There are some websites that tell what happened on days of the year. Today is the anniversary of the landing of men on the moon. I certainly would not have been aware of that fact except that it was mentioned in one of the comics in today's newspaper. I think it is a very impressive event.
July 20, 1969
I can understand anyone's feelings that the event hasn't changed their life much, so far as they can tell. I think a person needs to be somewhat older than 54 years for there to be any memory of the television broadcast and the understanding of the event.
I realize that there have been stories that the television broadcast was a fake. You can see some discussion of the question of authenticity and other matters on this Google page:
https://www.google.com/search?q=moon+landing
Today is also an anniversary of the Seneca Falls, New York convention.
175th Anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention
This July marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, which took place on July 19th and 20th, 1848. Seneca Falls was the first women's rights convention and was organized by a group of five women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Coffin Mott, Martha Coffin Wright, Mary Ann McClintock, and Jane Hunt.
We visited the site in Seneca Falls. We were told that the organizers included women who had traveled to London to attend a convention to end slavery. They were told that, as women, they needed to take seats in the balcony where there was seating for women, but not on the main floor of the hall, where the official delegates, all men, were seated. Upon returning to the US, the women were motivated to hold a gathering to start work on obtaining the right to vote. Getting the vote was a long process. Various states had women voting, but on August 18, 1920, quite a while later, the 19th amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote across the whole country.
