2013 Event Actor Peter Capaldi, of Scotland, lands the role of the Doctor in the twelfth incarnation of the 'Doctor Who' British science fiction show 2013 Event The Soyuz capsule safely lands in Kazakhstan, carrying Expedition 35 astronauts Thomas Marshburn of the U.S., Chris Hadfield of Canada and Roman Romanenko of Russia back from the International Space Station 2012 Event The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars 2012 Event Soyuz, a spacecraft originally designed for the Soviet space program, lands safely in Kazakhstan, with Oleg Kononenko of Russia, Andre Kuipers of the Netherlands, and Don Pettit of the United States, onboard 2012 Event A solar plane, called The Solar Impulse, lands in Morocco after completing the world's first intercontinental flight powered by the Sun 2011 Event Hurricane Irene lands in North Carolina, near Cape Lookout 2011 Event Tropical Storm Arlene, the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm, lands near Cabo Rojo and brings heavy rain to Mexico and southern Texas 2011 Event Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods 2010 Event The oldest type of stone axe in the world is dated at 35,500 years old; it was found in Australia's Northern Territory in the lands of the Jawoyn people 2010 Event The fourth named cyclone of the 2010 North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Cyclonic Storm Giri, lands in western Burma with winds of 144mph 2008 Event NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars 2005 Event The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan 1998 Event U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations 1998 Event Soyuz TM-26 lands 1998 Event STS-89 (Endeavour 12) lands 1997 Event STS-87 (Columbia 24) lands 1997 Event STS-86 (Atlantis 20) lands 1997 Event STS-85 (Discovery 23) lands 1997 Event Soyuz TM-25 lands 1997 Event STS-94 (Columbia 23), lands 1997 Event U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars 1997 Event STS-84 (Atlantis 19), lands 1997 Event STS-83, Columbia 22, lands 1997 Event STS-82 (Discovery 22) lands 1996 Event Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), lands 1996 Event Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), lands 1996 Event Soyuz TM-24, lands 1996 Event Space Shuttle STS-78, Columbia 20, lands 1996 Event Space Shuttle STS-77 Endeavour 11 lands 1996 Event Space Shuttle STS-76 (Atlantis 16), lands 1996 Event STS-75 (Columbia 19), lands 1995 Event STS-74 (Atlantis 15), lands 1995 Event STS-73 (Columbia 18), lands 1995 Event Space shuttle STS-69 (Endeavour 9), lands 1995 Event Soyuz TM-22, lands 1995 Event Space shuttle STS-70, Discovery 20, lands 1995 Event Space shuttle STS-71, Atlantis 14, lands 1995 Event STS-67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16 days 1995 Event Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands 1994 Event Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), lands 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-64 (Discovery 20), lands 1994 Event 3000 U.S. militia lands on Haiti 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days 55 minutes 1994 Event Soyuz TM-19 lands 1994 Event Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands 1994 Event STS-59 (Endeavour) lands 1994 Event Soyuz TM-21 lands 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), lands 1994 Event Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands 1994 Event Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands 1993 Event Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), lands 1993 Event STS-58 (Columbia) lands 1993 Event STS-51 (Discovery) lands 1993 Event Soyuz TM-17 lands 1993 Event Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in New York City 1993 Event STS-57 (Endeavour) lands 1993 Event STS-55 (Columbia) lands 1993 Event STS-56, Discovery, lands 1993 Event Soyuz TM-16 lands 1993 Event STS-54 (Endeavour) lands 1992 Event Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled) 1992 Event Space shuttle STS-47 (Endeavour 2) lands 1992 Event Soyuz TM-15 lands 1992 Event Space Shuttle STS-50 (Columbia 13) lands 1992 Event U.S. space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour) 1992 Event Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem, Israel 1992 Event Space Shuttle STS-45, Atlantis 11, lands 1992 Event Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands 1992 Event Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands 1991 Event U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 lands 1991 Event Space shuttle STS-48 (Discovery 14) lands 1991 Event Space shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) lands 1991 Event Space Shuttle STS-40 (Columbia 12) lands 1991 Event Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) lands 1991 Event Space Shuttle STS-37, Atlantis 8, lands 1990 Event Soyuz TM-10 lands 1990 Event Space Shuttle STS-35 (Columbia 11) lands 1990 Event U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus 1990 Event Soyuz TM-10 lands 1990 Event Nelson Mandela lands in New York City to begin a tour of U.S. 1990 Event STS-31 (Discovery 10) lands 1990 Event Soyuz TM-9 lands 1989 Event U.S. space shuttle STS-28 lands 1989 Event U.S. space shuttle STS-30 lands 1988 Event STS-27 Atlantis lands in California after secret mission 1988 Event Crippled soviet Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with 2 cosmonauts aboard 1988 Event Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands 1987 Event 1st time in 20 years a delegation from U.S.S.R. lands in Israel 1987 Event West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square 1985 Event 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB 1985 Event Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards AFB California 1985 Event 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB 