| 2013 | Turkey's Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan responds to air strikes on Syria, saying Israel's government is waging 'state terrorism' |
| 2013 | A power outage occurs during the Super Bowl XLVII at New Orleans' Superdome; the Baltimore Ravens defeat the San Francisco 49ers 34 - 31 |
| 2012 | The U.S. unemployment rate drops to 8.3%, the lowest in three years after employers added 240,000 jobs in January |
| 2012 | Colorado closes its highways, including the I-70, due to heavy snowfall |
| 2011 | The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that world food prices have reached a record high |
| 2011 | Lawmakers in Nepal vote to elect a new Prime Minister |
| 2010 | Somali pirates seize a North-Korean flagged cargo ship south of Yemen |
| 2002 | Super Bowl XXXVI, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams 20-17 |
| 1998 | Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
| 1998 | New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman |
| 1998 | Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain |
| 1998 | U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20 |
| 1997 | Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York |
| 1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit, Michigan on WKRK 97.1 FM |
| 1995 | STS-63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit |
| 1994 | "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore |
| 1994 | Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok |
| 1994 | President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam |
| 1994 | STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
| 1993 | Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments |
| 1993 | Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California |
| 1992 | Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends |
| 1992 | Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week |
| 1991 | Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1991 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21 |
| 1990 | Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation |
| 1990 | Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race |
| 1990 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center |
| 1989 | Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head |
| 1989 | Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay |
| 1989 | Start 1st Test Cricket, New Zealand vs. Pak, washed out |
| 1987 | Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton |
| 1987 | San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup |
| 1986 | President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident |
| 1985 | "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1985 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1984 | 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched |
| 1983 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| 1982 | Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission |
| 1982 | Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, U.S.S.R. |
| 1982 | John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours |
| 1981 | Australia beats New Zealand 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
| 1981 | Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway |
| 1980 | 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington |
| 1980 | Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy |
| 1979 | "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart |
| 1979 | Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
| 1979 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1979 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 1978 | Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test |
| 1978 | India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445 |
| 1977 | Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1976 | 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia |
| 1975 | Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1974 | "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| 1974 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1973 | Dr. Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 and peaks at #6 |
| 1973 | President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
| 1972 | 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia) |
| 1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1971 | KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1969 | "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 122 performances |
| 1969 | The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO |
| 1967 | "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix |
| 1966 | 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S. |
| 1966 | 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
| 1965 | 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams |
| 1965 | Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture |
| 1965 | Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) |
| 1965 | Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down |
| 1964 | "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold |
| 1964 | Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools |
| 1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1962 | John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm |
| 1962 | President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs |
| 1961 | 6th largest snowfall in New York City history (17.4" (44.2cm)) |
| 1959 | American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65 |
| 1958 | Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart and peaks at #3 |
| 1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| 1956 | Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot |
| 1956 | Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events |
| 1954 | Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32) |
| 1953 | J. Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show |
| 1951 | "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV |
| 1951 | Dick Button wins U.S. skating title for 6th time |
| 1951 | Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle |
| 1951 | Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in New York City |
| 1950 | Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges |
| 1948 | Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US |
| 1947 | -81 degrees F (-63 degrees C), Snag Yukon (North American record) |
| 1947 | 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) |
| 1947 | Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket |
| 1945 | Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin |
| 1945 | Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released |
| 1943 | 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others |
| 1942 | 1st Japanese air raid on Java |
| 1942 | Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942 |
| 1941 | Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and max hours |
| 1938 | Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket vs. England |
| 1933 | 1st interstate legislative conference in U.S. opens, Washington, D.C. |
| 1933 | German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin |
| 1931 | Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex of moronia" |
| 1930 | Vietnamese Communistic Party forms |
| 1930 | William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons |
| 1929 | Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam |
| 1927 | Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal |
| 1924 | Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) |
| 1919 | Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris) |
| 1919 | Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) |
| 1918 | Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service |
| 1917 | U.S. liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed |
| 1916 | Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down |
| 1916 | Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland |
| 1915 | Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal |
| 1913 | 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified |
| 1913 | Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in New York City |
| 1908 | Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 1903 | Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa |
| 1901 | Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra |
| 1900 | Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt |
| 1895 | Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 seconds) |
| 1894 | 1st U.S. steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me |
| 1892 | Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin |
| 1887 | To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act |
| 1882 | Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo |
| 1876 | Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football |
| 1870 | 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed |
| 1869 | Booth theater at 23rd and 6th opens in New York City (Romeo and Juliet) |
| 1867 | Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912) |
| 1865 | Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse |
| 1864 | Sherman's march through Mississippi |
| 1860 | Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture |
| 1855 | Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional |
| 1844 | Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris |
| 1836 | Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York) |
| 1825 | Dutch North Sea coast floods |
| 1815 | World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland |
| 1809 | Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin) |
| 1783 | Spain recognizes U.S. independence |
| 1781 | Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by British |
| 1752 | Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills |
| 1743 | Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants |
| 1740 | Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily |
| 1690 | 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass) |
| 1660 | General Moncks army reaches London |
| 1653 | Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile |
| 1591 | German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau |
| 1576 | Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris |
| 1547 | Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova |
| 1488 | Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros) |
| 1377 | Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term |
| 1377 | Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy |
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