On this day in 1864, the Qing dynasty finally defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
On this day in 1900, the first line of the Paris Métro opened for operation.
On this day in 1941, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill introduced his "V for Victory" campaign during World War II.
On this day in 1983, the first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT was published.
And on this day in 2006, a Taiwan-based China Airlines chartered all-cargo plane took off from Taoyuan International Airport for Shanghai, marking the inauguration of direct chartered flight services between Taiwan and China.