| 1996 | "Funny Thing Happened," opens at St. James Theater New York City for 715 performances |
| 1995 | Houston Post folds after 116 years |
| 1995 | Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football |
| 1994 | "Beauty and the Beast" opens at Palace Theater New York City |
| 1994 | 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45 |
| 1994 | 98th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas Ndeti of Kenya in 2:07:15 |
| 1994 | Arsenio Hall announces he will end his show in May 1994 |
| 1994 | Brian Lara scores 375 for WI vs England to beat Sobers' record |
| 1994 | Cricketer Brian Lara hits 375 runs on 1 day (world record) |
| 1994 | Former President Nixon suffered a stroke and dies 4 days later |
| 1994 | Lebanon drops relations with Iran |
| 1994 | Roseanne Barr Arnold files for divorce from Tom Arnold |
| 1994 | STS-59 (Endeavour) lands |
| 1993 | "Ain't Broadway Grand" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| 1993 | 54th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Tom Wargo |
| 1993 | Beirut-hostage Terry Anderson marries Madeleine Bassil |
| 1993 | David Lee Roth arrested in New York City for purchasing marijuana for |
| 1993 | Trish Johnson wins LPGA Atlanta Women's Golf Championship |
| 1992 | Start of South Africa's 1st Test Cricket since 1970 (v WI Bridgetown) |
| 1992 | Tennis ace Stefan Edberg marries Annette Olsen in Sweden |
| 1991 | Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census |
| 1991 | Congress ends railroad worker 1 day strike |
| 1991 | John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136 |
| 1990 | Bankruptcy court forces Frank Lorenzo to give up Eastern Airlines |
| 1990 | Birmingham Fire issued an original franchise in WLAF |
| 1989 | Zimbabwe gains independence |
| 1988 | 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 |
| 1988 | 92nd Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:43 |
| 1988 | Barbra Streisand records "Warm All Over" |
| 1987 | An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air |
| 1987 | Bob Land wins his 6th straight Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race |
| 1987 | Mike Schmidt hits 500th home run vs Robinson-Pirates |
| 1987 | Pat Knauff, France sets 1-leg downhill ski speed record (115.012 mph) |
| 1987 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1986 | Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1986 | Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB |
| 1985 | Flyers 3-Isles 0-Patrick Div Finals-Flyers hold 1-0 lead |
| 1984 | Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB |
| 1984 | Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43) |
| 1983 | 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43 |
| 1983 | 87th Boston Marathon won by Greg Meyer of Mass in 2:09:00 |
| 1983 | Suicide bomber kills 63, at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon |
| 1983 | Alice Walker wins Pulitzer Prize for "The Color Purple" |
| 1983 | KMO-AM in Tacoma Washington changes call letters to KAMT (now KKMO) |
| 1983 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Alice Walker for "Color Purple" |
| 1983 | Rangers 3-Isles 1-Patrick Div Finals-Series tied at 2-2 |
| 1982 | Atlanta Braves win record 11th straight opening game (beat Astros) |
| 1982 | Canada Constitution Act replaces British North America Act |
| 1982 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA CPC Women's Golf International |
| 1982 | Zimbabwe capital Salisbury renamed Harare |
| 1981 | Pawtucket and Rochester start a 33-inning baseball game |
| 1980 | Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK |
| 1979 | "Real People" premieres on NBC TV |
| 1979 | Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent |
| 1978 | Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999 |
| 1977 | "Side by Side by Sondheim" opens at Music Box New York City for 390 performances |
| 1977 | 6th Boston Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman of California in 2:48:33 |
| 1977 | 81st Boston Marathon won by Jerome Drayton of Canada in 2:14:46 |
| 1977 | Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize |
| 1977 | Eddie Murray hits his 1st home run |
| 1977 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box" |
| 1977 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Side by Side" premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | 30th Tony Awards: Travesties and Chorus Line win |
| 1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Karsten- Ping Golf Open |
| 1975 | John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" |
| 1974 | Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi |
| 1972 | "Lost in the Stars" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 39 performances |
| 1971 | Gavaskar makes 220 in 2nd inning vs. WI after 124 in 1st |
| 1971 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Golf Classic |
| 1969 | Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund |
| 1968 | 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike |
| 1968 | 1st ABA basketball championship began |
| 1968 | Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms |
| 1968 | London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona |
| 1968 | Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London |
| 1968 | San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 | Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics) |
| 1964 | "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1964 | "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| 1964 | Artisans strike in Belgium ends |
| 1964 | Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches |
| 1964 | Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" |
| 1963 | "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1963 | Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant |
| 1963 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
| 1962 | 16th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| 1959 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1 |
| 1958 | Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia |
| 1958 | NL single-game record of 78,682, Giants lose to Dogers 6-5, in Los Angeles |
