in Sweden; like his famous father, who named thousands of living things, he became a botanist who described new plants.
- 1775 🔬 André-Marie Ampère was born in France; he discovered how electric currents make magnetism, and the ampere, the unit of current, is named after him.
🧠 Question of the day
Aldrin was which person to walk on the Moon?
- The first
- The second
- The tenth
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Answer: The second
Questions
What happened on January 20?
January 20, 1930: Moonwalker Buzz Aldrin is born. It happened in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.
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