| 1998 | Pope John Paul II visits Cuba |
| 1998 | News of the Lewinsky/Clinton affair is published, President Clinton vigorously denies all allegations |
| 1996 | 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta |
| 1996 | Karrie Webb wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament |
| 1996 | U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Rudy Galindo |
| 1995 | 52th Golden Globes: Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, Jessica Lange |
| 1994 | Dow Jones passes 3900 (record 3,914.20) |
| 1994 | Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane of chopping off spouse's penis |
| 1993 | Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 |
| 1993 | Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested on suspicion of murder |
| 1991 | CBS News correspondant Bob Simon captured by Iraqis in Persian Gulf |
| 1990 | 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh |
| 1990 | Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director |
| 1990 | John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open |
| 1990 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Wayne Gretzky passes Marcel Dionne to become NHL's 2nd all time scorer |
| 1988 | U.S. accept immigration of 30,000 U.S. - Vietnamese children |
| 1987 | BB King donates his 7,000 record collection to the University of Mississippi |
| 1986 | 100 participate in Nude Olympics race in 38 degrees F (3 degrees C), Indiana |
| 1986 | Allison J Brown, 17, of Oklahoma, crowned 4th Miss Teen USA |
| 1986 | Bomb attack in East-Beirut, 27 killed |
| 1985 | -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record) |
| 1985 | -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Mitchell, North Carolina (state record) |
| 1985 | Bomb attack on Borobudur temple in Java |
| 1985 | Dennis Potvin ties Bobby Orr's career record of 270 NHL goals |
| 1984 | U.S. male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 1983 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Anthony E Hecht |
| 1983 | Reagan certifies El Salvador human-rights abuses have decreased making country eligible for U.S. military aid |
| 1982 | "Little Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1982 | New York Islanders begin then NHL record 15 game winning streak |
| 1981 | "Shakespeare's Cabaret" opens at Bijou Theater New York City for 54 performances |
| 1981 | Bernhard Goetz is assault for 1st time on a New York subway train |
| 1980 | Gold hits record $850 an ounce |
| 1980 | Les Henson, Virginia Tech, makes 89' 3" basketball field goal |
| 1979 | Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer) |
| 1979 | Price of gold increases to record $875 troy oz |
| 1979 | Superbowl XIII: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 35-31 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Terry Bradshaw, Pittsburgh, quarterback |
| 1978 | Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks |
| 1977 | Italy legalizes abortion |
| 1977 | President Jimmy Carter pardons almost all Vietnam War draft evaders |
| 1976 | Supersonic Concorde, 1st commercial flights, by Britain and France |
| 1975 | 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal |
| 1974 | Gold hits record $161.31/silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London |
| 1973 | 3rd NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 33-28 |
| 1973 | Leslie Nielson appears on M*A*S*H in "Ringbanger" |
| 1972 | Assam's North East Frontier Agency becomes Arunachal Pradesh terr |
| 1972 | Belgium government of Eyskens-Cools forms |
| 1972 | Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura become separate states of Indian union |
| 1972 | Mizoram, formerly part of Assam, creates an Indian union territory |
| 1971 | "Alias Smith and Jones" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1970 | World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight |
| 1970 | Panama Boeing 747 1st flight NY-London |
| 1969 | 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal |
| 1968 | AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 |
| 1968 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 |
| 1968 | U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland |
| 1967 | AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 |
| 1967 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 1967 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
| 1966 | Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd |
| 1965 | Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured |
| 1964 | Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency |
| 1962 | John F. Kennedy arrives in Uruguay |
| 1962 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| 1962 | Snow falls in San Francisco |
| 1961 | "Conquering Hero" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| 1961 | KIFI TV channel 8 in Idaho Falls, Idaho (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1961 | Portuguese rebels seize cruise ship Santa Maria |
| 1960 | Little Joe 4 suborbital Mercury test reaches 16 km |
| 1960 | Rock falls traps 437 at Coalbrook South Africa, 417 die of methane poisoning |
| 1958 | KMOT TV channel 10 in Minot, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1958 | Phillies agree to televise 78 games into New York City (doesn't happen) |
| 1957 | KSAT TV channel 12 in San Antonio, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1956 | "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Golden New York City after 849 performances |
| 1956 | William Shawn succeeds Harold Ross as editor of New Yorker |
| 1954 | 1st gas turbine automobile exhibited (New York City) |
| 1953 | John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State |
| 1952 | Nehru's Congress party wins general election in India |
| 1951 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open |
| 1950 | "Lend an Ear" closes at National Theater New York City after 460 performances |
| 1950 | NY jury finds former State Department official Alger Hiss guilty of perjury |
| 1950 | T. S. Eliot's "Cocktail Party," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | 1st inaugural parade televised (Harry Truman) |
| 1948 | W Indies vs. England, Test debut Walcott, Weekes and Jim Laker |
| 1947 | "Sweethearts" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 288 performances |
| 1947 | Arthur Honegger's 4th Symphony premieres in Basel |
| 1946 | "Nellie Bly" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| 1945 | British troops land on Ramree, near coast of Burma |
| 1944 | 447 German bombers attack London |
| 1944 | 649 British bombers attack Magdeburg |
| 1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Worosjilowsk |
| 1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Gumrak airport near Stalingrad |
| 1943 | Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British adm of fleet |
| 1942 | Bronx magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal |
| 1942 | Count Basie records "One O'Clock Jump" |
| 1942 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain |
| 1942 | Tito's partisans occupy Foca |
| 1941 | 1st anti-Jewish measures in Bulgaria |
| 1941 | 1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, TX |
| 1941 | Australia and Britain attack Tobruk Libya |
| 1941 | British communist newspaper "Daily Worker" banned |
| 1940 | Foreign correspondents in Netherlands under censorship |
| 1939 | George Kaufman and Moss Hart's "American Way," premieres in New York City |
| 1939 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
| 1939 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 1938 | Dutch government starts obligatory unemployment insurance |
| 1935 | 12.0" (30.5 cm) of rain falls, Quinault RS, Washington (state record) |
| 1935 | WFI-AM in Philadelphia Penn merges with WLIT as WFIL (now WEAZ) |
| 1935 | Wilderness Society forms |
| 1932 | U.S.S.R. and Finland stop non-attack treaty |
| 1929 | Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London |
| 1927 | 1st national opera broadcast from a U.S. opera house (Faust, Chicago) |
| 1926 | Belgian parliament accepts Locarno treaties |
| 1925 | Albanian parliament announces itself a republic; Ahmed Zogoe president |
| 1922 | 1st slalom ski race run, Murren, Switzerland |
| 1919 | Sinn Fein proclaims parliament of Free Ireland |
| 1915 | Kiwanis International founded in Detroit |
| 1913 | Aristide Briand forms French government |
| 1910 | British-Russian military intervention in Persia |
| 1908 | August Strindberg's "Spoksonaten," premieres in Stockholm |
| 1908 | New York City regulation makes it illegal for a woman to smoke in public |
| 1907 | Kenora Thistles sweep Mont Wanderers in 2 for Stanley Cup |
| 1904 | Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," premieres in Brno |
| 1903 | "Wizard of Oz," premieres in New York City |
| 1903 | Harry Houdini escapes police station Halvemaansteeg in Amsterdam |
| 1903 | International Theater (Majestic, Park) opens at 5 Columbus Circle New York City |
| 1901 | Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in New York City |
| 1894 | Oscar Fredriksen skates world record 500m in 47.8 sec |
| 1890 | 1st issue of Propria Cures, Amsterdam student-weekly newspaper |
| 1887 | Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) forms |
| 1880 | 1st U.S. sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis |
| 1879 | Henrik Ibsen's "Et Dukkehjem," premieres in Copenhagen |
| 1874 | Franz Grillparzer's "Libussa," premieres in Vienna |
| 1863 | City of Dublin leases part of Cattle Market for 100,000 years |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign |
| 1853 | Envelope-folding machine patented by Russell Hawes, Worcester, Mass |
| 1846 | 1st edition of Charles Dickens' "Daily News" |
| 1830 | Portsmouth (Ohio) blacks forcibly deported |
| 1827 | Freedom Journal, 1st Black paper, begins publishing |
| 1824 | Ashantees defeat British at Accra, West Africa |
| 1821 | Paramaribo Suriname catches fire, 4 die |
| 1818 | Keats writes his poem "On a Lock of Milton's Hair" |
| 1813 | Pineapple introduced to Hawaii |
| 1799 | Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced |
| 1793 | Prussia and Russia sign partition treaty (Poland divided) |
| 1789 | 1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy," is published |
| 1732 | Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha |
| 1677 | 1st medical publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), Boston |
| 1664 | Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army |
| 1604 | Tsar Ivan IV defeats False Dmitri, who claims to be the true tsar |
| 1542 | Parliament passes bill of attainder against Queen Katherine Howard |
| 1522 | Head inquisitor Adrian Florisz Boeyens elected pope |
| 1324 | Zen Buddhist religious debate between Tendai and Shingon |
| 1276 | Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V |
| 1189 | Philip II, Henry II and Richard Lion hearted initiate 3rd Crusade |
| 1077 | German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness |
