| 2003 | Arsonist set a fire in a trian station in Daegu, South Korea kills nearly 200 |
| 1998 | New York Rangers fire head coach Colin Campbell |
| 1996 | 1st full ODI for Kenya, Cricket World Cup vs. India |
| 1996 | Daytona 500 race |
| 1996 | Tendulkar scores 127* in India's Cricket World Cup win over Kenya |
| 1995 | Angela Kennedy swims world record 100m butterfly |
| 1995 | Barb Thomas Whitehead wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1995 | Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) and Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) wed |
| 1995 | Warnecke swims world record 50m freestyle |
| 1994 | Actor Joe Pantoliano (41) weds model Nancy Sheppard (31) |
| 1994 | Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43) |
| 1994 | Shreveport Pirates join CFL as 4th U.S. team |
| 1993 | Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York |
| 1991 | Edmonton Oiler goalie Grant Fuhr returns to NHL after season-long suspension for substance abuse and shuts out New Jersey Devils 4-0 |
| 1990 | Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
| 1989 | Sherri Turner wins LPGA Orix Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open/Itoki Pro-Am |
| 1989 | Steve Garvey marries Candace Thomas while at same time being accused of fathering children by 2 other women |
| 1988 | Anthony M. Kennedy, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice |
| 1986 | San Antonio's Alvin Robertson scores NBA 2nd quadruple double-20 pts, 11 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals against Phoenix |
| 1984 | Revised concordat between Italy and Vatican signed |
| 1983 | NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1980 | Billy Wyman said he will leave Rolling Stones in 1983 |
| 1980 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections |
| 1979 | -52 degrees F (-47 degrees C), Old Forge, New York (state record) |
| 1979 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1979 | Miniseries "Roots: Next Generations" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1979 | NASA launches space vehicle S-202 |
| 1979 | President Zia ur-Rahmans National Party wins elections in Bangladesh |
| 1979 | Snow falls in Sahara Desert |
| 1978 | 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii |
| 1977 | George Harrison releases "True Love" |
| 1977 | Space Shuttle above a Boeing 747 goes on it's maiden flight |
| 1977 | Test Cricket debuts of Colin Croft and Joel Garner vs. Pakistan Bridgetown |
| 1975 | 2nd American Music Awards |
| 1975 | Italy broadens abortion law |
| 1974 | NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) |
| 1974 | U.S. ambassador to India Daniel Moynihan present $2,046,700,000 check |
| 1973 | 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Wash |
| 1973 | Belgian Emiel Puttemans runs 3000m indoor record 7:39.2 |
| 1973 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Pompano Beach Golf Classic |
| 1972 | California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty |
| 1972 | Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy |
| 1972 | John and Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show |
| 1970 | Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of inciting to riot |
| 1970 | U.S. president Nixon launches "Nixon-doctrine" |
| 1969 | Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st |
| 1969 | PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland |
| 1968 | 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin |
| 1968 | 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France |
| 1968 | British adopts year-round daylight savings time |
| 1968 | David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd |
| 1967 | Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" |
| 1967 | Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers |
| 1965 | "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| 1965 | 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia |
| 1965 | Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting |
| 1965 | Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1964 | Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in New York City |
| 1964 | Papandreou Government takes power in Greece |
| 1962 | France and Algerian Moslems negotiate truce to end 7 year war |
| 1962 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1961 | Henk van der Grift becomes world champion skater |
| 1960 | 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Colorado |
| 1960 | Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000 |
| 1955 | Baghdad Pact signed, making Turkey and Iraq a defense alliance |
| 1953 | "Bwana Devil," the 1st 3-D movie, opened in New York |
| 1953 | "Maggie" opens at National Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1953 | KOLN TV channel 10 in Lincoln, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York City) |
| 1952 | 4th Emmy Awards: Red Skelton, Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca wins |
| 1951 | 3 City College of New York basketball players admit to accepting bribes |
| 1951 | Nep l becomes a constitutional monarchy |
| 1951 | Netherlands Radio School forms |
| 1950 | "Dance Me a Song" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 35 performances |
| 1947 | 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin Pa |
| 1947 | Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Telephone," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Maastricht resistance fighter JAJ Janssen arrested |
| 1944 | Youngest baseball player, Cincinnati Reds sign 15 year old Joe Nuxhall |
| 1943 | 1st edition of Dutch resistance newspaper "Trouw" |
| 1943 | Augusto Pinochet Ugarte (Chilean gen/dictator) marries Lucia Hiriart |
| 1943 | Munich resistance group "White Rose" captured by Nazis |
| 1943 | William D. Cox buys Philadelphia Phillies |
| 1942 | Japanese troop land on Bali |
| 1939 | Golden Gate International Exposition opens on Treasure Island |
| 1936 | NHL record 32 points scored, New York Americans (28) and Mont Maroons (24) |
| 1932 | Japan declares Manchuria Independent |
| 1932 | Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World Women's figure skating title |
| 1930 | Cow flown and milked, milk sealed in paper containers and parachuted |
| 1930 | Luigi Pirandello's "Come Tu Mi Vuoi," premieres in Milan |
| 1930 | Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "Simple Simon," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto |
| 1927 | 1st U.S. radio broadcast of "Cities Service Concerts" |
| 1927 | U.S. and Canada begin diplomatic relations |
| 1924 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 1924 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 1923 | Belgium: Borinage-mine workers strike for higher wages |
| 1922 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis resigns his judgeship to work for baseball |
| 1922 | WOC-AM in Davenport, Iowa begins radio transmissions |
| 1921 | British troops occupy Dublin |
| 1919 | Cy Denneny of NHL Ottawa Senators scores record 52nd goals |
| 1915 | Germany begins a blockade of England |
| 1913 | French painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" displayed in New York City |
| 1909 | Boston Red Sox trade Cy Young, at 41, to Cleveland Naps |
| 1908 | 1st U.S. postage stamps in rolls issued |
| 1905 | Frank Wedekind's "Hidada, oder Sein und Haben," premieres in Munich |
| 1903 | Kuyper government launches anti strike laws |
| 1902 | Opera "Hunchback of Notre Dame," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1901 | H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner |
| 1900 | Ajax soccer team forms in Amsterdam |
| 1900 | Battle at Paardeberg, 1,270 British killed/injured |
| 1900 | British troops occupy Monte Christo Natal |
| 1899 | 80 degrees F in San Francisco |
| 1899 | San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports |
| 1899 | Stanley Cup: Mont Shamrocks sweep Queens U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games |
| 1896 | Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 yrs |
| 1891 | Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan |
| 1885 | Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," published |
| 1884 | General Charles Gordon arrives in Khartoum |
| 1884 | Police seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In" |
| 1879 | Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha |
| 1876 | Direct telegraph link established between Britain and New Zealand |
| 1865 | Battle of Ft. Moultrie, South Carolina occupied by Federals |
| 1865 | Evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Sherman's troops burn city |
| 1865 | Union troops force Confederates to abandon Ft. Anderson, North Carolina |
| 1861 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis inaugurated at Montgomery Alabama |
| 1861 | King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia becomes 1st king of Italy |
| 1857 | Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo |
| 1856 | American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy |
| 1850 | California Legislature creates 9 Bay Area counties |
| 1849 | 1st regular steamboat service to California starts |
| 1841 | 1st continuous filibuster in U.S. Senate began, lasting until March 11 |
| 1839 | Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists) |
| 1834 | 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City |
| 1828 | More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar |
| 1804 | 1st U.S. land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered |
| 1787 | Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland |
| 1735 | 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in Charleston, South Carolina |
| 1713 | French invade under Jacques Cassard on Curacao |
| 1688 | Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pennsylvania |
| 1678 | John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published |
| 1634 | Ferdinand II orders commander Albrecht von Wallenstein, execution |
| 1574 | Zeeland falls to Dutch rebels |
| 1563 | Huguenot Jean Poltrot de Mere shoots General Francois De Guise |
| 1536 | France and Turkey sign milt/trade agreement against King Karel |
| 1503 | Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales (later Henry VIII) |
| 1129 | Jerusalem taken by Emperor Frederik II |
