| 2009 | Iran launches first domestically made satellite, Omid, into orbit |
| 1998 | Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in New York City for cocaine overdose |
| 1998 | Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board |
| 1997 | "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin New York City |
| 1997 | Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am |
| 1997 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT) |
| 1997 | Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic |
| 1996 | Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA |
| 1995 | "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1995 | Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket |
| 1995 | U.S. space shuttle Discovery launched |
| 1993 | Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song |
| 1993 | Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec) |
| 1992 | Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec) |
| 1992 | David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 vs. India at Perth |
| 1992 | IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M) |
| 1992 | Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40) |
| 1992 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15 |
| 1991 | Aravinda De Silva scores 267 vs. New Zealand at Wellington |
| 1991 | U.S. postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents |
| 1990 | Marina Ogilvy, daughter of English princess Alexandra, weds Paul Mowatt |
| 1990 | South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs |
| 1989 | 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C) or below in 15 U.S. states |
| 1989 | FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
| 1989 | NL announces Yankees' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president |
| 1988 | David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* vs. England at Sydney |
| 1987 | Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires |
| 1987 | Philippines adopts constitution |
| 1986 | "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz New York City after 13 performances |
| 1986 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India |
| 1986 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24 |
| 1986 | Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
| 1985 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 1984 | 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards |
| 1984 | Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
| 1983 | Chicago Absp Joseph L. Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested |
| 1983 | Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals |
| 1982 | "Late Night with David Letterman" premieres on NBC |
| 1982 | Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria |
| 1982 | San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead |
| 1980 | FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors |
| 1977 | Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1977 | Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer |
| 1977 | Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman |
| 1976 | "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV |
| 1976 | "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1976 | Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1975 | Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia |
| 1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1975 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 1975 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 1974 | Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were" |
| 1974 | Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary" |
| 1974 | Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641) |
| 1973 | "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1973 | James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA |
| 1973 | Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA |
| 1973 | Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs. Pakistan, Wellington |
| 1972 | Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame |
| 1972 | Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London |
| 1971 | Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda |
| 1970 | Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points |
| 1969 | KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1968 | Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed |
| 1967 | Bolivia adopts its constitution |
| 1967 | Formation of American Basketball Association is announced |
| 1965 | Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton |
| 1964 | GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy |
| 1964 | Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating |
| 1964 | Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame |
| 1963 | Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard) |
| 1962 | 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) |
| 1962 | 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1961 | Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam |
| 1960 | Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
| 1959 | Buddy Holly's last performance |
| 1959 | Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers |
| 1958 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open |
| 1958 | Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic |
| 1958 | WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, Puerto Rico (PTC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 73 performances |
| 1957 | United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt |
| 1956 | Coasters sign with Atlantic Records |
| 1955 | 1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC |
| 1954 | Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game |
| 1954 | President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952 |
| 1954 | Snow falls on Gibraltar |
| 1951 | -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994) |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | "Arms and the Girl" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 134 performances |
| 1950 | 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV |
| 1949 | 1st 45 RPM record released |
| 1949 | Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident |
| 1948 | President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
| 1946 | "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| 1945 | Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp |
| 1944 | 4th U.S. marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands |
| 1944 | Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
| 1944 | Baseball meets in New York City to discuss postwar action |
| 1944 | Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in New York City |
| 1943 | Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army |
| 1943 | Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest |
| 1943 | German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II |
| 1942 | Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans |
| 1942 | U.S. auto factories switch from commercial to war production |
| 1940 | Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra |
| 1935 | Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage, Wisconsin |
| 1934 | Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism |
| 1933 | 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament |
| 1933 | Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany |
| 1933 | Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin |
| 1932 | Al Capone sent to prison |
| 1932 | Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries |
| 1932 | Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs. South Africa (7-116 and 7-83) |
| 1932 | Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
| 1931 | 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students |
| 1931 | 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail, Austria |
| 1927 | Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave and 54th St. New York City |
| 1926 | 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours |
| 1925 | Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism |
| 1925 | Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km |
| 1925 | NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began |
| 1924 | International Ski Federation (FIS) forms |
| 1923 | Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio |
| 1923 | United States signs friendship treaty with Central American countries |
| 1922 | It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22 |
| 1922 | James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies) |
| 1920 | Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) |
| 1920 | France occupies (German) Memel territory |
| 1920 | Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: U.S.S.R. recognizes Estonian independence |
| 1919 | Monarchist riot in Portugal |
| 1914 | James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in New York City |
| 1913 | N.Y. Giants sign Jim Thorpe |
| 1913 | New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens |
| 1912 | Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe) |
| 1909 | Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
| 1906 | Pope encyclical against separation of church and state |
| 1904 | U.S. blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey |
| 1901 | Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
| 1900 | Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris |
| 1894 | U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island |
| 1893 | 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ |
| 1892 | Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) |
| 1892 | Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England vs. Australia SCG |
| 1892 | Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby |
| 1882 | Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn |
| 1880 | SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton |
| 1878 | Greece declares war on Turkey |
| 1876 | Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis |
| 1870 | Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum |
| 1870 | Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York |
| 1869 | James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade |
| 1863 | Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time |
| 1854 | Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians" |
| 1852 | 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London) |
| 1852 | Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camelias," premieres in Paris |
| 1848 | 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco |
| 1848 | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million |
| 1843 | U.S. and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee |
| 1829 | Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does 60,000 pounds damage |
| 1823 | Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice |
| 1811 | Russian settlers establish Ft. Ross trading post, north of SF |
| 1802 | 1st leopard exhibited in U.S., Boston (admission 25 cents ) |
| 1798 | Federal St. Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in U.S. destroyed by fire |
| 1795 | Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres |
| 1762 | Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London |
| 1742 | British Walpole government resigns |
| 1732 | King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia |
| 1731 | Georg F Handels opera "Poro," premieres in London |
| 1714 | Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London |
| 1709 | British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe" |
| 1653 | New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City |
| 1637 | Zorilla's "El mas Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid |
| 1633 | M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome |
| 1550 | English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed |
| 1536 | Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires |
| 1461 | 2nd battle of St. Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists |
| 1141 | Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured |
| 1119 | Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II |
| 1032 | Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy |
| 962 | Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor |
| 506 | King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out |
