1862-First Legal Tender Act 1862 is passed by the US Congress, authorizing the United States note (greenback) into circulation, the first fiat paper money that was legal tender in America
1910-13th Dalai Lama (Thupten Gyatso) flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops
1926-Kwo-Min-Tang (Guomindang) declares war on government and warlords
1956-Nikita Khrushchev denounces Joseph Stalin at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1968-430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1986-Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines; dictator Ferdinand Marcos flees the country
1999-British chef Gordon Ramsay comes to prominence appearing in the TV documentary "Boiling Point" detailing the opening of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay