| 1999 | Earthquake kills about 1,185 in Armenia, Colombia |
| 1998 | "Grease," closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 1,503 performance |
| 1998 | "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," closes at St. James Theater New York City |
| 1998 | Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement |
| 1998 | Helen Alfredsson wins Office Depot LPGA tournament |
| 1998 | Spice Girl Victoria Adams, aka Posh Spice, and soccer David Beckham gets engaged |
| 1998 | Superbowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 |
| 1998 | Super Bowl XXXII, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 31-24 |
| 1997 | 71st Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beat Mary Pierce (62 62) |
| 1995 | Jacques Santer succeeds Jacques Delors as chairman of Euro Committee |
| 1994 | Australia beat South Africa 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1994 | Mine fire at Asansol India, kills 55 |
| 1994 | U.S. space probe Clementine launched |
| 1994 | Accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy, Michael Jackson settles a civil lawsuit out of court |
| 1993 | 20th American Music Award: Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey win |
| 1993 | Puerto Rico adds English as its 2nd official language |
| 1993 | Sears announces it is closing its catalog sales department after 97 years |
| 1992 | 66th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats M Fernandez (62 63) |
| 1992 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m in 36.41" |
| 1992 | Hubble space telescope optics finds NGC3862/3C264 |
| 1991 | Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer to score 50 goals in less than 50 games (49) |
| 1991 | Manuel Noriega is given access to assets frozen by U.S. government |
| 1991 | Mark Waugh scores ton in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. England Adelaide |
| 1991 | Soap opera "Generation's" last episode after a 2 year run |
| 1990 | Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel and crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die |
| 1990 | Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail |
| 1990 | West-Europe's strongest hurricane |
| 1989 | Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission |
| 1989 | Michael Jordan scores his 10,000th NBA point in his 5th season |
| 1989 | New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II |
| 1988 | 15th American Music Award: Anita Baker, Paul Simon and Whitney Houston |
| 1988 | George Harrison releases "When We Was Fab" |
| 1988 | Longest winless streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (15 games) |
| 1988 | Ramsewak Shankar sworn in as President of Suriname |
| 1988 | Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair |
| 1987 | 75th Australian Mens Tennis: S Edberg beats Pat Cash (63 64 36 57 63) |
| 1987 | Superbowl XXI: New York Giants beat Denver Broncos, 39-20 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Phil Simms, New York Giants, quarterback |
| 1986 | General Tito Okello's government flees Kampala Uganda |
| 1985 | "Black and Blue," premieres in Paris |
| 1985 | "We are the World" is recorded by Pop stars in LA |
| 1985 | Test debut of Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand at Auckland (2-105) |
| 1983 | China's supreme court commutes Chiang Ch'ing's death sentence to life |
| 1983 | Infrared telescope satellite launched into polar orbit |
| 1983 | Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie arrested in Bolivia |
| 1982 | 9th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers win |
| 1981 | 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US |
| 1981 | Mao's widow Jiang Qing sentenced to death |
| 1981 | Superbowl XV: Oakland Raiders beat Philadelphia Eagles, 27-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Jim Plunkett, Oakland, quarterback |
| 1980 | Bani Sadr elected president of Iran |
| 1980 | Dutch Government demands boycott of Olympics |
| 1980 | Highest speed attained by a warship, 167 kph, USN hovercraft |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney is released from Tokyo jail and deported |
| 1979 | 22.2-km Oshimizu railroad tunnel holed through, central Honshu, Japan |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff |
| 1978 | Muriel Humphrey (D-Mn) appointed to fill late husband's Senate seat |
| 1978 | Padres trade pitcher Dave Tomlin and $125,000 to Rangers for Gaylord Perry (He wins 1978 Cy Young Award) |
| 1976 | Surinder Amarnath scores 124 on Test debut Ind vs. New Zealand Auckland |
| 1975 | 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st |
| 1975 | Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman |
| 1974 | Bulent Ecevit forms government in Turkey |
| 1974 | Christian Barnard transplants 1st human heart without removal of old |
| 1974 | Ray Kroc, CEO of McDonald's, buys San Diego Padres for $12 million |
| 1972 | 25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota |
| 1972 | 7' Ohio State center Luke Witte is stomped in face during a brawl in a game with Minnesota |
| 1971 | Charles Manson and 3 women followers convicted of Tate-LaBianca murders |
| 1971 | Himachal Pradesh becomes 18th Indian state |
| 1971 | Military coup in Uganda under General Idi Amin Dada |
| 1971 | Philadelphia mint's 1st trial strike of Eisenhower dollar |
| 1971 | WHMB TV channel 40 in Indianapolis, IN (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres |
| 1969 | US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris |
| 1968 | Risse St. in Bronx named |
| 1968 | Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City |
| 1966 | WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, New Jersey (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1964 | Beatles 1st U.S. #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) |
| 1964 | Echo 2, U.S. communications satellite launched |
| 1961 | 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy) |
| 1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Naples Pro-Am Golf Tournament |
| 1961 | Military coup in El Salvador |
| 1961 | Walt Disney's "101 Dalmations" released |
| 1959 | 1st transcontinental coml jet flight (American) (LA to New York for $301) |
| 1959 | Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council |
| 1957 | FBI arrests Jack and Myra Sobel, charged with spying for U.S.S.R. |
| 1956 | 96.5 cm (38.0") of rainfall, Kilauea Plantation, HI (state record) |
| 1955 | Jill Kinmont hits a tree and breaks her back in Snow Cup Ski Race |
| 1955 | Russia ends state of war with Germany |
| 1955 | United States and Panama sign canal treaty |
| 1955 | Columbia U scientists develope an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 300 years |
| 1953 | WABI TV channel 5 in Bangor, ME (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Yuri Sergejev skates world record 500m in 40.9 sec |
| 1952 | Test debut of Richie Benaud, vs. West Indies at the SCG |
| 1951 | U.N. begins counter offensive in Korea |
| 1950 | 73 degrees F (23 degrees C) highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in January |
| 1949 | 1st Emmy Awards: Shirley Dinsdale and Pantomime Quiz (KTLA) win |
| 1949 | 1st Israeli election - Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins |
| 1946 | Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosis," premieres in Zurich |
| 1946 | United Mine Workers union rejoins American Federation of Labor |
| 1945 | Dan Topping, Del Webb and Larry MacPhail purchase New York Yankees for $2.8 mil |
| 1945 | Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st U.S. city to fluoridate its water |
| 1945 | Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths |
| 1945 | New York Yankees sold by Ruppert estate to Larry MacPhail, Dan Topping, & |
| 1945 | West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma |
| 1942 | Lt General Rommels African corps reaches Msus |
| 1940 | Nazi decrees establishment of Jewish ghetto in Lodz Poland |
| 1939 | Earthquake hits Chillan Chile, 10,000 killed |
| 1939 | Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1938 | Ian Hay's "Bachelor Born," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | 1st broadcast of Soap Opera "Guiding Light" on NBC radio |
| 1937 | Miami-to-Tampa bus overturned in a canal, kills 13 |
| 1932 | 1st commencement exercises at Hebrew U in Jerusalem |
| 1932 | Bradman scores 167 NSW vs. Victoria, 224 minutes, 22 fours |
| 1929 | Bradman scores 340* for NSW vs. Victoria, 488 minutes, 38 fours |
| 1924 | 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France |
| 1921 | Karel Capek's "RUR," premieres in Prague |
| 1919 | Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later |
| 1918 | Russia declared a republic of Soviets |
| 1916 | Montenegro surrenders to Austria-Hungary |
| 1915 | Alexander Graham Bell in New York calls Thomas Watson in SF |
| 1915 | Giordano, Sardou and Moreau's opera "Madame Sans Gane" premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (New York to SF) |
| 1910 | 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf vs. Eng) |
| 1910 | Children initiate idea of planting trees in Jerusalem |
| 1909 | Richard Strauss' premier of "Electricity" in Dresden |
| 1908 | John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp |
| 1907 | Julia Ward Howe is 1st woman elected to National Inst of Arts and Letters |
| 1906 | Del Valle Inclans "El Marques de Bradomin," premieres in Madrid |
| 1905 | World's largest diamond, Cullinan - 3106 carets, found in South Africa |
| 1904 | 179 die in coal mine explosion at Cheswick, Pennsylvania |
| 1904 | J. M. Synge's "Ruders to the Sea," premieres in Dublin |
| 1902 | Aleksandr Skriabin's 2nd Symphony in C premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1894 | James J. Corbett KOs Charley Mitchell in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1890 | National Afro-American League forms in Chicago |
| 1890 | Nellie Bly beats Phileas Fogg's time around world by 8 days (72 days) |
| 1890 | United Mine Workers of America forms |
| 1885 | Vincent d'Indy's "Saugefleurie," premieres |
| 1882 | Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms |
| 1877 | Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden |
| 1875 | Anti-slavery society forms (NY) |
| 1870 | Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows |
| 1865 | CSS Shenandoah arrives in Melbourne, Australia |
| 1863 | Battle of Kinston, NC |
| 1863 | General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac |
| 1858 | Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" 1st played, at wedding of Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria, to crown prince of Prussia |
| 1856 | Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers and Indians |
| 1854 | Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Bednost ne Porok," premieres in Moscow |
| 1851 | Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron) |
| 1844 | Recontre between Reps Weller and Shriver, U.S. House of Representative |
| 1835 | Opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris |
| 1835 | Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I Puritani," premieres in Paris |
| 1825 | 1st U.S. engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, New York |
| 1817 | Rossini's opera "La Cenerentola" premieres in Rome |
| 1802 | Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
| 1799 | 1st U.S. patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont |
| 1787 | Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass |
| 1775 | Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) |
| 1721 | Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy |
| 1579 | Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic |
| 1565 | Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army |
| 1554 | Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary |
| 1533 | England's King Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn (approximate date) |
| 1494 | Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples |
| 1348 | Earthquake destroys Villach, killing 5,000 |
| 1327 | King Edward III accedes to British throne |
| 1139 | Godfried II the Young becomes duke of Brabant |
| 844 | Gregory IV begins and ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
