In 1865 Jules Verne sent three men to the Moon from Florida, just as Apollo 11 did 104 years later.

1865 · 1969 · apart: 104 years

In the sequel his crew also came home with a splashdown in the Pacific.

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• Moon landing1969 · Cape Canaveral. Apollo 11 launched from Cape Canaveral on 16 July 1969, and on 20 July Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon while Michael Collins stayed in orbit. The landing was the climax of the space race.

19th century · 20th century

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• 1864 In 1864 Spain seized Peru's bird-dropping islands.
• 1864 Olivier salad was invented in the 1860s by Lucien Olivier, a chef of French and Belgian origin at Moscow's Hermitage restaurant.
• 1865 The US paid a Civil War pension until 2020.
• 1865 Under an 1865 British law, a man with a red flag had to walk 60 yards ahead of any road locomotive.
• 1865 Welsh is still spoken in Argentine Patagonia.
• 1865 · 1956 A witness to Lincoln's assassination talked about it on television.

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