| 2013 | After more than seven weeks of treatment for bronchitis, former U.S. President George H. W. Bush is released from The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas |
| 2013 | UK's oldest music retailer HMV calls in administrators after talks to rescue the company fail; the company which has over 4,500 employees, opened its first shop on Oxford Street in 1921 |
| 2012 | Millions are left without power when a trasformer malfunctions in Bursa, Turkey |
| 2012 | Two survivors are found trapped inside the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Tuscany January 13 |
| 2011 | In Afghanistan, the Taliban drop their ban on education for females due to a 'cultural change' |
| 2011 | American actress Zsa Zsa Gabor undergoes a life-saving operation and has her leg amputated |
| 2010 | A suicide bomber kills 20 people at a market in Afghanistan's Oruzgan Province |
| 2005 | The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's moon Titan |
| 1998 | 100th episode of "Ellen," airs |
| 1998 | Charles Barkley pleads not guilty to an assault charge |
| 1996 | "Holiday" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1996 | "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 97 performances |
| 1996 | Liselotte Neumann wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champions |
| 1995 | 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo |
| 1995 | 16th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 23 awards |
| 1994 | Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m) |
| 1994 | Kathleen Kinmont files for divorce from Lorenzo Lamas |
| 1994 | Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands |
| 1993 | "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 54 performances |
| 1993 | David Letterman announces his show is moving from NBC to CBS |
| 1993 | Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die |
| 1991 | "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1991 | Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as president of Guatemala |
| 1991 | Valentin Pavlov become new premier of U.S.S.R. |
| 1990 | 11th ACE Cable Awards |
| 1990 | Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf |
| 1989 | "Romance/Romance" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 297 performances |
| 1989 | 1,000 muslims burn Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradfort England |
| 1989 | 29 year old French woman gives birth to sextuplets in Paris |
| 1989 | Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped |
| 1987 | Catfish Hunter and Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1986 | Constitution of Guatemala takes effect |
| 1986 | Vinicio Cerezo becomes only 2nd freely elected president of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954 |
| 1985 | 16 indicted by U.S. for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees |
| 1985 | M Navratilova is 3rd to win 100 tennis tournaments (Connors and Evert) |
| 1984 | Madonna 1st sings "Holiday" on American Bandstand |
| 1981 | FCC frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish |
| 1980 | "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens |
| 1980 | Shakuntala Devi, mentally multiplies 2 13-digit #s in 28 sec |
| 1979 | President Carter proposes Martin Luther King's birthday be a holiday |
| 1978 | Sex Pistols' final concert (Winterland, SF) |
| 1976 | "Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC) |
| 1976 | Ted Turner becomes CEO of Atlanta Braves |
| 1975 | Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m |
| 1975 | U.S.S.R. breaks trade agreement with US |
| 1974 | World Football League founded |
| 1973 | Grateful Dead bass player, Phil Lesh, busted on drugs in California |
| 1973 | Superbowl VII: Miami Dolphins beat Washington Red Skins, 14-7 in LA |
| 1973 | Tap dancer Ray Castle measured at 1440 taps/minute on BBC TV |
| 1973 | Superbowl MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S |
| 1972 | "Sanford and Son" starring Redd Foxx premieres on NBC TV |
| 1972 | WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1972 | WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1972 | WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs |
| 1969 | 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers |
| 1969 | Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later |
| 1968 | Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback |
| 1967 | 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF |
| 1967 | Earthquake in Sicily kills 231 |
| 1967 | New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
| 1967 | Sonny and Cher release "Beat Goes On" |
| 1966 | David Bowie releases his 1st record 'Can't Help Thinking About Me' |
| 1964 | 14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston |
| 1964 | Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs. England, 21 maiden overs in a row |
| 1964 | Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination |
| 1963 | George C. Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" |
| 1962 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30 |
| 1961 | Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL |
| 1960 | Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded |
| 1960 | U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant |
| 1956 | Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad |
| 1956 | Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti" |
| 1955 | Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1954 | New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio marries actress Marilyn Monroe |
| 1954 | Sandy Wilson's musical "Boyfriend," premieres in London |
| 1953 | Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica," premieres in Manchester |
| 1953 | WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Yugoslavia elects it's 1st president (Marshal Tito) |
| 1952 | "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV |
| 1952 | Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends |
| 1952 | Snow storm in Sierra Nevada kills 26 |
| 1951 | NFL Pro Bowl: 1st since 1942, Americans beat Nationals 28-27 |
| 1950 | "As the Girls Go" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 420 performances |
| 1950 | U.S. recalls all consular officials from China |
| 1949 | Black/Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die |
| 1946 | 2 jetties collapse in Ganges-160 Hindu pilgrims are crushed |
| 1944 | Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow |
| 1943 | Alex Smart (Mont) is 1st NHLer to score hat trick in his 1st game |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II |
| 1943 | Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo |
| 1940 | Commissioner Kenesaw Landis gives free agency to 91 Detroit Tigers |
| 1940 | NFL Pro Bowl: Green Bay beats NFL All-Stars 16-7 |
| 1939 | All commercial ferry service to East Bay ends |
| 1939 | Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica |
| 1938 | National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY) |
| 1936 | L M (Mario) Giannini elected president of Bank of America |
| 1935 | Oil pipeline Iraq-Mediterranean goes into use |
| 1932 | 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in U.S. installed, Hialeah |
| 1932 | Horse racing legend Eddie Arcaro won his 1st race |
| 1929 | Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign |
| 1927 | Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs New York Rangers |
| 1925 | Alban Berg's atonale opera "Wozzeck," premieres in Berlin |
| 1924 | Allies direct Fiume (Rijeka) in Italy |
| 1919 | John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge McQuade buy New York Giants |
| 1918 | Finland and U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar |
| 1916 | Dutch South Sea dike cracks |
| 1914 | Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords |
| 1912 | Raymond Poincare becomes premier of France |
| 1909 | Coop. Far. Central Management forms |
| 1905 | Hubbell, Shubert and Smith's musical "Fontana," premieres in New York City |
| 1900 | Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca," premieres in Rome |
| 1898 | Joe Darling hits the 1st six in Tests (out of the ground) |
| 1897 | 6,960-m (22,834') Cerro Aconcagua (Argentina) 1st climbed |
| 1874 | I D Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Miss legislature |
| 1873 | "Celluloid" registered as a trademark |
| 1873 | P B S Pinchback elected to Senate |
| 1868 | North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh |
| 1868 | South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority |
| 1864 | Battle of Cosby Creek, TN |
| 1864 | General Sherman begins his march to the South |
| 1863 | Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche Louisiana |
| 1858 | French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed |
| 1847 | Conspiracy in New Mexico against US |
| 1814 | King of Denmark cedes Norway to King of Sweden by treaty of Kiel |
| 1813 | Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in U.S. (NY) |
| 1799 | Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets |
| 1799 | King of Naples flees before advancing French armies |
| 1794 | Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife |
| 1785 | Mozart completes "Dissonantenkwartet" (opus 10) |
| 1784 | Revolutionary War ends; Congress ratifies Treaty of Paris |
| 1783 | Congress ratifies peace treaty between U.S. and England |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow |
| 1739 | England and Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo |
| 1724 | Spanish King Philip V abdicates throne |
| 1717 | German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam |
| 1699 | Massachusetts holds day of fasting for wrongly persecuting "witches" |
| 1690 | Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany |
| 1659 | Battle at Elvas: Portuguese beat Spanish |
| 1641 | United East Indian Company conquerors city of Malakka, 7,000 killed |
| 1639 | 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford |
| 1639 | Rodger Ludlow publishes"Fundamental Orders of Connecticut" |
| 1601 | Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome |
| 1526 | Charles V and Francis I sign Treaty of Madrid |
| 1526 | Francis I forced to give up claims in Burgundy, Italy and Flanders |
| 1236 | English king Henry III marries Eleonora of Provence |
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