| 1997 | 54th Golden Globes: English Patient, Brenda Blethyn and Geoffrey Rush |
| 1997 | Cerebral Palsy telethon |
| 1997 | Michelle McGann wins LPGA Healthsouth Inaugural |
| 1996 | NHL approves move of Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix |
| 1995 | Jean-Claude Juncker (28) sworn in as premier of Luxembourg |
| 1994 | -20 degrees F (-29 degrees C) (5:32 AM) coldest day ever recorded in Cleveland Ohio |
| 1994 | -36 degrees F (-38 degrees C) in New Whiteland, Indiana (state record) |
| 1993 | Israel recognizes PLO as no longer criminal |
| 1993 | Oakland A's unveil new elephant logo |
| 1993 | Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA |
| 1993 | STS-54 (Endeavour) lands |
| 1992 | "City of Angels" closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 878 performances |
| 1992 | Cerebral Palsy telethon raises 23,500,000 |
| 1992 | IBM announces a nearly $5B loss for 1992 |
| 1992 | Nature Boy Ric Flair becomes WWF champ at Royal Rumble |
| 1992 | Rowdy Roddy Piper beats Mountie to become WWF Intercontinental Champ |
| 1991 | 42nd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 11-5 at Chicago |
| 1991 | 48th Golden Globes: Dances with Wolves |
| 1991 | Eastern Airlines shuts down operation |
| 1991 | Jumbo Tsuruta beats Stan Hansen to win All Japan Triple Crown title |
| 1991 | Sergeant Slaughter defeats Ultimate Warrior for WWF championship belt |
| 1990 | Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, vs. Australia at Adelaide |
| 1989 | President Reagan pardons George Steinbrenner for illegal funds for Nixon |
| 1988 | "48 Hours" premiers on CBS-TV |
| 1987 | Guy Hunt becomes Alabama's 1st Republican governor since 1874 |
| 1986 | Cerebral Palsy telethon |
| 1986 | Israeli premier Simon Peres visits Netherlands |
| 1986 | Spain recognizes Israel |
| 1985 | "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen peaked at #9 |
| 1985 | 4 die in a car and train crash in Buda Ill |
| 1984 | Francesco Moser bicycles world record time: 50,808 km |
| 1984 | California Supreme Court rejects quadriplegic Elizabeth Bouvia, who wants to starve herself to death in a public hospital |
| 1983 | Klaus Barbie, SS chief of Lyon in Nazi-France, arrested in Bolivia |
| 1982 | Aust-WI one-day game that produced a Privy Council libel case |
| 1982 | Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher |
| 1981 | Muhammad Ali talks a despondent 21 year old out of committing suicide |
| 1981 | U.S. and Iran sign agreement to release 52 American hostages |
| 1979 | John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison |
| 1978 | Eddie Mathews elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1978 | Judge William H Webster appointed head of FBI |
| 1977 | Ernie Banks elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1977 | President Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) |
| 1977 | World's largest crowd-12.7 million-for Indian religious festival |
| 1975 | 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq |
| 1975 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown |
| 1974 | Belgium government of Leburton falls |
| 1974 | Notre Dame beats UCLA, ends NCAA-record 88-game basketball win streak |
| 1972 | Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1971 | "No, No Nanette" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 861 performances |
| 1971 | 24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston |
| 1971 | Beatles' "Helter Skelter" is played at Charles Manson trial |
| 1971 | NHL Writers' Association renamed Professional Hockey Writers' Association |
| 1970 | Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest |
| 1970 | Nixon nominates G Harold Carswell to Supreme Court (fails) |
| 1970 | UCLA fires Angela Davis for being a communist |
| 1969 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25 |
| 1969 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1969 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7 |
| 1968 | WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) |
| 1966 | Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister |
| 1966 | Neil Simons, Coleman and Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres |
| 1966 | Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine," premieres in London |
| 1964 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24 |
| 1964 | KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | 1st episode for "Dick Van Dyke Show" is filmed |
| 1960 | Eisenhower and Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact |
| 1958 | Canadian Football Council renamed Canadian Football League |
| 1957 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1956 | Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field |
| 1955 | "Millionaire" TV program premieres on CBS |
| 1955 | "Scrabble" debuts on board game market |
| 1955 | 1st presidential news conference filmed for TV (Eisenhower) |
| 1953 | Jesse Owens named Illinois Athletic Commission secretary |
| 1952 | NFL takes control of New York Yankees |
| 1952 | PGA approves allowing black participants |
| 1950 | Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Canada CF-100 military plane |
| 1947 | SS Himera runs aground at Athens, kills 392 |
| 1943 | Joint Chiefs of Staff decide on invasion in Sicily |
| 1942 | Japanese forces invade Burma |
| 1942 | Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers |
| 1941 | British offensive in Eritrea |
| 1941 | British troops occupies Kassalaf Sudan |
| 1939 | Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec |
| 1938 | GM began mass production of diesel engines |
| 1937 | Cy Young, Tris Speaker and Nap Lajorie elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1937 | Millionaire Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h28m25s) |
| 1935 | KLM begins flight path between Curaeao and Aruba |
| 1934 | Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement |
| 1932 | Charlie Conacher becomes 1st Toronto Maple Leaf to score 5 goals in a game, 1st coming at 7 seconds of game |
| 1929 | Acadia National Park, Maine established |
| 1929 | Clas Thunberg skates world record 500m in 42.8 sec |
| 1927 | British government decides to send troops to China |
| 1925 | -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Van Buren, Maine (state record) |
| 1923 | WMC-AM in Memphis Tennessee begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | Geological survey says U.S. oil supply would be depleted in 20 years |
| 1921 | Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sign Pact of Union |
| 1920 | Alexandre Millerand forms French government |
| 1920 | U.S. Senate votes against membership in League of Nations |
| 1919 | "Tidal wave" of molasses 15 m high x 25 m wide kills dozens, Boston |
| 1918 | Soviets disallows a Constitution Assembly |
| 1917 | Silvertown Essex's ammunition factory explodes; 300 die |
| 1915 | 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die |
| 1915 | Neon Tube sign patented by George Claude |
| 1913 | Raymond Poincare installed as president of France |
| 1910 | Germany and Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty |
| 1910 | National Institute of Arts and Letters incorporated by Congress |
| 1909 | Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in New York City |
| 1906 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Und Pippa Tanzt!," premieres in Berlin |
| 1903 | 1st regular transatlantic radio broadcast between U.S. and England |
| 1903 | New bicycle race "Tour de France" announced |
| 1899 | Anglo-Egyptian Sudan forms |
| 1898 | Brown defeats Harvard 6-0 in 1st intercollegiate hockey game |
| 1886 | Aurora Ski Club, 1st in U.S., founded in Minnesota |
| 1885 | Battle at Abu Klea Sudan, 800-1000 killed |
| 1884 | Jules Massenet's opera "Manon," premieres in Paris |
| 1865 | NV Suriname Bank established |
| 1865 | Union occupies Fort Anderson, NC |
| 1863 | General Mieroslawski appointed dictator of Poland |
| 1862 | Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) |
| 1861 | Georgia becomes 5th state to secede |
| 1861 | MS troops take Ft. Massachusetts an Ship Island |
| 1853 | Napoleon III marries Eugenie de Montijo |
| 1853 | Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," premieres in Rome |
| 1840 | Antarctica discovered, Charles Wilkes expedition (U.S. claim) |
| 1839 | Aden conquered by British East India Company |
| 1833 | Charles Darwin reaches Straits Ponsonby, Fireland |
| 1829 | Johann von Goethe's "Faust, Part 1," premieres |
| 1825 | Ezra Daggett and nephew Thomas Kensett patent food storage in tin cans |
| 1810 | Overnight temp at Portsmouth, New Hampshire drops 50 degrees F (10 degrees C) |
| 1808 | Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law |
| 1806 | Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope |
| 1795 | Democratic revolution in Amsterdam ends oligarchy |
| 1793 | French King Louis XVI sentenced to death |
| 1770 | Battle of Golden Hill (Lower Manhattan) |
| 1746 | Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Stirling |
| 1714 | Richard Steele publishes "Crisis," defending Hanoverian success |
| 1668 | King Louis XIV and Emperor Leopold I sign treaty dividing Spain |
| 1493 | France cedes Roussillon and Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona |
| 1419 | French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War |
| 973 | Pope Benedictus VI elected |
| 379 | Theodosius installed as co-emperor of East Roman Empire |
