1. 1743 - The first recorded town meeting in America was held at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

2. 1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin.

3. 1847 - Giuseppe Verdi's famous opera Macbeth premiered at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

4. 1879 - Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Germany.

5. 1883 - Karl Marx, the great mentor of the proletariat and working people worldwide, passed away.

6. 1900 - Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

7. 1905 - Chelsea Football Club was founded.

8. 1912 - British explorer Robert Scott and his team reached the South Pole but found that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had arrived there a month earlier.

9. 1917 - The February Revolution in Russia broke out, overthrowing the Romanov Dynasty.

10. 1917 - China broke off diplomatic relations with Germany and joined World War I.

11. 1923 - President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.

12. 1930 - American scientist Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto.

13. 1932 - George Eastman, the inventor of the Kodak camera, committed suicide.

14. 1933 - Actor Michael Caine was born in London.

15. 1938 - Germany annexed Austria.

16. 1939 - The republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation.

17. 1943 - Aaron Copland's orchestral work Fanfare for the Common Man premiered in New York.

18. 1947 - The United States and the Philippines signed a military base agreement with a lease term of 99 years.

19. 1948 - The Battle of Luoyang was won.

20. 1951 - During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

21. 1956 - The State Council established the Science Planning Commission.

22. 1962 - The United Nations Disarmament Commission meeting was held in Geneva.

23. 1963 - American woman Margaret Ward became the first woman to fly an F - 106 fighter jet.

24. 1964 - A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald.

25. 1965 - Israel's cabinet formally approved the establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany.

26. 1967 - The body of President Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.

27. 1979 - Beijing and Tokyo became sister cities.

28. 1979 - Li Xiannian and others proposed to adjust the national economy.

29. 1980 - A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people on board.

30. 1980 - The Communist Party of China reaffirmed several principles of intra - Party political life.

31. 1983 - The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) members agreed to cut oil prices for the first time.

32. 1988 - The Nansha Sea Battle between China and Vietnam took place.

33. 1993 - The last revolutionary of the 1911 Revolution, Yu Yuzhi, passed away.

34. 1994 - The Linux kernel 1.0.0 was released.

35. 1994 - Schindler's List won seven Academy Awards.

36. 1995 - Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.

37. 1995 - Humans obtained the genetic material of dinosaurs from dinosaur egg fossils for the first time.

38. 1996 - Chinese scientists first discovered Jurassic bird fossils in Liaoning.

39. 1997 - Chongqing was established as a municipality directly under the Central Government.

40. 2000 - Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act.

41. 2004 - The Second Session of the Tenth National People's Congress passed the constitutional amendment.

42. 2005 - The Third Session of the Tenth National People's Congress passed the Anti - Secession Law.

43. 2006 - The President of Venezuela announced the adoption of a new national flag.

44. 2008 - Violent incidents of smashing, looting, and burning occurred in Tibet, which were planned by "Tibetan independence" elements.

45. 2008 - The gold futures price on the New York Mercantile Exchange in the United States broke through the $1,000 - per - ounce mark for the first time.

46. 2010 - A magnitude - 7.0 earthquake occurred in Indonesia.

47. 2011 - The International Mathematical Association officially announced that March 14th would be set as the International Mathematics Festival.

48. 2012 - The Ministry of Education approved Tsinghua University's request to establish the School of Five -道口 Finance at Tsinghua University.

49. 2013 - Pope Francis was elected.

50. 2013 - The European Organization for Nuclear Research publicly confirmed that the new particle previously detected was the Higgs boson.

51. 2018 - Stephen Hawking passed away.

52. 2018 - A US Navy F - 18 fighter jet crashed into the sea during training.

53. 2020 - A freighter from Weihai, Shandong, sank near the southern entrance of the Taiwan Strait.

54. 2021 - Unlawful elements in Yangon, Myanmar, smashed and looted several Chinese - funded factories.

55. 2023 - FIFA's new regulations for the 2026 World Cup were announced: 48 teams will be divided into 12 groups, and the top two teams in each group and the eight third - placed teams with the best results will advance to the knockout stage.