Human: Timeline

1870   It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

1960   August 16 — Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico New Mexico

New Mexico is a southwestern [i] state in the United States of America [i]. ... 

 at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). He sets unbeaten (as of 2005) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute Parachute

A parachute is a soft fabric device used to slow the motion of an object through an atmosphere by creati... 

; and fastest speed by a human without motorized assistance, 982 km/h (614 mi/h).

1969   Apollo program: ''Apollo 12 Apollo 12

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program [i] and the second to land o ... 

'' astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon Moon

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2003   Human evolution Human evolution

Human evolution is the part of the theory of evolution [i] by which human beings [i] emerged as a ... 

: The journal ''Nature Nature (journal)

Nature is one of the oldest scientific journal [i]s, first published on 4 November [i] 1869 [i]. ... 

'' reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints had been found in Italy Italy

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