1. In 1126, the Battle of Defending Dongjing of the Northern Song Dynasty broke out.

2. In 1606, Guy Fawkes, a Catholic involved in the Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I of England, was executed.

3. In 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States, was established.

4. In 1906, feminists resorted to violence to obtain the right to vote.

5. In 1916, Yenching University was established, and American missionary John Leighton Stuart served as its president.

6. In 1917, Germany announced unrestricted submarine warfare.

7. In 1923, Germany experienced severe inflation.

8. In 1927, British troops headed to Shanghai and China rose up in resistance.

9. In 1932, Li Du formed the Jilin Self-Defense Army to fight against Japan in unison.

10. In 1934, Roosevelt devalued the US dollar by 40%.

11. In 1940, Zhu De and Peng Dehuai wrote to Chiang Kai-shek, opposing Wang Jingwei's signing of a traitorous secret treaty with Japan.

12. In 1942, Japanese troops entered Manila.

13. In 1943, the German army surrendered in Stalingrad.

14. In 1945, the Soviet Red Army launched successive attacks on the outskirts of Berlin.

15. In 1946, Yugoslavia adopted a new constitution, establishing a federal system consisting of 6 republics: Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia.

16. In 1947, after analyzing the situation in Yikezhao League, the Ningxia-Suiyuan Working Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to establish the Yidong and Yixi Working Committees.

17. In 1949, the Pingjin Campaign ended and Beiping was peacefully liberated.

18. In 1950, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government announced that no institution, military unit, organization, public or private enterprise, or timber merchant was allowed to purchase various types of timber in forest areas without the approval of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

19. In 1951, a Mustang aircraft set a New York-London flight record.

20. In 1953, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government decided to abolish the Bureau of Industry and establish the Ministry of Industry of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

21. In 1954, Tito refused to adopt the Soviet centralized government.

22. In 1955, the Mau Mau movement in Kenya against British colonialism reached its climax.

23. In 1955, the Chinese Ministry of Health proposed appropriate birth control.

24. In 1957, French troops took action in Algiers.

25. In 1958, the United States launched its first artificial earth satellite, Explorer 1.

26. In 1961, the chimpanzee Ham entered space.

27. In 1961, a spy case brought down the Israeli government.

28. In 1966, the Luna 9, the first Soviet spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

29. In 1968, China established diplomatic relations with South Yemen (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen).

30. In 1972, China established diplomatic relations with Malta.

31. In 1975, Angola gained independence from Portuguese colonial rule.

32. In 1981, 52 hostages held in Iran returned to the United States.

33. In 1985, the State Council approved and forwarded the "Report on Several Issues Concerning the Current Reform of the Tourism System" by the National Tourism Administration.

34. In 1986, Haiti declared a state of martial law.

35. In 1995, floods occurred in northwestern Europe.

36. In 1997, the Eighth Plenary Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was held in the Great Hall of the People.

37. In 1999, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a symposium with non-party personages.

38. In 2000, Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashed.

39. In 2001, a mid-air near-miss occurred between two Japan Airlines passenger planes.

40. In 2004, the State Council issued the "Several Opinions on Promoting the Reform, Opening up and Stable Development of the Capital Market".

41. In 2006, Ben Bernanke took over as Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, succeeding Alan Greenspan.

42. In 2008, NHK in Japan reported that frozen dumplings produced in China contained the organophosphorus insecticide methamidophos, causing at least 415 Japanese citizens to be poisoned and hospitalized.

43. In 2009, the USS Kitty Hawk, a conventional-powered aircraft carrier of the United States, held a decommissioning ceremony in Washington state.

44. In 2009, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, leader of the Somali opposition group "Alliance for the Re-liberation of Somalia", was elected President of Somalia.

45. In 2013, an explosion occurred at the headquarters building of Pemex, the Mexican national oil company.

46. In 2018, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Hindu Kush region with a focal depth of 191.2 kilometers.

47. In 2018, a total lunar eclipse, supermoon and blue moon combined in Beijing and other places in China.

48. In 2020, a long-distance coach crashed into a valley in La Paz department, western Bolivia, killing at least 15 people and injuring 16 others.

49. In 2020, an explosion occurred in a factory in Mtsensk, Oryol Oblast, Russia, killing 5 people and injuring 3 others.

50. In 2020, a shooting incident occurred in a rental apartment in downtown Toronto, Canada, resulting in 3 deaths and 2 injuries.