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Events on Thursday 2 June 1966 1
1966Surveyor 1 lands on the MoonFirst American spacecraft to soft-land on another worldSurveyor 1 touched down on the Moon on 2 June 1966, becoming the first American spacecraft to achieve a soft lunar landing. It sent back thousands of photographs and paved the way for the Apollo program.