2005 The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan
1998 U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 Soyuz TM-26 lands
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1997 STS 87 (Columbia 24) lands
1997 STS 86 (Atlantis 20) lands
1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
1997 Soyuz TM-25 lands
1997 STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1997 U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars
1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands
1997 STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands
1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), lands
1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), lands
1996 Soyuz TM-24, lands
1996 Space Shuttle STS 78, Columbia 20, lands
1996 Space Shuttle STS 77 Endeavour 11), lands
1996 Space Shuttle STS 76 (Atlantis 16), lands
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
1995 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1995 STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
1995 Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands
1995 Soyuz TM-22, lands
1995 Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, lands
1995 Space shuttle STS-71, Atlantis 14, lands
1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16 days
1995 Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
1994 Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1994 Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands
1994 3000 U.S. militia lands on Haiti
1994 Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 mins
1994 Soyuz TM-19 lands
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) lands [approx]
1994 Soyuz TM-21 lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands
1994 Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1993 Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands
1993 STS-58 (Columbia) lands
1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
1993 Soyuz TM-17 lands
1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City
1993 STS-57 (Endeavour) lands
1993 STS-55 (Columbia) lands
1993 STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1993 Soyuz TM-16 lands
1993 STS-54 (Endeavour) lands
1992 Space Shuttle STS 52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled)
1992 Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands
1992 Soyuz TM-15 lands
1992 Space Shuttle STS 50 (Columbia 13) lands
1992 U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1992 Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1992 Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands
1991 U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1991 Space shuttle STS 48 (Discovery 14) lands
1991 Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) lands
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1991 Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
1991 Space Shuttle STS 37 (Atlantis 8) lands
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1990 U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of U.S.
1990 STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands
1990 Soyuz TM-9 lands
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-30 lands
1988 STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission
1988 Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1987 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel
1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards AFB California
1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB
1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
1984 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1984 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
1984 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards AFB
1983 Soyuz T-9 lands
1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1982 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1981 Soyuz T-4 lands
1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1977 Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07
1976 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight
1976 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s)
1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos
1976 U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing
1976 Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda
1976 Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
1974 Soyuz 14 lands
1971 U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell)
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
1970 Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample
1970 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport
1970 Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport
1970 Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81
1969 Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1969 Soyuz 5 lands
1968 U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon
1967 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1967 U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon
1967 Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1966 Luna 13 lands on Moon
1966 U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1965 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1964 Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
1962 Chinese army lands in India
1962 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1962 Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon
1962 U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon
1961 Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51
1959 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida
1959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
1958 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas
1958 British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1956 Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co
1950 U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1945 General MacArthur lands in Japan
1945 Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North-Borneo
1945 Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan
1945 U.S. troops lands in Mindanao
1945 U.S. artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa
1945 U.S. troops lands on Mindanao
1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
1944 Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines
1944 Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem Neth
1944 U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai
1944 U.S. General Patton lands in France
1944 General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France
1944 Gen Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully
1944 D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France
1944 U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
1943 Free French lands on Corsica
1943 British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy
1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina)
1943 U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured)
1942 British troops lands on Madagascar
1942 Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942 Vice-Adm Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island
1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941 Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
1941 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1939 NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight lands
1928 German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
1928 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford)
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
1922 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1920 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month)
1919 British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland
1918 Greeks troops lands at Smyrna
1912 French/British troops lands on Samoa
1912 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1905 Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger
1905 Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon
1904 German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa
1896 George B Cressey, U.S. geographer, Asia's Lands and Peoples
1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1865 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established
1848 In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed
1835 Charles Darwins lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago
1832 Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde
1819 Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore
1815 Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy
1814 King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England
1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren
1808 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam
1807 British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina
1799 English invasion army lands in North-Holland
1793 British troops under maj-gen Williamson lands on (French) Haiti
1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US
1770 Capt James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1768 English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
1745 Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
1717 Spanish troops lands on Sardinia
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1708 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1703 English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal
1700 Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark
1690 King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1688 English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France
1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England
1682 William Penn lands at what is now Chester Pennsylvania
1678 English troops lands in Flanders
1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1660 English King Charles II lands in Dover
1652 John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown
1637 Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
1634 Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao
1630 Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde
1619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1607 English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
1604 Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand
1580 Spanish troops lands in Ireland
1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California
1560 Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa
1559 Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla
1549 Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1534 Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France
1521 Magelhaes lands on Homohon
1519 Cortez lands in Mexico
1502 Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage
1500 Pedro Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz)
1498 Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela)
1497 "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork
1494 Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1492 Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic
1492 Columbus lands on San Salvador Island
1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales
1415 King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River
1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais
1377 French invasion fleet lands at Rye England
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
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