On this day in 1900, Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discovered a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
On this day in 1954, more than 14,000 Chinese Communist POW's in Korea who refused to return to the Chinese mainland took their oath to join the ROC armed forces.
On this day in 1998, in Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Awaji Island with Honshū and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opened to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.