1. In 1841, Guan Tianpei, a famous anti-British general, died in the Opium War
Guan Tianpei (January 8, 1781 – February 26, 1841), courtesy name Zhongyin, was a native of Shanyang, Jiangsu (present-day Huai'an, Jiangsu), a famous general of the Qing dynasty during the Opium War. Born in the army, he accumulated merit and promotion, and served as the commander-in-chief of Suhuang Town and the governor of Jiangnan. In 1834, he was appointed as the governor of the Guangdong Admiralty, and later actively assisted Lin Zexu in suppressing opium, training the Admiralty, strengthening coastal defense, and repeatedly thwarting the provocations of the British invading army. In February 1841, when the British ships attacked Humen, he immediately asked Qishan , the governor of Liangguang, for help, but he did not allow it, so he led his troops to hold the rung, Yong'an, and Jingyuan batteries, and on the 25th, the British troops landed from the rung. The next day, he died heroically at the Jingyuan Fort and the guerrilla Mai Tingzhang and more than 400 other soldiers. He is the author of "The First Collection of Raising the Sea". In 1846, according to Guan's mother's will, his son used the pension issued by the imperial court and the funds raised to build the "Guan Zhongjie Ancestral Hall" on County East Street.
2. In 2011, Zhu Guangya, the founder of China's "Two Bombs and One Star", passed away
Zhu Guangya (December 25, 1924-February 26, 2011), a native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, was a nuclear physicist, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a recipient of the Two Bombs and One Star Meritorious Service Medal. In 1941, he was admitted to the Department of Physics of National Central University (Nanjing University), and in the summer of 1942, he transferred to the Department of Physics of Southwest Union University, graduating in 1945. After receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Michigan, he returned to China in the spring of 1950. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1956 and started working in April 1950. Zhu Guangya is the founder and one of the principal scientific and technological leaders in New China's nuclear undertakings, especially the "two bombs" cause, and an outstanding scientist in China's scientific and technological undertakings, especially on the scientific and technological front of national defense. He died in Beijing on February 26, 2011, at the age of 87.
3. In 1936, the German Volkswagen brand car was introduced
Volkswagen, the core company of the Volkswagen Group. Volkswagen Group is one of the world's top ten automobile companies, founded in 1938 in Worthburg, Germany, the founder is the famous car design master Ferdinand. Bolsher. The brand logo consists of V and W, Volks means national in German, Wagen means car in German, and the full name means national car, so it is simply "VW".
4. The birth of the French writer Victor Hugo in 1802
Hugo's Birth Memorial
"One day, two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace. One robber looted and another set fire. Judging by their actions, the winner can also be a bandit. An unprecedented looting of the Old Summer Palace began, with the two conquerors sharing the stolen goods equally. What a great achievement, a godsend windfall! One of the two victors filled his pocket, and the other, seeing it, stuffed his chest. Then, arm-in-arm, laughing and heading back to Europe. This is the history of these two robbers. In the face of history, one of these two robbers is called France and the other is called Britain. ”
On October 6, 1860, while the Xianfeng Emperor was still on the run, the Anglo-French army ransacked and destroyed the summer palace, a rare and precious royal garden. This robbery marked the beginning of the Second Opium War and angered people of insight in the West who witnessed all this. Victor Hugo only learned about this "wonder of the world" through the mouth of a traveler, but from the beginning he sided with civilized people - Chinese against the barbaric colonizers of the West.