| 2010 | Muslim fundamentalists in northern Algeria kill an army colonel and a military commander of Bejaia |
| 2009 | U.S. Airways plane ditches in the Hudson River - all 155 passengers survive |
| 2006 | Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth |
| 1998 | NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again |
| 1997 | Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin |
| 1997 | Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with Mir Space Station |
| 1995 | Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Champion |
| 1995 | San Diego Chargers beat Pittsburgh Steelers 17-13 for AFC championship |
| 1995 | San Francisco 49ers beat Dallas Cowboys for NFC championship |
| 1995 | Southern Alabama begins using new area code 334 |
| 1995 | Western Washington begins using new area code 360 |
| 1994 | 15th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 34 awards, Showtime wins 10 |
| 1994 | Hague motorist with .51% alcohol in blood, breaks Dutch record (.47%) |
| 1994 | Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse and breaks her left wrist |
| 1993 | 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die |
| 1993 | Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV |
| 1993 | Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo |
| 1992 | Bulgaria recognizes Macedonia |
| 1992 | Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man |
| 1992 | Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum |
| 1991 | Australia beat New Zealand 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1991 | UN's deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait (they don't) |
| 1990 | 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds |
| 1990 | 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins |
| 1990 | AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch |
| 1990 | Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent |
| 1990 | New York Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106 |
| 1989 | "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 176 performances |
| 1989 | 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 35 awards |
| 1989 | Betsy King wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble |
| 1989 | Cerberal Palsy telethon raises $22,600,000 |
| 1988 | Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes |
| 1988 | Kiran More stumps five WI batsman at Madras, world Test record |
| 1988 | Narendra Hirwani takes 16-136 (8-61 and 8-75) vs. WI on Test debut |
| 1986 | Living Seas opens at Epcot |
| 1985 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell |
| 1985 | Civil rights activist Tancredo Neves elected president |
| 1985 | Mike Gatting and Graeme Fowler both scores 200's vs. India |
| 1985 | Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years |
| 1984 | Hana Mandlikova ends Martina Navratilova's 54-match winning streak |
| 1984 | Schonbrun skates world record 5 km (7:39.44) |
| 1983 | Dutch political party DS'70 disbands |
| 1983 | Hartford Whalers smallest crowd 4,812 (beat Devils) during blizzard |
| 1983 | Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar make 451 stand vs. India |
| 1983 | Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours |
| 1982 | "Forbidden Broadway" by/with Gerard Alessandrini premieres in New York City |
| 1981 | "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1981 | Bob Gibson elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1980 | Pam Gems' "Piaf!," premieres in London |
| 1978 | Theodore Bundy kills Florida State University coeds Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman |
| 1978 | Superbowl XII: Dallas Cowboys beat Denver Broncos, 27-10 in N Orleans Superbowl MVP: Harvey Martin, Dallas, DE and Randy White, Dallas, DT |
| 1977 | Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live" |
| 1977 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| 1976 | Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford |
| 1976 | US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit |
| 1976 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1975 | Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence |
| 1975 | Space Mountain opens at Disneyland |
| 1974 | "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC |
| 1974 | 24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle |
| 1974 | Expert panel reports 18 -m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures |
| 1973 | 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court |
| 1973 | Gene Shalit joins Today Show panel |
| 1973 | Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican |
| 1973 | President Nixon suspends all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam |
| 1972 | Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Terry Daniels |
| 1971 | "Ari" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 19 performances |
| 1971 | Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt |
| 1971 | George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" |
| 1970 | Milwaukee Brewers make their 1st trade (with Oakland A's) |
| 1970 | Republic Biafra disbands/joins Nigeria |
| 1969 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 1969 | Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union |
| 1968 | KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback |
| 1966 | AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 |
| 1966 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 |
| 1965 | Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" |
| 1965 | Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms |
| 1964 | Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City |
| 1964 | Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract |
| 1962 | 50th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats R Emerson (86 06 64 64) |
| 1962 | Dutch and Indonesian Navy encounter in Etna Bay New Guinea |
| 1961 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31 |
| 1961 | Suggs wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational Open |
| 1961 | Supremes signed with Motown Records |
