2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)
1996 Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner, dies at 77
1996 George Houston, land economist, dies at 74
1995 David Land, impressario, dies at 77
1995 Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1994 Jimmy Buddy Lee Land Ace, singer, dies at 57
1994 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances
1994 "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances
1992 Operation Restore Hope - U.S. Marines land in Somalia
1991 Irwin Allen, dir (Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure), dies at 75
1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1990 Egypt and Morocco troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion
1987 Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race
1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.
1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody
1982 U.S. Marines land in Beirut, Lebanon
1980 Iris Meredith, actress (Lawless Land, Gambling Terror), dies at 64
1979 Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
1976 4th Space Shuttle Enterprise, approach and land test (ALT) flight
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1975 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78
1975 Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London
1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
1974 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless), dies at 48
1974 Skylab 4's astronauts land
1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land
1972 Apollo 16's Young and Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1971 Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1970 1st Boeing 747 to land in Amsterdam and Brussels
1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
1969 Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco
1967 U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land
1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour
1965 Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1965 Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1965 Dan Land, NFL cornerback and safety for the Oakland Raiders
1965 Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails)
1964 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
1964 Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st U.S. tour
1962 Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
1962 500 Indonesian parachutist land on New-Guinea
1962 Indonesian paratroopers land in New Guinea
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Land of the Sky Golf Tournament
1958 Government troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1957 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Land of Sky Golf Open
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically
1956 Britain and France land forces in Egypt
1956 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole-Rear Adm GJ Dufek
1956 French commandos land in Algeria
1954 Indonesian troops land in New-Guinea
1954 1st VTOL, Vertical Take-off and Land, flown
1952 Beverly Johnson, model/actress, Ashanti Land of No Mercy
1952 Wendy Phillips, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Executive Suite, Promised Land
1950 During Korean conflict, United Nations forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 U.S. troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1950 Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1949 Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy
1948 Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, rock keyboardist/singer, On Land
1947 Ry[land] Cooder, born in Louisiana, blues guitarist, Crossroads
1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in New York City, by E H Land
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 Dutch troops land on East Bali
1945 U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1945 Allies troop land on Balikpapan
1945 U.S. troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1945 U.S. troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima
1945 U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma
1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab
1944 U.S. forces land in Philippines
1944 Allied troops land in Corfu
1944 British troops land on Greek continent
1944 Operation Market Garden: Polish paratroopers land at Driel
1944 U.S. troops land on Ulithi
1944 1st V-2 rockets land in London and Antwerp
1944 Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1944 U.S. troops land on Tinian
1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 Allies land on Vogelkop, New Guinea
1944 Allies land on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
1944 Operation Straightline: Allies land in Netherlands New-Guinea
1944 Allies land near Hollandia, New-Guinea
1944 U.S. troop land on Los Negros, Admirality Islands
1943 U.S. troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1943 U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 U.S. troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island
1943 U.S., British and French troops land in Salerno (operation Avalanche)
1943 Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1943 U.S. amphibians land at Brolo on north coast of Sicily
1943 U.S. amphibians land at St. Agata on North coast of Sicily
1942 Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca)
1942 Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr
1942 German troops land on Taman peninsula
1942 1st U.S. flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 Carlson's Raiders land on Makin, Gilbert islands, kill 350 Japs
1942 Miguel Littin, actor, Promised Land, Alsino and Condor
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 Japanese troops land on Timor
1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1941 Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1941 Australian bombers land on Timor/Ambon
1941 U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1941 U.S. forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to nazis
1940 British troops land at Narvik, Norway
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1938 Hitler issues ultimatum to Czech government, demanding Sudenten Land
1937 Buddy Jimmy Lee Land Ace, singer
1937 Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv
1936 1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
1936 Gary Conway, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Burke's Law, Land of the Giants
1933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture and land and fishing, CDA
1933 DRG Andrews, CEO, Land Rover-Leyland
1931 Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director, New Land, Emigrants
1931 Operette "Land of Smiles," premieres in London
1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1927 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies
1927 1,000 U.S. Marines land in China to protect American property
1926 U.S. Marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
1926 Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1921 George Houston, land economist
1921 Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire
1919 Ross and Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
1919 Duke of Rutland, British land owner/multimillionaire
1919 1st parcel of land is purchased for Cleveland Metroparks
1918 Granville James Leveson Gower, land owner
1918 U.S. troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
1918 U.S. troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920
1918 David Land, impressario
1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
1917 1st federal land bank chartered
1916 Irwin Allen, born in New York City, director, Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure
1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1914 George "Tiger" Haynes, guitarist/actor, Land Without Music, Guv'nor
1914 South African troops land in German South West Africa
1914 British field marshal John French and Gen Wilson land in France
1914 1st air flight out of sight of land, Scotland to Norway
1913 Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, forbidding Japs from owning land
1912 Woodie Guthrie, folk singer, This Land Is Your Land
1912 U.S. Marines land on Cuba
1910 Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
1909 Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid,
1909 Edwin H. Land, American Inventor
1908 Alain Cuny, actor, Detective, Weite Land, Emmanuelle
1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion
1898 1st U.S. troops land and occupy Puerto Rice, at Guanica Bay
1898 1st U.S. Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1898 600 U.S. Marines land at Guantanamo Cuba
1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1896 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author, Time Tunnel, Land of Giants
1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect U.S. citizens
1892 Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land
1889 Oklahoma land rush officially started; some were "sooner"
1882 British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1880 John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77
1874 US troops land in Honolulu to protect the king
1868 Mary Austin, Illinois, feminist/nature writer, Land of Little Rain
1866 Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220
1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land
1865 Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1865 Gen Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1864 Land and naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges
1862 Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
1861 1st Civil War land battle-Union defeats Confederacy at Philippi, WV
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1856 Matilde Serao, [Tuffolina], Italian writer, Land of Cockayne
1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea
1854 1st park land purchased by a U.S. city, Worcester, Massachusetts
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 mile area in Upper Sandusky
1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, England, writer, Irish Land League
1840 Dumont D'Urville discovers Adelie Land, Antarctica
1839 Henry George, land reformer/writer, Progress and Poverty
1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist, Stranger in Her Native Land
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1811 Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar, owned land in Mich
1809 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet, Trip to H Land
1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves
1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1785 Frederick Philipse 3, land owner (Bronx, Westch and Putnam), dies at 65
1755 Transylvania Land Co. buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1724 Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Aust Neth
1720 Frederick Philipse III, New York City, land owner, Bronx, Westchester and Putnam
1716 Eugenius of Savoye named land guardian of Austrian Netherlands
1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia after exploring "South Land"
1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1685 Don Francisco de Agurto installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1676 Battle at land: Danish and Dutch fleet under CM Tromp beats Sweden
1676 Creutz, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle
1676 Uggla, Swedish Admiral (land), dies in battle
1675 Francisco de Moura y Cortereal, Span land guardian of Netherlands (1664-68)
1675 Don Carlos de Gurrea/Aragon becomes Spanish land guardian of S Neth
1663 Frans Eugenius, duke/prince of Savoye/land guardian of Austria-Neth
1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1641 Don Francisco de Mello appointed land guardian of South Netherlands
1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill
1631 Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of S Netherlands
1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1628 Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony, witches soon to settle
1621 John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies
1620 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just and equal laws)
1619 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1600 Andreas of Austrian, Land Guardian of Netherlands (1598-1600), dies at 42
1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1595 King Philip II names Albrecht of Austria land guardian of Neth
1592 Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Netherlands (1579-92), dies at 46
1590 Floris Thin, politician/land advocate of Utrecht, dies
1579 Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1578 Don Juan d'Austria, Spanish land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 31
1578 Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1577 Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1573 Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1567 Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1566 Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1558 Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52
1552 Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1549 Barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies
1547 Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
1544 Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland
1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas
1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha land guardians of Netherlands
1492 Christopher Columbus and ship Santa Maria land in Dominican Republic
1492 Columbus' ships sites land on the horizon (Bahamas)
1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1487 Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire
1474 Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded
1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1472 Pieter Bladelin, Belgium, land owner (Middelburg castle), dies
1262 Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies
1167 John "without a land", king of England, 1199-1216
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