| 2013 | Owen Paterson, UK Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, convenes with British retailers and the Food Standards Agency to determine how "beef" products containing horsemeat were sold in supermarkets |
| 2013 | Germany's Federal Minister of Education and Research, Annette Schavan, resigns after she is stripped of her doctorate degree for plagiarism by the University of Dusseldorf |
| 2012 | As a cost-saving measure during bankcruptcy, Eastman Kodak Co. reports they will no longer make digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames |
| 2012 | The U.S. Department of Defense produces new guidelines that remove restrictions on the use of women in combat |
| 2011 | WikiLeaks cables claiming Saudi Arabia has exaggerated its crude oil reserves by 40% is published by The Guardian |
| 2010 | Former Phillipine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and 196 others are charged with murder relating to the Maguindanao massacre, November 2009 |
| 2002 | XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City |
| 1998 | 6th annual ESPY Awards |
| 1998 | Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze |
| 1997 | 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds |
| 1997 | 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland |
| 1997 | Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am |
| 1997 | LG Senior Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational |
| 1997 | Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am |
| 1997 | Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games |
| 1996 | WYNY-FM in New York City changes calls to WKTU-FM |
| 1995 | "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 340 performances |
| 1995 | Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) |
| 1994 | Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat |
| 1993 | Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
| 1992 | "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 29 performances |
| 1992 | 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando |
| 1992 | Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ |
| 1992 | Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
| 1992 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) |
| 1992 | NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113 |
| 1992 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary |
| 1991 | "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46 |
| 1991 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
| 1991 | Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him |
| 1991 | U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| 1991 | Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
| 1990 | "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV |
| 1990 | Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13) |
| 1990 | Galileo flies by Venus |
| 1990 | Namibia's constitution ratified |
| 1989 | Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 1989 | Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
| 1988 | 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis |
| 1987 | Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
| 1987 | New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
| 1986 | 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas |
| 1986 | Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) |
| 1986 | Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
| 1986 | Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title |
| 1986 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt |
| 1986 | West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
| 1985 | Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1984 | "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 204 performances |
| 1983 | Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
| 1982 | 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington |
| 1980 | Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game |
| 1979 | 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey |
| 1979 | ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
| 1979 | Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
| 1979 | Nigeria amends constitution |
| 1976 | Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
| 1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
| 1974 | "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41 |
| 1974 | "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 |
| 1974 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 1974 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 1972 | British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
| 1971 | Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
| 1971 | Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
| 1971 | Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 and causes over $ B damage |
| 1971 | Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1969 | KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
| 1966 | Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
| 1964 | 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) |
| 1964 | 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1964 | GI Joe character created |
| 1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 India vs. England on debut at Delhi |
| 1964 | New York City news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV |
| 1963 | 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
| 1963 | 7th largest snowfall in New York City history (42.4 cm, 16.7") |
| 1962 | Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo |
| 1960 | AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
| 1959 | Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 |
| 1956 | -5 degrees F (15 degrees C) in Sicily |
| 1956 | KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1956 | R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
| 1955 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law |
| 1955 | U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO |
| 1954 | Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy |
| 1953 | "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication |
| 1953 | WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA |
| 1951 | St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 |
| 1950 | Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists |
| 1948 | WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia |
| 1946 | Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
| 1945 | WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
| 1944 | U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
| 1943 | German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
| 1943 | Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle |
| 1943 | NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears |
| 1943 | Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
| 1942 | Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S. |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
| 1942 | Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" |
| 1941 | British troops conquer El Agheila |
| 1941 | Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) |
| 1940 | Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1939 | Belgian Spaak government falls |
| 1935 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1935 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1934 | -14.3 degrees F (-25.7 degrees C), coldest day in New York City |
| 1934 | -51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) |
| 1934 | Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania) |
| 1933 | -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state record) |
| 1932 | America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
| 1932 | U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York |
| 1929 | U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
| 1926 | Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools |
| 1925 | German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
| 1925 | Haifa Technion (Israel), opens |
| 1924 | Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR |
| 1923 | Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
| 1922 | Italian government of Bonomi falls |
| 1922 | Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii |
| 1920 | International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard |
| 1920 | Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs |
| 1918 | Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va |
| 1918 | Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris |
| 1916 | Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
| 1916 | NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) |
| 1913 | 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die |
| 1912 | U.S. Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion |
| 1909 | 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
| 1909 | 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio |
| 1906 | Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising |
| 1904 | Japan declares war on Russia |
| 1900 | Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup |
| 1895 | 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3) |
| 1895 | Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts |
| 1893 | Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud |
| 1893 | Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan |
| 1891 | 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento |
| 1886 | President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence |
| 1885 | 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii |
| 1871 | Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
| 1870 | U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service |
| 1867 | Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state |
| 1863 | Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America |
| 1861 | Tennessee votes against secession |
| 1861 | Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states |
| 1849 | Roman Republic declared |
| 1825 | House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president |
| 1822 | American Indian Society organizes |
| 1807 | French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon |
| 1801 | France and Austrian sign Peace of Luneville |
| 1799 | USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
| 1788 | Austria declares war on Russia |
| 1775 | English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion |
| 1744 | Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews) |
| 1742 | British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford |
| 1682 | Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London |
| 1674 | English reconquer New York from Netherlands |
| 1667 | Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty |
| 1621 | Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) |
| 1574 | Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht |
| 1554 | Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated |
| 1540 | The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester) |
| 1537 | Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England |
| 1499 | France and Venice sign treaty against Milan |
| 1267 | Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps |
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