| 2013 | Canada's Cirque du Soleil cuts 400 jobs due to strong loonie and surging costs |
| 2013 | Ken Salazar, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior, announces he will leave his post at the end of March, 2013 |
| 2012 | The English Wikipedia protests anti-piracy legislation proposed by the U.S. Congress by shutting down its website |
| 2012 | Customers of online shoe retailer Zappos must change their passwords after Zappos reports hackers accessed up to 24 million customer accounts |
| 2011 | After 41 years in power, Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi is less than 24 months away from being world's longest-serving leader |
| 2011 | In one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, the New York Jets defeat the New England Patriots |
| 2005 | Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66 |
| 2005 | George W. Bush is inaugurated for his second term as President of the United States |
| 1997 | Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick, Aus vs. Pakistan, MCG |
| 1995 | UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in New York City) |
| 1994 | Scott skates world record 1000m (1:12.54) |
| 1992 | "2 Shakespearean Actors" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 29 performances |
| 1991 | 7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| 1991 | U.S. and 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (U.S. time) |
| 1990 | 2 Bank of Credit and Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering |
| 1989 | Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars |
| 1988 | 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| 1988 | Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks |
| 1988 | NFL St. Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix |
| 1986 | Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam |
| 1985 | "Playboy" announces end of stapling centerfolds |
| 1984 | Paul and Linda McCartney arrested in Barbados for possession of cannabis |
| 1981 | Boxer Leon Spinks is mugged, his assailants even took his gold teeth |
| 1981 | John Lennon releases "Woman" in the United Kingdom |
| 1981 | Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and husband |
| 1981 | Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg |
| 1980 | Paul McCartney jailed in Tokyo for 10 days on marijuana possession |
| 1979 | Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt |
| 1978 | 5th American Music Award: Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac and C Twitty |
| 1978 | Soyuz 27 returns to Earth |
| 1977 | Cap's H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1976 | "Donny and Marie" [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV |
| 1976 | Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive" |
| 1974 | "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published |
| 1974 | L A Landslide kills 9, Canyonville, Oregon |
| 1974 | New York Yankees Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1973 | NBC presents 440th and final showing of "Bonanza" |
| 1973 | U.S.S.R.'s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon |
| 1972 | Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ |
| 1972 | Super Bowl VI: Dallas Cowboys-24, Miami-3 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Roger Staubach, Dallas, QB |
| 1971 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (1:58.7) |
| 1970 | Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya |
| 1970 | Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseball's reserve clause |
| 1970 | NFL realigns into 3 divisions (down from 4) |
| 1970 | AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 92'3 " from out of bounds, Tacoma-it shouldn't have counted, but was allowed |
| 1969 | Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space |
| 1968 | 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto |
| 1968 | Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in New York City |
| 1967 | 1st black government installed in Bahamas |
| 1967 | Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent |
| 1966 | Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US |
| 1966 | Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center |
| 1965 | "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances |
| 1965 | "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV |
| 1965 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14 |
| 1965 | Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3 |
| 1965 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1964 | "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 2,844 performances |
| 1964 | AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving Kansas City A's to Louisville |
| 1963 | Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb |
| 1963 | Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres |
| 1962 | Shooting begins on "Dr. No" |
| 1962 | Suit accuses New York City Board of Education uses "racial quotas" |
| 1961 | "Conquering Hero" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| 1961 | Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain |
| 1958 | William Gibson's "Two for the Seesaw," premieres in New York City |
| 1957 | 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights |
| 1957 | Cavern Club (Beatle's) opens on Matthews Street in England |
| 1956 | Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine |
| 1955 | Jackie Pung wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open |
| 1955 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-19 |
| 1954 | "South Pacific" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1928 performances |
| 1953 | 27th Australian Womens Tennis: Maureen Connolly beat J Sampson (63 62) |
| 1953 | 41st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (60 63 64) |
| 1953 | Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties |
| 1953 | KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane, WA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | New Dutch bible translation finished |
| 1952 | U.S. Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary |
| 1951 | Viet Minh offensive against Hanoi |
| 1951 | World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, New York City) |
| 1950 | Belgium, Luxembourg and Netherlands recognize Israel |
| 1949 | KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles, California (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1949 | WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington, D.C. (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1948 | 35 Haganah members are ambushed and killed in Gush Etzyon |
| 1947 | Vincent Aurial elected president of France |
| 1945 | Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg |
| 1945 | U.S. 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise |
| 1944 | General Eisenhower took command of Allied Invasion Force in London |
| 1943 | -60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Island Park Dam, Idaho (state record) |
| 1943 | 1st U.S. air raid on Ambon |
| 1943 | German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow |
| 1943 | Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad |
| 1942 | William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army |
| 1941 | U.S. Vice Admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor |
| 1941 | War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets |
| 1939 | Comic strip "Superman" debuts |
| 1938 | Benny Goodman refuses to play Carnegie Hall when black members of his band were barred from performing |
| 1936 | 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Fla |
| 1936 | Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president |
| 1936 | Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular |
| 1933 | Bert Oldfield flattened by Larwood delivery in Adelaide Test |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 223 Australia vs. WI, 297 minutes, 26 fours |
| 1925 | General M Froense replaces Trotsky as People's Commissioner of Defense |
| 1925 | Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council |
| 1920 | 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933 |
| 1920 | 1st assembly of League of Nations in Paris |
| 1920 | Georgia declares independence |
| 1919 | Prohibition ratified by 3/4 of states; Nebraska is 36th |
| 1915 | Congress authorizes $1 and $50 Panama-Pacific International Expo gold coin |
| 1914 | Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia |
| 1913 | British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland |
| 1911 | Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east |
| 1909 | British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole |
| 1909 | David, Mawson and Mackay reach south magnetic pole |
| 1908 | Pinnacles National Monument, California established |
| 1906 | Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco) |
| 1905 | Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman traded for 6th time in 8 months |
| 1905 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup, this is most lopsided playoff game, Frank McGee scores 14 goals |
| 1897 | John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal |
| 1889 | 128 degrees F (53 degrees C), Cloncurry, Queensland (Australian record) |
| 1887 | Cliff House damaged when schooner "Parallel"'s powder cargo explodes |
| 1883 | Pendleton Act creates basis of U.S. Civil Service system |
| 1883 | Quebec Rugby Football Union forms |
| 1879 | January record 13" of snow falls in New York City (broken Jan 7, 1996) |
| 1877 | Color organ (for light shows) patented, by Bainbridge Bishop |
| 1871 | Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman |
| 1870 | Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War |
| 1868 | Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit |
| 1865 | Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary |
| 1865 | Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft. Fisher NC, 40 die |
| 1865 | General Wm Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks) |
| 1865 | SF Dramatic Chronicle started |
| 1864 | Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge, Tennessee |
| 1832 | Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde |
| 1819 | Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies |
| 1795 | French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands |
| 1780 | Battle at Cape St. Vincent: Admiral Rodney beats Spanish fleet |
| 1777 | Vermont declares independence from NY |
| 1776 | Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks |
| 1765 | Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major) |
| 1759 | British Museum opens in London |
| 1756 | England and Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster |
| 1581 | English parliament passes laws against Catholicism |
| 1556 | Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain |
| 1547 | Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow |
| 1531 | English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting |
| 1493 | Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip |
| 1325 | Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade |
| 1219 | Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed |
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