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American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered Phobos, the larger of Mars's two moons, six days after discovering Deimos, the smaller one.
Chandrayaan-3 mission initiated first Moon landing in Indian history.
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
Keith Moon, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (died 1978)
Moonlight Graham, American baseball player and physician (born 1879)
Moondog King, Canadian wrestler and politician (born 1949)
William Least Heat-Moon, American travel writer and historian
William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
William Herschel discovered Enceladus, a moon of Saturn, during the first use of his new telescope which was then the largest in the world.
Chandrayaan-3 mission initiates first Moon landing in Indian history.
NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
Sun Myung Moon, Korean religious leader and businessman, founded the Unification Church (born 1920)
Kyle Mooney, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who) (born 1946)
Moondog, American-German singer-songwriter, drummer, and poet (born 1916)
Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography.
At the Lick Observatory in California, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea (pictured), a moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite to be discovered by visual observation.
US President John F. Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the Moon.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 (model pictured) struck the Moon, the first spacecraft to reach another celestial body.