Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Memories, Music and Movies – 1969 – Moon Landing – Exams – Peter Sarstedt, Creedance and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid by Sally Cronin
I cannot remember a time when music and movies where not a part of my life.
1969 – Moon Landing – Exams – Peter Sarstedt, Creedance and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
It is 1969 and Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, at 20:18 UTC. Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
That was the year I was 16 and about to take some small steps that were to be a giant leap for womankind… Well me anyway… Still at school but in my final year.. My headmistress and my mother had a meeting with me present about my choices.. Stay on for A Levels and go to university or to leave school and attend secretarial college.
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