On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.
Ten years ago
President George W. Bush and other Group of Eight world leaders meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, urged Israel to show “utmost restraint” and blamed Hezbollah and Hamas for escalating violence in the Middle East.
Five years ago
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left his country for Cuba to begin chemotherapy, vowing to win his fight against cancer and calling for his political allies to stay united in his absence.
One year ago
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley relegated the Confederate flag to the state’s “relic room” after the legislature passed a measure removing the flag from the grounds of the Statehouse in the wake of the slaughter of nine African-Americans at a church Bible study.
— By The Associated Press
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