| 2012 | An asteroid named 4179 Toutatis, over 3 miles wide, passes within 4.3 million miles, or 18 lunar distances from Earth |
| 2012 | The U.N. condemns North Korea for launching a long-range Unha rocket; North Korea claims its purpose is to put its first satellite into space, but critics say the launch is a disguised ballistic missile test |
| 2011 | Canada declares that because its country would face large penalties for treaty violations, it is withdrawing itself from the Kyoto Protocol |
| 2011 | President Barack Obama asks Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel that was captured near Kashmar December 4, 2011 |
| 2010 | Rallies protesting constitutional abuses by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin are held in Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 | The outcome of Egypt's recent parliamentary elections spark protests in Cairo |
| 2009 | Cuban and Venezuelan leaders sign over $3.2 billion worth of trade and cooperation agreements |
| 1997 | Carlos the Jackal, "professional revolutionary" goes on trial in Paris |
| 1997 | Florida releases Alex Arias, the last original Marlin |
| 1997 | Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH |
| 1997 | Red Sox sign Pedro Martinez to record 6 year $69 million contract |
| 1997 | SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages |
| 1997 | TWA 800 hearings end |
| 1997 | Federal judge sentences Autumn Jackson, who claims to be Bill Cosby's daughter, to 26 months for trying to extort $40 million from him |
| 1996 | Assassination attempt on Uday (Iraqi's heir to Sadam Hussain) |
| 1996 | Marlins sign their 6th free-agent since Nov 22, Moises Alou |
| 1995 | CBC announces Radio Canada International service to end on March 31 |
| 1995 | Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres address both house of U.S. congress |
| 1995 | NBA referees return to work after striking |
| 1995 | Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote) |
| 1993 | "Any Given Day" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 32 performances |
| 1993 | "Kentucky Cycle" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 34 performances |
| 1993 | WAQX 104.3 (Q-104) rock format replaces WNCN classic format in New York City |
| 1992 | 58th Heisman Trophy Award: Gino Torretta, Miami, Florida (quarterback) |
| 1992 | 6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000) |
| 1992 | Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada |
| 1992 | Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World |
| 1992 | New York Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals |
| 1991 | Actor Richard Gere marries supermodel Cindy Crawford |
| 1991 | Maastricht Treaty signed to create a European Community |
| 1991 | New Jersey Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81 |
| 1991 | Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection |
| 1991 | Tampa Bay Bucaneer Dexter Manley, retires after failing drug test |
| 1990 | U.S. accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks |
| 1990 | U.S. ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait |
| 1988 | 3 trains collide in London, 40 die |
| 1988 | New York City Subway system adds new stations (Z line) |
| 1988 | PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist |
| 1988 | Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment |
| 1987 | Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game |
| 1987 | Okla's sets NCAA record of 33 steals vs Centenary |
| 1987 | Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers |
| 1986 | David Boon's fourth Test century, 103 vs. England at Adelaide |
| 1986 | James "Bone Crusher" Smith TKO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG |
| 1986 | Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed |
| 1986 | South African journalist Zwelakhe Sisulu arrested |
| 1985 | 248 U.S. soldiers and 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash |
| 1985 | DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die |
| 1985 | NASA launches space vehicle S-207 |
| 1983 | A truck bomb explodes at U.S. Embassy in Kuwait |
| 1982 | "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" closes at Ambassador New York City after 6 perf |
| 1982 | $9,800,000 in cash stolen from money transport car in New York City |
| 1982 | 57th Australian Womens Tennis: C Evert beats M Navratilova (63 26 63) |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic |
| 1981 | "1st" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 37 performances |
| 1981 | Gambia and Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982 |
| 1981 | Wayne Gretzky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39) |
| 1980 | US's copyright law amended to include computer programs |
| 1979 | Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce |
| 1979 | Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe |
| 1977 | Yankees purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves |
| 1976 | Quarterback Joe Namath last game as a New York Jet |
| 1975 | Gas stove explodes and starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia) |
| 1975 | Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford |
| 1973 | Canada begins selling Olympic coins ($5 and $10 silver coins) |
| 1973 | San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC) |
| 1970 | Polish government proclaims price rise |
| 1970 | Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1969 | "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| 1969 | Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) |
| 1969 | Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed |
| 1968 | Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis |
| 1968 | Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | U.S. launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit |
| 1966 | U.S. Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
| 1965 | Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) |
| 1965 | Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 |
| 1965 | Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record |
| 1965 | Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City |
| 1964 | Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
| 1964 | Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) |
| 1963 | Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
| 1963 | Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped |
| 1963 | Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36 |
| 1961 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany, Georgia |
| 1959 | U.N. Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established |
| 1958 | Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed |
| 1958 | Fergie Gupte takes 9-102 with leggies vs. West Indies at Kanpur |
| 1957 | Major Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo |
| 1957 | U.S. announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond) |
| 1957 | Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham |
| 1955 | 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell |
| 1953 | Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane |
| 1950 | 16th Heisman Trophy Award: Vic Janowicz, Ohio State (HB) |
| 1950 | Baseball owners vote to drop 4-year old bonus and high school rule |
| 1949 | AL votes 7-1 rejecting legalizing the spitball |
| 1947 | United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL |
| 1946 | Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building and burying 38 |
| 1946 | Tide detergent introduced |
| 1946 | U.N. accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr |
| 1945 | Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death |
| 1942 | German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
| 1941 | European reservists on Java mobilizes |
| 1941 | German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
| 1941 | Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk |
| 1940 | British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani |
| 1939 | Russian Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die |
| 1937 | NBC and RCA sends 1st mobile-TV vans onto the streets of NY |
| 1937 | Washington Redskins win NFL championship |
| 1937 | Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations) |
| 1936 | Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan |
| 1932 | S N Behrmans "Biography," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | U.S.S.R. and China resume diplomatic relations |
| 1931 | Japanese Government of Imukai forms |
| 1930 | Baseball Rules Committee greatly revises the rule book |
| 1930 | Baseball changes rule, ball bounces into stands not a home run, now a double |
| 1930 | Start of the 1st Australia vs. West Indies Test (at Adelaide) |
| 1928 | Nichols/Brownes "Wings over Europe," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | Leningrad: premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 1st Pianoconcert |
| 1925 | Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo |
| 1925 | Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia |
| 1925 | Last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over |
| 1920 | Maurice Ravels ballet "La Valse," premieres in Paris |
| 1917 | French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543 |
| 1917 | Reverend Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb |
| 1916 | Worst train disaster ever (Modane France-543 killed) |
| 1915 | 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany |
| 1915 | Aristide Briand forms French war government |
| 1915 | Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia |
| 1913 | "Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered |
| 1913 | Hebrew language officially used to teach in Palestinian schools |
| 1912 | R Friml/O Harbachs musical "Firefly," premieres in New York City |
| 1906 | Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish government member, appointed Secretary of Commerce |
| 1904 | CMS McClellans "Leah Kleschna," premieres in New York City |
| 1903 | Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo |
| 1901 | Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US |
| 1899 | 1st case of plague on Oahu, Hawaii |
| 1899 | George F Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee |
| 1898 | 1st 1st-class game between NSW and Tasmania |
| 1897 | Anti-Jewish violence breaks out in Bucharest Romania |
| 1897 | Rudolph Dirks' 1st Katzenjammer cartoon strip in New York Journal |
| 1884 | 1st Test match played at the Adelaide Oval |
| 1878 | Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch" |
| 1871 | Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum |
| 1870 | Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps |
| 1862 | Battle of Dumfries, VA |
| 1862 | Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed) |
| 1862 | Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia (Marye's Heights) |
| 1858 | 1st Canadian coins circulated (1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 20 cent) |
| 1822 | Mexico officially recognized as an independent nation by US |
| 1800 | Washington D.C. established as capital of US |
| 1792 | In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn |
| 1791 | Bank of U.S. opens |
| 1787 | Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify U.S. constitution |
| 1769 | Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee |
| 1715 | Russian/Prussian troops occupy Stralsund |
| 1700 | Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/Ijsselstein adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 1677 | Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin |
| 1653 | Barebone-parliament ends |
| 1527 | Composer Adrian Willaert moves from Milan to Venice |
| 1524 | Pope Clement VII approves Organization of Jewish Community of Rome |
| 1479 | Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III |
| 1474 | Isabella crowns herself queen of Castilie and Aragon |
| 1098 | 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria |
| 627 | Battle at Nineveh: Byzantine emperor Heraclius beats Perzen |
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