| 2013 | British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country's largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as "beef" |
| 2013 | A near-Earth asteroid, 2012 DA14, comes within 17,200 miles of the Earth's surface, a record-close approach for an object estimated at 50 meters, or 160 ft in in diameter |
| 2012 | A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; 'The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes' is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house |
| 2012 | Procter & Gamble sells Pringles to the Kellogg Company for $2.7 billion |
| 2011 | Inflation in the People's Republic of China reaches 4.9% |
| 2011 | In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine's Day |
| 2010 | Men's freestyle skiing moguls competitor, Alexandre Bilodeau, wins the first gold medal Canada has ever won on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics |
| 1998 | Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship |
| 1998 | Daytona 500 race |
| 1997 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski |
| 1997 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge |
| 1995 | Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns |
| 1995 | Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17 |
| 1995 | Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion |
| 1994 | U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti |
| 1993 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester, New York on WNVE 95.1 FM |
| 1992 | 100th episode of "Cops" airs on Fox |
| 1992 | Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys |
| 1991 | Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die |
| 1991 | Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
| 1990 | Baseball owners lock out players |
| 1989 | Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt |
| 1989 | Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends |
| 1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1987 | ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series |
| 1987 | Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92) |
| 1987 | Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater |
| 1986 | 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia at Detroit |
| 1986 | Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election |
| 1985 | STS-51-E vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1985 | World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23 |
| 1984 | 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq |
| 1982 | Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw |
| 1982 | Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die |
| 1981 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1981 | Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York |
| 1980 | Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec |
| 1980 | Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals |
| 1979 | 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins |
| 1979 | Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 minutes |
| 1979 | Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1978 | England all out 64 for 1st loss to New Zealand in cricket (Boycott captain) |
| 1978 | Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida |
| 1978 | Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1978 | Zaire revises constitution |
| 1977 | Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
| 1976 | 12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1976 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Friendsville Academy (Tennessee) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km) |
| 1972 | Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager |
| 1972 | Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos |
| 1972 | President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time |
| 1971 | After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal |
| 1970 | Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 1970 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1970 | Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102 |
| 1970 | KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo |
| 1968 | Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver |
| 1968 | WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted |
| 1967 | D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber |
| 1967 | Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) |
| 1966 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 1965 | John Lennon passes his driving test |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks |
| 1964 | Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton |
| 1963 | 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
| 1963 | Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever |
| 1961 | Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash |
| 1959 | Antonio Segni forms Italian government |
| 1959 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Tournament |
| 1958 | Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB |
| 1958 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN |
| 1958 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA |
| 1958 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA |
| 1958 | Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra |
| 1957 | Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister |
| 1956 | Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
| 1956 | Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white |
| 1955 | 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced |
| 1954 | 1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California |
| 1954 | WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | WM Inge's "Come Back, Little Sheba," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released |
| 1949 | Dmitri Shostakovich' "Song of the Woods," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1948 | Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan |
| 1947 | "Toplitzky of Notre Dame" closes at Century Theater New York City after 60 performances |
| 1946 | Bank of England nationalized |
| 1944 | 891 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1944 | Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins |
| 1943 | Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid |
| 1942 | German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery |
| 1942 | Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra |
| 1942 | Singapore surrenders to Japanese |
| 1941 | Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train" |
| 1939 | German battleship Bismarck was launched |
| 1939 | Lillian Hellman's "Little Foxes," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record) |
| 1936 | Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) |
| 1936 | Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold |
| 1933 | Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party |
| 1933 | President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt |
| 1933 | Social-democratic newspaper "Vorwarts" banned again in Berlin |
| 1932 | 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York |
| 1932 | Australia beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 minutes playing time |
| 1932 | George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show" |
| 1932 | John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) |
| 1931 | 1st Dracula movie released |
| 1931 | Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager |
| 1930 | Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes |
| 1929 | St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) |
| 1926 | Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St. New York City |
| 1926 | Contract air mail service begins in U.S. |
| 1922 | Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex |
| 1921 | Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec |
| 1919 | American Legion organizes in Paris |
| 1918 | 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland |
| 1918 | Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar |
| 1917 | SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated |
| 1916 | New York Yankees buy Frank "Home Run" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500 |
| 1913 | 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in New York City |
| 1912 | Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship |
| 1906 | British Labour Party organizes |
| 1905 | 1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark) |
| 1903 | 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom |
| 1902 | Underground railway (U-Bahn) |
| 1900 | General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes |
| 1898 | USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die |
| 1895 | 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans |
| 1882 | 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin |
| 1882 | SS Dunedin leaves New Zealand with 1st frozen meat to England |
| 1879 | Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court |
| 1876 | Historic Elm at Boston blown down |
| 1870 | Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn |
| 1869 | Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped |
| 1864 | Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans |
| 1862 | Grant's major assault on Ft. Donelson, Tennessee |
| 1861 | Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) |
| 1852 | Great Ormond St. Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient |
| 1851 | Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave |
| 1848 | Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston |
| 1845 | William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72" (183 cm) reflector |
| 1842 | 1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City |
| 1804 | New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery |
| 1799 | 1st U.S. printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania |
| 1797 | Battle of Cape St. Vincent |
| 1775 | Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI |
| 1768 | 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia |
| 1764 | St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue |
| 1763 | Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg |
| 1745 | Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London |
| 1689 | German Parliament declares war on France |
| 1686 | Jean Baptiste Lully's opera "Armide," premieres in Paris |
| 1677 | King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands |
| 1637 | Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor |
| 1563 | Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania |
| 1552 | Dutch coast hit by heavy storm |
| 1539 | Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo |
| 1386 | Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders |
| 1313 | Peace of Angleur |
| 1145 | Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III |
| 732 | Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line |
| 399 | Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death |
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