John Locke 1632
- 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
- 1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
- 1983 - Two U.S. marines were killed in Lebanon by the militia group Amal when they fired mortar shells at the Beirut airport.
- 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
- 1991 - The republics of Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement to stay in the Soviet Union.
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