| 2013 | NASA loses communication with the International Space Station's for three hours as a result of updating the station's command and control software |
| 2013 | During a U.N. conference on disarmament, North Korea threatens to destroy South Korea |
| 2012 | In Rio de Janeiro, a record 2.2 million people attend the Bola Preta street party during Rio's carnival |
| 2012 | In a retaliatory move against E.U. sanctions, Iran stops all exports to France and the United Kingdom |
| 2011 | In the People's Republic of China, the call for a 'Jasmine Revolution' spreads online as authorities hunt down political activists |
| 2010 | The Vatican approves of Australian Mary MacKillop as their first saint for canonization |
| 2003 | Iranian Revolutionary Guard military flight crashes into the Sirach Mountains, killing 275 |
| 1998 | Soyuz TM-26 lands |
| 1998 | U.S. hockey team destroys their rooms at Olympic village in Japan |
| 1997 | FCC makes available 311 for non-emergency calls and 711 for hearing or speech-impaired emergency calls |
| 1996 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in York, Pennsylvania on WQXA 105.7 FM |
| 1995 | 1st broadcast of "Woman of Independent Means" on NBC-TV |
| 1995 | Irina Privalova runs indoor woman's European record 200m (22.10 sec) |
| 1995 | Kenneth Koch wins Bollingen Prize |
| 1995 | Linford Christie runs world record 200m indoor (20.25 sec) |
| 1995 | Linford Christie runs European record 60m indoor (6.47 sec) |
| 1995 | Michael Tippett's "Rose Lake," premieres |
| 1994 | Marta Figueras-Dotti wins Cup o' Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open |
| 1993 | Kenya Moore, 22, (Michigan), crowned 42nd Miss USA |
| 1992 | "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1622 performances |
| 1992 | Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy for You," premieres in New York City |
| 1992 | Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992 |
| 1990 | Police kill 8 demonstrators for multi party system in Nepal |
| 1990 | Soyuz TM-9 lands |
| 1989 | "Legs Diamond" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 64 performances |
| 1989 | Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize |
| 1988 | Helga Arendt, Silke-Beate Knoll, Mechthild Kluth, Gisela Kinzel walk indoor female world record 4x200m (1:32.55) |
| 1987 | "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 102 performances |
| 1987 | Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner |
| 1987 | Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires |
| 1987 | Minnesota sheriff office arrest FBI most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson |
| 1987 | Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland |
| 1986 | Jordanian King Hussein severs ties with PLO |
| 1986 | U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later |
| 1986 | U.S.S.R. launches Mir space station into Earth orbit |
| 1985 | 150 killed when a Spanish jetliner crashed approaching Bilbao, Spain |
| 1985 | ADM of Amsterdam declares bankruptcy |
| 1985 | Canned and bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola |
| 1985 | Mickey Mouse welcomed in China |
| 1985 | William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky |
| 1984 | "Doonesbury" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 104 performances |
| 1984 | 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1984 | 1st brother combo to win Gold and Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil and Steve Mahre-Slalom) |
| 1983 | Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million |
| 1983 | Vladimir Salnikov (U.S.S.R.) sets 400 m free style swimming record |
| 1982 | Hanneke Jelgersma installed as Netherlands 1st Communist mayor |
| 1982 | Sharie Langford, California, sets women's bowling series record of 853 |
| 1982 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1981 | George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine" |
| 1980 | Botham a century and 13 wickets in Jubilee Test Cricket at Bombay |
| 1980 | Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18 |
| 1978 | "On the 20th Century" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 460 performances |
| 1978 | Brigitte Kraus runs world record 1000 m indoor (2:34.8) |
| 1978 | Coleman, Comden and Green's musical premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | 19th Grammy Awards: This Masquerade, Starland Vocal Band |
| 1977 | A's sell pitcher Paul Lindblad to the Rangers for $400,000 |
| 1977 | Doug Walters scores 250 vs. New Zealand, 217 stand for 7th wicket w/Gilmour |
| 1977 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released |
| 1977 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1977 | Shuttle Enterprise makes 1st Test flight atop a 747 jetliner |
| 1976 | Frente Polisario forms Democratic Republic of Sahara |
| 1972 | Glenn Turner carries his bat for 223* vs. WI at Kingston |
| 1971 | Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK |
| 1971 | Walt Wesley becomes 1st Cleveland Cavalier to score 50 pts in a game |
| 1970 | AL Cy Young winner Denny McLain suspended for bookmaking |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 52 and Molniya 1-13 communications satellite |
| 1969 | 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet |
| 1968 | 1st U.S. Teachers strike in Florida |
| 1967 | Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater |
| 1965 | NFL adds 6th official |
| 1963 | Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize |
| 1963 | U.S.S.R. informs John F. Kennedy it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Albania disavows Chinese "Revisionism" |
| 1961 | Henk van der Grift (Netherlands) becomes world champ all-round skater |
| 1960 | Protest strike in Poznan Poland |
| 1959 | Britain, Turkey and Greece sign agreement granting Cyprus independence |
| 1959 | Gabon adopts its constitution |
| 1959 | USAF rocket-powered rail sled attains Mach 4.1 (4970 kph), New Mexico |
| 1958 | Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records |
| 1956 | Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 1955 | South East Asia Collective Defense Treaty goes into effect |
| 1954 | WAST (now WNYT) TV channel 13 in Albany-Troy, New York (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | Georgia approves U.S. 1st literature censorship board |
| 1953 | Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet |
| 1953 | William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in New York City |
| 1952 | French offensive at Hanoi |
| 1949 | "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater New York City after 339 performances |
| 1949 | 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound |
| 1949 | Mass arrests of communists in India |
| 1947 | CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3" |
| 1946 | Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League |
| 1945 | 30,000 U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima |
| 1945 | 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days |
| 1945 | Brotherhood Day 1st celebrated |
| 1944 | 823 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1944 | U-264 sinks off Ireland |
| 1943 | German tanks under Brigadier General Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia |
| 1942 | About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin |
| 1942 | Bill Longson beats Managoff and Sandor Szabo, to become wrestling champ |
| 1942 | Dutch actors protest obligatory membership of Culture Chamber |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders detention and internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land on Timor |
| 1942 | Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah" |
| 1942 | New York Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games |
| 1941 | Nazi police attacks and driven away from Koco Amsterdam by young Jews |
| 1941 | Nazi raid Amsterdam and round up 429 young Jews for deportation |
| 1938 | Soviet arctic ice research station North Pole 1 evacuated, Denmark |
| 1936 | Manuel Azana becomes Spanish premier |
| 1935 | Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | Bob and Dolores Hope marry |
| 1934 | U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months |
| 1933 | Prussian minister Goering bans all Catholic newspapers |
| 1932 | William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August" |
| 1929 | Medical diathermy machine 1st used, Schenectady, New York |
| 1928 | 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1928 | Canadian hockey team wins 3rd consecutive gold medal |
| 1927 | General strike against British occupiers in Shanghai |
| 1923 | Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony, premieres |
| 1923 | Philip Barry's "You and I," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | Ed Wynn becomes 1st talent to sign as a radio entertainer |
| 1920 | Netherlands joins League of Nations |
| 1919 | Pan-African Congress, organized by W. E. B. Du Bois (Paris) |
| 1915 | British fleet fire on Dardanellen coast |
| 1914 | Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini," premieres in Turin |
| 1913 | 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box |
| 1913 | Mexican General V Huerta takes power with U.S. support |
| 1910 | English premiere of Richard Strauss' "Elektra" |
| 1906 | Will Keith Kellogg found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. |
| 1900 | British troops occupy Hlangwane Natal |
| 1884 | Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana kill 800 people |
| 1881 | Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages |
| 1878 | Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph) |
| 1869 | U.S. Assay Office in Boise, Idaho authorized |
| 1864 | Knights of Pythias form 1st lodge in Washington D.C. (12 members) |
| 1861 | Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom |
| 1859 | Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used |
| 1856 | Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio |
| 1846 | Texas state government formally installed in Austin |
| 1831 | 1st practical U.S. coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania |
| 1825 | Franz Grillparzer's "Konig Ottokars Gluck," premieres in Vienna |
| 1807 | British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelle |
| 1807 | Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent |
| 1803 | Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953 |
| 1797 | 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France |
| 1771 | Messier adds M46-M49 to his catalog (galactic clusters in Puppis and Hydra and galaxy in Virgo) |
| 1736 | Georg F Handel's "Alexander's Feast," premieres |
| 1700 | Last day of Julian calendar in Denmark |
| 1674 | Netherlands and England sign Peace of Westminster (New York City becomes English) |
| 1634 | Battle at Smolensk: Polish king Wladyslaw IV beats Russians |
| 1619 | Trial against Johan van Oldenbarnevelt begins in The Hague |
| 1582 | Francis of Valois becomes duke of Brabant |
| 1574 | Spanish troops plunder Krommenie, Wormerveer and Jisp Netherlands |
| 1539 | Jews of Tyrnau Hungary (then Trnava, Czechoslovakia), expelled |
| 1537 | Weavers of Leiden Netherlands strike |
| 1512 | French troops under Gaston de Foix occupy Brescia |
| 842 | Medieval Iconoclastic Controversy ends as a council in Constantinople formally reinstated the veneration of icons in the churches |
| 607 | Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 356 | Emperor Constantius II shuts all heathen temples |
| 197 | Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon |
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