Human being lands on the moon
人类首次登上月球
Thought for Today:
Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.--Neil Armstrong
对一个人来说，这是小小的一步，但对人类来说，这是一个巨大的飞跃。--尼尔·阿姆斯特朗
Today's Highlight in History:
1816：Founder of Reuters Paul Julius Reuter was born on July 21. He was a German-Jewish immigrant to London who as early as 1851 began transmitting stock-market quotes between Paris and London via the new Calais-Dover telegraph cable. Reuter's agency built a reputation in Europe for being the first to report scoops from abroad, like the news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Today, almost every major news outlet in the world subscribes to Reuters. It operates in 200 cities in 94 countries, supplying text in 19 languages.
1816年7月21日，路透社创办人路透出生。路透是德国犹太人，移民到英国伦敦，从1851年开始通过加来-多佛新式电报电缆为巴黎和伦敦两地传送股市情况。路透总能率先独家报道国外新闻，在欧洲赢得赞誉，例如林肯被刺杀等。今天，几乎世界上所有主要新闻机构都从路透社订阅新闻。它为94个国家的200多个城市服务，提供19种语言版本。
1926：Ernest Hemingway，one of the 20th century's most famous American writers，was born on July 21.His books include The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), and For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Hemingway's plainspoken no-frills writing style became so famous that it was (and is) frequently parodied. His dashing machismo was almost as famous as his writing: he lived in Paris, Cuba and Key West, fancied bullfighting and big game hunting, and served as a war correspondent in WWII and the Spanish Civil War.Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
1926年7月21日，二十世纪最伟大的美国作家之一厄纳斯特·海明威诞生。他的作品有《太阳也升起来了》(1926)、《永别了，武器》(1929)、《战地钟声》(1940)。海明威直率的写作风格常常成为其他作家模仿的对象。他本人的男子气概也和他的作品一样著名：他曾居住于巴黎、古巴和钥匙西，喜爱斗牛和狩猎，曾在二战和西班牙内战中担任战地通讯员。他于1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖。
1969: Human being landed on the moon for the first time by Apollo 11 on July 21. Apollo 11 was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, the third human voyage to the moon, and the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It launched on July 16, 1969 carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin.Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to set foot on the Moon.
1969年7月21日，人类乘坐阿波罗11号首次登上月球。阿波罗11号是阿波罗计划中发射的第5艘航天飞船，第三次登月尝试，也是第一艘载人成功登月的飞船。1969年7月16日，阿波罗1号载着机长尼尔·阿姆斯特朗、指挥舱飞行员迈克尔·科林斯和登月舱飞行员埃德温·“嗡嗡叫”奥尔德林。阿姆斯特朗和奥尔德林成为最先登月的地球人。
