| 2009 | A large amount of space debris is created when a Russan and American satellite collide over Siberia |
| 2006 | 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy |
| 2005 | North Korea announces that it has nuclear weapons |
| 1998 | AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95 |
| 1998 | Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery |
| 1997 | 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 1997 | 5th annual ESPY Awards presented |
| 1997 | Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU) |
| 1997 | O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages |
| 1997 | Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR |
| 1997 | Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 |
| 1996 | IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov |
| 1995 | Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA |
| 1995 | Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) |
| 1995 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek |
| 1993 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59) |
| 1993 | U.S. officially backs peace plan in Bosnia |
| 1993 | "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people |
| 1992 | "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV |
| 1992 | Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA |
| 1992 | Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana |
| 1991 | "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| 1991 | 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte |
| 1991 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
| 1991 | Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) |
| 1991 | Lithuania votes for independence from U.S.S.R. |
| 1991 | NBA All Star Game at Charlotte North Carolina |
| 1990 | 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome) |
| 1990 | Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1990 | Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water |
| 1990 | South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th |
| 1990 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| 1989 | Celtic Kansas City Jones and Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
| 1989 | Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV |
| 1989 | Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis |
| 1989 | Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats) |
| 1989 | Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. New Zealand age 16 years 189 days |
| 1989 | Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff |
| 1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court |
| 1988 | Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails |
| 1988 | 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
| 1987 | Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre |
| 1986 | "John Lennon: Live in New York City" album is released |
| 1985 | 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana |
| 1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-51-E mission |
| 1985 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1985 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1983 | Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral U.K. nuclear disarmament |
| 1982 | 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec |
| 1981 | 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA |
| 1981 | 8 killed and 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton |
| 1981 | Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249 |
| 1980 | Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1979 | "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1 |
| 1979 | Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed |
| 1978 | Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA |
| 1977 | "Party with Comden and Green" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 92 performances |
| 1977 | Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro |
| 1977 | Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born |
| 1977 | Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) |
| 1975 | William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1974 | "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 103 performances |
| 1974 | Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out |
| 1974 | Judy Ikenberry wins 1st U.S. women's marathon (2:55:17) |
| 1974 | Silver futures hit record $4.81 an ounce in London |
| 1973 | 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| 1973 | 83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| 1973 | Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs. New Zealand Dunedin |
| 1972 | BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings |
| 1972 | Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY |
| 1971 | Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (New York Yankees) |
| 1971 | John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa |
| 1970 | 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington, New Hampshire a state record |
| 1970 | Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
| 1969 | LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94 |
| 1968 | "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 |
| 1968 | Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France |
| 1967 | 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect |
| 1966 | Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
| 1964 | Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 |
| 1964 | WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| 1963 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
| 1963 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz |
| 1962 | Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel |
| 1961 | AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego |
| 1961 | Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power |
| 1961 | Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres |
| 1960 | "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 532 performances |
| 1960 | Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres |
| 1959 | Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone" |
| 1959 | Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265 |
| 1957 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 1957 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms |
| 1956 | "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA |
| 1954 | Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam |
| 1954 | Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB |
| 1954 | Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN |
| 1954 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER |
| 1954 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US |
| 1953 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood and Demmy GRB |
| 1953 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of GRB |
| 1953 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA |
| 1953 | Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA |
| 1951 | "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 |
| 1951 | Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari |
| 1949 | Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, New York City |
| 1948 | Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki |
| 1947 | Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia |
| 1947 | Netherlands Radio Union forms |
| 1947 | Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland |
| 1947 | WW II peace treaties signed |
| 1946 | 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum |
| 1945 | "Rum and Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1 |
| 1944 | Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
| 1944 | U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland |
| 1943 | "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality and self-determination |
| 1943 | 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
| 1943 | Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
| 1942 | Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo" |
| 1941 | 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA |
| 1941 | Anti-nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands |
| 1940 | "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1 |
| 1940 | Tom and Jerry created by Hanna and Barbera debut by MGM |
| 1940 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
| 1940 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
| 1938 | King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga |
| 1937 | Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2) |
| 1935 | 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service |
| 1935 | Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
| 1934 | 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine |
| 1934 | Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; 1st unperforated ungummed U.S. stamp |
| 1934 | Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier" |
| 1934 | Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Seneca, Oregon (state record) |
| 1933 | Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co New York City) |
| 1933 | Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship |
| 1933 | Hitler proclaims end of Marxism |
| 1933 | Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed |
| 1931 | New Delhi becomes capital of India |
| 1931 | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Harts premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress |
| 1927 | President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference |
| 1926 | Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins |
| 1925 | 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind |
| 1925 | AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year |
| 1924 | Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators) |
| 1923 | Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company |
| 1923 | Owen Davis' "Icebound," premieres in New York City |
| 1923 | SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied |
| 1920 | Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball |
| 1917 | Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor |
| 1916 | Conscription begins in Britain |
| 1913 | Edward Sheldons "Romance," premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs. Australia at MCG |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1906 | Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched |
| 1906 | State of siege proclaimed in Zululand |
| 1904 | Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships |
| 1900 | Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec) |
| 1899 | -39 degrees F (-39 degrees C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature) |
| 1899 | U.S.-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets Puerto Rico and Guam |
| 1897 | N.Y. Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print" |
| 1890 | Around 11M acres, ceded to U.S. by Sioux Indians opens for settlement |
| 1883 | Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin, kills 71 |
| 1882 | Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1881 | Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris |
| 1880 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage |
| 1879 | 1st electric arc light used in the California Theater |
| 1879 | Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo |
| 1878 | Peace of Zanjon |
| 1878 | Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres |
| 1870 | City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time) |
| 1870 | YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (New York City) |
| 1868 | Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida |
| 1866 | Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms |
| 1863 | 1st U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia |
| 1863 | P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York City) |
| 1862 | Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms |
| 1860 | John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres |
| 1859 | General Horsford defeats Begum of Oudh and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny |
| 1855 | U.S. citizenship laws amended all children of U.S. parents born abroad granted U.S. citizenship |
| 1846 | Beginning of Mormon march to west US |
| 1846 | British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India |
| 1840 | British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg |
| 1824 | Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru |
| 1807 | U.S. Coast Survey authorized by Congress |
| 1794 | Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres |
| 1774 | Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit |
| 1763 | Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England |
| 1749 | 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published |
| 1746 | English Pelham government resigns |
| 1720 | Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England |
| 1716 | Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France |
| 1713 | Netherlands and England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier |
| 1676 | Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass |
| 1635 | Academie Franeaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) |
| 1535 | 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets |
| 1098 | Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch |
| 60 | St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta |
