| 2013 | In Bolivar, Venezuela, the country's government opens a granite processing plant, estimating it will provide 25% of the nation's granite requirements |
| 2013 | In racing, Danica Patrick becomes the first woman at the Daytona 500 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series to win pole position |
| 2012 | Between 60 to 70 artifacts of the ancient Olympic games are stolen by thieves who broke into the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece |
| 2012 | The Dow Jones Industrial Average achieves its highest level at closing since May 2008 |
| 2011 | A large, rare, Andy Warhol self-portrait in red and white sells for $10.79 million pounds at Christie's auction house in London, England |
| 2011 | Aretha Franklin, singer and the 'Queen of Soul', announces she has overcome medical ailments and plans to return to the stage |
| 2010 | The declaration of Victor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine is suspended by the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine |
| 2008 | Taliban suicide bombing kills 80 in Kandahar, Afghanistan |
| 2008 | Kosovo declares independence from Serbia |
| 1998 | Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder |
| 1998 | Larry Wayne Harris and Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax |
| 1997 | Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena California |
| 1997 | Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter |
| 1996 | 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, vs. New Zealand, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47 |
| 1995 | 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 1995 | Colin Fergusson found guilty of killing 6 people on the LIRR in NY |
| 1995 | Tiger manager Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike |
| 1995 | Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming U.S. tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive and manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked |
| 1993 | Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die |
| 1993 | Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec) |
| 1991 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| 1989 | 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole" |
| 1989 | Former baseball player and manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash |
| 1989 | Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya form common market |
| 1989 | Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1989 | Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen |
| 1988 | Lebanese terrorists kidnap United Nations truce observer Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins |
| 1988 | U.S. Lt. Col Wm Higgins kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and later killed |
| 1987 | Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year) |
| 1987 | Michelle Renee Royer, 21, Texas, crowned 36th Miss USA |
| 1986 | 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles |
| 1986 | Howard Stern radio show returns to New York City morning radio on WXRK 92.3 FM |
| 1986 | Johnson and Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs |
| 1986 | Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad |
| 1985 | 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents |
| 1985 | 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia vs. England |
| 1985 | 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon) |
| 1985 | Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater |
| 1985 | Laffit Pincay, Jr. is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita |
| 1983 | Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot |
| 1983 | Netherlands adopts constitution |
| 1983 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, vs. England |
| 1981 | Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in U.S. history |
| 1980 | Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph) |
| 1980 | Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1979 | China invades Vietnam |
| 1979 | Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99) |
| 1976 | "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1976 | Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau) |
| 1976 | New Zealand scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs. India |
| 1976 | Richard Hadlee takes 7-23 vs. India, his 1st match-winning spell |
| 1974 | 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt |
| 1974 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut vs. Pakistan, his only Test Cricket |
| 1972 | British Parliament votes to join European Common Market |
| 1972 | President Nixon leaves Washington D.C. for China |
| 1971 | England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win |
| 1970 | Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife and daughter |
| 1970 | Joni Mitchell's final concert at Royal Albert Hall |
| 1970 | Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album (never released) |
| 1969 | Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister |
| 1968 | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Massachusetts, opens |
| 1967 | Beatles release "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" |
| 1967 | Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit |
| 1966 | French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
| 1965 | U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures |
| 1965 | U.S. - Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute |
| 1964 | 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) |
| 1964 | U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights |
| 1964 | U.S. Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs. Sanders) |
| 1964 | WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1963 | Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon 2:15:15.8 |
| 1962 | Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin" |
| 1962 | Storm in Hamburg, kills 265 |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs St. Louis |
| 1959 | 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg |
| 1958 | Comic strip "BC" 1st appears |
| 1958 | WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Fire in Warreton Mo, kills 72 |
| 1957 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1957 | Suez Canal reopens |
| 1956 | Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB |
| 1956 | Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz and Oppelt of AUT |
| 1956 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA |
| 1956 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA |
| 1955 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB |
| 1955 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Bowden of CAN |
| 1955 | KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright U.S. |
| 1955 | Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257 |
| 1953 | Baseball star/pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea |
| 1953 | DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven |
| 1950 | 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center, New York |
| 1949 | Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel |
| 1949 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN |
| 1949 | Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE |
| 1949 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Richard Button USA |
| 1949 | Richard Button retains world figure skating championship in Paris |
| 1947 | Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism" |
| 1947 | Voice of America begins broadcasting to U.S.S.R. |
| 1946 | Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam |
| 1944 | Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; U.S. victory on Feb 22 |
| 1944 | U.S. begins night bombing of Truk |
| 1943 | Hitler visits Field Marshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje |
| 1943 | Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews |
| 1943 | General-major Bradley flies to Washington D.C. |
| 1943 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army |
| 1941 | Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1940 | Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA vs. West Australia |
| 1940 | British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway |
| 1939 | Katwijk soccer team forms |
| 1938 | 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV in London |
| 1936 | "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts |
| 1936 | -58 degrees F (-50 degrees C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record) |
| 1936 | SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn) |
| 1933 | 1st issue of Newsweek magazine published |
| 1933 | Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in the comic Blondie |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam |
| 1933 | U.S. Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition |
| 1932 | Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in New York City |
| 1931 | 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball) |
| 1931 | Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game |
| 1930 | French government of Tardieu falls |
| 1926 | Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die |
| 1926 | Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match |
| 1924 | Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds) |
| 1923 | British egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun |
| 1923 | Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals) |
| 1921 | Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres |
| 1916 | Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Edward Stone, 1st U.S. combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded |
| 1913 | 1st minimum wage law in U.S. takes effect in Oregon |
| 1913 | New York Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to U.S. public |
| 1911 | 1st hydroplane flight to and from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego) |
| 1906 | Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House |
| 1905 | Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall |
| 1904 | Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan |
| 1897 | National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association) |
| 1896 | London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective |
| 1885 | Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa |
| 1883 | A. Ashwell patents free-toilet in London |
| 1882 | 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground |
| 1880 | Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt |
| 1878 | 1st telephone exchange in San Francisco opens with 18 phones |
| 1876 | Sardines 1st canned by Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine |
| 1870 | Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge |
| 1870 | Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War |
| 1867 | 1st ship passes through Suez Canal |
| 1867 | Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary |
| 1865 | Battle of Charleston South Carolina |
| 1865 | Columbia South Carolina burns down during Civil War |
| 1864 | Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic" |
| 1859 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli |
| 1854 | British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa) |
| 1848 | Toscane gets liberal Constitution |
| 1841 | Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wegimont |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin leave Tasmania |
| 1818 | Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle) |
| 1817 | Baltimore is the 1st U.S. city lit by gas |
| 1801 | House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson President over Burr |
| 1795 | Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England |
| 1791 | Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra) |
| 1776 | 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of Roman Empire" published |
| 1772 | 1st partition of Poland-Russia and Prussia, joined later by Austria |
| 1714 | Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree |
| 1691 | Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service |
| 1676 | Kings Charles II and Louis XIV sign secret treaty |
| 1670 | France and Bavaria sign military assistance treaty |
| 1634 | William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti" |
| 1621 | Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony |
| 1598 | Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia |
| 1568 | Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace |
| 1370 | Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania |
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