2015 Event Members of the E.U. have agreed to relocate 40,000 of the recent migrants to Italy and Greece; over 120,000 of the 150,000 migrants to Europe so far this year have landed in these two countries 2012 Event A video of SpaceX's latest test of the company's Grasshopper rocket with vertical takeoff and vertical landing, is released; the rocket rose 131 feet, hovered and landed safely on the landing pad December 17, 2012 2012 Event NASA reports its three-man crew of Joe Acaba and Russian colleagues Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin landed safely in the Russian-made Soyuz capsule after 123 days at the International Space Station 2011 Event Iran refuses to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that Iran captured after it crash landed in the country; Iran reports they are extracting data from the aircraft 1969 Event Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus 1943 Event U.S. forces landed at Nassau Bay, near Salamaua, New Guinea 1942 Event 6 convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. executed in Washington D.C. 1941 Event Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines 1934 Birthday Jean Marsh, born in London, England, actress, Dark Places, Eagle has Landed 1498 Event Columbus landed at the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela
