1693-First women's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" is published in London 1900-The Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party (formed in 1893) meet in London, resulting in a Labour Representative Committee and eventually the modern U.K. Labour Party in 1906 1933-Nazi Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, is destroyed by fire, possibly set by the Nazis, who blame and execute Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe 1940-Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14 (radiocarbon dating) at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California 1957-Mao Zedong's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals 1972-U.S. President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai issue Shanghai Communique