| 1997 | Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract |
| 1997 | Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA |
| 1997 | Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5 |
| 1996 | Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yards for TD |
| 1996 | Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1996 | Zimbabwe and England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win |
| 1995 | David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees |
| 1994 | "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 18 performances |
| 1994 | Italian government of Berlusconi resigns |
| 1992 | Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die |
| 1990 | Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait |
| 1990 | Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 U.S. servicemen |
| 1990 | Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president |
| 1989 | After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu |
| 1989 | Chad adopts its Constitution |
| 1989 | Cold wave: -4 degrees F in Oklahoma City, -6 degrees F in Tulsa, -12 degrees F in Pitts, |
| 1989 | -18 degrees F in Denver, -23 degrees F in Kansas City, Missouri, -42 degrees F in Scottsbluff Nebraska -47 degrees F in Hardin Mont and -60 degrees F in Black Hills South Dakota |
| 1988 | 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ |
| 1988 | South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa |
| 1988 | Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA and BC coast |
| 1986 | India score 7-676 vs. Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket |
| 1985 | "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1985 | 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2) |
| 1985 | STS-51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B |
| 1984 | Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black muggers on New York City subway train |
| 1984 | Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks |
| 1984 | Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs. WI at the MCG |
| 1983 | Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat |
| 1983 | Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps |
| 1982 | William Mastrosimones "Extremities," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Argentine general Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president |
| 1981 | Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms |
| 1980 | Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds |
| 1980 | President-elect Reagan appoints J Kirkpatrick (UN) and James Watt (Interior) |
| 1978 | Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer |
| 1978 | Thailand adopts constitution |
| 1977 | 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes |
| 1976 | "Your Arm's Too Short..." opens at Lyceum New York City for 429 performances |
| 1976 | 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| 1976 | East Germany banishes singer Nina Hagen |
| 1974 | 2nd cease-fire between IRA and British; lasts until approx April 1975 |
| 1974 | Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1974 | Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French |
| 1972 | 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed |
| 1971 | KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | U.N. General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General |
| 1971 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1970 | Treblinka SS commander Franz Stangl sentenced to life imprisonment |
| 1969 | Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots |
| 1968 | Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower |
| 1966 | WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine |
| 1965 | Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres |
| 1965 | Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH |
| 1965 | Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up |
| 1964 | Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
| 1963 | Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
| 1963 | Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends |
| 1962 | 1,000,000th NBA point scored |
| 1962 | Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s |
| 1962 | Kinderman Place in the Bronx named |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1959 | Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Ft. Worth |
| 1959 | NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask |
| 1958 | "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1 |
| 1958 | "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1958 | 2nd Dutch Beel government forms |
| 1957 | KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins |
| 1956 | "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 221 performances |
| 1956 | Last British/French troops leave Egypt |
| 1953 | Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St. Louis Browns |
| 1952 | French government of Pinay, resigns |
| 1952 | WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Australia cricket all out 82 vs. West Indies at Adelaide |
| 1950 | 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77 |
| 1948 | KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution |
| 1946 | "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 54 performances |
| 1946 | Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game |
| 1945 | Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established |
| 1944 | Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium |
| 1944 | Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan |
| 1943 | Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core |
| 1943 | WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Inst of Arts and Letters |
| 1941 | Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines |
| 1941 | Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference |
| 1939 | 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany |
| 1939 | Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs. Queensland |
| 1939 | Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo |
| 1939 | 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany |
| 1937 | Lincoln Tunnel, in New York City, opens to traffic |
| 1936 | 1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa |
| 1935 | Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura |
| 1934 | 1st flight from Netherland to Curacao (Christmas flight 1934) |
| 1934 | Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games |
| 1930 | 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo |
| 1924 | Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St. Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2 |
| 1924 | Philip Barry's "Youngest," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict |
| 1922 | Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent |
| 1919 | Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland) |
| 1919 | U.S. deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman |
| 1917 | Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack |
| 1915 | Federal Baseball League disolved |
| 1915 | Organized baseball and Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati |
| 1910 | U.S. postal savings stamps 1st issued |
| 1907 | Saint-Saens/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1894 | Dutch coast hit by hurricane |
| 1894 | Debussy's "Prelude l'apres-midi d'un faune," premieres |
| 1894 | United States Golf Association forms (New York City) |
| 1894 | French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated) |
| 1888 | Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain |
| 1886 | 1st national accountants' society in U.S. formed (New York City) |
| 1885 | Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee |
| 1883 | August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja," premieres |
| 1882 | 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison |
| 1877 | "American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Massachusetts) |
| 1870 | Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands |
| 1815 | Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos |
| 1810 | British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480 |
| 1807 | Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain and France |
| 1790 | Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks |
| 1775 | Continental Navy organized with 7 ships |
| 1772 | Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny |
| 1731 | Dutch people revolt against meat tax |
| 1715 | English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead |
| 1689 | Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck |
| 1688 | Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York |
| 1642 | Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente |
| 1596 | Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die |
| 1536 | English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal |
| 1465 | Peace of St. Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik |
| 1216 | Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus" |
| 1135 | Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king |
| 795 | Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I |
| 401 | St. Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
