2007
First rail service direct from London St Pancras to Paris (replacing that from Waterloo)
Great Britain
1994
The first fare-paying passengers travelled through the Channel Tunnel
1983
British Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine announced that the first American Cruise missiles had arrived at Greenham Common airbase.
1969
NASA launched Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the Moon
1952
First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express
1948
Birth of Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the British throne .
1927
Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party
1922
BBC begins Broadcasts
Great Britain
1918
Czechoslovakia became a republic .
1908
Birth of Joseph R. McCarthy, American politician who claimed that the US Government had been infiltrated by communists.
1908
Death of Guangxu (also spelt Kuang-hsü), Emperor of China .
1698
Eddystone Lighthouse (Henry Winstanley's) first lit; completed 10 days earlier (but see 1703)
1582
Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway