On this day in 1953, more than 1,400 mainland Chinese prisoners of war in Korea refused to return to the Chinese mainland. They wrote a blood letter to President Chiang Kai-shek, asking him to allow them to go to Taiwan to join the Republic of China's armed forces.
On this day in 1974, Mikhail Baryshnikov defected from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
On this day in 1975, Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. Wozniak was co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs.
On this day in 2007, Apple Inc. released its first mobile phone, the iPhone.