memorabilia
17th century
1662: The Dutch East India Company's Taiwanese commander, Yi Yi, signs a surrender document formally to Zheng Chenggong's army.
18th century
1790: The U.S. Supreme Court holds its first hearing on the Royal Stock Exchange in New York City.
1796: The capital of Upper Canada is moved from the town of Newark to the town of York to keep away from the American threat.
19th century
1835: Abolition of slavery in Mauritius.
1865: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
1884: The Oxford English Dictionary is published by Oxford University Press in the United Kingdom, the first volume of the first edition.
1896: The opera Bohemian, composed by the Italian composer Puccini, premieres in Turin, Italy.
20th century
1942: The U.S. federal government forms the Voice of America and provides radio and television services to the Axis occupation zones during World War II.
1944: The National Dunhuang Art Research Institute was formally established in Mogao Grottoes, with Chang Shuhong as its director.
1946: The Republic of Hungary is established.
1946: Norwegian diplomat Rye is elected as the first Secretary-General of the United Nations.
1957: The German mechanical engineer Felice Wonkel successfully develops the first prototype of the Waenkel engine at the NSU depot of the automobile company.
1968: The Government of Canada merges the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force into a unified Canadian Army.
1972: Kuala Lumpur was officially upgraded to a large city, becoming the first federal territory under government jurisdiction after Malaysia's independence.
21st century
2003: The U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates on its return to the atmosphere during mission 28, killing seven astronauts.
2004: In the morning in Mecca, the holy site of Islam in Saudi Arabia, there was a serious incident of pilgrims trampling on each other due to crowding, resulting in a tragic tragedy in which 244 hajjs were killed or injured.
2005: Nepal's King Gyanendra abruptly dismisses prime minister and establishes a new cabinet headed by himself. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Nepal to restore democracy and freedoms as soon as possible.
2013: The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, opens to the public.
2019: Qatar's national football team wins the AFC Asian Cup for the first time.
born
1874 : Hugo von Hoffmannstad, Austrian poet and playwright, leader of the Viennese Neo-Romantic literary movement (died 1929)
1877: Xu Teli, Chinese revolutionary and educator (died 1968)
1894: John Ford, American director (died 1973)
1901: Clark Gable, American film actor (died 1960)
1926: Vivian Meier, American street photographer (died 2009)
1931: Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007)
1951: Masatoshi Nakamura, Japanese performance
1952: Janno Jando, Hungarian pianist
1954: Chen Peisi, Chinese actor
1955: Cheng Kui'an, Hong Kong actor (died 2009)
1956: Christine Lok, Hong Kong politician
1958: Leung Ka Fai, Hong Kong film actor
1958: Li Sichuan, former vice mayor of Kaohsiung
1962 Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1965: Stephanie, Princess of Monaco
1965: Sherlyn Finn, American actress
1965: Lee Kwok-ho, son of Bruce Lee, actor (died 1993)
1969 Gabriel Omar Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1971: Michael M. C. Hall is an American actor
1976: Lin Changzuo, lead singer of the Shining Orchestra, legislator
1980: Ip Pei-wen, Hong Kong singer
1981: Cheung King-hwan, Hong Kong male singer and music producer
1986: Lee Chang-joon, Taiwanese male entertainer
1988: Aino Yoshishi, Japanese AV actress
1989: Aina Nanda, Japanese singer and voice actress
1994: Reina Fujie, member of the Japanese girl idol group AKB48
1994 Harry Steyr, British singer
1994 Ryo Yoshizawa , Japanese actor
1996: Do-young, member of the Korean boy idol group NCT
1996: Ahmed Abu Janush, Jordanian taekwondo athlete
1997: Park Ji-hyun, captain of the South Korean girl idol group TWICE
die
1328: Charles IV, King of capetian France. (1294 births)
- 1582 - Naoya Ukita, Daimyo of the Sengoku period of Japan. (born 1529)
1851: Mary Shelley, English writer. (born 1797)
1976: Werner Heisenberg, German physicist. (born 1901)
1983: Xu Jingzhi, Chinese and Hong Kong architect (born 1906)
2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, opera composer. (born 1911)
2012: Wisław Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel Laureate in Literature. (born 1923)
2014: Luis Aragonés, former Spanish footballer and coach. (born 1938)