| 2013 | U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry |
| 2013 | Former Mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, dies in Manhattan of congestive heart failure at age 88 |
| 2012 | American Airlines' parent company announces it will cut 13,000 jobs or 15% of its workforce |
| 2012 | In the state of Washington, the State Senate passes legislation allowing same sex marriage |
| 2011 | Protesters stage the largest demonstration ever against the Mubarak regime; two million people gather in Tahir Square, vowing to stay until Mubarak leaves his post |
| 2011 | Russia began searching for a missing military satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit |
| 2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama proposes a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 which projects a record-high budget deficit of $1.6 trillion in fiscal 2010 |
| 2009 | The Russian Orthodox Church enthrones Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church |
| 2006 | United Airlines emerges from bankruptcy |
| 2004 | Super Bowl XXXVIII, Reliant Stadium, Houston, New England Patriots beat Carolina Panthers 32-29 |
| 2004 | At least 250 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia |
| 2003 | Space Shuttle Columbia destroyed over Texas when returning to Earth, 7 crew members are killed |
| 1998 | "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf |
| 1998 | 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) |
| 1998 | Australian Mixed: J. Gimelstob and V. Williams beat Suk and Sukova (62 61) |
| 1998 | NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24 |
| 1998 | At least 119 Muslim pilgrims crushed to death during the annual stoning of Satan ritual in the Mena Valley, Saudi Arabia |
| 1995 | Amtrak New York City - Tampa run ends |
| 1995 | Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) |
| 1995 | Andy and Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record |
| 1995 | Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air |
| 1994 | Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) |
| 1994 | Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean |
| 1993 | NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman |
| 1993 | Soyuz TM-16 lands |
| 1992 | "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1992 | Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil |
| 1992 | Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by New York Islanders |
| 1991 | Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die |
| 1991 | Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs. England at the WACA |
| 1991 | President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws |
| 1991 | U.S. Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 |
| 1989 | Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion |
| 1989 | Princess Diane of Wales visits New York City |
| 1987 | 163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze |
| 1987 | 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit |
| 1987 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 1987 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 |
| 1986 | KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KRTH |
| 1986 | Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland |
| 1985 | -61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell, Colorado (state record) |
| 1985 | -69 degrees F (-56 degrees C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record) |
| 1985 | Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs. Eng) |
| 1985 | Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark |
| 1985 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin |
| 1984 | China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations |
| 1984 | Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner |
| 1984 | Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203) |
| 1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1982 | "Late Night With David Letterman," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1982 | Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) |
| 1981 | 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7 |
| 1981 | 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland |
| 1981 | Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | Dutch Antilles census is 231,932 |
| 1981 | French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq |
| 1981 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7 |
| 1981 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| 1981 | Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG |
| 1980 | Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System |
| 1980 | Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run |
| 1979 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile |
| 1979 | Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp |
| 1978 | Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
| 1977 | Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives |
| 1977 | Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball |
| 1976 | "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV |
| 1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1976 | Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce |
| 1976 | East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Michigan State University after he is warned not to |
| 1975 | "Hoppy, Gene and Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65 |
| 1975 | "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1975 | 1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks |
| 1975 | Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
| 1975 | Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department |
| 1974 | "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV |
| 1973 | Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1972 | 1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395 |
| 1972 | Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK |
| 1970 | Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1970 | Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die |
| 1970 | WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1970 | West-Germany and U.S.S.R. sign gas contract |
| 1969 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
| 1969 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1969 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| 1969 | WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency |
| 1968 | Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers |
| 1968 | World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi |
| 1968 | Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
| 1967 | Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives |
| 1967 | WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
| 1965 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama |
| 1965 | Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news |
| 1965 | NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster |
| 1964 | "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf |
| 1964 | Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks |
| 1964 | Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity |
| 1964 | Suriname River dammed |
| 1963 | Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda |
| 1962 | "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| 1962 | NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule |
| 1961 | 1st full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful |
| 1961 | British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive |
| 1961 | Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 minutes for cricket draw vs West Indies |
| 1960 | 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) |
| 1960 | 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth |
| 1960 | 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) |
| 1960 | Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender |
| 1959 | Swiss males vote against voting rights for women |
| 1959 | Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) |
| 1959 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| 1959 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| 1959 | WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1959 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament |
| 1959 | Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1958 | 1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched |
| 1958 | Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic |
| 1958 | WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline |
| 1957 | Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1956 | Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
| 1956 | WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark |
| 1954 | 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres |
| 1954 | Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire |
| 1954 | Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem |
| 1953 | "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts |
| 1953 | "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television |
| 1953 | Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female Assistant Secretary of State |
| 1953 | Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835 |
| 1953 | WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
| 1952 | SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | -50 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record) |
| 1951 | 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated |
| 1951 | 1st telecast of atomic explosion |
| 1951 | Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed |
| 1951 | United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes |
| 1950 | Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
| 1949 | 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used |
| 1949 | RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm) |
| 1948 | Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates |
| 1948 | Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed |
| 1947 | Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists |
| 1947 | Dmitri Shostakovich named professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
| 1947 | NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established |
| 1946 | Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president |
| 1946 | Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Secretary-General of UN |
| 1945 | U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
| 1944 | Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy |
| 1944 | U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
| 1943 | German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
| 1943 | Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Netherlands) |
| 1942 | 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms |
| 1941 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
| 1941 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
| 1940 | Russia begins new offensive against Finland |
| 1937 | Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port |
| 1935 | 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol |
| 1935 | James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy |
| 1934 | Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his |
| 1933 | Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname |
| 1933 | Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions |
| 1933 | German Parliament disolves, General Ludendorf predicts catastrophe |
| 1932 | Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th |
| 1930 | Arnold Schonbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt |
| 1929 | 1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402 lbs |
| 1926 | Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR |
| 1926 | Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch |
| 1925 | 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin |
| 1924 | Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens |
| 1924 | New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. |
| 1924 | Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg |
| 1924 | Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain |
| 1923 | Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel |
| 1923 | Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini |
| 1923 | Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London |
| 1920 | 1st commercial armored car introduced in St. Paul Minn |
| 1920 | Soccer team Quick Boys forms |
| 1920 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police |
| 1919 | Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert |
| 1918 | Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest |
| 1918 | Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) |
| 1917 | Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war |
| 1914 | New York Giants and Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt |
| 1914 | Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed |
| 1914 | Tanganyika Railway opens |
| 1910 | 1st British labour exchange opens |
| 1910 | Dragoumis government forms in Greece |
| 1909 | U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens |
| 1906 | 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas |
| 1906 | English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured |
| 1905 | Hague soccer team ADO froms |
| 1905 | Hungarian premier Tisza resigns |
| 1902 | China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet |
| 1902 | Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin |
| 1898 | 1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Co |
| 1896 | Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin |
| 1893 | Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin |
| 1893 | Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey |
| 1892 | Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of "400" to describe socially elite |
| 1887 | Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) |
| 1884 | 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published |
| 1883 | French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger |
| 1881 | U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized |
| 1871 | Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates) |
| 1867 | Bricklayers start working 8-hour days |
| 1865 | 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) |
| 1865 | General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins |
| 1865 | J. S. Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar |
| 1864 | 2nd German-Danish war begins |
| 1864 | Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein |
| 1862 | Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic" |
| 1861 | Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands |
| 1861 | Texas becomes 7th state to secede |
| 1860 | 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York City |
| 1846 | Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation |
| 1840 | Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated |
| 1814 | Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication |
| 1814 | Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200 |
| 1810 | 1st insurance co managed by blacks, American Insurance Company of Philadelphia |
| 1810 | Seville, Spain surrenders to French |
| 1810 | U.S. Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%) |
| 1809 | Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system |
| 1793 | France declares war on England and Netherlands |
| 1793 | Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk and linen |
| 1790 | Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (New York City) |
| 1789 | Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long |
| 1788 | 1st U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet |
| 1783 | William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex |
| 1742 | Sardinia and Austria sign alliance |
| 1732 | Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions |
| 1720 | Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 1717 | Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France |
| 1709 | Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez |
| 1669 | French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion |
| 1662 | Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates |
| 1587 | English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence |
| 1539 | Emperor Karel and King Francois I sign anti-English treaty |
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