On this day in 1683, the Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reached Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
On this day in 1849, American author Edgar Allan Poe was found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death.
On this day in 1952, the United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.