| 2009 | Nearly 100 people are killed by a runaway truck at a market in Kogi State, Nigeria |
| 2005 | New York City union members shut down subway and bus services for 3 days |
| 1999 | Portugal returns Macau to China |
| 1998 | Wendy's Three-Tour Golf Challenge |
| 1995 | "Paul Roebson" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| 1995 | American Flight 965 crashes in Columbia, 159 die, 5 survive |
| 1993 | Donald Trump weds Marla Maples |
| 1992 | Northwest and KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability" |
| 1992 | Slobodan Milosevic re-elected president of Serbia |
| 1991 | NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning and Ottawa Senators |
| 1991 | Paul Keating installed as premier of Australia |
| 1990 | Pentagon warns Saddam that U.S. air power is ready to attack on 1/15 |
| 1990 | Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million |
| 1990 | Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns |
| 1989 | Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor |
| 1989 | U.S. troops invade Panama and oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him |
| 1988 | Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's department store, London |
| 1988 | NBC signs lease to stay in New York City, 33 more years |
| 1988 | Premier Ranasinghe Premadasa elected President of Sri Lanka |
| 1987 | "Nuts" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| 1987 | 76th Davis Cup: Sweden beats India in Gothenburg (5-0) |
| 1987 | Dona Paz ferry sinks after crash with oil tanker Vector, 4386 die |
| 1987 | Nancy Lopez/Miller Barber wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1986 | White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, New York |
| 1985 | Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points) |
| 1985 | Howard Cosell retires from television sports after 20 years with ABC |
| 1985 | Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st) |
| 1984 | 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1983 | El Salvador adopts constitution |
| 1983 | Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1983 | New York Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins |
| 1983 | PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon |
| 1981 | "Dreamgirls" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 1522 performances |
| 1981 | Browns set team records for most fumbles (9) and most turnovers (10) |
| 1981 | Doug Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark |
| 1981 | Harry Krieger/Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls," premieres in New York City |
| 1980 | NBC broadcasts New York Jets' 24-17 win over Dolphins without audio |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin |
| 1978 | H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail |
| 1977 | 1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut |
| 1977 | RAF-terrorist Knut Folkerts sentenced to 20 years |
| 1976 | "Music Is" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1976 | Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin resigns |
| 1975 | Joe Walsh recruited to join Eagles |
| 1975 | Pope Paul VI named J Willebrands archbishop of Utrecht |
| 1974 | Ethiopia becomes socialist one-party state |
| 1974 | George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in the United Kingdom |
| 1973 | AL President Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees |
| 1973 | Dutch Antillean government of Evertsz forms |
| 1973 | Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point |
| 1972 | Neil Simons "Sunshine Boys," premieres in New York City |
| 1971 | Pakistan president Yahya Khan resigns |
| 1970 | Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader |
| 1969 | Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 |
| 1967 | "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres |
| 1967 | 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam |
| 1967 | Ian Anderson and Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull |
| 1966 | Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established |
| 1966 | NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season |
| 1966 | Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
| 1963 | Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners |
| 1963 | Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville |
| 1963 | Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins |
| 1962 | D Sjostakovitz opera "Katerina Ismailova," premieres in Moscow |
| 1962 | Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show |
| 1960 | Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in West Germany |
| 1959 | Jasu Patel takes 9-69, India vs. Australia at Kanpur |
| 1957 | Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service |
| 1956 | Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra |
| 1956 | Montgomery, Ala, removed race-based seat assignments on its buses |
| 1953 | KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (CBS) 1st broadcasting |
| 1953 | KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | "Harvey," starring James Stewart, premieres in NY |
| 1949 | Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres |
| 1948 | Second Chamber accept 2nd Police Action in Indonesia |
| 1946 | Darius Milhaud's 2nd Symphony, premieres |
| 1945 | Rationg of auto tires ends in US |
| 1944 | Archbishop De Young and bishop Huibers condemn black market |
| 1944 | Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!) |
| 1944 | Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions |
| 1944 | Terence Rattigans "O Mistress Mine," premieres in London |
| 1943 | "International" is no longer U.S.S.R. National Anthem |
| 1942 | 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta |
| 1941 | Free France under Admiral Muselier occupies St-Pierre et Miquelon |
| 1941 | Japanese troops lands on Mindanao |
| 1940 | Connie Mack acquires controlling interest in the Athletics for $42,000 |
| 1939 | Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service |
| 1938 | Vladimir K Zworykin (Penn) receives patent on Iconoscope TV system |
| 1937 | Bill O'Reilly takes 9-41 for NSW against South Australia |
| 1935 | Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Ad Catholici Sacerdotii |
| 1933 | Bolivia and Paraguay sign weapon cease fire |
| 1932 | Queensland all out 74 vs. Victoria, Ironmonger (age 50) 7-13 |
| 1930 | Learie Constantine cricket 100 in 52 minutes WI vs. Tas (10x4, 1x6, 1x5) |
| 1929 | Heinie Wagner replaces Bill Carrigan as Red Sox manager |
| 1929 | Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park |
| 1928 | 1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montreal, Que |
| 1928 | Ethel Barrymore Theater opens at 243 W 47th St. New York City |
| 1926 | Cards trade Rogers Hornsby to Giants for Frankie Frisch and Jimmy Ring |
| 1926 | Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy |
| 1926 | Sidney Howard's "Silver Cord," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Adolf Hitler freed from jail early |
| 1922 | 14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1922 | Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president |
| 1921 | AL votes to return to best-of-7 World Series, while NL votes best-of-9 Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis casts deciding vote for best-of-7 |
| 1920 | Bert Collins scores 104 on Test Cricket debut vs. England SCG |
| 1920 | Bob Hope became an American citizen |
| 1919 | Canadian National Railways established (North America's longest, 50,000 KM) |
| 1919 | U.S. House of Representatives restricts immigration |
| 1918 | Eugene O'Neill's "Moon of the Caribees," premieres in New York City |
| 1917 | Russian secret police in Czechoslovakia forms under Felix Dzerzjinski |
| 1915 | Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia |
| 1912 | J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart," premieres in New York City |
| 1912 | Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faote Maroe," premieres in Paris |
| 1907 | Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91 |
| 1906 | Venezuela (under vice-president Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet |
| 1900 | Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft) |
| 1894 | England beat Australia by 10 runs in the 1st six-day Test Cricket |
| 1893 | 1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia |
| 1892 | Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne |
| 1892 | Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, New York |
| 1891 | Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses |
| 1883 | International cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls |
| 1880 | Battle at Bronker's Spruit, Transvaal: Farmers beat Britten |
| 1880 | NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" |
| 1879 | Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park |
| 1865 | De Clear-Alkmaar railway opens |
| 1862 | Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
| 1862 | Brigadier-General Nathan Bedford Forrest occupies Trenton, Kentucky |
| 1861 | Battle of Dranesville, VA |
| 1860 | South Carolina votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Secession, 1st state to secede |
| 1850 | Hawaiian post office established |
| 1830 | England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia recognize Belgium |
| 1823 | Franz Schuberts "Ballet-Musik aus Rosamunde," premieres in Vienna |
| 1820 | Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50 |
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to U.S. for $27M |
| 1790 | 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI) |
| 1780 | England declares war on Netherlands |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk |
| 1699 | Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1 |
| 1694 | Frederik van Brandenburg flees Schweiben |
| 1688 | Prince Willem III's troops pull into London |
| 1669 | 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection and sentenced to flogging, branding and slavery |
| 1661 | Corporation Act enforced in England |
| 1626 | Emperor Ferdinand II/Transylvanian monarch Gabor Betlen signs Peace of Pressburg |
| 1606 | Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown Va |
| 1600 | Ottario Rinuccini/Giulio Caccini's opera "Euridice" published |
| 1585 | English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen |
| 1448 | Pope Nicolaas V named Utrechts bishop Rudolf of Diepholt, cardinal |
| 1192 | Richard the Lionhearted captured in Vienna |
| 1046 | Synod of Sutri: German king Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI, |
| 1046 | Benedictus IX and Silvester III and names Bishop Siutger, Pope Clemens II |
| 69 | General Vespasianus occupies Rome |
