| 2001 | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros) |
| 1995 | Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas |
| 1995 | Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d |
| 1994 | Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33) |
| 1994 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons |
| 1993 | Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79 |
| 1992 | Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec) |
| 1992 | Cease fire in Somalia begins |
| 1992 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) |
| 1992 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec) |
| 1991 | "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances |
| 1991 | NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
| 1990 | Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London |
| 1990 | Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some |
| 1990 | Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system |
| 1989 | African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
| 1989 | Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens |
| 1989 | Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie |
| 1989 | Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep |
| 1989 | Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster |
| 1989 | World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens |
| 1988 | 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| 1988 | Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
| 1988 | Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
| 1988 | General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden |
| 1988 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1987 | 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit |
| 1985 | Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut |
| 1984 | Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia |
| 1982 | "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall |
| 1982 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 1980 | "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances |
| 1980 | 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York |
| 1980 | U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares |
| 1979 | "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances |
| 1978 | 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments |
| 1978 | In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station |
| 1972 | John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week |
| 1972 | Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon |
| 1971 | Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television |
| 1971 | Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House |
| 1970 | "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance |
| 1968 | Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central |
| 1968 | WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Aretha Franklin records "Respect" |
| 1967 | Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up |
| 1966 | Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps |
| 1966 | Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points |
| 1966 | Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty |
| 1963 | U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1 |
| 1962 | 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV |
| 1961 | Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California |
| 1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational |
| 1960 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1960 | Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| 1959 | $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City |
| 1958 | Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms |
| 1957 | Georgia Senate unanimously approves Senator Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites |
| 1956 | 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
| 1956 | Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union |
| 1956 | Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate |
| 1955 | WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins |
| 1954 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1954 | Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press" |
| 1954 | WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway |
| 1952 | Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller |
| 1951 | Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title |
| 1950 | Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg |
| 1950 | U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty |
| 1949 | 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) |
| 1949 | Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses |
| 1946 | Bank of England nationalized |
| 1945 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| 1945 | Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN |
| 1944 | Anti-Japanese revolt on Java |
| 1944 | Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing |
| 1943 | German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
| 1943 | Soviets recapture Rostov |
| 1942 | Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra |
| 1942 | Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
| 1941 | 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel |
| 1941 | Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published |
| 1941 | Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street |
| 1941 | German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
| 1940 | British merchant vessel fleet is armed |
| 1939 | Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind |
| 1936 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1936 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1934 | NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto |
| 1932 | South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Australia (Ironmonger 5-6) |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 152 Australia vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives |
| 1931 | Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls |
| 1929 | St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed |
| 1925 | State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed |
| 1924 | IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson |
| 1921 | Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized |
| 1921 | Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY |
| 1920 | League of Women Voters forms in Chicago |
| 1919 | United Parcel Service forms |
| 1918 | H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1) |
| 1914 | High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands |
| 1912 | 1st U.S. submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut |
| 1912 | Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state |
| 1907 | 1st U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City |
| 1903 | U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms |
| 1900 | Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock" |
| 1899 | U.S. Congress begins using voting machines |
| 1896 | George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning |
| 1896 | South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever |
| 1896 | Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0 |
| 1896 | Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat" |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London |
| 1894 | Venus is both a morning star and evening star |
| 1890 | 1st NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game |
| 1889 | 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east |
| 1887 | Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000 |
| 1883 | 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions |
| 1879 | Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta |
| 1876 | A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor |
| 1872 | 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California) |
| 1867 | Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy |
| 1867 | Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia) |
| 1862 | Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut |
| 1859 | Oregon admitted as 33rd state |
| 1848 | James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady |
| 1803 | Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania |
| 1794 | 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia |
| 1778 | "Stars and Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France) |
| 1766 | Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels |
| 1746 | Henry Pelham appointed English premier |
| 1711 | Handels opera Rinaldo, premieres |
| 1689 | English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne |
| 1670 | Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna |
| 1630 | Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil |
| 1613 | King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik |
| 1610 | Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki |
| 1556 | Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic |
| 1540 | Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels |
| 1130 | Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II |
| 1076 | Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV |
| 1014 | Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor |
| 842 | Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty |
