| 2003 | United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said there is no evidence that Iraq has any weapons of mass destruction |
| 1998 | "View From the Bridge," closes at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1998 | Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is 4th NHLer to get 1,600 points |
| 1997 | Earthquake in Pakistan, kills 45 |
| 1997 | FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia |
| 1997 | Smokers must prove they are over 18 to purchase cigarettes in US |
| 1996 | 38th Grammy Awards: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morisette wins |
| 1995 | Denver International Airport opens |
| 1994 | Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect |
| 1993 | "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 54 performances |
| 1993 | 7th American Comedy Award: Seinfeld wins |
| 1993 | Iolanda Chen triple jumps world indoor record hop step (14.46m) |
| 1993 | Tony Curtis weds Lisa Deutsch as his 4th wife |
| 1991 | "Les Miserables" opens at Theatre Carre, Amsterdam |
| 1991 | "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1991 | Don Mattingly named 10th New York Yankee Captain |
| 1991 | Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16) |
| 1991 | U.S. and allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire |
| 1990 | Dutch police seize 3,000 kg of cocaine |
| 1990 | U.S. 65th manned space mission STS-36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit |
| 1989 | Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA |
| 1989 | Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public |
| 1989 | Red Schoendienst and Al Barlick elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1988 | 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada |
| 1988 | Anti-Armenian pogrom in Azerbaijan, 30 killed |
| 1988 | Pat Verbeek becomes 1st New Jersey Devil to score 4 goals in an NHL game |
| 1988 | Yvonne van Gennip skates world record 5 km ladies (7:14.13) |
| 1986 | European Economic Community sign "Special Act" for Europe free trade |
| 1986 | Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs |
| 1984 | 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8 |
| 1982 | AT and T looses record $7 BILLION for fiscal year ending on this day |
| 1982 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic |
| 1982 | FALN (Puerto Rico Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street |
| 1981 | Calvin Murphy (Houston), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws |
| 1981 | China throws out Netherlands ambassador due to submarine sale to Taiwan |
| 1980 | "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m) |
| 1980 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1979 | Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in New York City |
| 1977 | 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California) |
| 1977 | Harbor strike in Rotterdam/Amsterdam ends |
| 1976 | 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins |
| 1976 | Ceuta and Melilla (Spanish Morocco) are last European African possession |
| 1976 | Spain withdraws from Western Sahara |
| 1975 | 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop |
| 1975 | EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries |
| 1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms |
| 1974 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| 1974 | Taiwan police shoots into crowd |
| 1974 | U.S. and Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years |
| 1973 | Suriname government of Sedney arrests 13 union leaders |
| 1972 | George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident |
| 1972 | President Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China |
| 1971 | WDRB TV channel 41 in Louisville, Kentucky (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1971 | 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA National Florida Jack Nicklaus wins his 2nd golf grand slam |
| 1970 | "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| 1970 | Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge |
| 1970 | Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53) |
| 1970 | KIIN (now KUN) TV channel 12 in Iowa City, IA (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1970 | WUTR TV channel 20 in Utica-Rome, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler and Ford of GBR |
| 1969 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina and Ulanov of URS |
| 1969 | Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR |
| 1969 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA |
| 1967 | Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal |
| 1966 | Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes |
| 1966 | Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers |
| 1962 | WMGM-AM in New York City changes call letters to WHN |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy names Henry Kissinger special advisor |
| 1960 | 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colorado |
| 1960 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1960 | U.S. wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Czechoslovakia 9-4 |
| 1959 | "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 161 performances |
| 1959 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs USA won by Denny and Jones of GRB |
| 1959 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner and Paul of CAN |
| 1959 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Carol Heiss USA |
| 1959 | Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit |
| 1959 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by David Jenkins USA |
| 1959 | NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to Los Angeles Rams for 9 players |
| 1958 | West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket |
| 1957 | Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory |
| 1956 | 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Massachusetts |
| 1956 | Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory |
| 1954 | Patty Berg/Pete Cooper wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament |
| 1954 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island |
| 1953 | Stalin meets with Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Malenkov |
| 1951 | French government of Pleven dissolves |
| 1951 | Senate committee reports of at least 2 major U.S. crime syndicates |
| 1950 | "Alive and Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 46 performances |
| 1947 | Anti Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan |
| 1943 | "Porgy and Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown and Todd Duncan |
| 1943 | 63 U Boats (359,300 ton) sinks this month |
| 1942 | 1st weapon drop on Netherlands |
| 1942 | Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies |
| 1942 | Race riot, Sojourner Truth Homes, Detroit |
| 1941 | 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month |
| 1941 | British-Italian dogfight above Albania |
| 1940 | 1st televised basketball game (University of Pittsburgh beats Fordham University, 50-37) |
| 1940 | Richard Wright's "Native Son" published |
| 1940 | U.S. population at 131,669,275 |
| 1939 | Great Britain recognizes Franco-regime in Spain |
| 1935 | Amsterdam Hotel of the Red Lion gets sidewalk permit |
| 1935 | Nylon discovered by Dr. Wallace H. Carothers |
| 1933 | 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor |
| 1933 | German President Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion |
| 1933 | Hitler disallows German Communist Party (KPD) |
| 1931 | Canadian Rugby Union adopts the forward pass |
| 1931 | Oswald Mosley founds his New Party |
| 1929 | Chicago Blackhawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home |
| 1925 | "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1 |
| 1925 | Congress authorizes a special handling stamp |
| 1925 | Longest win streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (9 games) |
| 1925 | Theater Museum of Amsterdam forms |
| 1924 | U.S. begins intervention in Honduras |
| 1923 | Swedish king Gustaaf V begins state visit to Netherlands |
| 1922 | Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain |
| 1922 | English princess Mary marries viscount Lascelles |
| 1922 | KHQ-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | Maurice Ravel's "Le tombeau de Couperin," premieres |
| 1917 | AP reports Mexico and Japan will allie with Germany if U.S. enters WW I |
| 1917 | Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets |
| 1914 | Construction begins on Tower of Jewels for the Exposition (San Francisco) |
| 1913 | 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic) |
| 1912 | Victor Trumper's last Test Cricket innings c Woolley b Barnes 50 |
| 1908 | Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Teheran |
| 1906 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Queen's U (Kingston Ont) in 2 games |
| 1904 | Vincent d'Indy's 2nd Symphony in B, premieres |
| 1903 | Barney Dreyfuss and James Potter buys Philadelphia Phillies for $170,000 |
| 1902 | Jules Massenets opera premieres in Monte Carlo |
| 1900 | General Buller's troops relieve Ladysmith Natal |
| 1896 | France dismisses Queen Ranavalona of Madagascar |
| 1893 | Edward Acheson, Penn, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" |
| 1891 | Oscar Grunden skates world record 500m (50.8 sec) |
| 1888 | Ferry in San Pablo Bay explodes |
| 1888 | Vincent d'Indy's Wallenstein-trilogy, premieres |
| 1883 | 1st U.S. vaudeville theater opens in Boston |
| 1882 | 1st U.S. college cooperative store opens, at Harvard University |
| 1879 | "Exodus of 1879" southern blacks flee political/economic exploitation |
| 1878 | U.S. congress authorizes large-size silver certificate |
| 1871 | 2nd Enforcement Act gives federal control of congressional elections |
| 1863 | Confederate raider "Nashville" sinks near Fort McAllister Georgia |
| 1862 | Opera "La Reine de Saba," premieres in Paris |
| 1861 | Territories of Nevada and Colorado created |
| 1859 | Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery |
| 1854 | Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, Wisconsin |
| 1849 | 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in San Francisco from east coast |
| 1847 | U.S. defeats Mexico in battle of Sacramento |
| 1844 | 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes |
| 1835 | Dr. Elias L"nnrot publishes Finnish poem "Kalevala" |
| 1828 | Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Treuer Diener," premieres in Vienna |
| 1827 | 1st commercial railroad in U.S., Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) chartered |
| 1826 | M Biela, an Austrian officer, discovers Biela's Comet |
| 1819 | 1st public performance of a Schubert song, "Schafers Klageleid" |
| 1810 | 1st U.S. fire insurance joint-stock company organized, Philadelphia |
| 1794 | U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin |
| 1784 | John Wesley charters Methodist Church |
| 1778 | Rhode Island General Assembly authorizes enlistment of slaves |
| 1759 | Pope Clement XIII allows Bible to be translated into various languages |
| 1749 | 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published |
| 1730 | Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy |
| 1728 | Georg F. Handels opera "Siroe, re di Persia," premieres in London |
| 1704 | Elias Neau, a Frenchman, opens a school for blacks in New York City |
| 1704 | Indians attack Deerfield, Massachusetts, kill 40, kidnap 100 |
| 1692 | Salem witch hunt begins |
| 1667 | English colony Suriname in Dutch hands |
| 1646 | Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church |
| 1638 | Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh |
| 1610 | Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia |
| 1570 | Anti-Portugese uprising on Ternate, Moluccas |
| 1066 | Westminster Abbey opens |
| 870 | 8th Ecumenical council ends in Constantinople |
