| 2013 | The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, reveals that the EU is planning regulatory action to facilitate consolidation of the telecommunications market across national borders |
| 2013 | At the 70th Golden Globe Awards, the Time Warner Inc. film 'Argo' wins for best drama and best director |
| 2012 | With over 42% of the vote, the island nation of Kiribati re-elects President Anote Tong to a third and final term |
| 2011 | In South Korea, 1.4 million domestic pigs are buried alive to combat an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease |
| 2011 | North Korea plans to host its first ever golf tournament on a course frequented by leader Kim Jong-il |
| 2010 | The People's Republic of China 2009 Mercedes-Benz sales rose 77% |
| 2009 | After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia |
| 2001 | Earthquake and landslides kill 850 in El Salvador |
| 1998 | "Patti LaBelle On Broadway," opens at St. James Theater New York City |
| 1998 | CBS pays $4 billion to televise AFC games for 8-years |
| 1995 | 26 HNL teams unanimously ratify agreement to end NHL strike |
| 1995 | America3 becomes 1st all-female crew to win an America's Cup race |
| 1994 | Italian government of Ciampi resigns |
| 1994 | Tonya Harding's bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt and Derrick Brian Smith arrested and charged with conspiracy in attack of skater Nancy Kerrigan |
| 1993 | STS-54 (Endeavour) launches into orbit |
| 1993 | Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena - Cowboys beat Bills |
| 1992 | Excavation of new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field) begins |
| 1992 | U.S. serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty but insane |
| 1991 | 12th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 25 awards |
| 1991 | 42 killed in exhibition soccer match in Johannesburg South Africa |
| 1991 | Phil Mickelson wins PGA Northern Telecom Golf Open |
| 1991 | President Mario Soares of Portugal re-elected |
| 1991 | Soccer stadium riot in Orkney South Africa, at least 40 die |
| 1991 | U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Saddam |
| 1990 | 1st elected U.S. black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia) |
| 1989 | "Friday the 13th" virus strikes hundreds of IBM computers in Britain |
| 1989 | "Ryan's Hope" ends 13 year run on ABC-TV |
| 1989 | Computers across Britain hit by "Friday the 13th" virus |
| 1989 | Jerry Parks, Oklahoma defensive back, charged with shooting a teammate |
| 1989 | Ruins of Mashkan-shapir (occupied 2050-1720 BC) found in Iraq |
| 1989 | Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz begins 1-year jail sentence |
| 1988 | LA Dodger/SD Padre Steve Garvey retires |
| 1988 | Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays and other expressive activities |
| 1987 | 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each |
| 1987 | West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
| 1986 | NCCA institutes eligibility requirements based on college exams |
| 1986 | South Yemen President Ali Nasser Mohammed's bodyguard shoots opponents |
| 1985 | 23rd Tennis Fed Cup: Czechoslovakia beats USA in Nagoya Japan (2-1) |
| 1985 | 99-yr-old Otto Bucher scores a hole-in-one at Spanish golf course |
| 1985 | Blackhawk Doug Wilson failed on 12th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1985 | Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $17,1000,000 |
| 1985 | Express train derails in Ethiopia, kills at least 428 |
| 1984 | TV anchor Christine Craft wins $325,000 in her case against KMBC-TV |
| 1983 | AMA urges ban on boxing, sites Muhammad Ali's deteriorating condition |
| 1983 | Quebec Nordiques play 251st NHL game without being shut out |
| 1982 | Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1982 | Air Florida 737 took off in a snowstorm, crashes into 14th St. Bridge in Washington, D.C., and falls into Potomac River, killing 78 |
| 1981 | Barbara Sonntag, Colorado, crochets record 147 stitches/minute for 1/2 hour |
| 1981 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to May Swenson and Howard Nemerov |
| 1981 | Islander's Mike Bossy's 15th career hat trick-4 goals |
| 1980 | "King of Schnorrers" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 63 performances |
| 1980 | Head of narcotic brigade arrested for drug smuggling in Belgium |
| 1980 | Togo's constitution becomes effective |
| 1979 | Charlie Daniels hosts Volunteer Jam |
| 1979 | YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song |
| 1976 | Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at New York's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata" |
| 1974 | Superbowl VIII: Miami Dolphins beat Minnesota Vikings, 24-7 in Houston Superbowl MVP: Larry Csonka, Miami, RB |
| 1973 | "Tricks" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1973 | Efskind skates world record 1000m (1:17.6) |
| 1972 | Former umpire, now housewife Bernice Gera wins her suit against baseball, initiated on March 15, 1971 to be allowed to umpire |
| 1971 | "Soon" closes at Ritz Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| 1969 | Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album |
| 1968 | "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 293 performances |
| 1968 | "Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| 1968 | Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam |
| 1968 | Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) |
| 1967 | Coup in Togo |
| 1967 | Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| 1966 | 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1964 | Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow |
| 1963 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14 |
| 1963 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20 |
| 1962 | "Do Re Mi" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 400 performances |
| 1962 | Wilt Chamberlain of Warriors scores then NBA-record 73 pts vs Chicago |
| 1959 | De Gaulle grants amnesty to 130 to Algerian death row convicts |
| 1959 | King Boudouin promises Belgian Congo independence |
| 1958 | 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban |
| 1958 | U.S. newspaper "Daily Worker" ceases publication |
| 1957 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Allen Tate |
| 1957 | Mickey Wright wins Sea Island Golf Open |
| 1957 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10 |
| 1957 | Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee |
| 1954 | Miltary rule in Egypt; 318 Mohammedan Brotherhood arrested |
| 1954 | WEAR TV channel 3 in Pensacola-Mobile, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Gas explosion in Belgium coal mine kills 14 |
| 1953 | KOLD TV channel 13 in Tucson, Arizona (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia |
| 1951 | German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison |
| 1949 | "Along 5th Avenue" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 180 performances |
| 1948 | 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin |
| 1945 | Prokofchev's 5th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
| 1943 | British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca |
| 1943 | Hitler declares "Total War" |
| 1943 | Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov |
| 1943 | U.S. infantry captures Galloping Horse-ridge Guadalcanal |
| 1942 | Allied Conference for war trials |
| 1942 | German U-boats begin harassing shipping on U.S. east coast |
| 1942 | Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies |
| 1942 | Interallied war trial conference publishes St. James Declaration |
| 1939 | Belgian premier signs Burgos-treaty for trade relations with Franco |
| 1935 | Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany |
| 1930 | "Mickey Mouse" comic strip 1st appears |
| 1929 | Humanist Society established, Hollywood California |
| 1927 | U.S. and Mexico battle over oil interests |
| 1924 | Nationalist Wafd-party wins Egyptian parliament elections |
| 1922 | Buck Weaver, a Black Sox, applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement |
| 1922 | Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended |
| 1922 | WHA-AM in Madison WI begins radio transmissions |
| 1920 | New York Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly |
| 1919 | Dutch Soccer team OSV forms |
| 1915 | Earthquake in Avezzano Italy kills 29,800 |
| 1915 | Winston Churchill presents plan for assault on Dardanelles |
| 1914 | IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia |
| 1912 | -40 degrees F (-40 degrees C), Oakland, Maryland (state record) |
| 1911 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die Ratten," premieres in Berlin |
| 1911 | Roald Amundsens anchors at Walvis Bay |
| 1911 | South Africa's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide |
| 1910 | JM Synge's "Deirdre of the Sorrows," premieres in Dublin |
| 1908 | Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown Pa, killing 170 |
| 1908 | French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip |
| 1908 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers sweep Ottawa Victorias in 2 games |
| 1906 | 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile |
| 1902 | Textile workers strike in Enschede Netherlands till June 1 |
| 1898 | Emile Zola publishes his open letter (J'accuse) in defense of Dreyfus |
| 1895 | Oscar Wilde's "Ideal Husband," premieres in London |
| 1894 | Revolution in Sicily crushed by government troops |
| 1893 | British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) |
| 1888 | National Geographic Society founded in Washington, D.C. |
| 1883 | Fire in circus Ferroni in Berditschoft Poland kills 430 |
| 1883 | Henrik Ibsen's "En Folkefiende," premieres in Oslo |
| 1882 | Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal" |
| 1874 | Battle between jobless and police in New York City, 100s injuried |
| 1874 | U.S. troops land in Honolulu to protect the king |
| 1873 | P B S Pinchback relinquishes office at Louisiana governor |
| 1869 | Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention |
| 1869 | National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C. |
| 1863 | Chenille manufacturing machine patented by William Canter, New York City |
| 1863 | Thomas Crapper pioneers one-piece pedestal flushing toilet |
| 1854 | Anthony Foss patents accordion |
| 1849 | Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Co |
| 1830 | Great fire in New Orleans thought to be set by rebel slaves |
| 1794 | Congress changes U.S. flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes |
| 1785 | John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times |
| 1770 | De Beaumarchais' "Les Deux Amis," premieres in Paris |
| 1733 | James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, SC |
| 1695 | Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland |
| 1673 | Jean Racine's "Mithridate," premieres in Paris |
| 1630 | Patent to Plymouth Colony issued |
| 1621 | Jan Pieterszoon Coen's fleet sets sail to Moluccas (from Jacarta) |
| 1610 | Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter |
| 1559 | Elizabeth I crowned queen of England in Westminster Abbey |
| 1547 | Earl Henry Howard of Surrey sentenced to death |
| 1099 | Crusaders set fire to Mara Syria |
| 888 | Duke Odo becomes king of West-France |
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