On this day in 1950, the first kidney transplant was performed by Dr. Richard Lawler in Chicago.
On this day in 1960, the Chinese communists launched 85,965 shells toward the island of Kinmen on the eve of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower's visit to the Republic of China.
On this day in 1967, Communist China detonated its first hydrogen bomb.
On this day in 1978, more than 4.5 million eligible ROC voters went to the polls to elect 3,786 representatives of townships and villages as well as 6,417 urban and rural district chiefs.