JULY 20, 2026

Here’s what happened on this day in history — the stories that shaped the world.

■  TODAY’S LEAD STORYNeil Armstrong descended a ladder onto another world on July 20, 1969 — and roughly a fifth of the planet’s population watched him do it in real time.READ FULL STORY → 

■  ALSO ON THIS DAYExactly seven years after Apollo 11, a robotic lander touched down on Mars and sent back the first images ever taken from its surface.READ MORE → 

■  MORE FROM HISTORYJohnstown, Pennsylvania had already survived the deadliest flood in American history — and in 1977, the water came back and took 84 more lives.READ MORE → 

■  DID YOU KNOW?

The world’s first traffic light was installed in London in 1868 — decades before the automobile existed. It was designed to manage horse-drawn carriage traffic near the Houses of Parliament and used gas-lit signals. It exploded a month later, injuring the police officer operating it, and the idea wasn’t revisited until 1912.

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