| 2006 | Super Bowl XL: Steelers defeat the Seahawks 21-10 |
| 1998 | Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini |
| 1998 | Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record |
| 1997 | 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund |
| 1997 | Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe) |
| 1995 | Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections |
| 1995 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 |
| 1995 | Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 |
| 1994 | "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV |
| 1994 | Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime |
| 1993 | Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160 |
| 1993 | James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA |
| 1992 | Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case |
| 1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar |
| 1992 | Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India |
| 1991 | Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
| 1991 | All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
| 1991 | Big East Football conference forms |
| 1991 | Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
| 1991 | Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl |
| 1990 | Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) |
| 1989 | Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points |
| 1988 | Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years |
| 1988 | Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham |
| 1988 | Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs |
| 1987 | Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time |
| 1987 | Soyuz TM-2 launches |
| 1986 | Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline" |
| 1984 | New Zealand beat England (82 and 93) by an innings in 3 days |
| 1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1983 | Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| 1982 | DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people |
| 1982 | Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) |
| 1982 | Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Netherlands |
| 1981 | "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 165 performances |
| 1981 | Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane |
| 1981 | Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy |
| 1980 | 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit |
| 1980 | Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
| 1979 | Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time |
| 1979 | Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
| 1978 | Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
| 1977 | "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67 |
| 1977 | "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56 |
| 1977 | "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40 |
| 1977 | "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98 |
| 1977 | "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91 |
| 1977 | General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
| 1977 | Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
| 1977 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 1977 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 1976 | Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies |
| 1976 | Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath |
| 1974 | British mine strike |
| 1974 | Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win |
| 1974 | Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph |
| 1974 | Patty Hearst kidnapped |
| 1974 | U.S. Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
| 1973 | Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted |
| 1973 | Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War |
| 1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| 1972 | "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65 |
| 1972 | Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 1972 | U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage |
| 1971 | Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours |
| 1970 | 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six |
| 1970 | Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1970 | WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting |
| 1969 | "Turn-On," debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly |
| 1969 | Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins |
| 1968 | KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
| 1967 | "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) |
| 1967 | Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
| 1967 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren |
| 1966 | BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
| 1965 | Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels |
| 1963 | Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
| 1963 | Soviet lunar probe failure |
| 1962 | French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
| 1962 | Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from "racial segregated" schools, filed |
| 1962 | Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees |
| 1959 | "Redhead" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 455 performances |
| 1959 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
| 1958 | Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania) |
| 1958 | Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
| 1958 | Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain |
| 1958 | Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km |
| 1957 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Piano Concert |
| 1956 | 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy |
| 1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| 1956 | New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
| 1954 | WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City |
| 1953 | 5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins |
| 1949 | Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic |
| 1948 | "Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time |
| 1948 | Dick Button becomes 1st U.S. figure skating Olympic champion |
| 1948 | Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion |
| 1947 | Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
| 1945 | Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
| 1945 | British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim |
| 1945 | U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
| 1944 | 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin |
| 1943 | Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt |
| 1943 | Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission |
| 1942 | "Woman of the Year," starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City |
| 1942 | Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yankees for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore |
| 1941 | Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands |
| 1940 | General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander |
| 1940 | Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction" |
| 1938 | Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) |
| 1937 | 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released |
| 1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, "court packing" plan failed |
| 1936 | National Wildlife Federation forms |
| 1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
| 1931 | Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license |
| 1930 | 5th Aliyah to Israel begins |
| 1929 | Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in SF |
| 1927 | Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released and bombed |
| 1923 | General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar |
| 1923 | Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy |
| 1922 | Reader's Digest magazine 1st published |
| 1921 | Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
| 1919 | NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers |
| 1918 | 1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson |
| 1918 | Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R. |
| 1917 | Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration |
| 1917 | Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St. New York City (demolished 1982) |
| 1917 | Present Mexican constitution adopted |
| 1916 | Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Co |
| 1911 | Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
| 1907 | Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna |
| 1904 | American occupation of Cuba ends |
| 1901 | Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot |
| 1901 | Pierpont Morgan forms U.S. Steel Corp |
| 1900 | British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal |
| 1897 | Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel |
| 1894 | Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
| 1893 | Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) |
| 1887 | Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy |
| 1887 | Snow falls on San Francisco |
| 1885 | News of fall of Khartoum reaches London |
| 1881 | Phoenix Arizona incorporates |
| 1879 | Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow |
| 1870 | 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia |
| 1865 | Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) |
| 1864 | Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi |
| 1861 | 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale |
| 1861 | Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia |
| 1861 | Louisiana delegation except Mr. Bouligny withdraws from Congress |
| 1855 | British government of Palmerston forms |
| 1850 | Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York |
| 1846 | "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast |
| 1831 | Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30 |
| 1825 | Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar |
| 1817 | 1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) |
| 1816 | Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville," premieres in Rome |
| 1795 | Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud |
| 1783 | Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000 |
| 1783 | Sweden recognizes U.S. independence |
| 1782 | Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English |
| 1778 | Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina |
| 1777 | Georgia becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish both entail and primogeniture |
| 1736 | Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia |
| 1679 | German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
| 1663 | Earthquake in Canada |
| 1649 | Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II |
| 1644 | 1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut |
| 1631 | Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England |
| 1576 | Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours |
| 1572 | Beggars assault Oisterwijk, Netherlands, drive nuns out |
| 1556 | Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles |
| 1512 | French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna |
| 1488 | Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium |
| 1428 | King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons |
| 816 | Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity |
