On this day in 1891, Physical education teacher James Naismith introduced a game in Springfield, Massachusetts, with thirteen rules and nine players on each team that he called "Basket Ball".
On this day in 1911, Dr. Sun Yat-sen was elected in Nanjing as the Provisional President of the Republic of China.
On this day in 1997, Hong Kong began to kill all the nation's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a potentially deadly influenza strain