1178 - Five monks at Canterbury report explosion on moon (only known observation)
1767 - Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti and is considered the first European to reach the island.
1940 - Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
2006 - The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat is launched.
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