| 1998 | Tellabs Inc. acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million |
| 1997 | At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history |
| 1997 | GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open |
| 1997 | Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship |
| 1996 | Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa vs. UAE at Rawalpindi |
| 1994 | 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200 |
| 1994 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500m (1:51.29) |
| 1994 | Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru |
| 1993 | Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 sec) |
| 1992 | Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue |
| 1992 | Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform |
| 1991 | Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands |
| 1991 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding |
| 1989 | Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market |
| 1989 | Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage |
| 1989 | Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract |
| 1989 | Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs $7.5M-3 year contract |
| 1989 | William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia |
| 1988 | 1st documented combat action by U.S. military advisors in El Salvador |
| 1987 | John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins |
| 1986 | "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 24 performances |
| 1986 | French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad |
| 1986 | Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater |
| 1986 | Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14) |
| 1986 | Mario Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president |
| 1985 | Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit |
| 1985 | Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ |
| 1985 | New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds |
| 1984 | Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold |
| 1984 | New Jersey Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5 |
| 1982 | Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female president of Malta |
| 1982 | Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad |
| 1982 | Lee Majors and Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce |
| 1980 | Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France |
| 1980 | Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record) |
| 1979 | George Harrison releases "Blow Away" |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1978 | 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward and Randy's CBBS, Chicago) |
| 1977 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating Kansas City Scouts 3-0 |
| 1973 | WI vs. Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers |
| 1972 | 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games) |
| 1972 | German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed |
| 1972 | Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe WI vs. New Zealand Kingston, 214 and 100 |
| 1972 | Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns |
| 1970 | Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1968 | Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala |
| 1968 | Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" |
| 1968 | Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| 1967 | Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame |
| 1966 | Bob Cowper makes 307 vs. England at the MCG, 727 minutes, 20 fours |
| 1966 | End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK |
| 1966 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| 1965 | "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 313 performances |
| 1965 | Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors |
| 1964 | "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| 1964 | Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| 1963 | 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of U.S.) |
| 1963 | Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me" |
| 1963 | C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down |
| 1962 | Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres |
| 1962 | U.S. Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win |
| 1961 | 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Va |
| 1961 | China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor |
| 1961 | U.S. satellite Explorer 9 is launched |
| 1960 | U.S. nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista |
| 1959 | Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One," premieres in New York City |
| 1958 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1956 | Britain abolishes death penalty |
| 1954 | WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33 |
| 1952 | Ian Craig makes NSW cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (NSW record) |
| 1951 | New York City passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing |
| 1951 | SF City Hall dome fire |
| 1950 | Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS |
| 1950 | Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1948 | 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC |
| 1948 | Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time |
| 1947 | Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres |
| 1946 | "Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1946 | 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport Connecticut |
| 1945 | U.S. forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3 |
| 1945 | Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany |
| 1943 | -32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record) |
| 1943 | British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia |
| 1943 | Red army conquers Kharkov |
| 1943 | Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa |
| 1943 | Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22 |
| 1942 | German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery |
| 1940 | British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway |
| 1938 | U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program authorized |
| 1937 | DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers |
| 1937 | Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage," premieres in Paris |
| 1936 | 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany |
| 1936 | Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections |
| 1933 | Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists |
| 1933 | England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics |
| 1932 | 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree |
| 1931 | Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland |
| 1929 | KID-AM in Idaho Falls, Idaho begins radio transmissions |
| 1927 | Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London |
| 1927 | U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Turkey |
| 1926 | Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France |
| 1923 | Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory |
| 1923 | Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen |
| 1923 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 1923 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 1918 | Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day) |
| 1917 | 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid |
| 1916 | Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia |
| 1915 | Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season |
| 1914 | 1st airplane flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco |
| 1913 | President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico |
| 1912 | VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| 1909 | 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City |
| 1909 | Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
| 1905 | 1st U.S. Esperanto club organizes in Boston |
| 1903 | -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record) |
| 1900 | 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF) |
| 1900 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1 |
| 1899 | Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (England vs. South Africa Johannesburg) |
| 1894 | British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast |
| 1892 | Opera "Werther," premieres in Vienna |
| 1887 | 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York |
| 1887 | Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5) |
| 1883 | "Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing |
| 1880 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (New York City) |
| 1878 | Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender |
| 1868 | Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms (New York) |
| 1862 | Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) |
| 1860 | Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns |
| 1857 | Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.) |
| 1854 | Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus," premieres |
| 1846 | Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India |
| 1840 | American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica |
| 1838 | Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions |
| 1832 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reache St-Pauls, 1 degrees N, 29 degrees W |
| 1824 | Athenaeum founded |
| 1804 | Lt. Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it |
| 1777 | Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice) |
| 1771 | Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy |
| 1760 | Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George |
| 1751 | 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" |
| 1742 | Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier |
| 1741 | Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing |
| 1677 | Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower |
| 1666 | Netherlands and Brandenburg sign treaty |
| 1659 | 1st known check (400 pounds) (on display at Westminster Abbey) |
| 1655 | Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker |
| 1641 | English king Charles I accept Triennial Act |
| 1559 | Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy |
| 1512 | Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen |
| 1486 | Diet of Frankfort |
| 600 | Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze |
| 374 | 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
