🎂 Sun Yat-sen is born (1866)
Where: Cuiheng Village, Zhongshan, China
Nearby on the globe: Ruins of St. Paul's → 🌍 Open the 3D globe
📅 On This Day: November 12
November 12, 1866: Sun Yat-sen is born. Sun Yat-sen was born in Cuiheng, a small village in Guangdong, China. Trained as a doctor, he led the movement to found a new republic in China and is often called the father of modern China. The family house he designed himself in his home village is now a museum.
✨ More events on this day
- 1936 🏛️ The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic in California, about six months before its famous neighbour, the Golden Gate Bridge.
- 1990 💡 Tim Berners-Lee published a formal plan for the World Wide Web, a way to link pages of information together that anyone could explore.
- 2014 🚀 The Philae lander, carried by Europe's Rosetta probe, touched down on Comet 67P. It was the first time a spacecraft landed on a comet.
🧠 Question of the day
What was Sun Yat-sen's first job?
- Doctor
- Fisherman
- Painter
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Answer: Doctor
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What happened on November 12?
November 12, 1866: Sun Yat-sen is born. It happened in Cuiheng Village, Zhongshan, China.
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