1. In 712, Du Fu, the sage of poetry, was born.

2. In 1138, the Jin State promulgated the Jurchen script.

3. In 1733, English colonists led by James Oglethorpe founded Savannah, Georgia.

4. In 1763, Cao Xueqin, a famous novelist in the Qing Dynasty, died.

5. In 1768, Francis II, the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and the first emperor of Austria, was born.

6. In 1804, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant died.

7. In 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Kentucky.

8. In 1809, Charles Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, was born in England.

9. In 1870, women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote.

10. In 1874, King Kalakaua of the Kingdom of Hawaii ascended the throne.

11. In 1883, Aisin-Gioro Zaifeng, the last regent of the Qing Dynasty, was born.

12. In 1892, President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.

13. In 1895, Ding Ruchang, the admiral of the Beiyang Navy in the late Qing Dynasty, died for his country.

14. In 1900, Soviet military strategist Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was born.

15. In 1904, the Qing government declared neutrality in the Russo-Japanese War.

16. In 1908, China's first iron and steel complex was established.

17. In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in New York City.

18. In 1910, the 13th Dalai Lama Thubten Gyatso fled to India, and the Qing government of China announced the deprivation of his title as Dalai Lama.

19. In 1912, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, abdicated, and the feudal monarchy that had lasted for more than 2,000 years in China came to an end.

20. In 1915, the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington DC.

21. In 1924, Archaeologists opened the sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in ancient Egypt.

22. In 1924, George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" premiered in New York.

23. In 1930, the China Freedom League was established.

24. In 1934, the people of France quelled the riots of the fascists.

25. In 1939, Dwarkanath Kotnis arrived in Yan'an with the Indian Medical Team to Aid China.

26. In 1940, the radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted on the Mutual network with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.

27. In 1942, Zhao Shangzhi, the founder of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, was captured and sacrificed.

28. In 1945, the Yalta Conference ended and the "Communiqué of the Crimea (Yalta) Conference of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union" was publicly released.

29. In 1951, the Ministry of Education took over Yenching University.

30. In 1954, the first foreign team visited China.

31. In 1958, the Central Committee called on the whole country to "eliminate the four pests".

32. In 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

33. In 1974, Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was arrested, stripped of his citizenship and deported.

34. In 1980, the Kwun Tong to Central section of the Hong Kong MTR's Modified Initial System opened.

35. In 1980, the State Council promulgated the "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Academic Degrees".

36. In 1982, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China forwarded the "Summary of the National United Front Work Conference".

37. In 1986, the Sino-Vietnamese railway resumed operation.

38. In 1993, in a crime that shocked Britons, two ten-year-old boys lured two-year-old James Bulger from his mother at a shopping mall in Liverpool, England, then beat him to death.

39. In 1996, the Sino-Vietnamese railway resumed operation.

40. In 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.

41. In 2000, Charles Schulz, the cartoonist who created Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the rest of the Peanuts gang, died in Santa Rosa, California.

42. In 2001, scientists publicly announced the human genome map for the first time.

43. In 2010, the 21st Vancouver Winter Olympics opened.

44. In 2016, the famous artist Yan Su passed away.

45. In 2017, Ren Xinmin, a meritorious figure in China's Two Bombs and One Satellite program, died.

46. In 1892, President Lincoln's birthday was declared a national holiday.

47. In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.

48. In 1915, the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington DC.

49. In 1940, the radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted on the Mutual network with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.

50. In 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.