| 1958 | New York Yankees sign million dollar plus deal to show 140 games on WPIX TV |
| 1957 | Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field |
| 1956 | Bauer Marlene wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
| 1956 | D Shostakovich appointed honorary member of Academia Santa Cecilia |
| 1956 | KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30 |
| 1955 | 1st official act of Princess Beatrice, launches tanker Vasum |
| 1955 | D Shostakovich' "From Jewish Folk Poetry," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic |
| 1953 | 16 car Federal Express train loses brakes and crashes in Washington D.C. station |
| 1953 | GDR Minister of Foreign affairs Georg Dertingen arrested for "espionage" |
| 1951 | "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000 |
| 1951 | Supreme Court rule "clear and present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech and can be a cause for arrest |
| 1950 | 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington D.C. |
| 1949 | Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin |
| 1945 | "Make Mine Manhattan" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 429 performances |
| 1945 | Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets |
| 1945 | Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp |
| 1944 | European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower arrives in England |
| 1944 | Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die |
| 1943 | 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught |
| 1943 | World's largest office building, Pentagon, completed |
| 1942 | Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WW II |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt asks commissioner to continue baseball during WW II |
| 1940 | German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) |
| 1939 | 1st NFL pro bowl, New York Giants beat All Stars 13-10 in Wrigley Field |
| 1939 | Municipal Railway and Market St. RR begin service to Transbay Terminal |
| 1936 | 1st all-glass windowless structure in U.S. completed, Toledo, Ohio |
| 1936 | Horace Stoneham elected president of New York Giants |
| 1936 | Non-profit Ford Foundation incorporates |
| 1935 | 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition |
| 1935 | Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty," premieres in New York City |
| 1934 | 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die |
| 1934 | Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut) |
| 1930 | George Headley scores century on debut vs. England (made 176) |
| 1925 | Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP |
| 1924 | 3rd Dutch government Ruijs de Beerenbrouck forms |
| 1922 | Irish Free State forms; Michael Collins becomes 1st premier |
| 1919 | 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA, drowning 21 |
| 1919 | Frank Wedekind's "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit," premieres |
| 1919 | Pianist and statesman Ignace Paderewski becomes 1st premier of Poland |
| 1919 | Semana Tragica (Tragic Week): Bloodbath in Buenos Aires |
| 1919 | W Collison and O Harbach's "Up in Mabel's Room," premieres in New York City |
| 1915 | Japan claims economic control of China |
| 1915 | Sydney, Kern and Smith's musical "Love o' Mike," premieres in New York City |
| 1908 | C Hill and R J Hartigan make 8th wkt partnership 243 for Australia |
| 1907 | 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr. Lee De Forest |
| 1907 | Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them |
| 1905 | Coen de Koning becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 1900 | SCNEC soccer team forms |
| 1896 | Henry Arthur Jones' "Michael and his Lost Angel," premieres in London |
| 1895 | Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record |
| 1895 | French fleet reaches Majunga, Madagascar |
| 1895 | Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St. Petersburg |
| 1892 | Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass |
| 1886 | Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue |
| 1882 | 1st U.S. ski club forms, Berlin, New Hampshire |
| 1877 | U.S. Assay Office in Helena, Montana opens |
| 1870 | Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly |
| 1866 | Bedrich Smetana's opera "Branibori vs. Cechach," premieres in Prague |
| 1865 | Ft. Fisher, North Carolina falls to Union troops |
| 1863 | 1st U.S. newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal |
| 1861 | Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis |
| 1857 | 1st first-class game in Sydney, NSW vs. Vic at The Domain |
| 1851 | GGeneralen Arista replaces Mexican President Herrera |
| 1847 | 1st Swedish magazine in U.S., Skandinavia, published in New York City |
| 1844 | University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana |
| 1833 | HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego |
| 1831 | 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run |
| 1831 | 1st U.S. railroad honeymoon trip, Mr. and Mrs. Pierson, Charleston, SC |
| 1797 | 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) |
| 1785 | Mozarts string quartet opus 10 premieres |
| 1780 | Continental Congress establishes court of appeals |
| 1777 | People of New Connecticut, Vermont, declare independence from England |
| 1762 | Fraunces Tavern opens in New York City |
| 1759 | British Museum opens in Montague House, London |
| 1754 | Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam |
| 1752 | Tobias Smollett publishes pamphlet accusing Fielding of plagiarism |
| 1586 | Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army |
| 1582 | Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland, loses access to Baltic |
| 1562 | 3rd sitting of Council of Trente opens |
| 1552 | France signs secret treaty with German Protestants |
| 1535 | Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church |
| 1346 | Emperor Louis IV of Bavaria gives his wife Margaretha, Holland/Zealand |
| 946 | Caliph al-Mustaqfi blinded/ousted |
| 708 | Sisinnius begins his reign as Pope (dies 20 days later) |
