| 2003 | In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had tried to acquire 'significant quantities of uranium from Africa' (a claim substantiated only by forged documents) |
| 2001 | Super Bowl XXXV, Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, Baltimore Ravens beat New York Giants 34-7 |
| 1998 | Michelangelo, "Christ and the Woman of Samaria," sold for $7.4 million |
| 1996 | "Hello Dolly!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 118 performances |
| 1996 | 84th Australian Mens Tennis: Boris Becker beats M Chang (62 64 26 62) |
| 1996 | Superbowl XXX: Dallas Cowboys beat Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17 in Tempe Superbowl MVP: |
| 1995 | 69th Australian Women's Tennis Open: Mary Pierce beats Vicario (63 62) |
| 1995 | 83rd Australian Mens Tennis: Andre Agassi beats Sampras (46 61 76 64) |
| 1995 | Memphis Mad Dogs granted CFL's 13th franchise |
| 1994 | Actress Lorraine Bracco (39) weds actor Edward James Olmos (46) |
| 1994 | Helicopter crashes into office building in San Jose, California, 1 dead |
| 1994 | Inna Lassovskaja jumps ladies world record (14.78m) |
| 1992 | Boon completes twelfth Test century, 135 vs. India at Adelaide |
| 1992 | Stan Hansen beats Jumbo Tsuruta to win All Japan Triple Crown |
| 1991 | "A Closer Look" with Faith Daniels premieres on NBC-TV |
| 1991 | 18th American Music Award: M C Hammer and Janet Jackson |
| 1991 | Boon completes ninth Test century, 121 vs. England at Adelaide |
| 1991 | Dictator Siad Barre flees Somalia ending 22 year rule |
| 1990 | "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London |
| 1990 | 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret) |
| 1990 | Superbowl XXIV: San Francisco 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, quarterback |
| 1989 | 46th Golden Globes: Rainman, Working Girl |
| 1989 | 63rd Australian Womens Tennis: Steffi Graf beats Helena Sukova (64 64) |
| 1989 | Boon completes 7th Test century, 149 vs. WI at SCG |
| 1988 | "Saratina!" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 597 performances |
| 1988 | Canada's Supreme court declares anti-abortion law unconstitutional |
| 1987 | U.S. Foreign minister George Shultz meets ANC-leader Oliver Tambo |
| 1987 | Wrestler Jim Neidhart indicted for assaulting a flight attendant |
| 1986 | "Uptown... It's Hot!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| 1986 | Space Shuttle Challenger 10 explodes 73 sec after liftoff |
| 1986 | Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C. |
| 1985 | 12th American Music Award |
| 1984 | 41th Golden Globes: Thornbirds wins |
| 1984 | Los Angeles Kings stop Wayne Gretzky 51 game scoring streak |
| 1984 | Mr Glynn Wolfe marries for non-bigamous record 26th time, Las Vegas |
| 1984 | Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany |
| 1982 | U.S. General Dozier freed from Red Brigade of Padua Italy |
| 1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1981 | "5 O'Clock Girl" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1981 | William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987) |
| 1981 | Olympic Glory tanker at Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 1 million gallons of oil in a ship collision |
| 1980 | 37th Golden Globes: Dustin Hoffman and Sally Field wins |
| 1979 | "Wiz" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1672 performances |
| 1979 | Arthur Kopit's "Wings," premieres in New York City |
| 1978 | "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalban premieres on ABC TV |
| 1978 | Ranger's Don Murdoch failed on 4th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1978 | Ted Nugent autographs a fan's arm with his knife |
| 1976 | Erapalli Prasanna takes 8-76 to rip through New Zealand at Eden Park |
| 1976 | NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1975 | 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio |
| 1974 | Sam Thompson, Jim Bottomley, and Jocko Conlan elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1973 | "Barnaby Jones" premieres on CBS TV |
| 1973 | Henry Boucha, Detroit Red Wings, scores 6 sec into a game vs Mont |
| 1973 | Mickey Welch, George Kelly and Billy Evans elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1973 | Ron Howard appears on M*A*S*H in "Sometimes You Hear the Bullet" |
| 1972 | Oral Roberts' Eddie Woods grabs 30 rebounds for 2nd consecutive game |
| 1970 | Lubomir Strougal succeeds Cernik as premier of Czechoslovakia |
| 1969 | 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville |
| 1969 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America |
| 1968 | 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper |
| 1968 | Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1967 | Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together" |
| 1965 | The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV |
| 1963 | -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record) |
| 1962 | Johanne Relleke gets stung by bees 2,443 times in Rhodesia and survives |
| 1961 | Republic of Rwanda proclaimed |
| 1960 | Goon Show's final episode on BBC |
| 1960 | NFL announces Dallas Cowboys (1960) and Minnesota Vikings (1961) franchises |
| 1959 | Soviet Union wins 62-37 for 1st international basketball loss by US |
| 1958 | Construction began on 1st private thorium-uranium nuclear reactor |
| 1958 | Dodger catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in an automobile wreck |
