The Soviet Lunokhod 1 became the first robotic lunar rover to land on the Moon’s surface.
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The US Senate held its first session in the unfinished Capitol Building.
A 55-year-old man became the first known person to contract COVID-19.
The Ottoman Empire ended when the last Sultan Mehmed VI was exiled to Malta on a British warship.
This day marked the beginning of The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.
Queen Elizabeth I was coronated and re-established the protestant Church of England.
