Nine news today in history

Here are nine news stories from today in history:

1. 1969: The first moon landing takes place as NASA's Apollo 11 mission successfully lands astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin on the surface of the moon.
2. 1985: The first mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper, an engineer at Motorola, who calls a rival telecommunications company to declare that he is speaking from a cell phone.
3. 1991: The United States launches Operation Desert Storm, a military operation aimed at liberating Kuwait from Iraqi occupation.
4. 1945: The United States drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an estimated 39,000 people immediately and many more in the following weeks and months.
5. 1962: The first Wal-Mart store opens in Rogers, Arkansas, founded by Sam Walton.
6. 1987: The stock market crashes on "Black Monday," with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 508 points, or 22.6%, to 1,739.13.
7. 1997: The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft, carrying a robotic rover named Sojourner, lands on Mars and sends back images of the planet's surface.
8. 1947: The first commercial airliner, the DC-3, takes off from New York's LaGuardia Airport, marking the beginning of the modern commercial airline industry.
9. 1960: The first commercial computer, the UNIVAC 1, is delivered to the U.S. Census Bureau, marking the beginning of the computer age.

I hope you find these news stories interesting!