| 2006 | Al-Askari Mosque is bombed, setting off protests and violence across Iraq |
| 2006 | Apple's iTunes store sells it's 1 billionth song |
| 1998 | "King and I," closes at Neil Simon Theater New York City after 781 performances |
| 1998 | 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan |
| 1997 | Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open |
| 1996 | "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 29 performances |
| 1996 | Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice |
| 1996 | STS-75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit |
| 1995 | Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters |
| 1995 | Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km) |
| 1994 | "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya |
| 1993 | Vinod Kambli scores 224 vs. England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours |
| 1992 | "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box New York City |
| 1992 | Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox |
| 1992 | Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37 |
| 1992 | Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament |
| 1992 | Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) and Courtney Love (Hole), wed |
| 1991 | Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32) |
| 1991 | Bush and U.S. Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hours to begin Kuwait withdrawal |
| 1991 | Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA |
| 1991 | Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs New Zealand at Hamilton |
| 1990 | 1st day India vs New Zealand cricket at Auckland New Zealand 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps |
| 1989 | Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress |
| 1989 | New York Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50) |
| 1989 | U.K. physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud" |
| 1989 | U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" |
| 1989 | 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman |
| 1989 | 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award) |
| 1988 | Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec) |
| 1987 | Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec) |
| 1984 | Brothers Anton and Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec |
| 1983 | Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary |
| 1983 | Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India |
| 1983 | Vladimir Salnikov (U.S.S.R.) sets 1500m free style swimming record |
| 1982 | New York City Mayor Koch announces he will run for New York governor (unsuccessful) |
| 1981 | Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Afghanistan declares martial law |
| 1980 | USA beats U.S.S.R. in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal |
| 1979 | Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's |
| 1979 | Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate and Cat Building is dedicated |
| 1979 | St. Lucia gains independence from Britain |
| 1978 | 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tennessee |
| 1976 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic |
| 1974 | Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators |
| 1973 | U.S. and China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing and Washington D.C. |
| 1972 | Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir and Prime Minister of Qatar |
| 1972 | President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing |
| 1971 | Lieutenant General Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria |
| 1970 | "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| 1969 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track |
| 1968 | Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun" |
| 1967 | Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in New York City |
| 1967 | Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL |
| 1967 | 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border |
| 1966 | Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) |
| 1964 | Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st U.S. visit |
| 1963 | Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts |
| 1959 | 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH) |
| 1958 | "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1958 | Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days |
| 1958 | Egypt and Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR) |
| 1958 | Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes |
| 1957 | Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win |
| 1957 | Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958 |
| 1956 | 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1955 | British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail |
| 1950 | Brockway and Weinstock publish "Men of Music" |
| 1948 | Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die |
| 1945 | Arab League froms (Cairo) |
| 1945 | British troops take Ramree Island, Burma |
| 1945 | Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland |
| 1944 | U.S. 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem and Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die |
| 1941 | Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal |
| 1941 | German assault on El Agheila Libya |
| 1941 | IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp |
| 1941 | Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam |
| 1941 | Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres |
| 1941 | Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres |
| 1940 | Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island |
| 1940 | German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 |
| 1939 | Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
| 1936 | Construction on Ypenburg Netherlands airport begins |
| 1935 | Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House |
| 1934 | "It Happened One Night," opens at New York's Radio City Music Hall |
| 1933 | Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50 |
| 1932 | Purple Heart award reinstituted |
| 1928 | 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler) |
| 1927 | ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine |
| 1927 | Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum |
| 1923 | 1st successful chinchilla farm in U.S. (Los Angeles California) |
| 1923 | Transcontinental airmail service begins |
| 1922 | Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin |
| 1920 | 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track in Emeryville, California |
| 1918 | Germany claims Baltic states, Finland and Ukraine from Russia |
| 1917 | German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships |
| 1915 | Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war |
| 1913 | Lowell HS, San Francisco opens (on it's 1st campus) |
| 1912 | J. Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph - 161.29 kph |
| 1909 | Great White Fleet, 1st U.S. fleet to circle the globe, returns to Virginia |
| 1907 | 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London |
| 1907 | Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1906 | Black evangelist William J. Seymour arrives in Los Angeles California |
| 1903 | Due to drought the U.S. side of Niagara Falls runs short of water |
| 1900 | Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) |
| 1900 | Hawaii became a U.S. territory |
| 1892 | "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St. James (London) |
| 1892 | Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1889 | Dakotas, Montana and Washington admitted to union |
| 1889 | President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana and Washington state |
| 1888 | John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans in Yonkers, New York |
| 1887 | Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati |
| 1882 | With 120 miles James Saunders wins New York City's 24 hour race and $100 prize |
| 1879 | 1st 5 and 10 store opened by Frank W. Woolworth (Utica New York) |
| 1878 | Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio) |
| 1876 | Johns Hopkins University opens |
| 1872 | 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio) |
| 1865 | Battle of Wilmington, North Carolina (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals |
| 1865 | Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery |
| 1864 | Battle at Dalton Georgia |
| 1864 | 2nd/last day of Battle of Okolona, Mississippi |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee |
| 1861 | On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration |
| 1860 | Organized baseball played in San Francisco for 1st time |
| 1860 | Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages |
| 1858 | Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in New York City |
| 1856 | 1st national meeting of Republican Party in Pittsburgh |
| 1854 | 1st meeting of Republican Party in Michigan |
| 1847 | Battle of Buena Vista: U.S. troops beat Mexican army |
| 1836 | Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile |
| 1828 | Russia and Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai |
| 1825 | Russia and Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary |
| 1821 | Spain sells eastern Florida to United States for $5 million |
| 1819 | Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onis Treaty) |
| 1784 | 1st U.S. ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from New York |
| 1775 | 1st U.S. joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents |
| 1775 | Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland |
| 1774 | English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright |
| 1746 | French troops conquer Brussels |
| 1746 | Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen |
| 1744 | Battle at Toulon: English-French and Spanish fleet |
| 1656 | New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site |
| 1630 | Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving |
| 1561 | William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais |
| 1495 | French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown |
| 1349 | Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland |
| 1300 | Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree |
| 1288 | Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV |
| 1281 | Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV |
| 1071 | Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I |
| 896 | Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor |
