On this day in 1858, Christiaan Eijkman, the Dutch physician who won the 1929 Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery of Vitamin B, was born.
On this day in 1919, Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie died at the age of 84. He amassed a fortune in the steel industry and donated millions of dollars for the benefit of the public.
On this day in 1973, the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League opened its three-day 19th Conference in Taipei.
On this day in 2013, President Ma Ying-jeou departed for a 12-day tour that will take him to Haiti, Paraguay, Saint Christopher and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.