| 1998 | "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater New York City |
| 1998 | 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver |
| 1998 | 55th Golden Globes Awards |
| 1998 | ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando |
| 1998 | Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00 |
| 1998 | Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural |
| 1998 | UCP Telethon |
| 1997 | 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena |
| 1996 | Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997 |
| 1996 | Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in New York |
| 1995 | Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka vs. Kerala |
| 1995 | Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia |
| 1993 | Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time |
| 1993 | West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0 |
| 1992 | 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Philadelphia |
| 1992 | 49th Golden Globes |
| 1992 | Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui |
| 1992 | Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident |
| 1992 | NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Philadelphia |
| 1991 | Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel |
| 1991 | U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career |
| 1991 | WLAF's New York Knights become NY-New Jersey Knights |
| 1991 | Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours and 11 minutes |
| 1990 | South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African National Congress |
| 1990 | Washington D.C., Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting |
| 1989 | Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC) |
| 1989 | IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988 |
| 1989 | Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations and Stevie Wonder |
| 1989 | West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup |
| 1988 | Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board |
| 1987 | 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| 1986 | 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth |
| 1986 | AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1 |
| 1986 | New York Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46) |
| 1985 | U.S. renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise |
| 1984 | 80th Islander and 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll and Bossy) 9-1 win |
| 1983 | IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball |
| 1981 | Iran accepts U.S. offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets |
| 1981 | Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity |
| 1980 | Gold reaches $1,000 an ounce |
| 1980 | Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1 |
| 1980 | Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 |
| 1979 | Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon |
| 1978 | Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, vs. Pak Karachi |
| 1978 | Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries) |
| 1978 | Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB |
| 1977 | Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG |
| 1976 | Superbowl X: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pittsburgh, WR |
| 1975 | "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS |
| 1974 | "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV |
| 1974 | Israel and Egypt sign weapons accord |
| 1973 | Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH |
| 1973 | Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak |
| 1973 | John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC |
| 1971 | Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ |
| 1970 | Hasse Borjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec |
| 1970 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13 |
| 1969 | Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris |
| 1968 | "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 286 performances |
| 1968 | Hester and Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1967 | 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal |
| 1967 | Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada |
| 1966 | Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) |
| 1965 | H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname |
| 1964 | Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) |
| 1964 | Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City) |
| 1963 | Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) |
| 1962 | Southern University closed due to demonstrations |
| 1962 | U.S. begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote and parliament by a single seat |
| 1960 | U.S. and Japan sign joint defense treaty |
| 1959 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1958 | 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins) |
| 1957 | 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hours 19 minutes |
| 1956 | East Germany forms own army (National People's Army) |
| 1954 | Fanfani forms Italian government |
| 1953 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1951 | 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands |
| 1951 | Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR" |
| 1951 | NFL rules tackles, guards and centers ineligible for forward pass |
| 1951 | NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts |
| 1950 | Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London |
| 1950 | Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut is Feller's own suggestion |
| 1949 | "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont) |
| 1949 | South African Reverend Andries P. Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer |
| 1948 | 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 1948 | Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS) |
| 1947 | "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 831 performances |
| 1947 | Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000) |
| 1947 | Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400 |
| 1945 | Warsaw freed by Soviet army |
| 1944 | 1st Chinese naturalized U.S. citizen since repeal of exclusion acts |
| 1943 | Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis |
| 1943 | Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts |
| 1943 | Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad |
| 1943 | U.S. rations bread and metal |
| 1943 | Uprising in Warsaw ghetto |
| 1942 | Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart and Wiardi Beckman |
| 1939 | SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* vs. NSW |
| 1938 | Bradman scores 104* for South Australia vs. NSW at the SCG |
| 1938 | Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1934 | Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in New York City |
| 1933 | White Sands National Monument, New Mexico established |
| 1930 | -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record) |
| 1930 | Shostakovich' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1929 | "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio |
| 1929 | Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo |
| 1923 | 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies |
| 1922 | Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin |
| 1921 | William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France |
| 1915 | Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die |
| 1913 | Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy |
| 1912 | English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before |
| 1911 | 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania) |
| 1908 | Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres |
| 1905 | French government of Combes falls |
| 1901 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re |
| 1900 | Jan Blockx's "Tol Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels |
| 1896 | 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in U.S. (New York City) |
| 1896 | British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa |
| 1895 | Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms |
| 1884 | General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum |
| 1871 | 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck |
| 1869 | Elegant California Theater opens in San Francisco |
| 1865 | Battle of Ft. Moultrie, SC |
| 1862 | Confederate Territory of Arizona forms |
| 1854 | Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW Mexico |
| 1850 | British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims |
| 1840 | Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st U.S. electrical journal, appears |
| 1817 | San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes |
| 1795 | French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance |
| 1795 | Governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England |
| 1788 | English settlers arrive in Australia's Botany Bay to setup penal colony |
| 1778 | Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) |
| 1777 | San Jose, California, founded |
| 1733 | 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston) |
| 1701 | Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia |
| 1691 | English king Willem III travels to The Hague |
| 1671 | Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama |
| 1650 | French Prince Louis II of Conde captured |
| 1644 | 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston |
| 1644 | Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting |
| 1535 | Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru |
| 1520 | Christian II of Denmark and Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde |
| 1486 | King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV |
| 1478 | Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod |
| 1307 | German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia |
| 532 | Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die |
| 350 | General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans |
| 336 | Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope |
