The letter E appears twice in the word week but only once in the word year.. People can be tricked by focusing on trying to identify an event that happens twice during the span of a week but only once during the span of a year. However, the riddle's answer actually refers to the frequency with which the letter E appears in each of the two words. A similar riddle is: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years?. The answer is the letter M..
The first full moon was spotted on 1 July and the second will appear on the last day of the month â Friday, July 31. This appearance is the first such occurrence in three years since the last blue moon month in August 2012, the next will not be until January 2018. Astronomers predict it will only happen on 12 occasions between now and 2043.
First manned landing on the Moon, July 20. * Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969. First precise manned landing on the Moon. * Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971. Alan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the Mercury MR-3 mission, walks (and golfs) on the Moon. * Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971.