| 2010 | Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, commands Iraq's atomic agency to start enriching uranium at a higher level |
| 2009 | Melbourne, Australia records highest-ever temperature, sparking the deadliest brushfires in Australian history |
| 2008 | Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122, launches to deliver laboratory to the ISS |
| 2006 | Egyptian ferry, Al Salam Boccaccio, sinks killing over 1200 people in the Red Sea |
| 1998 | 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan |
| 1998 | NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7 |
| 1997 | U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21 |
| 1995 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting |
| 1994 | 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins |
| 1994 | Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge |
| 1994 | Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant |
| 1993 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20 |
| 1993 | Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
| 1992 | Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA |
| 1991 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
| 1991 | Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators |
| 1990 | U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties |
| 1990 | Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half and loses 102-24 |
| 1989 | 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton |
| 1989 | Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan |
| 1988 | 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago |
| 1988 | Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens |
| 1988 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6 |
| 1988 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 1987 | "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93 |
| 1987 | Dennis Conner and Stars and Stripes bring America's Cup back to US |
| 1987 | Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1 |
| 1987 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 1986 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
| 1986 | Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
| 1986 | Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos |
| 1985 | "New York, New York" became the official anthem of New York City |
| 1985 | Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5" |
| 1985 | New York Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals |
| 1984 | Bruce McCandless, U.S., makes 1st untethered space walk |
| 1984 | Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS |
| 1983 | Elizabeth Dole, 1st female secretary of transportation, is sworn-in |
| 1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica |
| 1979 | "Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC |
| 1979 | Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria |
| 1979 | Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI vs. India at Kanpur |
| 1979 | Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles |
| 1978 | Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert |
| 1977 | Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts |
| 1976 | Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9 |
| 1976 | World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1975 | NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1974 | Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1974 | Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters |
| 1973 | 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| 1973 | Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities |
| 1971 | Swiss men accept female suffrage |
| 1970 | "Hollywood Palace," last airs on ABC TV |
| 1970 | "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies |
| 1970 | LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause |
| 1970 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1970 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| 1969 | "This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV |
| 1969 | Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
| 1969 | Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah) |
| 1968 | Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls |
| 1968 | WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1965 | George Harrison has his tonsils removed |
| 1965 | Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao |
| 1965 | U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam |
| 1965 | WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream |
| 1964 | Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st U.S. tour |
| 1964 | Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres |
| 1962 | Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 |
| 1962 | President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba |
| 1962 | Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational |
| 1961 | Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads" |
| 1960 | Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea |
| 1959 | "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| 1959 | Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution |
| 1959 | Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air) |
| 1959 | Dorothy Rigney sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M |
| 1958 | 1st showing of DAF 600 auto |
| 1958 | Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc |
| 1958 | Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced |
| 1956 | Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled |
| 1950 | Georges Bidault forms French government |
| 1950 | Senator Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
| 1950 | U.S. and Great Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime |
| 1949 | Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees) |
| 1948 | "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater New York City after 34 performances |
| 1948 | Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff |
| 1947 | Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine |
| 1946 | Filibuster in U.S. Senate kills FEPC bill |
| 1945 | General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila |
| 1945 | President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court |
| 1945 | U.S. 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer |
| 1944 | Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records |
| 1944 | Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy |
| 1943 | Shoe rationing begins in U.S. (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) |
| 1942 | 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8") |
| 1941 | Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra record "Everything Happens to Me" |
| 1940 | British railroads nationalized |
| 1940 | Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (New York City) |
| 1936 | A flag is authorized for Vice President |
| 1936 | Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer |
| 1935 | Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags |
| 1934 | 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss |
| 1933 | Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators |
| 1933 | Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead |
| 1931 | U.S. opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City |
| 1928 | 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) |
| 1924 | Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with U.S.S.R. |
| 1922 | John Willard's "Cat and the Canary," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received |
| 1915 | 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army |
| 1914 | Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice" |
| 1914 | Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco |
| 1912 | 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40) |
| 1910 | Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris |
| 1908 | Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000 |
| 1905 | Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US |
| 1905 | Oklahoma admitted to statehood |
| 1904 | Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks) |
| 1903 | VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo |
| 1901 | Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| 1900 | British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal |
| 1900 | Labour Party forms in England |
| 1891 | Great Blizzard of 1891 begins |
| 1889 | Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco |
| 1884 | Canadian Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1883 | Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger |
| 1882 | Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss |
| 1881 | Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces |
| 1877 | 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (New York City) |
| 1876 | President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring |
| 1872 | Alcorn A and M College opens |
| 1864 | Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida |
| 1862 | Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC |
| 1839 | Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president" |
| 1836 | "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens |
| 1831 | Belgium adopts it's Constitution |
| 1827 | Ballet (Deserter) introduced to U.S. at Bowery Theater (New York City) |
| 1818 | 1st successful U.S. educational magazine "Academician," begins (New York City) |
| 1812 | 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri |
| 1812 | Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords |
| 1795 | 11th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, affirms power of states |
| 1795 | Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies |
| 1792 | Austria and Prussia sign anti-French covenant |
| 1792 | D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna |
| 1668 | Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace" |
| 1653 | Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France |
| 1639 | Academie Franeaise begins Dictionary of French Language |
| 1613 | Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia |
| 1569 | King Philip II forms inquistion in South America |
| 1550 | Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III |
| 1522 | Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches |
| 1301 | Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales |
