| 2002 | XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City |
| 1998 | 6th annual ESPY Awards |
| 1998 | Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze |
| 1997 | 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds |
| 1997 | 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland |
| 1997 | Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am |
| 1997 | LG Senior Golf Championship |
| 1997 | Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational |
| 1997 | Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am |
| 1997 | Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games |
| 1996 | WYNY-FM in New York City changes calls to WKTU-FM |
| 1995 | "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 340 performances |
| 1995 | Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) |
| 1994 | Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat |
| 1993 | Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
| 1992 | "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 29 performances |
| 1992 | 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando |
| 1992 | Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ |
| 1992 | Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
| 1992 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) |
| 1992 | NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113 |
| 1992 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary |
| 1991 | "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46 |
| 1991 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
| 1991 | Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him |
| 1991 | U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| 1991 | Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
| 1990 | "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV |
| 1990 | Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13) |
| 1990 | Galileo flies by Venus |
| 1990 | Namibia's constitution ratified |
| 1989 | Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 1989 | Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
| 1988 | 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis |
| 1987 | Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
| 1987 | New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
| 1986 | 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas |
| 1986 | Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) |
| 1986 | Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
| 1986 | Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title |
| 1986 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 1986 | Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt |
| 1986 | West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
| 1985 | Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks |
| 1984 | "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 204 performances |
| 1983 | Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
| 1982 | 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington |
| 1980 | Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game |
| 1979 | 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey |
| 1979 | ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special |
| 1979 | Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind" |
| 1979 | Nigeria amends constitution |
| 1976 | Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
| 1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| 1975 | Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
| 1974 | "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41 |
| 1974 | "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24 |
| 1974 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 1974 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 1972 | British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
| 1971 | Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
| 1971 | Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
| 1971 | Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 and causes over $ B damage |
| 1971 | Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1969 | KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
| 1966 | Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
| 1964 | 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) |
| 1964 | 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1964 | GI Joe character created |
| 1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 India vs. England on debut at Delhi |
| 1964 | New York City news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV |
| 1963 | 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
| 1963 | 7th largest snowfall in New York City history (42.4 cm, 16.7") |
| 1962 | Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo |
| 1960 | AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
| 1959 | Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2 |
| 1956 | -5 degrees F (15 degrees C) in Sicily |
| 1956 | KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1956 | R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
| 1955 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law |
| 1955 | U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO |
| 1954 | Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy |
| 1953 | "Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication |
| 1953 | WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1953 | General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA |
| 1951 | St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45 |
| 1950 | Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists |
| 1948 | WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1947 | Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia |
| 1946 | Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
| 1945 | WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
| 1944 | U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
| 1943 | German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
| 1943 | Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle |
| 1943 | NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears |
| 1943 | Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
| 1942 | Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S. |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes |
| 1942 | Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils" |
| 1941 | British troops conquer El Agheila |
| 1941 | Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe) |
| 1940 | Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1939 | Belgian Spaak government falls |
| 1935 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 1935 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1934 | -14.3 degrees F (-25.7 degrees C), coldest day in New York City |
| 1934 | -51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record) |
| 1934 | Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania) |
| 1933 | -63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state record) |
| 1932 | America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
| 1932 | U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York |
| 1929 | U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact |
| 1926 | Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools |
| 1925 | German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
| 1925 | Haifa Technion (Israel), opens |
| 1924 | Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR |
| 1923 | Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
| 1922 | Italian government of Bonomi falls |
| 1922 | Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii |
| 1920 | International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard |
| 1920 | Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs |
| 1918 | Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va |
| 1918 | Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris |
| 1916 | Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
| 1916 | NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20) |
| 1913 | 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die |
| 1912 | U.S. Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion |
| 1909 | 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
| 1909 | 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio |
| 1906 | Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising |
| 1904 | Japan declares war on Russia |
| 1900 | Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup |
| 1895 | 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3) |
| 1895 | Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts |
| 1893 | Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud |
| 1893 | Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan |
| 1891 | 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento |
| 1886 | President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence |
| 1885 | 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii |
| 1871 | Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
| 1870 | U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service |
| 1867 | Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state |
| 1863 | Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and Vice President of Confederate States of America |
| 1861 | Tennessee votes against secession |
| 1861 | Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states |
| 1849 | Roman Republic declared |
| 1825 | House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president |
| 1822 | American Indian Society organizes |
| 1807 | French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon |
| 1801 | France and Austrian sign Peace of Luneville |
| 1799 | USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I |
| 1788 | Austria declares war on Russia |
| 1775 | English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion |
| 1744 | Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews) |
| 1742 | British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford |
| 1682 | Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved," premieres in London |
| 1674 | English reconquer New York from Netherlands |
| 1667 | Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty |
| 1621 | Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) |
| 1574 | Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht |
| 1554 | Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated |
| 1540 | The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester) |
| 1537 | Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England |
| 1499 | France and Venice sign treaty against Milan |
| 1267 | Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps |
