| 2013 | A small pyrotechnics show ignited foram sound insulating material in the ceiling of Kiss, a crowded, windowless nightclub in southern Brazil's city of Santa Maria, killing 237 partygoers and injuring 169 others |
| 2013 | Serbian tennis pro Novak Djokovic achieves a four-set victory over opponent Andy Murray, winning the men's singles at the 2013 Australian Open |
| 2012 | For the first time in nearly 17 years, Spain's unemployment number passes five million |
| 2012 | The main opposition leader of the Democratic Republic of the congo condemns parliamentary election as rigged; he calls for a strike in protest of his house arrest |
| 2011 | The United Nations Human Rights Council criticizes Burma for its human rights record |
| 2011 | Japan experiences its fifth outbreak of bird flu, forcing the slaughter of 150,000 chickens |
| 2010 | Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, unveils a new invention, a tablet PC called the iPad, at a press conference in San Francisco |
| 1998 | Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City) Tram, injuring 10 |
| 1998 | WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics and Detroit Shock |
| 1998 | First Lady Hilary Clinton blames charges that President Clinton had affairs part of a vast right-wing conspiracy |
| 1997 | "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City |
| 1997 | 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton and Alanis Morissette win |
| 1996 | 15 day old siamese twins separated - Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies |
| 1996 | 70th Australian Womens Tennis: Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61) |
| 1996 | Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop |
| 1996 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1996 | Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day |
| 1996 | Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open |
| 1996 | Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs. Jamaica at Kingston |
| 1995 | 69th Australian Womens Tennis: Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62) |
| 1994 | "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1994 | Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras |
| 1994 | Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites |
| 1993 | DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 |
| 1992 | "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| 1992 | 19th American Music Award: C and C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win |
| 1992 | Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee |
| 1992 | President candidate Bill Clinton (D) and Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair |
| 1991 | 79th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats I Lendl (16 64 64 64) |
| 1991 | Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands |
| 1991 | Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU |
| 1991 | Superbowl XXV: New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, RB |
| 1990 | 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64) |
| 1989 | German war criminals Fischer and Aus der Funten freed |
| 1989 | Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 1989 | Okla's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Ok grad student |
| 1988 | Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to U.S. Supreme Court |
| 1987 | Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose and Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team |
| 1986 | 13th American Music Award: Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis and C Gayle |
| 1985 | "Doug Henning and His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York after 60 perf |
| 1985 | 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth |
| 1985 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 1985 | Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25) |
| 1985 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 22-14 |
| 1984 | John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album |
| 1984 | Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak |
| 1984 | Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial |
| 1983 | World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid |
| 1982 | "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City for 747 performances |
| 1982 | Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland |
| 1982 | Philadelphia trades Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus |
| 1982 | Roberto S. Cordova installed as president of Honduras |
| 1982 | West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
| 1980 | "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 45 performances |
| 1980 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 37-27 |
| 1979 | 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda |
| 1979 | Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8) |
| 1977 | 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV |
| 1977 | President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000) |
| 1976 | "Laverne and Shirley" spinoff from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1976 | 9th ABA All-Star Game: Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver |
| 1976 | Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara |
| 1976 | Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia |
| 1974 | "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| 1973 | UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record) |
| 1973 | U.S. and Vietnam sign cease-fire, ending longest U.S. war and military draft |
| 1973 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1973 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 1973 | William Rogers and Nguyen Duy Trinh sign U.S. - North Vietnam treaty |
| 1971 | Montgomery St. Station, last link in BART, 'holed thru' |
| 1970 | Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG" |
| 1969 | 14 spies hung in Baghdad |
| 1969 | 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria |
| 1969 | Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack and she dies Feb 5th |
| 1969 | Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years |
| 1968 | "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 31 performances |
| 1967 | Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee |
| 1967 | Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records |
| 1967 | New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) |
| 1967 | Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed |
| 1966 | Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W. Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966 |
| 1965 | 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite |
| 1965 | Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue |
| 1964 | "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
| 1964 | Barlow and Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval |
| 1964 | Margaret Chase Smith, Senator-R-Maine, tries for Republican President bid |
| 1963 | Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec |
| 1963 | Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1962 | "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| 1961 | "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV |
| 1958 | Ferenc Munnich follows Kadar as premier of Hungary |
| 1957 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open |
| 1956 | NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium |
| 1955 | "Plain and Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 476 performances |
| 1953 | Netherlands end Marshall aid |
| 1951 | "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| 1951 | U.S. begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | 2nd Emmy Awards: Ed Wynn Show and Texaco Star Theater win |
| 1949 | Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China |
| 1948 | 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates |
| 1948 | 1st tape recorder sold |
| 1945 | Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands) |
| 1945 | Russia liberates Auschwitz and Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland) |
| 1945 | S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested |
| 1944 | Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed |
| 1944 | Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves |
| 1943 | 1st U.S. air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen) |
| 1942 | -19 degrees F (-27.4 degrees C), Netherland's coldest day since 1850 |
| 1941 | Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record) |
| 1934 | 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open: Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61) |
| 1934 | French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair) |
| 1934 | VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe |
| 1933 | Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold |
| 1927 | Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game |
| 1926 | 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London |
| 1926 | U.S. Senate agrees to join World Court |
| 1924 | Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier |
| 1924 | Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square |
| 1918 | "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater |
| 1917 | Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record) |
| 1916 | Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin |
| 1915 | U.S. Marines occupy Haiti |
| 1908 | Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte |
| 1906 | Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 sec |
| 1905 | Maurice Rouvier forms government in France |
| 1902 | 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City) |
| 1900 | Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention |
| 1897 | British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana) |
| 1896 | Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory |
| 1894 | 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11 |
| 1894 | Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park |
| 1891 | Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania |
| 1888 | National Geographic Society organizes in Washington D.C. |
| 1886 | 1st British government of Salisbury resigns |
| 1880 | Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp |
| 1870 | 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw U in Greencastle, Indiana) |
| 1870 | After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union |
| 1870 | Manitoba and Northwest Territories incorporated |
| 1864 | Battle of Fair Gardens, TN |
| 1864 | Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va |
| 1823 | President Monroe appoints 1st U.S. ambassadors to South America |
| 1785 | 1st U.S. state university chartered, Athens Georgia |
| 1778 | Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris |
| 1736 | Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland |
| 1710 | Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget |
| 1671 | Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City |
| 1662 | 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI) |
| 1593 | Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno |
| 1556 | Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies |
| 1538 | States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy |
| 1302 | Dante becomes a Florentine political exile |
| 847 | Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 672 | St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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