On this day — January 19

making Japan the 5th country to land a spacecraft on the moon.

using only skis and kites, completes a 1,093-mile (1,759 km) trek to reach the Antarctic pole of inaccessibility for the first time since 1965 and for the first time ever without mechanical assistance.

Hungary, killing 42.

forming BAE Systems in November 1999.

All 18 aboard are later rescued.

causing 15 injuries.

Colorado, killing nine.