| 2013 | In Los Angeles, California, the 85th Academy Awards is held; 'Argo' wins best picture, Ang Lee wins for best director, Daniel Day-Lewis wins for best actor, and Jennifer Lawrence wins for best actress |
| 2013 | In Greece, Nicos Anastasiades, leader of Cyprus's main opposition Disy party, wins the Presidential race |
| 2012 | After a power struggle within his government, Haiti's prime minister Garry Conille resigns |
| 2012 | The IAEA reports that Iran has been expanding its nuclear activities |
| 2011 | Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh orders the country's security forces to protect protesters |
| 2011 | In Libya, Anti-Gaddafi forces claim to have gained control Zuara, a town located west of Tripoli |
| 2010 | Tengzhong's bid to purchase Hummer from General Motors is rejected by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China |
| 2008 | Fidel Castro resigns as President of Cuba, his brother Raul Castro is unanimously elected |
| 2002 | XIX Winter Olympics closes in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City |
| 1999 | 41st Grammy Awards, Celine Dion, Lauryn Hill and Eric Clapton win major awards |
| 1998 | Elton John knighted |
| 1998 | NHL resumes season since Feb 8th to accomodate the Olympics |
| 1997 | Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th) |
| 1997 | South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp |
| 1996 | Cuba downs 2 U.S. planes |
| 1996 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1995 | Dow-Jones hits record 4011.74 |
| 1994 | Scoreboard is unveiled at new Cleveland Indians' park (Jacobs Field) |
| 1993 | 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins |
| 1991 | "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater New York City after 126 performances |
| 1991 | End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft |
| 1991 | U.S. and allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Orix Hawaiia Ladies Golf Open |
| 1989 | 150-million-year-old fossil egg found |
| 1989 | Harold E. Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley |
| 1989 | Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife |
| 1989 | U.S. Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die |
| 1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1989 | Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses" |
| 1988 | Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist |
| 1988 | South African apartheid regime bans the UDF |
| 1987 | 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins |
| 1987 | Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point |
| 1987 | Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack |
| 1986 | Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million |
| 1986 | Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby |
| 1985 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson |
| 1985 | Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal |
| 1985 | Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yards |
| 1985 | Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King and I" |
| 1984 | Iraq resumes air attack on Iran |
| 1983 | Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1982 | 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins |
| 1982 | Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92 |
| 1981 | Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak |
| 1981 | Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer |
| 1981 | Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower |
| 1980 | "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1980 | Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders |
| 1980 | USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal |
| 1979 | Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas |
| 1979 | War between North and South Yemen begins |
| 1978 | Kevin Porter, New Jersey, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game |
| 1977 | President Carter announces U.S. foreign aid will consider human rights |
| 1976 | Cuba adopts its constitution |
| 1976 | Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU |
| 1974 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater |
| 1974 | Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh |
| 1971 | Algeria nationalizes French oil companies |
| 1970 | 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) |
| 1970 | Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records |
| 1970 | KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby |
| 1968 | "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott New York City after 31 performances |
| 1968 | 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) |
| 1968 | Discovery of 1st pulsar announced |
| 1968 | Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games |
| 1968 | Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar |
| 1968 | U.S. troops reconquer Hue Vietnam |
| 1966 | Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas |
| 1965 | East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt |
| 1962 | "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| 1962 | "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 167 performances |
| 1962 | General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Explorer 10 fails to reach Earth orbit |
| 1960 | Italian government of Segni falls |
| 1960 | U.S. beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1 |
| 1955 | "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 461 performances |
| 1955 | Pact of Baghdad between Iraq and Turkey signed |
| 1952 | Betty MacKinnon and Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament |
| 1951 | "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 84 performances |
| 1951 | Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran and Paul Falk of GER |
| 1951 | Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB |
| 1951 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA |
| 1950 | Labour wins British parliamentary election |
| 1949 | Israel and Egypt sign an armistice agreement |
| 1949 | V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km |
| 1948 | Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia |
| 1946 | Juan Peron elected President of Argentina |
| 1945 | Egypt and Syria declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 1945 | Manila freed from Japanese |
| 1945 | Nazi occupiers begin state of siege |
| 1944 | Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war |
| 1943 | General-major Bradley flies to Algiers |
| 1943 | Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II |
| 1942 | Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) |
| 1941 | 43 Geuzen resistance fighter trial opens in the Hague |
| 1941 | Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam |
| 1940 | Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star" |
| 1939 | Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston |
| 1938 | Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles |
| 1937 | 1st U.S. group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington, D.C. |
| 1933 | Final demonstration of German Communist Party in Berlin |
| 1933 | League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria |
| 1932 | Malcolm Campbell drives record speed (253.96 mph) at Daytona |
| 1927 | John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St. New York City |
| 1925 | Thermit explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, New York |
| 1924 | Greek parliament proclaims republic |
| 1924 | Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 seconds) |
| 1924 | Mahatma Gandhi released from jail |
| 1923 | Flying Scotsman goes into service |
| 1923 | Mass arrests in U.S. of mafia |
| 1921 | 1st transcontinental flight in 24 hours flying time arrives Florida |
| 1920 | NSDAP begins at Hofbrauhaus Munich |
| 1920 | Peace treaty gives Estonia independence |
| 1918 | Estonia declares independence from Russia |
| 1917 | German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) |
| 1917 | Red Sox sell Smokey Joe Wood, his arm dead at 26, to Cleveland for $15,000 |
| 1917 | Russian revolution breaks out |
| 1914 | Frank Craven's "Too Many Cooks," premieres in New York City |
| 1905 | Simplon tunnel in Switzerland completed |
| 1903 | U.S. signs agreement acquiring a naval station at Guantanamo Bay Cuba |
| 1902 | Battle at Yzer Spruit: Boer general De la Rey beats British |
| 1896 | Victoria all out for 43 vs South Australia, Jones 6-15 Jarvis 4-27 |
| 1895 | Cuban war for independence begins |
| 1894 | Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of) |
| 1891 | French troops under captain Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan |
| 1888 | Louisville, Kentucky becomes 1st government in U.S. to adopt Australian ballot |
| 1881 | De Lesseps' Co begins work on Panama Canal |
| 1876 | Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt," premieres in Oslo |
| 1868 | 1st U.S. parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama) |
| 1868 | House of Representatives vote 126 to 47, to impeach President Andrew Johnson |
| 1863 | Arizona Territory created |
| 1863 | Forrest's raid on Brentwood, Tennessee |
| 1857 | 1st perforated U.S. postage stamps delivered to government |
| 1857 | Los Angeles Vineyard Society organized |
| 1855 | U.S. Court of Claims forms for cases against government |
| 1848 | King Louis-Philippe abdicates, 2nd French republic declared |
| 1839 | Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia |
| 1836 | 3,000 Mexicans attack 182 Texans at Alamo, lasts 13 days |
| 1835 | Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian lang monthly mag |
| 1821 | Mexico gains independence from Spain |
| 1807 | 17 die and 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England |
| 1803 | Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury vs. Madison) |
| 1793 | French troops conquer Breda |
| 1786 | Charles Cornwallis appointed governor-general of India |
| 1779 | George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British |
| 1711 | Handel's opera "Rinaldo" premieres, London |
| 1708 | Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Groningen |
| 1613 | English princess Elizabeth marries earl Frederik of Palts |
| 1607 | Claudio Monteverdi's opera "Orfeo," premieres in Mantua |
| 1597 | Flemish painter Frederick of Valckenborch becomes porter of Frankfurt-on-Main |
| 1582 | Pope Gregory XIII announces New Style (Gregorian) calendar |
| 1552 | Privileges of Hanseatic League in England are abrogated |
| 1541 | Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12) |
| 1538 | King Ferdinand of Austria and King Janos Zapolyai of Hungary sign Peace of Grosswardein |
| 1530 | 1st imperial coronation by a Pope, Charles V crowned by Clement V |
| 1528 | Hungarian anti-king Janos Zapolyai and Sultan Suleiman signs treaty |
| 1527 | Ferdinand of Austria crowned as king of Bohemia |
| 1525 | Battle at Pavia: Emperor Karel V's troops beat French king |
| 1525 | Imperial forces defeat French in battle of Pavia |
| 1510 | Pope Julius II excommunicates the republic of Venice |
| 1496 | England's Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders |
| 1389 | Battle at Falkoping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden |
| 1296 | Pope Boniface VIII degree Clericis Iaicos |
| 1208 | St. Francis of Assisi, 26, received his vocation in Portiuncula Italy |
| 303 | 1st official Roman edict for persecution of Christians issued |
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