Today in HistoryToday is Friday, July 20, the 201st day of 2007. There are 164 days left in the year.

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In 1951, King Abdullah of Jordan was assassinated while entering a mosque in Jerusalem.

In 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module.

In 1982, Irish Republican Army bombs exploded in two London parks, killing eight British soldiers, along with seven horses belonging to the Queen’s Household Cavalry.

In 1988, South Africa, Cuba and Angola agreed in principle on a plan to end the war in Angola and grant independence to Namibia.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“We may well go to the moon, but that’s not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us.” — Charles de Gaulle, French statesman (1890-1970).