On July 20th, 1969, At 10:56 p.m. EDT, American astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from Earth, spoke these words to more than a billion people listening at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” Stepping off the lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
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Today is the birthday of novelist Cormac McCarthy (born, 1933.) He is the author of the survivalist novel The Road, which later became a popular movie with the same title.
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On July 20, 1793, Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie [1] completed the first European east-to-west crossing of America north of Mexico.
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July 20, 1868: The first use of tax stamps on cigarettes.
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Today’s feature article was written by SurvivalBlog staffer Tom Christainason.
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We are in great need of articles for the last two weeks of Round 113 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [2]. More than $900,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [3]. Refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic. Round 113 ends on July 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [4] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.