| 1957 | "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie and Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen and Jack Paar) |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance (Dorsey Bros Stage Show) |
| 1953 | J. Fred Muggs (the chimp) joins NBC's "Today Show" |
| 1953 | WJTV TV channel 12 in Jackson, MS (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1951 | "La Vie Commence Demain," which depicted artificial insemination and is the 1st X-rated movie, opened in London |
| 1950 | Preston Tucker, auto maker, found not guilty of mail fraud |
| 1949 | New York Giants sign their 1st black players, Monte Irvin and Ford Smith |
| 1949 | U.N. Security council convicts Dutch aggression in Indonesia |
| 1947 | "Bay Psalm" book auctioned for a record $151,000 |
| 1945 | Dutch airplanes dump pamphlets on Java |
| 1945 | General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China |
| 1945 | Swedish ships bring food to starving Netherlands |
| 1944 | 683 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1944 | Leonard Bernstein's "Jeremiah," premieres in Pittsburgh |
| 1944 | U-271 and U-571 sunk off Ireland |
| 1943 | Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals |
| 1943 | Forward Doug Bentley sets NHL record with 5 points in a game |
| 1942 | General Timoshenko's troops move into Ukraine |
| 1942 | German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
| 1936 | Pravda criticizes Sjostakovitsj' "Lady Macbeth" opera |
| 1935 | Iceland becomes 1st country to legalize abortion |
| 1934 | 1st U.S. ski tow (rope) begins operation (Woodstock Vermont) |
| 1933 | French government of Paul Boncour falls |
| 1933 | German government of Von Schleicher falls |
| 1932 | 1st U.S. state unemployment insurance act enacted (Wisconsin) |
| 1932 | Japan occupies Shanghai |
| 1931 | Bradman scores 220 NSW vs. Victoria, 308 minutes, 13 fours |
| 1928 | Christopher Hornsrud chosen Prime Minister of Norway at age 101 |
| 1927 | Serbian-Croatian-Slavic government of Oezonowitsj falls |
| 1925 | -46 degrees F (-43 degrees C), Pittsburgh, New Hampshire (state record) |
| 1923 | 1st "Reichs Party" (NSDAP) forms in Munich |
| 1923 | Demonstration against a Dutch University in Ghent |
| 1923 | NSDAP 1st election in Munich |
| 1922 | American Pro Football Association renamed "National Football League" |
| 1922 | J. E. Clair turns Green Bay franchise back to NFL |
| 1918 | Strike on Berlin ammunition's factory |
| 1918 | Trotsky becomes leader of Reds |
| 1916 | 1st Jewish Supreme Court justice, Louis Brandeis, appointed by Wilson |
| 1916 | German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain and France |
| 1916 | Opera "Goyescas," premieres (New York City) |
| 1915 | 1st U.S. ship lost in WW I, William P Frye (carrying wheat to UK) |
| 1915 | U.S. Coast Guard created from Life Saving and Revenue Cutter services |
| 1915 | U.S. President Wilson refuses to prohibit immigration of illiterates |
| 1914 | 1st Millrose Games (athletics) held (New York City) |
| 1914 | Beverly Hills, California, is incorporated |
| 1911 | Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo |
| 1909 | U.S. military forces leave Cuba for 2nd time |
| 1904 | 1st college sports letters given to Seniors who played on University of Chicago's football team are awarded blankets with letter "C" on them |
| 1902 | Carnegie Institute founded in Washington D.C. |
| 1899 | American Social Science Association incorporated by Congress |
| 1893 | Edward Mcdowell's "Hamlet and Ophelia," premieres in Boston |
| 1887 | England all out for 45 vs. Australia SCG, their lowest total ever |
| 1881 | Battle at Laing's Neck Natal: Boers beat superior powered British |
| 1878 | 1st telephone exchange (New Haven, CT) |
| 1878 | George W. Coy hired as 1st full-time telephone operator |
| 1878 | Yale Daily News published, 1st college daily newspaper |
| 1871 | Paris surrenders to Prussians |
| 1865 | President Jefferson Davis names 3 peace commissioners |
| 1864 | Battle of New Bern, NC |
| 1860 | Britain formally returns Mosquito Coast to Nicaragua |
| 1858 | John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry |
| 1851 | Northwestern University in Chicago chartered |
| 1848 | King of Naples grants his subjects a constitution |
| 1846 | Battle of Allwal, Brits beat Sikhs in Punjab (India) |
| 1830 | Opera "Fra Diavolo," premieres in Paris |
| 1824 | William Kneass becomes 3rd U.S. chief engraver (1824-40) |
| 1821 | Bellingshausen discovers Alexander Island off Antarctica |
| 1819 | Sir Stamford Raffles 1st lands in Singapore |
| 1814 | Stendahl's 1st book is published |
| 1807 | London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight |
| 1788 | Captain Arthur Phillip forms English colony at Sydney, Botany Bay NSW |
| 1788 | Lord Gordon found guilty of libel of queen of France |
| 1787 | Philadelphia's Free Africa Society organizes |
| 1689 | English parliament ends king Charles II reign |
| 1613 | Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune |
| 1581 | James VI signs 2nd Confession of Faith in Scotland |
| 1561 | By Edict of Orleans persecution of French Huguenots is suspended |
| 1547 | 9-year-old Edward VI succeeds Henry VIII as king of England |
| 1495 | Pope gives his son Cesare Borgia as hostage to Charles VIII of France |
| 1393 | Fire during Royal Ball at Paris, 4 die (Ball of the Ardents) |
| 1262 | Flemish/Dutch coast ravaged by north western storm |
| 1099 | 1st Crusaders begins siege of Hosn-el-Akrad Syria |
| 1077 | German king Henry IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness |
| 1077 | Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Heinrich IV |
