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

1951 Winston Churchill Elected

The Conservative party won the general election in Britain defeating the Labour party resulting in Winston Churchill becoming the new Prime Minister.

1959 First Photos From Space!

Photographs taken from Lunik III, a Soviet satellite are sent back to earth via radio signals and become the first images ever seen of the far side of the moon.

BORN ON THIS DAY

  • 1947 – Hillary Clinton, US politician and wife of the former US President, Bill Clinton

DIED ON THIS DAY

  • 900 – Alfred the Great, the King of Wessex and King of the Anglo-Saxons