Check out some of the events that took place on this day in history:

1781 Discovery Of Uranus

It was back on this day in 1781 that William Herschel saw what he thought was a comet but it was actually the first sighting of what we have come to know as the planet Uranus!

BORN ON THIS DAY

  • 1974 – Thomas Enqvist, the Swedish tennis player

DIED ON THIS DAY

  • 2021 – Murray Walker, the English motorsport commentator and journalist