memorabilia
8th century
705: Wu Zetian passes the throne to Li Xian.
17th century
1613: Mikhail Romanov is elected Tsar of the Russian Tsarist State, and the Romanov dynasty is founded.
19th century
1804: The British inventor Travisk presents the world's first steam locomotive he invented in Wales.
1832: An Expeditionary British Expedition discovers Greenland.
1848: Marx and Engels, the founders of Marxism, publish the Communist Manifesto in London.
1875: The Qing Dynasty's Yunnan border military and civilians clashed with the British armed expedition, and the British diplomat Ma Jiali was killed, and the Ma Jiali Incident occurred.
1898: Tan Si and others founded the Southern Society.
20th century
1916: The Battle of Verdun begins.
1952: People in Dhaka, the capital of East Pakistan, demonstrate to demand the adoption of Bengali as the official language.
1965: Malcolm M. Thompson, a black-American nationalist X was assassinated by 3 radical black gunmen during a speech in New York.
1971: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances, initiated by the United Nations, is signed in Vienna, Austria.
1972: US President Richard Nixon officially visits China.
1973: Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was mistakenly hit by the Israeli military, leaving only five of the 113 people on board alive.
1986: Nintendo releases the FC console game The Legend of Zelda in Japan.
born
1728: Peter III, Emperor of the Russian Empire (died 1762)
1779: Friedrich Karl von Savigny, German jurist (died 1861)
1791 – Karl Cherny, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1857)
1836: Leo Drib, French opera composer (d. 1891)
1875: Yana Carman, the longest-lived person in the Guinness Book of World Records in France (died 1997)
- 1886 – Yoichi Hatta, Japanese hydraulic engineer, designer of Taihō, Chianan, Taiwan (died 1942)
1924: Rob Mugabi, former President of Zimbabwe, 37 years in power since becoming Prime Minister (died 2019)
1933: Nina Simon, American singer and composer (died 2003)
1937: Harad V, King of Norway
1942: Jeong Hye-hyun, South Korean actress
1943: Kenichi Ozen, Japanese management scientist and economic commentator
In 1946:
Alan Rickman, British actor (died 2016)
Tricia Nixon Cox, eldest daughter of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States
1953: William Petersen, American actor
1955: Emine Erdogan, First Lady of Turkey
1956: Harkin, Chinese-American writer
1960: Ryoko Takaya, Japanese manga artist
1964: Ma Wai-ho, a famous Hong Kong director
1969: Angelieu iris, American actress
1970: Wong Dan-yee, Hong Kong composer, arranger and music producer
In 1973:
Zeng Baoyi is a Taiwanese entertainer and program host
In 1978:
Gong Beiyuan is a Chinese movie star
Park Eun-hye is a South Korean actress
Kim Ho-na is a Korean actress
Kumar Nanjani is an American actor
1980: Jigme Kesar Namyyar Wangchuk, King of Bhutan
In 1981:
To run, Japanese actor
Lee In is a Korean actress
Takeshi Wada is a Japanese professional baseball player
Sun Feifei is a Chinese actress
In 1984:
Kaori is a Japanese actress
In 1985:
Yoon Joo-hee is a South Korean actress
1993 : Shoko Sugata, Japanese actor
1994: Wendy, member of the Korean girl idol group Red Velvet
1995: Lee Tae-hyun, South Korean actor and member of the male idol actor group 5urprise
1996: Sophie Turner, British actress
1999 : Metavin Opasan Kajun, Thai actor and model
die
1926 Heiko Kamering Onnes, Dutch physicist, discoverer of superconductivity (b. 1853)
1938: George Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
1941: Frederick Grant Banting, Canadian medical scientist and Nobel Laureate (b. 1891)
1938: Zhao Xizhang, Kuomintang general (b. 1901)
1943: Zhang Shaofang, Kuomintang general (b. 1905)
1943: Zhou Fu, general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China (b. 1900)
2004: Lai Wan-wah, wife of Macau gambling king Stanley Ho (b. 1923)
2020: Cao Jiyun, former deputy editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao.