| 2013 | JPMorgan reveals it plans to cut 17,000 jobs, mostly from its mortgage department, in the next two years |
| 2013 | At Vatican City, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his farewell address |
| 2012 | Following an engine room fire, the cruise ship costa Allegra is left adrift in the Indian Ocean near the Seychelles |
| 2012 | Wikileaks begins releasing 5 million emails from Stratfor, a private intelligence company |
| 2011 | Wisconsin AFL-CIO assemble hundreds of union supporters claiming they will risk arrest to prevent police from clearing the Wisconsin State Capitol building |
| 2011 | Resolution 1970 is adopted by the U.N. Security Council; the resolution imposes sanctions on the regime of Muammar al-Gaddafi |
| 2010 | A tsunami warning went into effect for Chile and Peru after an 8.8 magnitude earthquake hits near Conception, Chile |
| 2002 | 44th Grammy Awards, U2, Alicia Keyes, Nelly Furtado and James Taylor win major awards |
| 1998 | 14th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 1998 | Apple discontinues developing Newton computer |
| 1998 | FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati |
| 1998 | New England Patriot David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges |
| 1997 | "Last Night of Ballyhoo" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Singer Sade (Helen Folasade), arrest in Jamaica for disobeying a cop |
| 1996 | Mark Waugh scores 126 in World Cup against India |
| 1995 | Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed) |
| 1994 | 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway |
| 1994 | Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed |
| 1993 | PBA National Championship Won by Ron Palombi Jr |
| 1992 | Larry Smith, named 9th Commissioner of the CFL |
| 1992 | Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years |
| 1991 | Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London |
| 1991 | 6 week Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated and Kuwait is liberated |
| 1991 | Noureddine Morcelli set 1500m mark at 3:34:16 |
| 1991 | Singer James Brown is released from prison |
| 1990 | Exxon Corp and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez) |
| 1990 | No one elected to Hall of Fame for 2nd time in 3 years |
| 1989 | German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland |
| 1988 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1988 | Bonnie Blair (U.S.) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1 |
| 1988 | Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34 |
| 1988 | Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating |
| 1987 | "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS |
| 1987 | Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff |
| 1987 | Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m) |
| 1987 | NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption |
| 1985 | Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief |
| 1985 | Mauritania's new constitutional charter published |
| 1984 | Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8.675 m) |
| 1984 | WRC-AM in Washington D.C. changes call letters to WWRC |
| 1984 | Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa |
| 1983 | Eamonn Coghlan set indoor mile record of 3:49.78 |
| 1983 | Jan Stephenson wins Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Golf Tournament |
| 1982 | Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw |
| 1982 | Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million |
| 1982 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1982 | Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta |
| 1981 | Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747 |
| 1981 | Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record "Ebony and Ivory" |
| 1980 | 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet |
| 1980 | Israel and Egypt exchange ambassadors |
| 1980 | Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe |
| 1980 | Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota |
| 1978 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1977 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 1977 | Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada |
| 1976 | Final meeting between Mao tse Tung and Richard Nixon |
| 1975 | CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin |
| 1975 | House of Representatives pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill |
| 1974 | "People" magazine begins sales |
| 1974 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota |
| 1973 | Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox |
| 1973 | Members of American Indian Movement begin occupation of Wounded Knee |
| 1973 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution motu proprio Quo aptius |
| 1973 | White Sox slugger Dick Allen signs 3-year $750,000 contract |
| 1972 | President Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued Shanghai Communique |
| 1970 | New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance |
| 1969 | General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup |
| 1969 | President Nixon visits West-Berlin |
| 1967 | Antigua and St. Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK |
| 1967 | Dominica gains independence from England |
| 1967 | Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne" |
| 1967 | Rio de la Plata Treaty |
| 1966 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB |
| 1966 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of URS |
| 1966 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of U.S. |
| 1966 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT |
| 1965 | "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 375 performances |
| 1965 | Dutch Marijnen government resigns |
| 1965 | France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1964 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 540 performances |
| 1963 | Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 |
| 1962 | South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st U.S. killed |
| 1960 | Oil pipeline from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens |
| 1960 | U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats U.S.S.R. 3-2 en route to gold medal |
| 1959 | Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players |
| 1959 | Boston Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA record with 28 assists Boston Celtics score 173 points against Minneapolis Lakers |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1957 | Mao's speech "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" |
| 1957 | Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X": "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files) |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1956 | Female suffrage in Egypt |
| 1955 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open |
| 1951 | 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms |
| 1950 | General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China |
| 1949 | Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli president |
| 1947 | Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized |
| 1946 | 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York City) |
| 1945 | Battle of U.S. 94 Infantry |
| 1942 | 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1942 | Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese |
| 1942 | J. S. Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun |
| 1939 | Belgian government of Pierlot falls |
| 1939 | English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire |
| 1939 | France recognizes Franco's regime in Spain |
| 1939 | Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes |
| 1938 | Britain and France recognize Franco government in Spain |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket vs. England in 223 minutes |
| 1936 | Willy den Ouden swims world record 100 m free style (1:04.6) |
| 1933 | Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris |
| 1933 | Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists |
| 1932 | 38 die in coal mine explosion Boissevain, Virginia, USA |
| 1930 | Bouvet Island declared a Norwegian dependency |
| 1929 | Turkey signs Litvinov-pact |
| 1927 | For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath |
| 1925 | Hitler's resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich |
| 1925 | Test Cricket debut of Clarrie Grimmett, who took 5-45 and 6-37 vs. England |
| 1924 | Belgium's Theunis government falls |
| 1922 | Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference |
| 1922 | G. B. Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh I/II," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote |
| 1921 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 1921 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 1919 | 1st public performance of Holst's "Planets" |
| 1919 | American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (New York City) |
| 1912 | Lord Kitchener opens Khartoum-El Obeid (Nyala) railway |
| 1908 | Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954) |
| 1908 | Star #46 was added to U.S. flag for Oklahoma |
| 1906 | France and Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides |
| 1901 | NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes |
| 1900 | Battle at Pietershoogte |
| 1900 | Boer General Cronje surrenders to English in Pardenberg, South Africa |
| 1900 | British Labour Party forms |
| 1890 | D Needham and P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 h 39 m), SF; match is draw |
| 1883 | Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine |
| 1881 | Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley |
| 1879 | Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin the artificial sweetener |
| 1877 | U.S. Electoral College declares R. Hayes winner presidential election |
| 1874 | Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds |
| 1873 | Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor |
| 1872 | Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard University |
| 1871 | Meeting of Alabama claims commission |
| 1869 | John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress |
| 1865 | Civil War skirmish near Sturgeon, Missouri |
| 1864 | 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties) |
| 1864 | Near Andersonville Georgia, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter" |
| 1861 | Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland |
| 1861 | U.S. Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing |
| 1861 | Warsaw Massacre: Russians fire on crowd demonstrating against Russia |
| 1854 | Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine |
| 1844 | Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day) |
| 1827 | 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans |
| 1816 | Dutch regain Suriname |
| 1814 | Ludwig von Beethovens 8th Symphony in F, premieres |
| 1813 | 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted |
| 1813 | Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail |
| 1803 | Great fire in Bombay, India |
| 1801 | Washington D.C. placed under Congressional jurisdiction |
| 1713 | French troops bomb Willemstad Curacao |
| 1700 | Pacific Island of New Britain discovered |
| 1696 | English / Welsh nobles lay down Oath of Assn |
| 1678 | Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower |
| 1670 | Jews expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I |
| 1667 | Abraham Crijnssen conquerors Fort Willoughby (Zeelandia), Suriname |
| 1665 | Battle at Elmina, Gold Coast: Vice-Admiral De Ruyter beats English |
| 1594 | Henri IV crowned king of France |
| 1563 | William Byrd is appointed organist at Lincoln Cathedral |
| 1557 | 1st Russian Embassy opens in London, Russia and U.S. sign trade agreement |
| 1531 | Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union |
| 1526 | Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) |
| 837 | 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
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