On this day in 1549, France declared war on England.
On this day in 1908, Wilbur Wright made his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It was the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
On this day in 1994, Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation and mainland China's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits signed and made public a joint announcement confirming theresults of the second round of talks between their deputy chiefs.