On this day in 1960, Yang Chuan-kuang, the ROC national decathlon champion, won the ROC's first-ever Olympic silver medal. He was the first Asian athlete to make it on the cover of Time magazine.
On this day in 1979, the Cabinet announced an extension of the ROC's territorial waters to 12 nautical miles and establishment of a 200-mile economic zone.
On this day in 1997, the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales took place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.