| 2013 | The President of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, declares that official documents must use the words 'State of Palestine' |
| 2013 | Developers at Apple, the U.S. creators of the iphone, claim they gave Apple sufficient warning concerning issues with iOS maps |
| 2012 | 45,000 Facebook logins and passwords are stolen by the Ramnit worm |
| 2012 | Jamaica's new Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announces the country will become a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state |
| 2011 | China places new controls on text messages sent on mobile phones containing references to democracy, human rights and corruption |
| 2011 | Jordan's Ali bin Al Hussein is elected as Vice President of FIFA, the International Federation of Association Football |
| 2010 | Extreme cold temperatures across Europe lead to 122 deaths in Poland, 7 die in Switzerland as the result of an avalanche |
| 1998 | Barry Switzer resigns as Dallas Cowboy coach |
| 1998 | Don Sutton selected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1997 | "It's a Slippery Slope," closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City |
| 1996 | Record $65.2 million British lottery won by 3 people (2-3-4-13-42-44) |
| 1995 | Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens becomes NBA's winningest coach (939) |
| 1994 | "Government Inspector" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 37 performances |
| 1994 | Dow-Jones hits record 3803.88 |
| 1994 | Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by Tonya Harding's bodyguard |
| 1994 | Yat Weiju swims world record 50m butterfly stroke (26.44) |
| 1994 | Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool (26.44) |
| 1993 | Bill Wyman announces he will leave Rolling Stones |
| 1993 | Jean Mueller discovers comet Mueller/1993a |
| 1993 | Last day of Test cricket for Greg Matthews |
| 1992 | New York Yankees sign free agent Danny Tartabul |
| 1992 | Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA |
| 1992 | Sachin Tendulkar completes 148* vs. Australia at the SCG |
| 1992 | Shane Warne takes 1-150 in his 1st Test innings |
| 1991 | "Gypsy" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 477 performances |
| 1991 | "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1991 | Jorge Serrano Elias elected president of Guatemala |
| 1991 | Qian Hong swims female world record 50m butterfly (27.30 sec) |
| 1990 | New York Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (18-25-26-32-42-44) |
| 1987 | 100th U.S. Congress convenes |
| 1987 | Astronomers at University of California see 1st sight of birth of a galaxy |
| 1986 | British Defense Secretary Michael Heseltine resigns |
| 1986 | Impala Platinum fires 20,000 black mine workers in Johannesburg |
| 1986 | Last day in Test cricket for Bob Holland |
| 1986 | STS-61-C scrubbed at T-31sec because of liquid oxygen valve problem |
| 1984 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41 B mission |
| 1984 | Last day of Test cricket for Chappell, Marsh and Lillee |
| 1981 | 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals |
| 1980 | "1940's Radio Hour" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 105 performances |
| 1980 | Indira Gandhi's Congress Party wins elections in India |
| 1980 | Phil Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat |
| 1978 | 1st postage stamp copyrighted by U.S. (Carl Sandburg stamp) |
| 1978 | U.S. hand over St. Stephan crown to Hungary |
| 1977 | EMI records drop punk rock group Sex Pistols |
| 1976 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1976 | Ted Turner purchases Atlanta Braves for reported $12 million |
| 1975 | "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host |
| 1975 | "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1974 | "CBS Mystery Theater," premieres on radio |
| 1974 | England begins 3 day work week during mine strike |
| 1973 | "Schoolhouse Rock," premieres on ABC-TV with Multiplication Rock |
| 1972 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1972 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Kenneth Shelley |
| 1972 | Vladimir Bukovski is exiled from U.S.S.R. |
| 1971 | Berkeley chemists announces 1st synthetic growth hormones |
| 1971 | Cecil Partee elected president pro tem of Illinois state senate |
| 1969 | Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" |
| 1969 | WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks |
| 1968 | Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation |
| 1968 | Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon |
| 1967 | "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1967 | KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 |
| 1965 | Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
| 1964 | Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville |
| 1964 | Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) |
| 1963 | "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC |
| 1963 | "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances |
| 1958 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to ee cummings |
| 1958 | Gibson patents Flying V Guitar |
| 1958 | WIPR TV channel 6 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | Elvis Presley makes his 7th and final appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1957 | Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow, Russia |
| 1956 | KGNS TV channel 8 in Laredo, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | Federal court bars former Little League Commissioner Carl Stotz from forming a rival group |
| 1953 | WKBN TV channel 27 in Youngstown, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | "Pardon Our French" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 100 performances |
| 1951 | Indianapolis beats Rochester 75-73 in NBA-record 6 overtimes |
| 1950 | "Happy as Larry" opens at Coronet Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| 1950 | Britain recognizes Communist government of China |
| 1947 | Ray Lindwall smashes 100 vs. England in MCG Test |
| 1946 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Quemadmodum |
| 1945 | Future president George Bush marries Barbara Pierce in Rye NY |
| 1942 | 1st around world flight, Pan Am "Pacific Clipper" |
| 1942 | Bob Feller, enlists in Navy and reports for duty to Norfolk Virginia |
| 1941 | FDR's "4 Freedoms" speech (speech, worship, from want and from fear) |
| 1938 | Bronze memorial statue of Henry Hudson erected in Bronx |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 270 Australia vs. England at the MCG, incl 110 singles |
| 1936 | Barbara Hanley became Canada's 1st woman mayor (Webbwood, Ontario) |
| 1930 | 1st diesel engine automobile trip (in a Packard sedan) completed |
| 1930 | Bradman scores 452* for NSW against Qld, 377 minutes, 49 fours |
| 1929 | Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship in Yugoslavia |
| 1928 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Mortalium animos (against oecumene) |
| 1927 | U.S. Marines sent to Nicaragua |
| 1926 | Kees Boeke opens 1st comprehensive school in Holland |
| 1925 | Paavo Nurmi, sets indoor record, 4:13.6 mile and 14:44.6 5,000m |
| 1924 | Poulenc/Nijinska's ballet "Les Biches," premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1922 | Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments |
| 1914 | Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded |
| 1912 | New Mexico becomes 47th state |
| 1907 | Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school (Rome) |
| 1906 | Maurice Ravel's "Miroirs," premieres in Paris |
| 1903 | Dutch Press museum opens in Amsterdam |
| 1900 | Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured |
| 1900 | Maurice Ravel's "Albaradode Gracioso," premieres in Paris |
| 1898 | 1st telephone message from a submerged submarine, by Simon Lake |
| 1896 | 1st U.S. women's 6-day bicycle race starts, Madison Square Garden |
| 1896 | Cecil Rhodes resigns as premier of Cape colony |
| 1893 | Great Northern Railway connects Seattle with east coast |
| 1883 | Ontario Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1880 | Record snow cover in Seattle-120 cm |
| 1873 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia" |
| 1873 | U.S. Congress begins investigating Credit Mobilier scandal |
| 1861 | Florida troops seize Federal arsenal at Apalachicola |
| 1861 | New York City mayor proposes New York become a free city, trading with N and S |
| 1857 | Patent for reducing zinc ore granted to Samuel Wetherill, Penn |
| 1842 | 4,500 British and Indian troops leave Kabul, massacred before India |
| 1839 | 2 day storm off Irish and English coast immortalized as "Big Wind" |
| 1838 | Samuel Morse made 1st public demonstration of telegraph |
| 1832 | New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) |
| 1784 | Turkey and Russia sign treaty in Constantinople |
| 1781 | Battle of Jersey (Island in UK) |
| 1773 | Massachusetts slaves petition legislature for freedom |
| 1759 | George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Curtis |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow |
| 1690 | Emperor Leopold's son Jozef chosen Roman Catholic king |
| 1681 | 1st recorded boxing match (Duke of Albemarle's butler vs his butcher) |
| 1663 | Great earthquake in New England |
| 1639 | Virginia is 1st colony to order surplus crops (tobacco) destroyed |
| 1622 | Pope Gregory XV forms Congregatio the Propagande Fide |
| 1579 | Artois/Hainault/Dowaai sign pro-Spanish Union of Arras |
| 1540 | King Henry VIII of England married his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves |
| 1535 | City of Lima Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro |
| 1497 | Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria) |
| 1496 | Moorish fortress Alhambra, near Grenada, surrenders to the Christi |
| 1453 | Emperor Frederik III becomes archduke of Austria |
| 1352 | French king Jean II introduces Order of the Star |
| 1227 | Ferrand of Portugal freed from the Louvre |
| 1099 | Henry V crowned German king |
| 1066 | King Harald of England crowned |
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