| 2008 | Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issues a formal apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia |
| 2000 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship |
| 2000 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship |
| 1997 | "Three Sisters," opens at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1997 | Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope |
| 1996 | Howard Stern announces he will be making the film "Private Parts" |
| 1996 | Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway |
| 1995 | West Indies beat New Zealand by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55 |
| 1994 | 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis |
| 1994 | Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m |
| 1994 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96 |
| 1994 | Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200 |
| 1993 | Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) |
| 1993 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) |
| 1993 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) |
| 1992 | "Most Happy Fella" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 229 performances |
| 1992 | Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW |
| 1992 | West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game |
| 1991 | Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
| 1991 | U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334 |
| 1990 | 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa |
| 1990 | Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
| 1990 | U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify |
| 1989 | Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed |
| 1989 | Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison |
| 1988 | 15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada |
| 1988 | Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) |
| 1988 | European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992 |
| 1988 | Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) |
| 1988 | Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) |
| 1987 | Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator |
| 1985 | Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier |
| 1985 | Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders |
| 1984 | 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant |
| 1984 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader |
| 1983 | "Merlin" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| 1983 | 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA |
| 1983 | Australia beats New Zealand 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
| 1983 | E Bernstein, Levinson and Link's musical "Merlin" premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
| 1982 | Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week |
| 1982 | Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers |
| 1981 | Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words |
| 1980 | Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated |
| 1980 | New Zealand beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin |
| 1979 | 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1979 | Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
| 1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1977 | "Guys and Dolls" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 239 performances |
| 1977 | "Ipi Tombi" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 39 performances |
| 1977 | "Robber Bridegroom" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 145 performances |
| 1977 | Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship |
| 1977 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1976 | Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes |
| 1975 | Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
| 1974 | "Rainbow Jones" opens and closes at Music Box Theater New York City |
| 1974 | Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. |
| 1974 | James "Cool Papa" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1973 | Musical "El Grande de Coca-Cola," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent |
| 1972 | "1776" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,217 performances |
| 1972 | "Grease" opens on Broadway |
| 1972 | 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan |
| 1971 | 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos |
| 1971 | Golfing Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2 |
| 1970 | Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi |
| 1970 | NL offices begins move from Cincinnati to San Francisco (completed February 23) |
| 1969 | Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
| 1969 | Suriname government of Pengel resigns |
| 1968 | U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1965 | Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title |
| 1965 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 1965 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
| 1961 | Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records |
| 1961 | Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus |
| 1960 | "Beg, Borrow or Steal" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1960 | "Saratoga" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances |
| 1960 | France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
| 1959 | Barbie doll goes on sale |
| 1959 | Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns |
| 1957 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans |
| 1956 | KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland |
| 1955 | Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls |
| 1955 | KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | Patty Berg wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1954 | Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95 |
| 1953 | A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium |
| 1952 | Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win |
| 1948 | Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings |
| 1948 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy and Baugniet of BEL |
| 1948 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA |
| 1948 | Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England |
| 1946 | "Duchess Misbehaves" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1945 | Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die |
| 1945 | Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy |
| 1945 | U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die |
| 1943 | German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front |
| 1943 | Women's Marine Corps created |
| 1942 | Hitler's Operation Seelowe (invasion of England) cancelled |
| 1941 | Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council |
| 1940 | Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Australia at the WACA |
| 1937 | "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail |
| 1937 | Bradman scores 123 SA vs. Queensland, 165 minutes, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket |
| 1937 | Maribel Vinson wins her 9th U.S. figure skating championship |
| 1937 | NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington D.C. |
| 1937 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1937 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1935 | 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland |
| 1935 | Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant |
| 1934 | Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party |
| 1932 | "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland to "Our Gang" |
| 1929 | Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier |
| 1929 | Vladimir Mayakofsky's "Klop," premieres in Moscow |
| 1927 | Uprising against Portuguese regime of General Carmona defeated |
| 1925 | U.S. Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult |
| 1924 | King Tut's tomb opened |
| 1923 | 1st Black pro Basketball team, "Renaissance," organizes |
| 1920 | League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland |
| 1920 | Switzerland rejoin League of Nations |
| 1914 | American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City |
| 1912 | England regains cricket's Ashes |
| 1907 | English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested |
| 1905 | -29 degrees F (-34 degrees C) Pond, Arkansas (state record) |
| 1905 | -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record) |
| 1905 | -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record) |
| 1899 | -16 degrees F (-27 degrees C), Minden Louisiana (state record) |
| 1899 | -1 degrees F (-18 degrees C) New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 1899 | -2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record) |
| 1895 | Moving picture projector patented |
| 1886 | Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class |
| 1867 | Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna |
| 1866 | Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000) |
| 1864 | Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi |
| 1861 | 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor |
| 1861 | Abraham Lincoln declared president |
| 1861 | Col Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians |
| 1860 | King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes |
| 1858 | Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa |
| 1837 | Riot in New York over high price of flour |
| 1832 | 1st appearance of cholera at London |
| 1826 | American Temperance Society, forms in Boston |
| 1816 | Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire |
| 1809 | French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege |
| 1799 | 1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts |
| 1795 | 1st state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina |
| 1786 | Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia |
| 1782 | French fleet occupies St. Christopher |
| 1777 | de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress |
| 1755 | Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java |
| 1741 | Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) |
| 1706 | Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen |
| 1693 | College of William and Mary opens |
| 1692 | MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III |
| 1689 | British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights |
| 1668 | Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal |
| 1651 | Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo |
| 1635 | Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded |
| 1633 | Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun |
| 1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London |
| 1578 | Tycho Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system |
| 1566 | St. Augustine, Florida founded |
| 1545 | Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange |
| 1510 | Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal |
| 1349 | Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland |
| 1130 | Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II |
