| 2013 | At a University of Leicester media conference, it is announced that during a 2012 archeological dig in Leicester, the skeleton they unearthed is confirmed to be the remains of King Richard III of England |
| 2013 | Officials at the Kremlin announce that the 2014 G8 summit will be held at Sochi, its southern Black Sea resort |
| 2012 | Iran initiates new military exercises as tensions rise over the country's nuclear program |
| 2012 | Florence Green, the last known veteran from World War I, dies in the United Kingdom at the age of 110 |
| 2011 | Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, commented that the 2011 Egyptian protests and Tunisian uprising are a result of 'Islamic awareness' |
| 2011 | According to the Catholic Church on the island, Cuba plans free to two more dissidents |
| 2010 | Yahoo! sells HotJobs to Monster.com for a reported $225 million |
| 1998 | Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium |
| 1998 | Earthquake kills about 2,300 in northern Afghanistan |
| 1997 | 73 Israelis die when army copters collide |
| 1997 | Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals |
| 1997 | Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish |
| 1996 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13 |
| 1995 | Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia |
| 1995 | Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) |
| 1995 | Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning |
| 1994 | 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| 1994 | 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum, Sudan |
| 1994 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec) |
| 1994 | Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71) |
| 1993 | Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA |
| 1993 | Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism |
| 1993 | Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror |
| 1991 | Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose |
| 1991 | Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record |
| 1990 | 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo |
| 1990 | Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) |
| 1990 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) |
| 1990 | Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) |
| 1990 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21 |
| 1990 | Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1990 | Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar) |
| 1990 | St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship |
| 1989 | Dean Jones scores 216 vs. WI at the Adelaide Oval |
| 1988 | Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
| 1987 | President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
| 1987 | Stars and Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup |
| 1987 | Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
| 1986 | 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford |
| 1986 | Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane |
| 1985 | 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign United Nations treaty outlawing torture |
| 1985 | Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons |
| 1984 | "9" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 739 performances |
| 1984 | "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore |
| 1984 | Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas |
| 1983 | Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium |
| 1983 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 1982 | "Pump Boys and Dinettes" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 573 performances |
| 1982 | Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash |
| 1982 | Musical "Pump Boys and Dinettes," premieres in New York City |
| 1982 | Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees |
| 1980 | Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran |
| 1980 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| 1979 | "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS |
| 1979 | End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG) |
| 1979 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| 1977 | 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver |
| 1977 | Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt) |
| 1977 | Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released |
| 1977 | Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed" |
| 1976 | 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1976 | 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras |
| 1976 | Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1974 | Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands |
| 1974 | Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months |
| 1974 | Gas rationing ends in Netherlands |
| 1974 | Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
| 1973 | "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 861 performances |
| 1973 | Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game |
| 1973 | Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) |
| 1973 | Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled |
| 1972 | 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria |
| 1972 | Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported |
| 1971 | Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell) |
| 1971 | Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks |
| 1971 | British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt |
| 1971 | Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil |
| 1971 | National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
| 1970 | "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| 1970 | "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cincinnati - Detroit, San Diego - Boston |
| 1969 | Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple |
| 1969 | John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders |
| 1969 | Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in New York City |
| 1969 | Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO |
| 1968 | "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 355 performances |
| 1968 | Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball |
| 1967 | "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby |
| 1967 | U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 3 |
| 1966 | All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
| 1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax |
| 1964 | FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City |
| 1962 | "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 113 performances |
| 1962 | Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
| 1962 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
| 1962 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt |
| 1961 | Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure |
| 1960 | BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member |
| 1960 | Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park |
| 1960 | Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres |
| 1959 | Israel begins exporting copper ore |
| 1958 | "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances |
| 1958 | Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 |
| 1957 | 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York) |
| 1956 | AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training |
| 1952 | 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York) |
| 1951 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
| 1951 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 1949 | Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia |
| 1948 | Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK |
| 1946 | Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday," premieres in New York City |
| 1945 | FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta |
| 1944 | Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris |
| 1944 | U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
| 1943 | Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich |
| 1942 | Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II |
| 1941 | British tanks occupy Maus Libya |
| 1941 | Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin |
| 1941 | United Service Organization, USO, founded |
| 1939 | Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort |
| 1938 | "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway |
| 1938 | Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts |
| 1937 | Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games |
| 1936 | 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) |
| 1933 | German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
| 1932 | 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York |
| 1932 | Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria |
| 1931 | National League adopts a deader baseball |
| 1930 | 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans |
| 1929 | Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs. England at Adelaide |
| 1927 | KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions |
| 1926 | Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany |
| 1924 | 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France |
| 1924 | George Kelly's "Show-Off," premieres in New York City |
| 1922 | WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off |
| 1919 | City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown |
| 1917 | Belgium Council of Flanders established |
| 1915 | Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary |
| 1914 | U.S. Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law |
| 1913 | Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim |
| 1913 | National Institute of Arts and Letters founded |
| 1904 | John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin |
| 1903 | Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie |
| 1899 | Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines |
| 1895 | 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago |
| 1887 | Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads |
| 1880 | Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke," premieres in New York City |
| 1875 | Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belg |
| 1865 | Hawaiian Board of Education formed |
| 1865 | Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army |
| 1864 | Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi |
| 1861 | Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy |
| 1855 | Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela |
| 1854 | Alvan Bovay proposes name "Republican Party," Ripon, Wisc |
| 1849 | University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students |
| 1847 | 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland |
| 1846 | Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west |
| 1824 | J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public |
| 1822 | Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa |
| 1803 | William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature" |
| 1797 | Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000 |
| 1794 | French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
| 1789 | 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and Vice President |
| 1787 | 1st Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania consecrated in London |
| 1787 | Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails |
| 1783 | Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy) |
| 1782 | British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet |
| 1699 | 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow |
| 1697 | 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia |
| 1657 | Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal |
| 1620 | Prince Bethlen Gabor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II |
| 1600 | Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague |
| 1586 | Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands |
| 1508 | Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned |
| 1194 | Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000 |
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