| 2012 | World leaders discuss nuclear security during a summit in Seoul, South Korea |
| 2012 | Libya's National Transitional Council admits it faces a national crisis amidst and escalation of violence and militia rule |
| 2011 | Libya's military operations are now under the NATO control |
| 2011 | In Tokyo, anti-nuclear activists rally, demanding change in Japan's nuclear industry |
| 2010 | Thousands of 'red shirt' protesters demand fresh elections, causing Thai troops to retreat |
| 2009 | At least 99 people are killed after flash flooding and the failure of the Situ Gintung dam in Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia |
| 1997 | "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre New York City for 85 performances |
| 1997 | 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp) |
| 1997 | Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray |
| 1996 | "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 118 performances |
| 1995 | 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange and Tom Hanks win |
| 1994 | 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews |
| 1994 | Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed |
| 1994 | Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk and Platov (RUS) |
| 1994 | Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS) |
| 1994 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN) |
| 1994 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN) |
| 1994 | Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald |
| 1992 | Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" and "Lucky Town" |
| 1991 | NCAA bans University of Minnesota football team from postseason play in 1992 |
| 1991 | New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky |
| 1991 | Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die |
| 1990 | NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final |
| 1989 | 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1989 | Delhi beat Bengal by innings and 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy |
| 1988 | Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova and Bukin (URS) |
| 1988 | Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova and O Vasiliev (URS) |
| 1988 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR) |
| 1988 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA) |
| 1988 | Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament |
| 1988 | Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase |
| 1987 | President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad |
| 1986 | Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking |
| 1985 | Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame |
| 1984 | Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres |
| 1983 | 13th Easter Seal Telethon |
| 1983 | Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1983 | Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St. New York City after 1577 performances |
| 1982 | Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match vs. Sri Lanka at Lahore |
| 1982 | Randy Holt sets Washington Capitals record of 34 penalty minutes |
| 1981 | John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in the United Kingdom |
| 1980 | "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| 1980 | "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 21 performances |
| 1980 | Elevator in Vaal Reef South Africa gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die) |
| 1980 | Mount St. Helens becomes active after 123 years |
| 1979 | Supreme Court rules, 8-1, police can't randomly stop cars |
| 1978 | 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88 |
| 1978 | Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1,774 performances |
| 1978 | Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV |
| 1977 | 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife |
| 1977 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title |
| 1976 | Washington D.C. underground Metro opens |
| 1973 | Dennis Amiss out for 99 vs. Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket |
| 1973 | Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding and LSD possession |
| 1973 | 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando and Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians |
| 1972 | Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching University of Kentucky |
| 1972 | Venera 8 launched to Venus |
| 1971 | 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title |
| 1970 | Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey" |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston |
| 1969 | Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars |
| 1968 | Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco |
| 1968 | Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia |
| 1966 | Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia |
| 1966 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational |
| 1964 | Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die |
| 1964 | Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars |
| 1964 | U.N. troops arrive on Cyprus |
| 1962 | Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London |
| 1962 | Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school |
| 1962 | Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy |
| 1961 | Belgium government of Eyskens resigns |
| 1961 | Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen |
| 1960 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open |
| 1958 | CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records |
| 1958 | Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party |
| 1957 | 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win |
| 1956 | French commandos land in Algeria |
| 1956 | U.S. seizes U.S. communist newspaper "Daily Worker" |
| 1955 | 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours and Pajama Game win |
| 1955 | Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse) |
| 1955 | WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio |
| 1952 | Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer |
| 1952 | Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records |
| 1951 | 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58 |
| 1951 | Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You" |
| 1950 | Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleveland, Ohio) |
| 1950 | Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China |
| 1950 | WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, Kentucky (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1945 | 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44 |
| 1945 | British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine |
| 1945 | DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title |
| 1945 | Ella Fitzgerald and Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon" |
| 1945 | General Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken |
| 1945 | Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed |
| 1945 | U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden |
| 1944 | 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| 1944 | 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania |
| 1944 | 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo |
| 1944 | Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno |
| 1943 | Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau |
| 1943 | Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio |
| 1943 | U.S. begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia |
| 1942 | Allies raid German submarine base in St. Nazaire |
| 1942 | Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1 hour forward |
| 1942 | Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (New York City) |
| 1941 | Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to U.S. for 99 years |
| 1941 | Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia) |
| 1941 | Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul |
| 1940 | Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice |
| 1939 | 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: University of Oregon beats OH State 46-33 |
| 1937 | Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam |
| 1936 | WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air |
| 1933 | U.S. Farm Credit Administration authorized |
| 1933 | Japan leaves League of Nations |
| 1933 | Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson and Eric William Fawcett |
| 1932 | De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt |
| 1931 | Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor |
| 1931 | John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on |
| 1930 | 1st U.S. radio broadcast from a ship at sea |
| 1929 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1929 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1928 | KGB-AM in San Diego, California begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | U.S. Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1928 | U.S. Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner |
| 1924 | Canada recognizes U.S.S.R. |
| 1924 | New French government of Poincare begins |
| 1920 | Film stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks wed |
| 1920 | Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD) |
| 1914 | 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels) |
| 1912 | 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington D.C. |
| 1884 | 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston - New York |
| 1879 | Longest championship fight (136 rounds) |
| 1871 | 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0 |
| 1866 | Andrew Rankin patents the urinal |
| 1866 | President Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment |
| 1865 | Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals |
| 1863 | President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer |
| 1861 | Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars |
| 1860 | M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew) |
| 1855 | Abraham Gesner patents kerosene |
| 1849 | Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill |
| 1848 | John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster |
| 1841 | 1st U.S. steam fire engine tested, New York City |
| 1836 | 1st Mormon temple dedicated in Kirtland, Ohio |
| 1814 | Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians |
| 1808 | Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna |
| 1802 | Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends |
| 1794 | U.S. Navy forms |
| 1790 | The shoelace invented |
| 1758 | Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine |
| 1721 | France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid |
| 1713 | Spain losses Menorca and Gibraltar |
| 1709 | Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded) |
| 1708 | English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk |
| 1668 | English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company |
| 1625 | Charles I, King Of England, Scotland and Ireland, ascends English throne |
| 1599 | Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland |
| 1513 | Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida |
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