| 1994 | Dow Jones closes above 3,900 for 1st time (3,914.48) |
| 1993 | 14th annual star-athon $24,000,000 |
| 1993 | Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed |
| 1993 | Soyuz TM-16 launches |
| 1993 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Davis |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre St. Denis, Montreal |
| 1990 | Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon |
| 1989 | 1st reported case of AIDS transmitted by heterosexual oral sex |
| 1988 | 1st WWF Royal Rumble - Jim Duggan wins |
| 1988 | 76th Australian Mens Tennis: M Wilander beats P Cash (63 67 36 61 86) |
| 1988 | 9th ACE Cable Awards |
| 1988 | Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1988 | Cerebral Palsy telethon |
| 1987 | 61st Australian Womens Tennis: H Mandlikova beat M Navratilova (75 76) |
| 1986 | 43th Golden Globes: Whoopi Goldberg, Color Purple win |
| 1986 | New York Islander Mike Bossy scores his 1,000th point |
| 1986 | South Yemen Premier Haydar Bakr al-Attas becomes interim-president |
| 1986 | Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons |
| 1985 | 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched |
| 1984 | Apple Computer unveils its Macintosh personal computer |
| 1983 | Hulk Hogan pins Iron Sheik for World Wrestling Federation title |
| 1982 | Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback |
| 1982 | Superbowl XVI: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 26-21 in Pontiac, Michigan |
| 1981 | Islanders scored 5 power play goals against Nordiques |
| 1981 | Kim Hughes scores 213 vs. India at Adelaide |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1978 | 31st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 3-2 (OT) at Buffalo |
| 1978 | Carter Executive Order on Intelligence |
| 1977 | 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid |
| 1976 | Cleveland Cavaliers biggest margin victory-43 pts (beat Milwaukee 132-89) |
| 1976 | George Foreman KOs Ron Lyle in 5th round of a real slugfest |
| 1975 | "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV |
| 1975 | Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England |
| 1973 | Warren Spahn is elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1972 | WRIP (now WDSI) TV channel 61 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast |
| 1971 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-6 |
| 1970 | 3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana |
| 1970 | Valeri Muratov skates world record 500m (38.99 sec) |
| 1969 | Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa |
| 1969 | Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency |
| 1966 | WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million |
| 1964 | Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking |
| 1964 | 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes |
| 1963 | Buddy Rogers and Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ and Thesz becomes NWA champ |
| 1962 | 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany |
| 1962 | Brian Epstein signs management contract with the Beatles |
| 1962 | Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright/Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | Edward Albee's "American Dream," premieres in New York City |
| 1961 | Lazard Brothers Ltd draw a check for $334,867,807.68 |
| 1960 | Algeria uprises against French president De Gaulle |
| 1959 | "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances |
| 1959 | Dmitri Shostakovich's comedy "Cheryomushk," premieres in Moscow |
| 1959 | WHCT TV channel 18 in Hartford, CT (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | After warming to 100,000,000 degrees, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion |
| 1956 | 96.5 cm precipitation at Kilauea Plantation, Hawaii (state record) |
| 1954 | BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Don Carter |
| 1954 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
| 1952 | 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly New York Yankees |
| 1952 | Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base |
| 1951 | Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns |
| 1950 | Jackie Robinson signs highest contract ($35,000) in Dodger history |
| 1948 | "Music in My Heart" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 124 performances |
| 1948 | Australia all out 674 vs. India (Bradman 201, Hassett 198*) |
| 1948 | Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) |
| 1947 | NFL adds 5th official (back judge) and allows sudden death in playoffs |
| 1945 | Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg |
| 1944 | Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy |
| 1943 | Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death |
| 1943 | Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| 1942 | Musical "Star and Garter," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | British troops march into Abyssinia |
| 1939 | 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile |
| 1939 | Eddie Collins, Willie Keeler and George Sisler elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1939 | Spanish government moves to Figueras |
| 1936 | Benny Goodman and orchestra record "Stompin' at the Savoy" on Victor Records |
| 1935 | 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale," is sold by Kruger Brewing Co |
| 1933 | Noel Coward's "Design for Living," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | J E Mills scores 117 on Test Cricket debut, New Zealand vs. England, Wellington |
| 1930 | Stewie Dempster scores New Zealand's 1st Test century |
| 1925 | Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island |
| 1925 | Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden |
| 1924 | Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union |
| 1924 | Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad |
| 1923 | Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established |
| 1922 | -54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Danbury, Wisconsin (state record) |
| 1922 | Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa (not an Eskimo) |
| 1922 | Lehman Caves National Monument established |
| 1915 | German-British sea battle at Doggersbank and Helgoland |
| 1914 | Opera "Madeleine," premieres in New York City |
| 1913 | Franz Kafka stops working on "Amerika"; it will never be finished |
| 1908 | General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts |
| 1902 | Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA |
| 1901 | 1st games played in baseball's American League |
| 1901 | Emily Hobhouse view lord Kitcheners concentration camp at Bloemfontein |
| 1900 | Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
| 1900 | Newcastle Badminton Club, world's oldest, forms in England |
| 1899 | Belgium government of Vandenpeereboom forms |
| 1899 | Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan |
| 1892 | Battle at Mengo, Uganda: French missionaries attack British missionaries |
| 1875 | Camille Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre," premieres |
| 1874 | General J van Swieten conquerors Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die |
| 1874 | Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1862 | Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza |
| 1861 | Arsenal at Augusta, Georgia seized by Confederacy |
| 1861 | Federal troops from Ft. Monroe are sent to Ft. Pikens |
| 1848 | James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California |
| 1847 | 1,500 New Mexican Indians and Mexicans defeated by U.S. Col Price |
| 1839 | Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society |
| 1764 | Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire |
| 1742 | German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor |
| 1722 | Czar Peter the Great begins civil system |
| 1722 | Edward Wigglesworth appointed 1st U.S. divinity professor (Harvard) |
| 1679 | King Charles II disbands English parliament |
| 1659 | Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris |
| 1656 | 1st Jewish doctor in U.S., Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland |
| 1652 | Duke of Orleans joins Fronde rebels |
| 1644 | Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win |
| 1639 | Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders |
| 1634 | Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor |
| 1616 | Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver |
| 1613 | Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized |
| 1568 | Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire |
| 1568 | In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw |
| 1556 | Heavy earthquake strikes Shaaxi China, kills 830,000 |
| 1534 | Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy |
| 1458 | Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary |
| 1328 | King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen |
| 1118 | Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II |
| 1076 | Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII |
| 817 | St. Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV |
| 772 | Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
