| 1998 | President Clinton faces sexual harrament charges from Paula Jones |
| 1997 | NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely/$25,000 for kicking cameraman |
| 1995 | "Carousel" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 322 performances |
| 1995 | 7.2 earthquake destroys Kobe Japan killing 5,372 die |
| 1995 | Australia beat Australia A 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1995 | Los Angeles Rams announce that they are moving to St. Louis |
| 1994 | 6.6 Earthquake hits Los Angeles killing 60, $30B in damage |
| 1994 | Liz Taylor released from the hospital after hip treatment |
| 1993 | 14th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards |
| 1993 | Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45") |
| 1992 | Sarah Ferguson attends dinner of Everglades club (club excludes Jews) |
| 1991 | Iraq fires 8 Scud missiles on Israel |
| 1991 | Mountie Jacques Rougeau beats Hart for WWF intercontinental title |
| 1991 | Operation Desert Storm begins - U.S. led allies vs Iraq |
| 1991 | Operation Desert Storm: 1st U.S. pilot shot down (Jeffrey Zahn) |
| 1990 | 5th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin |
| 1990 | Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract |
| 1990 | Who, Simon and Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters & |
| 1990 | Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| 1989 | Al Arbour wins his 600th NHL game as coach |
| 1989 | Gunman opens fire in California schoolyard; 5 students slain, 30 wounded |
| 1989 | Murden and Metz are 1st women to reach South Pole overland (on skis) |
| 1989 | Phoenix Suns cancel game at Miami Heat, due to racial unrest in Miami |
| 1988 | "Teddy and Alice" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 77 performances |
| 1988 | Leslie Manigay elected president of Haiti |
| 1987 | President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran |
| 1986 | Tim Witherspoon beats Tony Tubbs in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1985 | Azharuddin scores second Test century in second Test (v England) |
| 1984 | Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws |
| 1983 | 10th American Music Award: Kenny Rogers |
| 1983 | Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, becomes governor for record 4th time |
| 1983 | Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians |
| 1981 | Philippino president Marcos ends state of siege |
| 1980 | NASA launches Fltsatcom-3 |
| 1979 | New York Islanders didn't get a shot off in 1 period against New York Rangers |
| 1979 | Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1977 | KC releases Tommy Davis, ends an 18-year career with 10 teams |
| 1977 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 24-14 |
| 1977 | Zaire president Mobutu visits Belgium |
| 1976 | "I Write the Songs" by Barry Manilow hits #1 |
| 1976 | Hermes rocket launched by European Space Agency |
| 1974 | Styne, Comdem and Green's musical "Lorelei," premieres in New York City |
| 1973 | City of Amsterdam decides to support Hanoi |
| 1973 | New Philippine constitution names Marcos president for life |
| 1972 | Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd |
| 1971 | Super Bowl V: Baltimore Colts-16, Dallas Cowboys-13 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Chuck Howley, Dallas, LB |
| 1970 | 357 baseball players are available in the free-agent draft |
| 1970 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3 |
| 1970 | John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass) |
| 1970 | Sporting News names Willie Mays as Player of the Decade for the 1960s |
| 1969 | Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK |
| 1969 | Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US |
| 1969 | Soyuz 5 lands |
| 1968 | Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft |
| 1966 | B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die |
| 1966 | Martin Luther King, Jr. opens campaign in Chicago |
| 1963 | Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km |
| 1963 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 67 points vs LA |
| 1962 | A NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 40,690 m |
| 1962 | Roy Harris' 8th Symphony, premieres in SF |
| 1961 | Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Lumumba |
| 1960 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1960 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21 |
| 1959 | "Say, Darling" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 332 performances |
| 1957 | 9-county commission recommends creation of BART |
| 1957 | Cavern Club opens (home of Beatles' 1st appearance) |
| 1955 | Submarine Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage |
| 1954 | Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS) |
| 1954 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9 |
| 1954 | Suggs Louise wins LPGA Sea Island Golf Open (Cloister) |
| 1951 | China refuses cease-fire in Korea |
| 1950 | "Alive and Kicking" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 46 performances |
| 1950 | 11 men rob Brink's office in Boston of $1.2M cash and $1.5M securities |
| 1948 | Netherlands and Indonesia agree to a cease fire |
| 1948 | Trial of 11 U.S. Communist party members begins in New York City |
| 1947 | Muiden Netherlands ammunition factory explodes, 16 die |
| 1946 | United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting |
| 1945 | Auschwitz concentration camp begins evacuation |
| 1945 | Gilbert Dodds, record miler (4:05.3), retires to do gospel work |
| 1945 | Liberation of Warsaw by Soviet troops (end of Nazi occupation) |
| 1945 | Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis, arrested by secret police in Hungary |
| 1944 | Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1943 | Tin Can Drive Day |
| 1939 | Ed Barrow is elected Yankee president succeeding deceased J Ruppert |
| 1938 | Supreme Soviet elects Michail Kalinin as presidium chairman |
| 1934 | Carl Hubbell, NL MVP winner, gets $18,000 contract by the New York Giants |
| 1934 | Electric Home and Farm Authority incorporated |
| 1934 | New York Giants reward MVP pitcher Carl Hubbell with $18,000 contract |
| 1933 | Bradman takes second Test wicket, Hammond, bowled |
| 1929 | Popeye makes 1st appearance, in comic strip "Thimble Theater" |
| 1928 | 1st fully automatic photographic film developing machine patented |
| 1926 | George Burns marries Gracie Allen |
| 1923 | Belgian Working people Party protest against occupied Ruhrgebied |
| 1923 | Origin of Brown lunation numbers |
| 1920 | Paul Deschanel elected president of France |
| 1917 | U.S. pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands |
| 1916 | 1st PGA Championship: Jim Barnes at Siwanoy CC Bronxville NY |
| 1916 | Professional Golfer Association (PGA) forms in New York City |
| 1915 | Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Hospital in Amsterdam opens |
| 1915 | Russia occupies Bukovina and Western Ukraine |
| 1914 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Der Bogen des Odysseus," premieres in Berlin |
| 1913 | Raymond Poincare elected president of France |
| 1912 | Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen |
| 1911 | Failed assassination attempt on premier Briand in French Assembly |
| 1911 | Percy Mackaye's "Scarecrow," premieres in New York City |
| 1905 | Punchboards patented by Charles Brewer and C G Scannell, Chicago |
| 1904 | Anton Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater |
| 1899 | U.S. takes possession of Wake Island in Pacific |
| 1895 | French president Casimir-Perier resigns |
| 1895 | Felix Faure installed as president of France |
| 1893 | -17 degrees F (-27 degrees C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record) |
| 1893 | Queen Liliuokalani deposed, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic |
| 1885 | British beat Mahdists at Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan |
| 1882 | 1st Dutch female physician Aletta Jacobs opens office |
| 1874 | Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction |
| 1871 | 1st cable car patented, by Andrew S Hallidie (begins service in 1873) |
| 1864 | General Longstreet's command ends heavy fighting at Dandridgem TN |
| 1863 | Civil War skirmish near Newtown, Virginia |
| 1862 | BBT Ft. Henry, Tennessee by USS Lexington |
| 1861 | Flush toilet patented by Mr. Thomas Crapper (Honest!) |
| 1852 | British recognize independence of Transvaal (in South Africa) |
| 1832 | Johannes van den Bosch appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies |
| 1827 | Duke of Wellington appointed British supreme commander |
| 1821 | Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 U.S. families to settle in Texas |
| 1779 | Captain Cooks last notation in ship's log Discovery |
| 1775 | 9 old women burnt as witches for causing bad harvests, Kalisk, Pol |
| 1775 | R B Sheridan's "Rivals," premieres in London |
| 1773 | Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66 degrees 33' S) |
| 1757 | German Diet declares war on Prussia |
| 1746 | Battle of Falkirk, Scotland-Edward I defeats and massacres Scots |
| 1718 | Avalanche destroys every building in Leukerbad, Switzerland; kills 53 |
| 1656 | Brandenburg and Sweden sign Treaty of Konigsberg |
| 1601 | France gains Bresse, Bugey, Valromey and Gex in treaty with Spain |
| 1595 | French king Henri IV declares war on Spain |
| 1584 | Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar |
| 1562 | Edict of St. Germain recognizes Huguenots in France |
| 1536 | Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III |
| 1501 | Cesare Borgia returns in triumph to Rome from Romagna |
