| 2003 | The United Nations reported that there is no link between al Queda and Iraq |
| 1998 | NHL's Minnesota franchise selects the nickname Wild |
| 1998 | Rickey Henderson, rejoins Oakland A's for 4th time |
| 1998 | STS-89 (Endeavour 12) launches into orbit |
| 1998 | World League of American Football becomes NFL East |
| 1997 | Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns to Earth, Successful |
| 1995 | Palestinian bomb attack in Beit Lid Israel, 21-22 killed |
| 1995 | Pat Bradley wins LPGA HealthSouth Inaugural Golf Tournament |
| 1994 | 45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at New York Rangers |
| 1994 | 5.5 earthquake strikes Sumatra |
| 1994 | 51st Golden Globes: Schlinder's List, Steven Speilberg |
| 1994 | East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at MSG in New York City |
| 1993 | Johan Koss skates world record 5 km in 6:38.77 |
| 1992 | Sarah Ferguson wears paper bag over her head on airline ride |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-42 (Discovery 15) launches into space |
| 1990 | 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli |
| 1990 | Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide |
| 1990 | Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with San Francisco Giants |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1989 | Superbowl XXIII: San Francisco 49ers beat Cincinnati Bengals, 20-16 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Jerry Rice, San Francisco, WR |
| 1988 | 1st-class cricket debut of Brian Lara, Trinidad and Tobago vs. Leeward Is |
| 1988 | 1st-class cricket debut of Hansie Cronje, OFS vs. Transvaal |
| 1988 | Mike Tyson TKOs Larry Holmes in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1987 | "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend New Jersey Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands |
| 1987 | Blizzard in NJ, as 334 attend Devils-Flame NHL game, New Jersey wins 7-5 |
| 1986 | Ghorbanifar 1st suggests diversion of cash to contras, says North |
| 1985 | -30 degrees F (-34 degrees C), Mountain Lake Bio Station, Virginia (state record) |
| 1985 | Cold wave damages 90 percent of Florida's citrus crop |
| 1985 | Kelly Hu, 16, of Hawaii, crowned 3rd Miss Teen USA |
| 1985 | Zak Starkey (Ringo's son) marries Sarah Menikides |
| 1984 | Annette Kennedy of SUNY sets women's basketball record with 70 pts |
| 1984 | Hilbert van de Thumb becomes European all-round skates |
| 1984 | Superbowl XVIII: Los Angeles Raiders beat Washington Red Skins, 38-9 in Tampa Superbowl MVP: Marcus Allen, Los Angeles Raiders, RB |
| 1983 | 2nd flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 22 seconds |
| 1983 | Houston is 1st NBA team to be held scoreless in an overtime Portland Trail Blazers out score them 17-0 and win 113-96 |
| 1982 | 75% of North America is covered by snow |
| 1981 | 40th Islander shut-out opponent-3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th |
| 1981 | O A "Bum" Phillips becomes head coach of New Orleans Saints |
| 1980 | Dissidents Andrei Sacharov and Jelena Bonner banished to Gorki |
| 1980 | PGA begins a senior golf tour |
| 1980 | West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup |
| 1976 | Bank robbery in Beirut nets a record $20-50 million |
| 1975 | Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched |
| 1973 | George Foreman TKOs Joe Frazier in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1973 | Roe vs Wade: U.S. Supreme Court legalizes some abortions |
| 1973 | US, North and South Vietnam and Vietcong sign boundary accord |
| 1972 | "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV |
| 1972 | 22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA |
| 1971 | John and Yoko record "Power to the People" |
| 1970 | 1st commercial Boeing 747 flight, New York to London in 6 hours |
| 1970 | Test debut of Barry Richards, South Africa vs. Australia, Cape Town |
| 1969 | "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 110 performances |
| 1969 | Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle |
| 1969 | Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit |
| 1969 | Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1968 | "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC |
| 1968 | Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made |
| 1968 | NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix |
| 1967 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10 |
| 1965 | U.S. launches TIROS 9 weather satellite |
| 1964 | Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia) |
| 1964 | World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin |
| 1963 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament |
| 1960 | 10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia |
| 1960 | Coal mine of Johnburg caves-in, 417 die |
| 1960 | French president De Gaulle escape attempt by general Massu |
| 1960 | Paul Pender beats Sugar Ray Robinson for middleweight boxing title |
| 1959 | USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects |
| 1958 | KRSD (now KEVN) TV channel 7 in Rapid City, SD (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| 1957 | Israeli forces withdraw from Sinai Peninsula |
| 1957 | Mad Bomber (George P. Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested |
| 1956 | 30 die in a train crash in Los Angeles |
| 1956 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1956 | Canadian Football Council forms |
| 1955 | Norwegian government of Einar Gerhardsen forms |
| 1953 | Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Johncrowe Ransom |
| 1951 | Fidel Castro ejected from a Winter League game after beaning batter |
| 1950 | Polly Riley wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1949 | "All for Love" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 121 performances |
| 1949 | Chinatown telephone exchange closed |
| 1948 | Jim Laker takes 7-103 in his 1st Test Cricket innings vs. WI Barbados |
| 1947 | 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA |
| 1947 | KTLA TV channel 5 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1946 | U.S. president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency |
| 1945 | Burma highway reopens |
| 1945 | Heavy U.S. air raid on Okinawa |
| 1944 | During World War II, Allied forces begin landing at Anzio Italy |
| 1943 | 66.3 cm precipitation at Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
| 1943 | Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach |
| 1943 | Joint Chiefs of Staff determine invasion in Sicily for July 10th |
| 1943 | Temperature rises 49 degrees F (9 degrees C) in 2 minutes in Spearfish, SD |
| 1942 | Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain |
| 1942 | Sietze de Groot wins 8th Dutch 11 city skate (8:44:06) |
| 1941 | 1st mass killing of Jews in Romania |
| 1941 | British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians |
| 1940 | 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS |
| 1939 | Aquatic Park, near Fisherman's Wharf, SF, is dedicated |
| 1939 | Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University |
| 1938 | "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, premieres |
| 1936 | French Laval government falls |
| 1934 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' opera "Lady MacBeth," premieres in Leningrad |
| 1932 | British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge |
| 1931 | French government of Steeg falls |
| 1931 | VARA begins experimental TV broadcast in Diamantbeurs Amsterdam |
| 1930 | -35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Mount Carroll, Illinois (state record) |
| 1926 | Belgian chief of staff General Maglinse quits |
| 1925 | Albania Republic proclaimed under President Achmed Zogu |
| 1924 | Baldwin government resigns in England |
| 1924 | Dutch Blast Furnace and Steel Factory opens |
| 1924 | KGO-AM in San Francisco, California begins radio transmissions |
| 1918 | Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet) |
| 1914 | Paul Claudel's "L'echange," premieres in Paris |
| 1910 | Opera "Germania," premieres in New York City |
| 1909 | Vassily Kandinsky forms Kunstlerverein in Munich |
| 1905 | Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops |
| 1901 | After 63 years England stops sale of Queen Victoria postage stamps series and begins King Edward VII series |
| 1895 | National Association of Manufacturers organized in Cincinnati |
| 1890 | Jose Marti forms La Liga (Union of Cuban exiles) in New York City |
| 1883 | England complete 1st innings victory in Tests vs. Australia MCG |
| 1881 | Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park |
| 1879 | Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa |
| 1879 | James Shields (D) elected U.S. senator from Missouri after previously serving as U.S. senator from Illinois and Minnesota |
| 1873 | Britains SS Northfleet sinks at Dungeness England, 300 die |
| 1863 | Union General Burnside's "Mud March" |
| 1862 | Confederate government raises premium for volunteers from $10 to $20 |
| 1859 | Brahms' 1st piano concerto (in D minor) premieres, Hanover |
| 1857 | National Association of Baseball Players founded, New York |
| 1850 | Alta California becomes a daily paper, 1st such in Calif |
| 1837 | Earthquake in southern Syria kills thousands |
| 1831 | Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of Art exam |
| 1817 | English freighter Diana sinks off Malaysia |
| 1816 | Lord Byron completes "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth" |
| 1814 | 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in U.S. held, New York City |
| 1813 | Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada |
| 1798 | Coup of Midderigh |
| 1775 | Marshal Oscar von Lubomirski expels Jews from Warsaw Poland |
| 1771 | Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain |
| 1760 | Battle at Wandewash India: British troops beat French |
| 1758 | Russian troops occupy Konigsberg, East Prussia |
| 1690 | Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French |
| 1689 | Lord Halifax becomes Speaker of English House of Lords |
| 1689 | Prince Willem III calls English parliament together |
| 1673 | Postal service between New York and Boston inaugurated |
| 1588 | Pope Sixtus V decrees "Immense aeterni" (Reformed curia) |
| 1584 | Parts of Switzerland adopt Gregorian calendar (& parts in 1812) |
| 1575 | English queen Elizabeth I grants Thomas Tallis and William Byrd music press monopoly |
| 1528 | England and France declare war on Emperor Charles V |
| 1517 | Turks conquer Cairo |
| 1510 | Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany |
| 1371 | King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned |
| 871 | Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex |
