| 2013 | Research In Motion, the Canadian manufacturer of wireless devices, releases the Blackberry 10, its newest operating system for Blackberrys; the company also announces two smartphones, the Z10 and Q10 |
| 2013 | In preparation for the Scottish independence referendum, the Scottish Government agrees to alter the wording in its referendum because members expressed concerns that it might lead people to vote for it |
| 2012 | In the U.S. capital of Washington, D.C., Occupy DC activists are prohibited from camping in Freedom Plaza and McPherson Square |
| 2012 | In Lahore, Pakistan, a fake medicine crisis at a cardiology hospital leads to 112 fatalities, and rising |
| 2011 | Over half a million people participate in the world's largest wildlife survey after extreme cold drives exotic birds into Britain's back gardens |
| 2011 | Tropical cyclone Anthony lands in Bowen in Queensland, Australia, forcing a disaster zone declared in areas still recovering from the 2010-2011 Queensland floods |
| 2007 | Microsoft releases Windows Vista |
| 2005 | Parliamentary elections in Iraq, the first since 1958 |
| 2000 | NFL Pro Bowl |
| 2000 | Super Bowl XXXIV, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, St. Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans 23-16 |
| 2000 | Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes near Cote d'Ivoire, killing 170, likely cause was a mechnical problem |
| 1998 | All-Star Florida Marlin catcher Darren Daulton, retires |
| 1998 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Indianapolis, Indiana on WNAP 93.1 FM |
| 1998 | Paul Simon's "The Capeman," premieres |
| 1997 | Minuteman III launches |
| 1995 | 22nd American Music Award: Boyz II Men and Ace of Base win |
| 1995 | Belgium's TV channel 2 in Flanders goes on the air |
| 1995 | Car bomb explodes in Algiers, 42 killed/296 injured |
| 1995 | Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show" |
| 1994 | 68th Australian Women's Tennis Open: S Graf beats A S Vicario (60 62) |
| 1994 | 82nd Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Todd Martin (76 64 64) |
| 1994 | Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76) |
| 1994 | Kapil Dev equals Richard Hadlee's world record of 431 Test wkts |
| 1994 | Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 30-13 in Atlanta Superbowl MVP: Emmitt Smith, Dallas, RB |
| 1993 | 100,000n Europeans demonstrate against fascism and racism |
| 1993 | 67th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Monica Seles beat Graf (46 63 62) |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) lands |
| 1989 | 16th American Music Award: Randy Travis and George Michael wins |
| 1989 | 5 pharoah sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor |
| 1989 | Joel Steinberg found guilty of 1st degree manslaughter of daughter |
| 1989 | Last day of 1st class cricket for Dav Whatmore |
| 1988 | Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl) |
| 1983 | Hilbert van Thumb becomes European skating champ |
| 1983 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda of Deer Creek Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Superbowl XVII: Washington Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB |
| 1982 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| 1981 | 8th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers wins |
| 1980 | Edward Albee's "Lady from Dubuque," premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | Rhodesia agrees to new constitution |
| 1978 | Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1978 | Mutual Broadcasting Network begins airing Larry King Show on radio |
| 1977 | 8th (final) part of "Roots" is most-watched entertainment show ever |
| 1977 | Allan Border scores 36 in his 1st-class innings (NSW vs. Qld) |
| 1977 | Edward W Stack replaces Paul Kerr president of Hall of Fame |
| 1976 | 1st-class debut of Dav Whatmore, in Johannesburg |
| 1976 | George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) |
| 1976 | William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA |
| 1974 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1973 | 1st Kiss concert (Queens New York) |
| 1973 | 26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at New York Rangers |
| 1973 | Jury finds Watergate defendants Liddy and McCord guilty on all counts |
| 1973 | KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens New York) |
| 1972 | Bloody Sunday: British soldiers shoot on catholics in Londonderry, 13 die |
| 1972 | Pakistan withdraws from the British Commonwealth |
| 1971 | "Ari" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 19 performances |
| 1971 | Dennis Lillee takes 5-84 in his 1st Test bowl, vs. England |
| 1971 | UCLA starts 88 basketball game win streak |
| 1969 | Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert |
| 1969 | U.S. / Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere |
| 1968 | Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" |
| 1968 | Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon |
| 1966 | -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record) |
| 1966 | -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), New Market, Alabama (state record) |
| 1966 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) |
| 1966 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet |
| 1965 | "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 |
| 1965 | State funeral of Winston Churchill |
| 1964 | Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam |
| 1964 | Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail |
| 1962 | U.N. General Assembly censures Portugal (because of Angola) |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | 2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit |
| 1961 | Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp |
| 1961 | KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, Arizona (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Lance Gibbs takes hat-trick (Mackay, Grout, Misson) at Adelaide |
| 1960 | CIA OKs Lockheed to produce a new U-2 aircraft |
| 1960 | Dutch communist trade union EVC'58 disbands |
| 1960 | Riot curtails third days play at Port-Of-Spain WI vs. England |
| 1960 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| 1960 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| 1959 | Australia 1-200 1st day 4th Test vs. England, Adelaide Oval |
| 1959 | Paul Hindemith's symphony "Pittsburgh," premieres |
| 1958 | 1st 2-way moving sidewalk in service, Dallas Tx |
| 1958 | Baseball announces players and coaches rather than fans pick all stars |
| 1958 | Dore Schary's "Sunrise at Campobello," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | House of Lords passes bill allowing women in |
| 1957 | U.S. Congress accepts the Eisenhower-doctrine |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes" |
| 1956 | KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | KTXS TV channel 12 in Sweetwater-Abilene, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Martin Luther King, Jr's home bombed |
| 1954 | Belgium ends trade agreement with U.S.S.R. |
| 1954 | Italy's Fanfani government resigns |
| 1952 | Paul Creston's 4th Symphony, premieres |
| 1951 | Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio |
| 1950 | "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV |
| 1948 | 5th Winter Olympic games open in St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1946 | 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime |
| 1945 | "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die |
| 1945 | German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed |
| 1944 | U.S. invades Majuro, Marshall Islands |
| 1943 | 6 British Mosquito's daylight bomb Berlin |
| 1943 | German assault on French in Tunisia |
| 1943 | German under officers shot down in Haarlem, Netherlands |
| 1943 | Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to general-Field Marshal |
| 1943 | Illegal opposition newspaper Loyal begins publishing |
| 1943 | USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land on Ambon |
| 1941 | Australian troops conquer Derna Libya |
| 1940 | Benjamin Britten's "Lesson Illuminations" premieres in London |
| 1940 | Cor Jongert wins 6th Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race |
| 1940 | Hassett's second 122 of the game for Vic can't stop a NSW win |
| 1939 | Heavy aftershocks destroy some of Chile |
| 1939 | Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews |
| 1937 | 2nd of Stalin's purge trials; Pyatakov and 16 others sentenced to death |
| 1936 | New owners of Boston Braves ask newspapermen to pick a new nickname |
| 1936 | Victoria need 442 to win against NSW, but lose, all out for 415 They pick "The Bees" it doesn't catch on and is scrapped by 1940 season |
| 1935 | Ezra Pound meets Mussolini, reads from a draft of "Cantos" |
| 1934 | 1st theatrical presentation sponsored by U.S. government, New York City |
| 1934 | Bert Ironmonger ends Sheffield Shield career age 51 years 298 days |
| 1934 | Hitler proclamation on German unified states |
| 1933 | "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio |
| 1933 | Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen |
| 1933 | Grimmett takes 7-86 for SA in Qld 2nd inn, 13-135 for match |
| 1932 | Grimmett 7-116 in South Africa 1st innings at Adelaide Oval |
| 1931 | Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater |
| 1930 | Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Banya," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1928 | 1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands and US |
| 1928 | Bradman scores 134 not out (225 minutes, 13 fours) NSW vs. Vic |
| 1928 | Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Left wins national election in Thuringen |
| 1925 | Turkish government throws out Constantine VI of Constantinople |
| 1924 | Ponsford scores second 110 of the game in Vic win over NSW |
| 1922 | Ted McDonald takes 8-58 in big Victorian win over NSW |
| 1922 | World Law Day, 1st celebrated |
| 1920 | Quebec's Joe Malone sets NHL record of 7 goals in a game |
| 1919 | Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army |
| 1917 | 1st jazz record recorded (Dark Town Strutters Ball) |
| 1915 | German submarine attack on Le Havre |
| 1915 | No 10 batsman F W Hyett scores century on debut, Vic vs. Tas |
| 1913 | House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill |
| 1911 | 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba |
| 1895 | C. J. Eady (Tas) 1st Australian to score twin centuries (v Vic) |
| 1895 | SS Elbe sinks after collision in North Sea, 332 killed |
| 1895 | Tasmania beat Victoria for 1st F-C victory in 41 years |
| 1894 | Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit |
| 1894 | U.S. flag fired on in Rio; prompt satisfaction exacted by Admiral Benham |
| 1892 | Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test |
| 1892 | Captain Lugard occupies Uganda's King Mwanga's hide out |
| 1889 | John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope |
| 1889 | Victoria beat NSW after following on (NSW all out 63 needed 76) |
| 1888 | Harry Moses 297 not out for NSW against Victoria |
| 1883 | England team presented with ashes of a bail after Sydney Test |
| 1879 | French President MacMahon resigns |
| 1877 | Storm flood ravages Dutch coastal provinces |
| 1862 | U.S. Navy's 1st ironclad warship, the Monitor, launched |
| 1858 | Charles Halle founds Halle Orchestra in Manchester |
| 1858 | William Wells Brown published 1st Black drama, "Leap to Freedom" |
| 1854 | 1st election in Washington Territory; 1,682 votes cast |
| 1853 | Emperor Napoleon III marries Eugenie Maria de Montijo y de Guzman |
| 1847 | Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco |
| 1835 | Richard Lawrence misfires at President Andrew Jackson in Washington D.C. |
| 1820 | Edward Bransfield aboard Williams discovers Antarctica (UK claim) |
| 1818 | Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears" |
| 1815 | Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols |
| 1806 | Prussia takes possession of Hanover |
| 1804 | Mungo Park leaves England seeking source of Niger River |
| 1800 | U.S. population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) |
| 1798 | Rep Matthew Lyon, Vermont spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold,Connecticut, in U.S. House of Representatives, after an argument |
| 1797 | Congress refuses to accept 1st petitions from American blacks |
| 1790 | Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr. Greathead, the inventor |
| 1781 | Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland |
| 1774 | Captain Cook reaches 71 degrees 10' S, 1820 km from S pole (record) |
| 1713 | England and Netherlands sign 2nd anti-French boundary treaty |
| 1667 | Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia and Poland sign peace treaty |
| 1648 | Spain and Netherlands sign Peace of Munster, ending Tachtigjarige War |
| 1647 | King Charles I handed over to English parliament |
| 1647 | Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for 40 pounds |
| 1592 | Ippolito Aldobrandini elected Pope Clement VIII |
| 1544 | Adrian van Goes becomes land advocate of Holland |
| 1522 | Duke of Albany takes captured French back to Scotland |
| 1487 | Bell chimes invented |
| 1467 | Battle at Velke Kostolany: Hungarian king Matyas Corvinus beats Bratrici |
| 1349 | Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king |
| 1349 | Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred |
| 1077 | Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV |
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