| 1998 | 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th) |
| 1997 | "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater New York City |
| 1997 | 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1 |
| 1997 | 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight" |
| 1997 | Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits |
| 1997 | Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map |
| 1997 | Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua |
| 1996 | Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners |
| 1996 | Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins |
| 1995 | "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM |
| 1994 | Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal |
| 1994 | Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs |
| 1993 | "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont New York City after 37 performances |
| 1993 | "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 48 performances |
| 1993 | Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA) |
| 1992 | 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 1991 | Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans |
| 1991 | U.S. Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis |
| 1990 | "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore |
| 1990 | China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre) |
| 1990 | NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players |
| 1988 | "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 86 performances |
| 1986 | Palau signs Compact of Free Association with U.S. |
| 1986 | STS-61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy |
| 1985 | Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua |
| 1984 | Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested |
| 1984 | Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die |
| 1984 | Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" |
| 1984 | Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, and D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1984 | U.S. establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years |
| 1983 | NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring New York Yankees from playing season-opening series against Tigers in Denver |
| 1982 | -17 degrees F (27.2 degrees C) in Braemar Grampian (equals U.K. record) |
| 1982 | Bengals beat Chargers in -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C) to win AFC championship |
| 1982 | Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31) |
| 1981 | El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive" |
| 1981 | John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m |
| 1980 | Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC |
| 1980 | Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 minutes and a total of 5 in 1st period; he never again plays in NHL |
| 1979 | 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks |
| 1979 | Entertainer of the Year Awards |
| 1978 | Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched |
| 1977 | 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom |
| 1973 | Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die |
| 1972 | Los Angeles Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104 |
| 1972 | Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan |
| 1972 | Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK |
| 1971 | "Light, Lively and Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| 1971 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur |
| 1970 | Preview Center Opens |
| 1969 | Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam |
| 1969 | U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus |
| 1968 | "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 |
| 1968 | U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho |
| 1967 | Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven |
| 1967 | Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia |
| 1967 | PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network |
| 1967 | Princess Margret marries Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven |
| 1966 | India and Pakistan sign peace accord |
| 1966 | Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War |
| 1965 | Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory |
| 1965 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14 |
| 1965 | WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Battles between moslems and hindus in Calcutta |
| 1964 | Panama severs diplomatic relations with U.S. |
| 1964 | U.S. version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres |
| 1962 | 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Peru |
| 1962 | Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages and kill 3,500 |
| 1960 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz |
| 1958 | Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 |
| 1957 | Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister Britain |
| 1957 | Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Detroit Tigers, even though he owns part of Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1956 | Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel" |
| 1954 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden |
| 1953 | "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 89 performances |
| 1953 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish |
| 1953 | NFL Pro Bowl: National Conference beats American Conference 27-7 |
| 1952 | Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toreadors," premieres in Paris |
| 1951 | 1st jet passenger trip made |
| 1951 | U.N. headquarters opens in Manhattan NY |
| 1949 | 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS |
| 1949 | RCA introduces 45 RPM record |
| 1948 | "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater New York City after 734 performances |
| 1947 | "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 725 performances |
| 1947 | British stop ships Independence and In-Gathering from landing in Israel |
| 1947 | Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard |
| 1946 | U.N. General Assembly meets for 1st time in London |
| 1946 | U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ |
| 1945 | Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer |
| 1945 | LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close |
| 1945 | No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1944 | 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia |
| 1944 | British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma |
| 1943 | Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad |
| 1943 | 1st U.S. President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco |
| 1942 | Japan invades North-Celebes, Netherlands Indies |
| 1941 | Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews |
| 1939 | Bradman hits 186 SA vs. Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg |
| 1938 | Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall |
| 1938 | Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris |
| 1938 | Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in New York City |
| 1935 | Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks |
| 1932 | "Mickey Mouse" and "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated |
| 1932 | "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts |
| 1931 | Philadelphia Quakers defeat Montreal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak |
| 1930 | Commencement of New Zealand's 1st Test, vs. England Christchurch |
| 1930 | Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs. New Zealand Christchurch |
| 1930 | Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted |
| 1929 | Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in New York City |
| 1928 | Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky |
| 1927 | Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres |
| 1925 | France-Saarland forms |
| 1925 | Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas gov, nation's 2nd woman governor |
| 1923 | Last U.S. troops leave Rhineland (Germany) |
| 1923 | Lithuania seizes and annexes country of Memel |
| 1920 | League of Nations established |
| 1920 | Mont Canadiens (14) and Tor St. Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals |
| 1920 | Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce |
| 1916 | Russian offensive in Kaukasus |
| 1914 | 1st edition of Hague's Post under San Francisco van Oss, published |
| 1914 | Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo |
| 1912 | Caillaux government in France resigns |
| 1912 | World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York) |
| 1911 | 1st photo in U.S. taken from an airplane, San Diego |
| 1911 | Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to U.S. (not ratified) |
| 1911 | Trumper scored double cricket ton vs. South Africa, goes on to get 214 |
| 1910 | 1st international air meet in U.S. held, in LA |
| 1910 | Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St. New York City |
| 1902 | Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam) |
| 1901 | Oil discovered in Texas |
| 1900 | Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener reach Capetown |
| 1897 | Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors |
| 1897 | Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam and Brussels |
| 1893 | Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St. Petersburg |
| 1890 | Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot and Elaine," premieres |
| 1890 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae |
| 1889 | Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France |
| 1883 | Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt |
| 1878 | U.S. Senate proposes female suffrage |
| 1870 | Georgia legislature reconvenes |
| 1870 | John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil |
| 1863 | 1st underground railway opens in London |
| 1863 | General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark |
| 1863 | January-uprising begins in Poland |
| 1863 | London's 1st subway opens |
| 1862 | Battle of Big Sandy River, Kentucky (Middle Creek) |
| 1862 | Battle of Romney, WV |
| 1861 | Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US |
| 1861 | Ft. Jackson and Ft. Philip are taken over by LA state troops |
| 1861 | U.S. forts and property seized by Mississippi |
| 1853 | Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London |
| 1845 | Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding |
| 1840 | Penny Post mail system is starts |
| 1839 | Tea from India 1st arrives in UK |
| 1833 | Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin |
| 1811 | Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes |
| 1810 | French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine |
| 1808 | Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies |
| 1806 | Dutch in Capetown surrender to British |
| 1799 | Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar |
| 1776 | "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published |
| 1731 | Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza |
| 1663 | King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company |
| 1642 | King Charles I and family flee London for Oxford |
| 1550 | 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris |
| 1514 | Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek and Latin finished |
| 1430 | Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal |
| 1430 | Order of the Guilder forms |
| 1429 | Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary and Spain |
| 1356 | German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree |
| 1072 | Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo |
| 236 | St. Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 69 | Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Caesar |
