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2008 NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars
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 minutes 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 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 hours 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 U.S. 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, Netherlands 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 General 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-Admiral 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 hours) 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 Lieutenant-general 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 Darwin 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 major-general Williamson lands on (French) Haiti 1777 Marquis de Lafayette lands in US 1770 Captain 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" near 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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