1. In 1455, the Bible was printed for the first time using a printing press with movable type.

2. In 1822, Boston was granted a charter to incorporate as a city.

3. In 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.

4. In 1847, US troops under General Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican General Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista in Mexico.

5. In 1848, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, died of a stroke at age 80.

6. In 1855, German mathematician Gauss passed away.

7. In 1861, President-elect Lincoln arrived secretly in Washington to take office, having foiled an assassination plot in Baltimore.

8. In 1870, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union.

9. In 1873, Liang Qichao, a leader of the Reform Movement in the Qing Dynasty, was born.

10. In 1893, Rudolf Diesel obtained a patent for his invented diesel engine.

11. In 1899, German children's literature writer Kastner was born.

12. In 1901, the Japanese civilian militarist group Black Dragon Society was established.

13. In 1903, Cuba officially leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States in perpetuity.

14. In 1905, Paul Harris, a lawyer in Chicago, Illinois, USA, and three other businessmen founded Rotary International, the world's first service organization, at a lunch meeting.

15. In 1913, Huerta seized power in Mexico and Madero was killed.

16. In 1918, the Soviet Red Army was established.

17. In 1921, the Soviet Navy launched a mutiny which was crushed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

18. In 1926, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China mobilized the public to launch a campaign against Wu Peifu.

19. In 1927, President Coolidge signed a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission, the forerunner of the Federal Communications Commission.

20. In 1929, the "Abolition of Traditional Chinese Medicine" incident occurred in the Republic of China.

21. In 1940, Yang Jingyu, a heroic anti-Japanese figure, was martyred.

22. In 1943, Soviet war hero Matrosov died heroically.

23. In 1945, the famous Russian writer A. Tolstoy passed away.

24. In 1945, Turkey declared war on Germany and Japan.

25. In 1945, US Marines captured Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag.

26. In 1947, the International Organization for Standardization was officially established.

27. In 1947, Megawati, Vice President of Indonesia, was born.

28. In 1949, the Asian Games Federation was established.

29. In 1951, patriotic educator Zhang Boling passed away.

30. In 1954, the first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh.

31. In 1959, the European Court of Human Rights opened for the first time in Strasbourg.

32. In 1965, Stan Laurel of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team died in Santa Monica, California.

33. In 1968, the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Soviet Red Army.

34. In 1972, protesters burned down the British Embassy in Dublin.

35. In 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China decided to set March 12 as China's Arbor Day.

36. In 1980, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held.

37. In 1981, a military coup in Spain ended in failure.

38. In 1986, the China Qigong Science Research Association was established.

39. In 1987, Supernova 1987A exploded.

40. In 1988, the movie "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

41. In 1991, during the Gulf War, the US-led coalition began a ground offensive against Iraqi forces in Kuwait.

42. In 1991, the Thai military took over the government.

43. In 1992, China won its first medal in a snow event at the Winter Olympics.

44. In 1994, the State Duma of Russia passed an amnesty bill, pardoning those involved in the "August 19" incident in 1991.

45. In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced that they had cloned the first mammal from an adult cell, a lamb named Dolly.

46. In 1997, the Mir space station in Russia caught fire and was extinguished 14 minutes later with no casualties.

47. In 1998, a grand ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of Zhou Enlai's birth was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

48. In 2000, Carlos Santana won 8 Grammys for his album "Supernatural".

49. In 2003, American sociologist Merton, one of the representatives of structural functionalism, passed away.

50. In 2008, the 49th World Table Tennis Championships opened in Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou.