46 – Humans land on the moon
July 20, 1969
On July 20, 1969, millions of people gathered around their televisions to watch two U.S. astronauts do something no one had ever done before—step foot on the moon! Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to stand on a different planetary body and look back at our Earth.
Image credit NASA.
Epoch
Holocene11,700 to 1900 years ago
Environmental and Climate Changes
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Last 200 years—Earth’s climate has been getting dangerously warmer
Changing Species
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Homo sapiens 300,000 Ya to Present
