Events:
- 1966 - Master Cheng Yen establishes the Tzu Chi Foundation in Hualien County.
- 1982 - Lee Shih-ke (李師科) was a taxi driver, womanizer and gambler who pulled off Taiwan's first gunpoint bank heist, stealing NTD 5.3 million. He had obtained the gun by killing a police officer two years earlier and was unhappy with the inequality of society. He hid NTD 4 million at a friends house and spend NTD 140,000 on women, a gold bracelet and watch. [1]
Births:
- 1978 - Wang Yi Lu (王以路), Taiwanese actor.
- 1989 - Prince Chiu (邱勝翊（王子）), Taiwanese male singer, member of the band JPM.
Deaths:
- 1997 - Pai Hsiao-yen (白曉燕) was a 16 year old high school student kidnapped on her way to school, tortured, murdered and mutilated. Her kidnappers sent a ransom note demanding USD 5 million along with a photo and her severed finger to her parents. She was the daughter of famous artist Bai Bingbing. (Born in 1980)