On this day in 1954, the Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, began.
On this day in 1960, the construction of the East-West Cross-Island Highway linking Taichung and Hualien counties in central Taiwan was completed.
On this day in 1986, a nuclear reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
And on this day in 2005, chairman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang, Lien Chan, arrived in Nanjing at the start of his historic "journey of peace" to China. It marks the first official contact between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China since the end of the Chinese Civil War.