| 2013 | Citing frail health, Pope Benedict XVI announces his resignation effective February 28, 2013; he is the first Pope to resign since Pope Gregory XII in 1415 |
| 2013 | Parliamentary elections are held in Monaco, with the the Horizon Monaco alliance winning 50.3% of the vote, securing 20 of 24 seats in the country's National Council |
| 2012 | Hundreds of thousands of people protest against austerity measures in Portugal's capital of Lisbon |
| 2012 | American singer and actress Whitney Houston dies suddenly at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel in California at age 48 |
| 2011 | President Hosni Mubarak relinquishes power to the head of the Higher Military Council of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Mohamed Hussein Tantawi |
| 2011 | North Korea places requests with its worldwide embassies to appeal for aid to feed its population |
| 2010 | A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece's economy |
| 2009 | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe |
| 2006 | Dick Cheney accidentally shoots friend in a hunting accident |
| 1998 | KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview |
| 1998 | Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997," auctioned for $442,500 |
| 1997 | Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets |
| 1997 | STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches |
| 1996 | 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio |
| 1995 | Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46) |
| 1995 | Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec) |
| 1995 | Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec) |
| 1995 | Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands |
| 1995 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| 1995 | West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand |
| 1994 | Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA |
| 1994 | Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands |
| 1993 | Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester, New York on WRQI |
| 1993 | Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 seconds) |
| 1993 | Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General |
| 1992 | F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) |
| 1992 | Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) |
| 1991 | UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague |
| 1990 | 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami |
| 1990 | James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown |
| 1990 | Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa |
| 1990 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| 1989 | Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) |
| 1989 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| 1988 | Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court |
| 1987 | British Airways begins trading stocks |
| 1987 | England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1987 | Philippines constitution goes into effect |
| 1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1986 | Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country |
| 1986 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1986 | Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq |
| 1985 | Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord |
| 1985 | Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins |
| 1985 | Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, New Zealand still wins |
| 1984 | 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth |
| 1984 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 |
| 1983 | "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" debut LP |
| 1983 | 4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18"(46 cm)) |
| 1982 | Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through |
| 1981 | Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win |
| 1981 | Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski |
| 1979 | "They're Playing Our Song" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances |
| 1979 | 43 million watch "Elvis!" on ABC |
| 1979 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 1979 | Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power |
| 1979 | Musical "They're Playing Our Song," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| 1978 | 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin |
| 1978 | China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens |
| 1978 | EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus |
| 1977 | 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) |
| 1976 | Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army |
| 1975 | Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership |
| 1974 | Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule |
| 1974 | Titan-Centaur Test launch fails |
| 1974 | 1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000 |
| 1973 | 1st one-day international for Pakistan and New Zealand |
| 1973 | 1st sub 17-minute 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s) |
| 1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic |
| 1973 | Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
| 1971 | Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal |
| 1971 | U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons |
| 1970 | 26.37 cm (10.38") of rainfall, Mount Washington, New Hampshire (state 24-hour rec) |
| 1970 | Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit |
| 1970 | John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland |
| 1969 | Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah |
| 1969 | Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ |
| 1968 | Israeli-Jordan border fight |
| 1968 | Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York |
| 1968 | Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City) |
| 1966 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year |
| 1965 | Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox |
| 1965 | Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee |
| 1964 | Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum |
| 1964 | Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus |
| 1964 | Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France |
| 1963 | Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
| 1963 | CIA Domestic Operations Division created |
| 1962 | Beatles record "Please, Please Me" |
| 1961 | Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black |
| 1961 | Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem |
| 1960 | Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
| 1959 | Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) |
| 1958 | 1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York |
| 1958 | Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Minister of Foreign affairs |
| 1958 | WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president |
| 1954 | 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins |
| 1953 | "Hazel Flagg" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances |
| 1953 | J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical "Hazel Flagg," premieres in New York City |
| 1953 | President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple |
| 1953 | Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1951 | Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
| 1950 | "Rag Mop" by The Ames Brothers hit #1 |
| 1949 | Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title |
| 1948 | Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut England vs. WI, out for 140 |
| 1948 | John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland |
| 1948 | Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain |
| 1945 | 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California |
| 1945 | Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin |
| 1944 | German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy |
| 1944 | U-424 sunk off Ireland |
| 1943 | General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe |
| 1943 | Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 1942 | "Archie" comic book debuts |
| 1941 | Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli |
| 1941 | Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
| 1938 | Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ |
| 1937 | 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan ends |
| 1936 | Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay |
| 1935 | -11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low) |
| 1935 | 1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York |
| 1932 | 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February |
| 1929 | Eugene O'Neill's "Dynamo," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome |
| 1928 | 2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1927 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
| 1927 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
| 1926 | Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to New Zealand |
| 1922 | "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1 |
| 1922 | U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras |
| 1921 | Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City |
| 1919 | Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany |
| 1916 | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert |
| 1916 | Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control |
| 1908 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England |
| 1908 | Heemskerk's government begins in Holland |
| 1907 | De Master's Dutch government resigns |
| 1905 | James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands |
| 1905 | Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos |
| 1903 | Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna |
| 1902 | Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels |
| 1899 | -15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record) |
| 1899 | -61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature) |
| 1898 | Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia |
| 1897 | White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City |
| 1896 | Oscar Wildes "Salom" premieres in Paris |
| 1895 | -17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record) |
| 1895 | Georgetown became part of Washington D.C. |
| 1889 | Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 |
| 1878 | 1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms |
| 1878 | 1st weekly Weather report published in UK |
| 1873 | Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I |
| 1861 | President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C. |
| 1861 | U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state |
| 1858 | 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France |
| 1854 | Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time |
| 1852 | 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) |
| 1851 | 1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston |
| 1843 | Opera "I Lombardi," premieres in Milan |
| 1840 | Gaetano Donizetti's Opera "La Fille du Regiment," premieres in Paris |
| 1837 | American Physiological Society organizes in Boston |
| 1826 | London University founded |
| 1814 | Norway's independence proclaimed |
| 1812 | Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st "gerrymander" |
| 1811 | President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years |
| 1810 | Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria |
| 1809 | Robert Fulton patents steamboat |
| 1808 | Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa |
| 1794 | 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public |
| 1793 | Prussian troops occupy Venlo, Netherlands |
| 1790 | Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery |
| 1768 | Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes |
| 1766 | Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia |
| 1752 | Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened |
| 1720 | Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) |
| 1638 | Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode |
| 1575 | King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe |
| 1573 | 1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama) |
| 1543 | Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army |
| 1543 | Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant |
| 1531 | Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England |
| 824 | St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 385 | Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona |
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