1972 – U.S. President Richard Nixon embarks on his historic visit to China
The first visit of a U.S. President in China was an important step in normalizing relations between the two countries.
1958 – The peace symbol is designed by Gerald Holtom
The symbol was commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and combines the semaphore symbols for the letters N and D - an abbreviation of “Nuclear Disarmament”.
1878 – The world's first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut
The directory consisted of a single piece of cardboard and comprised 50 numbers.
1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish “The Communist Manifesto”
“Das Kommunistische Manifest” outlined the sociopolitical worldview today called “Marxism” and was translated from German into over 100 languages.
1804 – The world's first railway journey takes place in Wales
The first full-scale steam locomotive, built by Richard Trevithick, traveled from the Pen-y-darren ironworks near Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon.
1946 – Alan Rickman
English actor
1933 – Nina Simone
American singer-songwriter, pianist
1924 – Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe
1907 – W. H. Auden
English/American poet
1791 – Carl Czerny
Austrian pianist, composer
1965 – Malcolm X
American minister, activist
1949 – Tan Malaka
Indonesian educator, activist
1941 – Frederick Banting
Canadian physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1934 – Augusto César Sandino
Nicaraguan rebel leader
1677 – Baruch Spinoza
Dutch philosopher
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