On this day in 1957, an angry crowd broke into and ransacked the U.S. Embassy in Taipei in protest of the killing of ROC citizen Liu Tzu-jan by an American soldier for allegedly intruding into the soldier's house. News that a U.S. court martial had acquitted the American soldier of all charges triggered the riot.
On this day in 1994, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison. The bombing was the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring more than a thousand.
On this day in 2001, Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, became the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.