1985 Event 19th space shuttle mission (51-F), Challenger 8, lands at Edwards AFB 1985 Event Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus 1985 Event Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus 1985 Event 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB 1984 Event 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center 1984 Event STS-41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center 1984 Event 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D) -Discovery 1- lands at Edwards AFB 1983 Event 9th Space Shuttle Mission - Columbia 6 - lands at Edwards AFB 1983 Event Soyuz T-9 lands 1983 Event 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB 1982 Event 4th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 4 lands at Edwards AFB 1982 Event British troops lands on Falkland Islands 1982 Event 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM 1982 Event Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship 1982 Event Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus 1982 Event Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data 1981 Event Soyuz T-4 lands 1979 Event Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center 1977 Event Panama 747SP lands after polar flight around Earth in record 54:07 1976 Event 5th Enterprise, approach and lands test (ALT) flight 1976 Event 2nd Enterprise, approach and lands Test Cricket (ALT) flight (5m28s) 1976 Event Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos 1976 Event U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing 1976 Event Hijacked French Airbus lands in Entebbe, Uganda 1976 Event Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26) 1974 Event Soyuz 14 lands 1971 Event U.S. Apollo 15 (Scott and Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon 1971 Event Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours 1971 Event Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell) 1970 Event Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon 1970 Event Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon 1970 Event Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon 1970 Event Luna 16 lands on Moon's Mare Fecunditatis, drills core sample 1970 Event 1st Concorde lands at Heathrow airport 1970 Event Supersonic airliner Concorde lands for 1st time at Heathrow airport 1970 Death Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81 1969 Event Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere 1969 Event Soyuz 5 lands 1968 Event U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho 1968 Event Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon 1967 Event U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon 1967 Event Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 1966 Event Luna 13 lands on Moon 1966 Event U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing 1965 Event U.S.S.R. launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon 1965 Birthday John Leonard, born in Australia, poet, editor of poetry journal, 'Overland', 'Unlove', 'Braided Lands', 'Jesus in Kashmir' 1964 Event Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia 1962 Event Chinese army lands in India 1962 Event Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15 1962 Event Ranger 4 crash lands on (backside of) Moon 1962 Event U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon 1961 Death Douglas Walton, actor (Bad Lands), dies of heart attack at 51 1959 Event 1st official "missile mail" lands, Jacksonville, Florida 1959 Event Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air) 1958 Event 1st airplane flight exceeding 1200 hours, lands, Dallas, Texas 1958 Event British parachutists lands on Cyprus 1956 Event Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba 1954 Event CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co 1950 Event U.N. lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south 1945 Event General MacArthur lands in Japan 1945 Event Australian troops lands in Brunei Bay North, Borneo 1945 Event Australian and Dutch troops lands on Tarakan 1945 Event U.S. troops lands in Mindanao 1945 Event U.S. artillery lands on Keise Shima/begins firing on Okinawa 1945 Event U.S. troops lands on Mindanao 1944 Event U.S. troops lands on Mindoro 1944 Event Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren 1944 Event U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines 1944 Event Operation Market Garden: British airborne division lands Arnhem, Netherlands 1944 Event U.S. troops lands on Palau and Morotai 1944 Event U.S. General Patton lands in France 1944 Event General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles, France 1944 Event General Montgomery lands in Normandy, forms HQ in Chateau de Creully 1944 Event D-Day: 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force lands in Normandy, France 1944 Event U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Event Free French lands on Corsica 1943 Event British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy 1943 Event British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 Event U.S. 7th div lands on Attu, Aleutian, (1st U.S. territory recaptured) 1942 Event British troops lands on Madagascar 1942 Event Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay 1942 Event Vice-Admiral Mikawa lands at Guadalcanal, Solomon Island 1942 Event 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast) 1942 Event Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands 1941 Event Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines 1941 Event Japanese troops lands on Mindanao 1941 Event Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor 1941 Event British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro 1941 Event 50,000 British soldiers lands in Greece 1941 Event