1. In 817, Paschal I became the 99th Pope of Rome.

2. In 920, Yelü Abaoji promulgated the Khitan script.

3. In 1067, Emperor Yingzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Shu, died.

4. In 1327, Edward III of England was crowned.

5. In 1504, Italian artist Michelangelo completed the sculpture of the Colossus of David.

6. In 1533, King Henry VIII of England secretly married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

7. In 1554, the city of São Paulo, Brazil was founded.

8. In 1573, in the Battle of Mikatagahara in Japan, Takeda Shingen defeated Tokugawa Ieyasu.

9. In 1588, national hero Qi Jiguang died of illness.

10. In 1623, Jesuit missionary Adam Schall von Bell arrived in Beijing.

11. In 1627, British physicist and chemist Robert Boyle was born.

12. In 1662, Zheng Chenggong's army attacked Fort Zeelandia, where the Dutch were in Taiwan.

13. In 1736, Italian mathematician and mechanician Lagrange was born.

14. In 1755, Russian Empress Elizabeth Petrovna ordered the establishment of Moscow University.

15. In 1787, Shays's Rebellion suffered a setback when debt-ridden farmers led by Captain Daniel Shays failed to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts.

16. In 1791, the British Parliament resolved to divide Quebec into Upper Canada and Lower Canada.

17. In 1805, Liu Yong, a high-ranking official and calligrapher in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, died.

18. In 1831, King Nicholas I of Poland was deposed by the parliament.

19. In 1871, French India was allowed to elect its own general council and local council.

20. In 1874, British novelist and dramatist W. Somerset Maugham was born.

21. In 1881, Edison and Bell established the Oriental Telephone Company.

22. In 1889, Yang Jie, a lieutenant general in the Kuomintang Army, was born.

23. In 1890, the United Mine Workers of America was founded.

24. In 1890, Nellie Bly completed a round-the-world journey in 72 days, six hours and eleven minutes.

25. In 1892, Goodison Park began to be built and became the home ground of Everton.

26. In 1893, King Väinö I of Finland married Margaret.

27. In 1900, Germany issued the Second Naval Building Act and began to expand its naval fleet.

28. In 1901, the US House of Representatives proposed a bill to ban Chinese immigration.

29. In 1905, the world's largest diamond was discovered in South Africa.

30. In 1910, Muhammad Ali Jinnah became a "Muslim member from Bombay" in the Indian Legislative Council.

31. In 1911, China's first specialized criminal code was promulgated.

32. In 1912, Yuan Shikai and various Beiyang generals sent a telegram in support of the republic.

33. In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, inaugurated US transcontinental telephone service.

34. In 1919, the League of Nations was established.

35. In 1922, Yan Huiqing served as acting premier of the Republic of China.

36. In 1924, the first Olympic Winter Games opened in Chamonix, France.

37. In 1924, 28 countries established the World Organization for Animal Health.

38. In 1928, Eduard Shevardnadze, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union and President of the Republic of Georgia, was born.

39. In 1933, Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines, was born.

40. In 1937, Xinhua News Agency was named.

41. In 1938, Wenhui Daily was founded in Shanghai.

42. In 1939, Refik Saydam became Prime Minister of Turkey.

43. In 1941, Japanese invaders carried out the Panjiayu Massacre, killing more than 1,200 people.

44. In 1942, during World War II, Thailand declared war on the United States and the United Kingdom.

45. In 1947, Al Capone, an American gangster, died in Miami Beach, Florida.

46. In 1947, Philippine Airlines Flight C-47A-25-DK crashed and its wreckage was found on Mount Parker.

47. In 1949, the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance was initiated by the Soviet Union and five Eastern European countries.

48. In 1949, in the first Israeli election, David Ben-Gurion was elected Prime Minister.

49. In 1959, American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707.

50. In 2010, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 409 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea shortly after takeoff from Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, killing all 90 people on board.