| 2010 | Six Venezuelan cable television channels are taken off the air by the Venezuelan government after refusing to transmit government messages |
| 2006 | Stephen Harper, wins the election in Canada and is the first conservative Prime Minister in 12 years |
| 1998 | Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba |
| 1996 | Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs. Zim |
| 1994 | Bernie Kosar is 2nd quarterback to throw TD passes in AFC and NFC Champ games |
| 1994 | Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Hercegovina |
| 1993 | 50th Golden Globes: Scent of a Woman, wins |
| 1993 | Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack |
| 1993 | Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die |
| 1993 | New York Newsday reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women |
| 1993 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan |
| 1992 | "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1991 | Seinfeld debuts on NBC-TV |
| 1991 | World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait |
| 1990 | Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs. Pakistan at Adelaide Oval |
| 1989 | Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court |
| 1989 | NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak |
| 1988 | 45th Golden Globes: Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas |
| 1988 | 62nd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76) |
| 1988 | Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-pt game in a televised title match |
| 1988 | Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands |
| 1987 | Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 pt loss) |
| 1987 | Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion) |
| 1986 | "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City for 13 performances |
| 1986 | Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB |
| 1986 | 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, B Holly, J L Lewis and Elvis Presley) |
| 1985 | Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised |
| 1984 | Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game |
| 1984 | Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km |
| 1984 | Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ |
| 1983 | "A-Team" with Mr. T premieres on NBC |
| 1983 | Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis |
| 1983 | Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000 |
| 1983 | In NBA, Portland scores all 17 pts in overtime to beat Houston 113-96 |
| 1983 | Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean |
| 1983 | Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:40.97) |
| 1982 | Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approx date) |
| 1982 | World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2 |
| 1981 | 1st Richard Nixon museum opens in San Clemente, California |
| 1981 | Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin |
| 1981 | Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games |
| 1981 | Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana and Joe Rudi |
| 1979 | Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1978 | Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris |
| 1978 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 14-13 |
| 1977 | $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris |
| 1977 | Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC |
| 1976 | Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs. WI Adelaide |
| 1976 | Washington Caps end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5 |
| 1975 | "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV |
| 1975 | Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame |
| 1974 | 1st edition of women's magazine "Story" |
| 1973 | 23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago |
| 1973 | Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 yrs |
| 1973 | Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims |
| 1973 | President Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War |
| 1972 | 2nd AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 26-13 |
| 1972 | Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ |
| 1972 | Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi |
| 1972 | Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest |
| 1972 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-13 |
| 1971 | -80 degrees F (-62 degrees C) in Prospect Creek Camp, Alaska (U.S. record) |
| 1971 | 4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina |
| 1971 | UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row |
| 1970 | Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (Calif) |
| 1970 | Dolle Mina's burns her bra in Amsterdam |
| 1970 | U.S. launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1 |
| 1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1969 | Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" |
| 1968 | Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1968 | Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea |
| 1967 | Stan Musial is named General Manager of Cards |
| 1965 | "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV |
| 1965 | BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber |
| 1965 | Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain |
| 1964 | 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections |
| 1964 | Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in New York City |
| 1962 | Bob Feller and Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1962 | British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | Libya, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb |
| 1961 | Supreme Court rules cities and states have right to censor films |
| 1961 | Venezuela adopts constitution |
| 1960 | Bathosphere "Trieste" reach bottom of Pacific (10,900 m) |
| 1958 | "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 60 performances |
| 1958 | Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez flees Venezuela, Larrazabal takes power |
| 1958 | Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs. West Indies |
| 1955 | Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open |
| 1955 | KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1954 | Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP |
| 1954 | Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games) |
| 1953 | Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for NSW 16 years 357 days |
| 1953 | NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts) |
| 1953 | NFL's National and American conference become Eastern and Western conf |
| 1951 | 3rd Emmy Awards: Alan Young Show, Alan Young and Gertrude Berg |
| 1950 | 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published |
| 1950 | AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset |
| 1950 | Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel |
| 1950 | NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense and defense) |
| 1950 | Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung |
| 1948 | Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs. India, 21 fours 1 six |
| 1948 | Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens |
| 1948 | Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs. India at Adelaide |
| 1946 | Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA |
| 1945 | Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation |
| 1944 | Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers and NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals and most lopsided game 15-0 |
| 1943 | 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp, California (state record) |
| 1943 | British 8th army marches into Tripoli |
| 1943 | Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| 1943 | Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured |
| 1942 | Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain |
| 1942 | Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army |
| 1941 | Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center |
| 1941 | WOR-AM in Newark New Jersey moves to New York City |
| 1940 | Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile |
| 1937 | Karl Radek and 16 others go on trial in Stalin's great purge |
| 1936 | Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curacao forms |
| 1933 | 20th amendment changes date of presidential inaugurations to 1/20 |
| 1932 | El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers |
| 1930 | Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto |
| 1930 | George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Virginia established |
| 1930 | WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia South Carolina begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin |
| 1926 | Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain |
| 1923 | Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th) |
| 1920 | Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies |
| 1916 | Temp falls from 44 degrees F (7 degrees C) to -56 degrees F (49 degrees C) night of 23-24, Browning, Montana |
| 1909 | 1st radio rescue at sea |
| 1908 | U.S. and Great Britain demand end of abuses in Congo |
| 1907 | Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American U.S. senator |
| 1902 | Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for Stanley Cup |
| 1897 | Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Abbey Grange" |
| 1896 | Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres |
| 1894 | G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 min |
| 1889 | Dr. Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago |
| 1879 | National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind) |
| 1870 | 173 Blackfoot (140 women and children) killed in Montana by U.S. Army |
| 1862 | Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 10,000 |
| 1856 | Steamer Pacific lost |
| 1849 | Mrs Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman physician in US |
| 1849 | Patent granted for an envelope-making machine |
| 1845 | Uniform U.S. election day for president and Vice President authorized |
| 1833 | Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation |
| 1812 | 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri |
| 1796 | Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500 |
| 1793 | 2nd partition of Poland, between Prussia and Russia |
| 1793 | Humane Society of Philadelphia (1st aid society) organized |
| 1789 | Georgetown, 1st U.S. Catholic college, founded |
| 1779 | Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra) |
| 1723 | Georg Friedrich Handel's opera "Ottone," premieres in London |
| 1719 | Principality of Liechtenstein created within Holy Roman Empire |
| 1668 | England, Netherlands and Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French |
| 1663 | King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Ronstaten |
| 1647 | Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament |
| 1643 | Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for Parliamentarians |
| 1637 | Dutch governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil |
| 1631 | France and Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald |
| 1579 | Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic |
| 1571 | Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London |
| 1570 | Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out |
| 1556 | Most deadly earthquake kills 830,000 in Shensi Province, China |
| 1552 | 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England |
| 1492 | "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed |
| 1490 | 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul |
| 1265 | 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities) |
| 638 | Start of Islamic calendar |
