1. 605 - Emperor Yang of Sui orders the construction of the Grand Canal.

2. 1619 - The Battle of Sarhu breaks out.

3. 1710 - The British Parliament passes the Statute of Anne, the world's first copyright law.

4. 1828 - The first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language is published.

5. 1828 - Russia declares war on Turkey.

6. 1836 - The US Congress forms the territory of Wisconsin.

7. 1841 - Edgar Allan Poe's detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue is published.

8. 1847 - Persia and Ottoman Turkey sign the second Treaty of Erzurum.

9. 1849 - Hungary declares its independence from Austria with Louis Kossuth as its leader.

10. 1858 - Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Tubman at a constitutional convention in Chatham, Ontario.

11. 1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated while watching a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC.

12. 1894 - Thomas Edison demonstrates the Kinetoscope.

13. 1900 - The World's Fair opens in Paris.

14. 1902 - J.C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

15. 1910 - The United States lays its first transatlantic cable.

16. 1912 - The British liner Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.

17. 1917 - L. L. Zamenhof, the founder of Esperanto, passes away.

18. 1918 - Mao Zedong founds the Xinmin Society in Changsha, Hunan.

19. 1931 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain goes into exile, and the Spanish Republic is proclaimed.

20. 1932 - The Li Du Department of the Northeast Anti - Japanese Self - Defense Army controls Suifenhe Station.

21. 1933 - The Japanese government opposes the Washington Conference discussing the Northeast China issue.

22. 1936 - Red Army general Liu Zhidan is killed in action in the battle of Sanjiao Town, Zhongyang County, Shanxi.

23. 1939 - John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is first published.

24. 1946 - The Northeast Democratic United Army attacks the Kuomintang troops in Changchun.

25. 1950 - The Navy Leadership Agency of the Central Military Commission is established.

26. 1956 - Ampex Corporation demonstrates its first commercial videotape recorder.

27. 1961 - China successfully launches its first meteorological rocket.

28. 1961 - Qiu Zhonghui becomes China's first women's world champion.

29. 1981 - China is admitted to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

30. 1981 - The first test flight of the US space shuttle Columbia ends successfully.

31. 1986 - The United States launches an air raid on Libya代号"Operation El Dorado Canyon".

32. 1988 - The Geneva Accords are signed, and the Soviet Union withdraws its troops from Afghanistan.

33. 1994 - The chiefs of the seven largest tobacco companies in the United States are grilled by a House subcommittee.

34. 1997 - The United Nations rejects the anti - China human rights proposal for the seventh time.

35. 2003 - The Human Genome Project (HGP) announces its completion.

36. 2004 - China's first high - capacity Eurasian land - cable network is opened.

37. 2006 - The first Cross - Strait Economic and Trade Forum is held in Beijing.

38. 2007 - China successfully launches its first Beidou - 2 navigation satellite.

39. 2010 - A 7.1 - magnitude earthquake hits Yushu, Qinghai.

40. 2014 - The Nigerian extremist group Boko Haram kidnaps 276 schoolgirls.

41. 2018 - The United States, in conjunction with the United Kingdom and France, launches precision strikes on Syrian military facilities.

42. 2018 - A military camp in central Sinai, Egypt, is attacked by terrorists.

43. 2023 - Iran launches dozens of drones and missiles at Israel.

44. 2023 - France announces its participation in the Ukraine conflict.

45. 2023 - Qatar and Bahrain resume diplomatic relations.

46. 2023 - The United States deploys additional military forces to the Middle East.

47. 2023 - Global commemorative activities are held to remember the lives lost to the COVID - 19 pandemic.

48. 2025 - The World Internet Conference Asia - Pacific Summit opens in Hong Kong.

49. 2025 - The US military's air raid on Sana'a Province, Yemen, kills 6 and injures 20.

50. 2025 - Israel's air raid on Gaza kills 7 people, and the WHO condemns the attack on the hospital that led to the death of children.