On this day in 1901, Taiwan's first Shinto shrine was inaugurated on Yuanshan in Taipei during Japanese colonial rule of Taiwan.
On this day in 1948, Swiss chemist Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
On this day in 1972, two pandas, a gift from China to Japan, arrived at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo.