| 2004 | 46th Grammy Awards, Coldplay, Outkast, Richard Marx, Luther Vandross, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake win major awards |
| 1998 | 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 |
| 1998 | 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City |
| 1998 | NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics |
| 1996 | NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind |
| 1995 | 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed) |
| 1994 | Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car |
| 1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 |
| 1994 | Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm |
| 1993 | Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die |
| 1993 | General Motors sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires |
| 1992 | "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1 |
| 1992 | 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France |
| 1992 | Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter |
| 1991 | Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract |
| 1990 | David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London |
| 1990 | "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine |
| 1989 | 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles |
| 1989 | Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days |
| 1989 | U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die |
| 1988 | NASA launches DOD-2 |
| 1987 | 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle |
| 1987 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1986 | 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition |
| 1986 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 1985 | 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados |
| 1985 | Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5" basketball shot |
| 1985 | Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) |
| 1985 | Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
| 1984 | 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia |
| 1984 | 1st time 8 people in space |
| 1984 | A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation |
| 1984 | Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 |
| 1983 | 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander |
| 1983 | Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino |
| 1983 | Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
| 1983 | Tina Howe's "Painting Churches," premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period |
| 1983 | Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance |
| 1982 | Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey) |
| 1981 | "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| 1981 | "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 133 performances |
| 1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 1981 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak |
| 1981 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1978 | Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait |
| 1977 | Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966 |
| 1976 | Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR |
| 1976 | Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic |
| 1976 | Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130) |
| 1975 | 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea |
| 1975 | Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
| 1974 | "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV |
| 1974 | Ringo releases "You're 16" |
| 1974 | Skylab 4's astronauts land |
| 1974 | Soap opera "Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run |
| 1973 | Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. New Zealand |
| 1973 | Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal |
| 1972 | Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame |
| 1971 | Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ |
| 1971 | South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
| 1969 | Last edition of Saturday Evening Post |
| 1969 | Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico |
| 1968 | Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) |
| 1967 | Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) |
| 1967 | Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 |
| 1965 | Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" |
| 1964 | Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London |
| 1964 | Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| 1963 | 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) |
| 1963 | AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs |
| 1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1962 | KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1960 | Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
| 1958 | Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
| 1958 | French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die |
| 1958 | KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall |
| 1956 | Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die |
| 1955 | Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him |
| 1953 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 1953 | WLVirginia (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins |
| 1952 | "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV |
| 1949 | Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison |
| 1948 | 5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland |
| 1947 | Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51) |
| 1947 | KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, Missouri (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia |
| 1946 | Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties |
| 1945 | Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald |
| 1944 | 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin |
| 1944 | U-762 sunk off Ireland |
| 1943 | Red Army recaptures Kursk |
| 1942 | Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes," premieres in Los Angeles |
| 1942 | Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort |
| 1941 | Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore |
| 1941 | NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio |
| 1940 | Lewis and Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show," premieres in New York City |
| 1940 | Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland |
| 1937 | Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | 1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger |
| 1936 | 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota |
| 1936 | 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers |
| 1936 | Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party |
| 1935 | 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL |
| 1934 | Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C. |
| 1934 | Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
| 1933 | -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record) |
| 1933 | 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 |
| 1931 | Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000 |
| 1930 | "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1 |
| 1929 | KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York |
| 1928 | Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV |
| 1927 | Belgian-Swiss treaty signed |
| 1926 | German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership |
| 1926 | Sean O'Casey's "Plough and Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin |
| 1926 | Walt Disney Studios forms |
| 1925 | Kaufman and Berlin's "cocoanuts," premieres in New York City |
| 1925 | Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta |
| 1924 | 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago |
| 1923 | Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120 |
| 1923 | German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
| 1922 | Radio arrives at the White House |
| 1920 | Swiss men vote against women's suffrage |
| 1918 | "Stars and Stripes," weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published |
| 1916 | French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374 |
| 1916 | NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats |
| 1915 | "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA |
| 1914 | General Zamon becomes president of Haiti |
| 1912 | 1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla |
| 1911 | U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras |
| 1911 | Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma," premieres in New York City |
| 1910 | Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago) |
| 1909 | France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
| 1908 | Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert, Netherlands |
| 1905 | Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people |
| 1904 | Russo-Japanese War begins |
| 1898 | John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass) |
| 1896 | Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris |
| 1896 | Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf |
| 1895 | Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg |
| 1894 | Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks |
| 1889 | Flood ravages Dutch coast |
| 1887 | Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st U.S. ski club |
| 1887 | Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship) |
| 1883 | Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen |
| 1865 | 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany |
| 1862 | Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound |
| 1862 | Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London |
| 1861 | Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1837 | 1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) |
| 1809 | Franz I of Austria declares war on France |
| 1807 | Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau |
| 1802 | Simon Willard patents banjo clock |
| 1776 | Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg |
| 1750 | Minor earthquake in London |
| 1744 | French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon |
| 1743 | Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth |
| 1735 | 1st opera in U.S. "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC |
| 1693 | William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US |
| 1690 | French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire |
| 1690 | Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal |
| 1672 | Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London |
| 1622 | King James I disbands the English parliament |
| 1601 | Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London |
| 1600 | Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death |
| 1575 | University of Leiden Netherlands opens |
| 1526 | Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die |
| 421 | Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp |
