| 2012 | A power blackout in Northern England causes as many as 50,000 homes to have a power blackout after heavy winds, snow and ice bring down electricity cables |
| 2012 | The first deployment of U.S. Marines arrives in Australia's city of Darwin in the Northern Territory |
| 2011 | A record $79 million auction price is paid for Chinese contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogang's 1988 'Forever Lasting Love' three-panel oil painting |
| 2011 | Reports claim that China has successfully modified cows to produce 'human milk' |
| 2010 | Shen Neng 1, a Chinese coal ship, is reported to be leaking oil after running aground on the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia |
| 2005 | NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina defeats Illinois 75-70 |
| 1998 | NFL Europe (Formerly WLAF), kicks off season |
| 1997 | Anaheim Ducks clinch their 1st-ever playoff berth |
| 1997 | Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs |
| 1997 | DMSP Titan 2 launched |
| 1997 | STS-83, Columbia 22, launches |
| 1996 | "Inherit the Wind" opens at Royale Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Austin, Texas on KJFK 98.9 FM |
| 1994 | 1st game played at Jacobs Field, Indians beat Mariners 4-3 in 11 inn |
| 1994 | 56th NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72 |
| 1994 | Cubs Karl "Tuffy" Rhodes, hit 3 home runs in 1993 hits 3 home runs on opening |
| 1994 | KLM Saab 340B crashes at Schiphol, 3 killed |
| 1994 | Los Angeles Dodger Darryl Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment |
| 1994 | Largest Opening Day crowd at Yankee Stadium, 56,706 |
| 1994 | Netscape Communications founded as Mosaic Communications |
| 1994 | Tony Curtis undergoes heart-bypass surgery |
| 1993 | 12th NCAA Women's Basketball Champion: Texas Tech beats OH State 84-82 |
| 1993 | 5th Seniors Golf Tradition: Tom Shaw |
| 1993 | Trish Johnson wins Las Vegas LPGA at Canyon Gate Golf Tournament |
| 1993 | Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace Las Vegas, Hulk Hogan pins Yokozuna |
| 1992 | Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - New York Yankees beat New York Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad |
| 1992 | John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca |
| 1992 | Jury deliberations begin in Noriega case |
| 1992 | Sali Berisha becomes president/Alexander Meksi premier of Albania |
| 1991 | "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| 1990 | "Martian Chronicles" premieres on ABC-TV |
| 1990 | Gloria Estefan released from hospital after her accident |
| 1990 | Security law violator Ivan Boesky is released from federal custody |
| 1989 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle |
| 1989 | New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yankees beat Twins on opening day 4-2 |
| 1988 | 50th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beat Oklahoma 83-79 |
| 1988 | Largest crowd (55,438) at a season game at Riverfront (Reds vs. Cards) |
| 1988 | Last broadcast of "Crossroads" on British TV |
| 1988 | Mets set Opening Day record with 6 home runs |
| 1987 | Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts |
| 1986 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record with 213th point of season |
| 1985 | Tulane University cancels its basketball season amidst scandal |
| 1984 | Michael Frayn's "Benefactors" premieres in London |
| 1984 | Winston Smith in Orwell's "1984" begins his secret diary |
| 1983 | 45th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Houston 54-52 |
| 1983 | 6th space shuttle mission, Challenger 1 launched |
| 1982 | 11th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sally Little |
| 1981 | Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio) |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1976 | 5th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Judy Rankin |
| 1976 | Seni Pramoj's Democratic Party wins elections in Thailand |
| 1975 | Steve Miller is arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes |
| 1975 | USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155 |
| 1974 | Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th |
| 1972 | 1st electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating |
| 1971 | "Follies" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 524 performances |
| 1971 | Marine clay under houses liquefies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec) |
| 1970 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Don Johnson |
| 1969 | Denton Cooley implanted 1st temporary artificial heart |
| 1968 | "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| 1968 | Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned |
| 1967 | Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station |
| 1967 | Dutch De Young government forms |
| 1967 | Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational |
| 1964 | "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| 1960 | 32nd Academy Awards - "Ben-Hur," Charlton Heston and Simone Signoret win |
| 1960 | Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra |
| 1960 | Project Ozma begins at Green Bank radio astronomy center |
| 1960 | Senegal declares independence from France |
| 1959 | Federation of Mali, consisting of Senegal and French Sudan, dissolved 1960 |
| 1958 | 1st march against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England) |
| 1958 | Eugene Ionesco's "Tueur sans Gages" premieres in Darmstadt |
| 1957 | Heitor Villa-Lobos' 10th Symphony, premieres in Paris |
| 1956 | Enid Bagnold's "Chalk Garden," premieres in London |
| 1955 | British government signs military treaty with Iraq |
| 1954 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Carrollton Georgia Golf Open |
| 1953 | KFDA TV channel 10 in Amarillo, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | Dutch Prince Bernhard visits Juan and Eva Peron in Buenos Aires |
| 1950 | Dirk Stikker becomes chairman of OES |
| 1949 | Israel and Jordan sign armistice agreement |
| 1949 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Washington D.C.) |
| 1949 | WKRC TV channel 12 in Cincinnati, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1948 | 84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie |
| 1947 | Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect |
| 1947 | Largest group of sunspots on record |
| 1947 | U.N.'s International Civil Aviation Organization forms |
| 1945 | Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day) |
| 1945 | U.S. forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany |
| 1945 | U.S. tanks and infantry conquer Bielefeld |
| 1944 | British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia |
| 1944 | De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists |
| 1941 | German troops conquer Banghazi |
| 1940 | R Rodgers/Lorenz Hart's "Higher and Higher," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq |
| 1938 | 5th Golf Masters Championship: Henry Picard wins, shooting a 285 |
| 1937 | 4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283 |
| 1933 | U.S. Dirigible Akron crashes off coast of New Jersey, 73 die |
| 1932 | George Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in New York City |
| 1932 | Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, University of Pittsburgh |
| 1930 | Andrew Sandham makes Test Cricket 1st triple century |
| 1930 | Les Ames makes the 1st Test Cricket century by a wicketkeeper (149) |
| 1929 | "New Moon" musical opens in London |
| 1929 | 1st AAU Greco-Roman wrestling championships held |
| 1926 | Greek dictator Theodorus Pangalos elected president |
| 1922 | WAAB (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) becomes 1st U.S. radio station with "W" calls |
| 1921 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2 |
| 1920 | Arabs attack Jews in Jerusalem |
| 1918 | Battle of Somme, ends |
| 1918 | Food riot in Amsterdam |
| 1916 | U.S. Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I |
| 1914 | "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in Los Angeles |
| 1912 | Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia |
| 1912 | Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet |
| 1911 | Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP |
| 1905 | Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 20,000 |
| 1902 | Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million |
| 1900 | Assassination attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII |
| 1900 | British garrison of Reddersberg surrenders to Boer general De Wet |
| 1899 | South Africa all out 35 vs England (Trott 4-19, Haigh 6-11) |
| 1896 | Announcement of Gold in Yukon |
| 1887 | Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st U.S. woman mayor (Argonia, Kansas) |
| 1870 | Golden Gate Park forms by City Order number 800 |
| 1865 | Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Elkin's Ford Little Missouri River, Arkansas |
| 1862 | Battle of Yorktown begins |
| 1862 | U.S. begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond |
| 1859 | Opera "Dinorah" is produced (Paris) |
| 1850 | City of Los Angeles incorporated |
| 1832 | Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro |
| 1828 | Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam) |
| 1818 | Congress decided U.S. flag is 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars |
| 1737 | Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor |
| 1716 | Russian and Prussian troops occupy Wismar |
| 1687 | King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church |
| 1686 | English king James II publishes Declaration of Indulgence |
| 1660 | English king Charles II ends Decl of Breda (freedom of religion) |
| 1655 | Battle at Postage Farina, Tunis: English fleet beats Barbarian pirates |
| 1625 | Viceroy Frederik Henry marries Amalia countess von Solms-Braunfels |
| 1588 | Christian IV succeeds Frederik II as king of Denmark |
| 1581 | Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world |
| 1558 | Czar Ivan IV gives parts of North-Russia to fur traders |
| 1552 | Mauritius van Saksen begins alliance with Karel Anikita Stroganov |
| 1541 | Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of Jesuits |
| 1460 | University of Basle in Swizerland forms |
| 1081 | Alexius I Comnenus occupies Byzantine throne |
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