1. In 161 AD, Geng Gong, a famous general in the Eastern Han Dynasty of China, died.

2. In 792 AD, Jia Dao, a poet in the Tang Dynasty of China, died.

3. In 1234, the Southern Song Dynasty of China and the Mongols jointly captured Caizhou. Emperor Aizong of Jin committed suicide and the Jin Dynasty perished.

4. In 1773, William Henry Harrison, the 9th president of the United States, was born in Charles City County, Virginia.

5. In 1825, the House of Representatives of the United States elected John Quincy Adams as president after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

6. In 1861, the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States of America elected Jefferson Davis as president and Alexander H. Stephens as vice president.

7. In 1863, the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded in Geneva, Switzerland.

8. In 1870, the US Weather Bureau was established.

9. In 1895, the first volleyball game in history was held by William G. Morgan, an official of the YMCA in the United States, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, marking the birth of volleyball.

10. In 1900, the Davis Cup of the World Tennis Championships was established.

11. In 1916, the Chinese football team played abroad for the first time.

12. In 1919, the Goliath aircraft completed the first commercial flight on the London-Paris route in history.

13. In 1925, the workers in Japanese-owned textile mills in Shanghai went on a general strike.

14. In 1933, the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University endorsed, 275-to-153, a motion stating "that this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country".

15. In 1936, the Red Army's Eastern Expedition in China ended successfully.

16. In 1941, the German army under the leadership of Rommel entered North Africa from Italy.

17. In 1943, the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces.

18. In 1947, the "February 9th Blood Incident" occurred in Shanghai.

19. In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wisconsin) charged in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia that the State Department was full of Communists.

20. In 1955, Zhang Lan, the chairman of the China Democratic League, died.

21. In 1956, the Chinese Character Reform Commission announced the "Draft of the Chinese Pinyin Plan".

22. In 1964, The Beatles made their first live American television appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show".

23. In 1969, the Boeing 747 airliner with a capacity of 500 passengers made its first flight.

24. In 1971, the "Apollo 14" spacecraft returned to Earth after man's third landing on the moon.

25. In 1977, the college entrance examination system in China was restored.

26. In 1981, China's first large high-flux atomic reactor designed by itself was completed.

27. In 1983, the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University rejected, 416-to-187, a motion "that this House would not fight for Queen and Country".

28. In 1984, Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov died at age 69.

29. In 1988, the first Lu Xun Literature Award in China was announced.

30. In 1997, Deng Xiaoping, the chief architect of China's reform and opening up, passed away.

31. In 1864, the International Red Cross was established in Geneva, Switzerland.

32. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.

33. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor.

34. In 1901, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded.

35. In 1906, the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance held a memorial service for Sun Yat-sen in Tokyo.

36. In 1914, World War I began.

37. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.

38. In 1929, the stock market crashed in the United States, triggering the Great Depression.

39. In 1931, Japan occupied Manchuria.

40. In 1939, World War II began.

41. In 1945, the Yalta Conference was held.

42. In 1948, the state of Israel was established.

43. In 1950, the Korean War began.

44. In 1954, the Geneva Conference was held.

45. In 1961, the Bay of Pigs Invasion took place.

46. In 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred.

47. In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed in the United States.

48. In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated.

49. In 1972, President Nixon visited China.

50. In 1979, the Iran hostage crisis began.