1. 1254 AD - Italian traveler and merchant Marco Polo was born
2. 1857 AD - 27th President of the United States William Howard Taft was born
3. 1894 AD - The famous anti-Japanese general Zuo Precious died in Korea at the end of the Qing Dynasty
4. 1924 AD - The Second Zhifeng War breaks out
5. 1929 AD - American physicist Murray Gell-Mann was born
6. 1931 AD - Death of Huang Gongluo, a senior general of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army
7. 1932 AD - Japan officially recognizes "puppet Manchukuo"
8. 1942 AD - Born Wen Jiabao, politician of the People's Republic of China
9. 1956 AD - The Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China opens
10. 1969 AD - Hong Kong actress Yuen Kit Ying was born
11. 1975 A.D. - Chinese cartoonist Feng Zikai dies
12. 1982 AD - Massacre of refugee camps in Beirut
13. 1983 AD - Chinese organic chemist Qian Siliang dies
14. 1989 A.D. - Death of the American poet Robert Frost
15. 2000 AD - The XXVII Olympic Games open in Sydney, Australia