- Events
- 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.
- 1967 – The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.
- Births
- Deaths
- 2007 – Ruth Graham, Chinese-American author, poet, and painter (b. 1920)