1. In 106, Emperor He of Han in the Eastern Han Dynasty died.

2. In 1542, Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was executed for adultery.

3. In 1719, the first regular newspaper in South Carolina, "The South-Carolina Gazette", was published.

4. In 1800, the Library of Congress was established in the United States. Books were initially purchased to support the legislative process.

5. In 1854, the first YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in the United States was established in Boston.

6. In 1868, the first American YMCA college, Springfield College in Massachusetts, was founded.

7. In 1878, the All-Russian Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party was held in London.

8. In 1895, Li Hongzhang, burdened with the humiliating mission of the Qing government, set out on a negotiation trip to Japan.

9. In 1896, the Russo-Chinese Bank opened a branch in Shanghai.

10. In 1897, the first modern international Olympic Games committee meeting was held in Paris.

11. In 1905, the first section of the New York City Subway began operation.

12. In 1910, the Boy Scouts of America was incorporated by an act of the United States Congress.

13. In 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) was founded in New York.

14. In 1918, the Finnish Civil War began as the Red Guards (socialists) and White Guards (conservatives) clashed.

15. In 1920, the League of Nations recognized the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.

16. In 1924, the first Winter Olympics officially opened in Chamonix, France.

17. In 1929, the Vatican City State was established as an independent state through the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Holy See.

18. In 1935, a jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder in the kidnap-death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh.

19. In 1938, Nazi Germany completed the annexation of Austria in the Anschluss.

20. In 1940, the Soviet Union and Finland signed the Moscow Peace Treaty, ending the Winter War.

21. In 1943, the handover ceremony of the Buddha bones of Master Xuanzang was held in Nanjing between China and Japan.

22. In 1945, during World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the Germans.

23. In 1945, Allied planes began bombing the German city of Dresden.

24. In 1946, the world's first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), was publicly demonstrated at the University of Pennsylvania.

25. In 1949, the Asian Games Federation, the only organization that comprehensively manages Asian Olympic sports, was established in New Delhi, India.

26. In 1950, the Council of Europe was established in Strasbourg, France.

27. In 1957, the first underground railway in Africa, the Johannesburg Metro, started construction.

28. In 1960, France exploded its first atomic bomb.

29. In 1963, the United States launched the "Telstar 1" communication satellite, which made the first live transatlantic television transmission possible.

30. In 1966, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 9 spacecraft, which became the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon.

31. In 1968, the first American YMCA college, Springfield College in Massachusetts, was founded.

32. In 1971, the Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon. Astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell conducted lunar surface exploration.

33. In 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty.

34. In 1975, the first Super Bowl to be broadcast in color, Super Bowl IX, took place.

35. In 1978, the first test-tube baby in Britain, Louise Brown, was born.

36. In 1980, the opening ceremonies of the 13th Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, New York.

37. In 1982, the first personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI), the Apple Lisa, was introduced.

38. In 1983, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first communication satellite, Olympus 1, was launched.

39. In 1984, Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.

40. In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.

41. In 1986, the Cold War confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union witnessed a thaw as the Soviet Union announced the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

42. In 1988, the 15th Winter Olympics opened in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

43. In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed into orbit after the Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-31 mission.

44. In 1991, the Persian Gulf War's Operation Desert Storm continued, with coalition forces intensifying air strikes on Iraqi targets.

45. In 1992, the European Union's Maastricht Treaty came into force, creating the European Union.

46. In 1993, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

47. In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) held its first ministerial conference in Singapore.

48. In 1996, the rock musical "Rent" by Jonathan Larson opened off-Broadway.

49. In 1999, the impeachment trial of U.S. President Bill Clinton ended with his acquittal on both articles of impeachment in the U.S. Senate.

50. In 2000, the first International Criminal Court (ICC) was established in The Hague, Netherlands.