| 1956 | Egypt and Israel agree to a cease fire |
| 1956 | Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco (civil ceremony) |
| 1955 | "Ankles Aweigh" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 176 performances |
| 1955 | 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed |
| 1955 | 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens |
| 1954 | Colonel Nasser seizes power and becomes Prime Minister of Egypt |
| 1954 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| 1953 | "Pal Joey" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 542 performances |
| 1951 | "Make a Wish" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 102 performances |
| 1951 | Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms |
| 1951 | France, West Germany and Benelux form European Steel and Coal Community |
| 1951 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle goes 1-for-4 in his 1st game |
| 1950 | 1st opening night-game, Cards beat Pirates, 4-2 |
| 1950 | 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip |
| 1950 | Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations |
| 1950 | Sam Jethroe is 1st black to play for Boston Braves |
| 1950 | Yankees win 15-10 after trailing Red Sox 9-0 in 6th |
| 1949 | Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth |
| 1948 | International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands |
| 1946 | "Call Me Mister" opens at National Theater New York City for 734 performances |
| 1946 | Jackie Robinson debuts as 2nd baseman for the Montreal Royals |
| 1946 | League of Nations dissolves, 3 months after United Nations starts |
| 1946 | Rome/Auerbach/Horwitt's musical "Call Me Mister," premieres in New York City |
| 1946 | U.S. recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government |
| 1945 | 1 armed outfielder, St. L Brown Pete Gray, 1st game he goes 1 for 4 |
| 1945 | Epe freed (by corporal G van Aken) |
| 1945 | Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
| 1944 | 48th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:50.4 |
| 1944 | Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins' ballet premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | "Stars and Stripes" paper for U.S. Armed Forces starts |
| 1942 | James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities |
| 1942 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| 1939 | Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey |
| 1939 | Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government |
| 1936 | Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu |
| 1935 | General Sarazen's double eagle on 15th, wins him his 2nd Masters |
| 1935 | Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote) |
| 1934 | 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas) |
| 1934 | Hitler names J von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament |
| 1929 | Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire |
| 1927 | Chiang Kai-Shek forms anti-government in China |
| 1926 | Rhein Stadium opens in Dusseldorf Germany |
| 1925 | World's fair opens in Chicago |
| 1924 | 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster) |
| 1923 | 74,000 (62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium |
| 1923 | Poland annexes Central Lithuania |
| 1922 | Netherlands soccer team defeats Denmark 2-0 |
| 1921 | Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs Colo |
| 1921 | Philip James Barry's "Punch for Judy," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Cleveland center fielder Tris Speaker turns an unassisted double play |
| 1909 | Joan of Arc declared a saint |
| 1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Jewy Smith in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1907 | Augustus Thomas' "Witching Hour," premieres in New York City |
| 1907 | Fairmont Hotel opens |
| 1906 | 8.25 earthquake shakes San Francisco California |
| 1906 | Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht |
| 1906 | San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 and destroys 75% of city |
| 1904 | L'Humanite, under Jean Jaures begins publishing |
| 1902 | Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals |
| 1899 | John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager |
| 1890 | New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton |
| 1881 | Natural History Museum of South Kensington England opens |
| 1879 | Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on indians citizen rights begins |
| 1876 | Daniel O'Leary completes a 500 mile walk in 139 hours 32 min |
| 1869 | 1st international cricket match, held in SF, wins by Californian |
| 1868 | San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed |
| 1865 | Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina |
| 1864 | Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition) |
| 1862 | Battle of Ft. Jackson, Ft. St. Philip and New Orlean's, Louisiana |
| 1861 | Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| 1861 | Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies |
| 1856 | Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns |
| 1853 | 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km) |
| 1838 | Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails |
| 1835 | William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British Government |
| 1834 | Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia |
| 1809 | 1st run of 2,000 guineas horse race at Newmarket England |
| 1797 | France and Austria signs cease fire |
| 1775 | Paul Revere and William Dawes warn "British are coming!" |
| 1775 | Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington |
| 1676 | Sudbury, Mass attacked by Indians |
| 1666 | Peace of Kleef: Netherlands and bishop Von Galen of Munster |
| 1663 | Osman declares war on Austria |
| 1599 | Valencia arch duke Albrecht of Austrian marries Isabella of Spain |
| 1552 | Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz |
| 1521 | Parliament of Worms: Cardinal Alexander questions Maarten Luther |
| 387 | Bishop Ambrosius of Milan baptizes Augustinus |
| 310 | St. Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