German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya 1939 Event NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight 1938 Event 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 1932 Event 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands 1930 Event 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo 1930 Event 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) 1930 Event 1st NewYork - Bermuda airplane flight lands in Bermuda 1929 Event 1st non-stop England to India flight lands 1928 Event German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, New Jersey 1928 Event 1st U.S. to Australia flight lands (Sir Charles Kingford) 1928 Event 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) 1927 Event Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic 1927 Event British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1922 Event 1st airplane lands at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. 1920 Event 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol 1920 Event 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (1 month) 1919 Event British R-34 lands in New York, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hours) 1919 Event 1st nonstop Atlantic flight, Alcock and Brown, lands in Ireland 1918 Event Greeks troops lands at Smyrna 1912 Event French/British troops lands on Samoa 1912 Event 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla 1911 Event Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army 1905 Event Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger 1905 Event Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon 1904 Event German Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa 1896 Birthday George B Cressey, U.S. geographer, Asia's Lands and Peoples 1895 Event Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 1872 Event Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act 1865 Event Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands established 1848 Event In Hawaii, Great Mahele (division of lands) signed 1835 Event Charles Darwin lands on Chatham Galapagos-archipelago 1832 Event Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde 1819 Event Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore 1815 Event Joachim Murats forces lands at Pizzo, Italy 1814 Event King Louis XVIII lands on Calais, from England 1809 Event English invasion army lands in Walcheren 1808 Event Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam 1807 Event British troops lands at Ensenada, Argentina 1799 Event English invasion army lands in North-Holland 1793 Event British troops under major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti 1777 Event Marquis de Lafayette lands in US 1770 Event Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia 1768 Event English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston 1763 Event George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement 1745 Event Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides 1745 Event Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides 1717 Event Spanish troops lands on Sardinia 1715 Event English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead 1708 Event English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth 1703 Event English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal 1700 Event Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark 1690 Event King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland 1689 Event Former English King James II lands in Ireland 1688 Event English king James II lands in Ambleteuse, France 1688 Event Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England 1682 Event William Penn lands at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania 1678 Event English troops lands in Flanders 1671 Event Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City 1660 Event English King Charles II lands in Dover 1652 Event John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown 1637 Event Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil 1634 Event Dutch fleet under Johannes van Walbeeck lands on Curacao 1630 Event Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf lands at Peenemunde 1619 Death Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded 1608 Event 1st English convoy lands at Surat India 1607 Event English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA 1604 Event Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand 1580 Event Spanish troops lands in Ireland 1579 Event Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California 1560 Event Christian fleet under Gian Andrea lands at Djerba, North Africa 1559 Event Spanish explorer de Luna lands in Pensacola Bay,Fla 1549 Event Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan 1539 Event Hernando de Soto lands in Florida 1534 Event Jacques Cartier, lands in Canada, claims it for France 1521 Event Magelhaes lands on Homohon 1519 Event Cortez lands in Mexico 1502 Event Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th and last voyage 1500 Event Pedro Cabral lands and annexes Brazil (Terra da Vera Cruz) 1498 Event Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" near Venezuela 1497 Event "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork 1494 Event Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica 1492 Event Columbus' ship Santa Maria lands at Dominican Republic 1492 Event Columbus lands on San Salvador Island 1485 Event Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales 1415 Event King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River 1380 Event Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais 1377 Event French invasion fleet lands at Rye England 1360 Event France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1355 Event English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais
