| 2002 | In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush likens Iraq, Iran and North Korea to an 'axis of evil' |
| 1998 | "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater New York City |
| 1998 | Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft. Lauderdale Fla |
| 1998 | Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR |
| 1998 | Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium and Netherlands, 6 die |
| 1998 | Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Alabama bombed, 1 killed |
| 1996 | 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins |
| 1996 | Last day of Test cricket for David Boon |
| 1996 | 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line" |
| 1995 | Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open |
| 1995 | Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide |
| 1995 | Superbowl XXIX: San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami |
| 1995 | Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, quarterback |
| 1993 | Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman |
| 1991 | "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| 1991 | Nelson Mandela and Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years |
| 1990 | Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill |
| 1989 | 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62) |
| 1989 | Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt |
| 1989 | Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43 |
| 1989 | Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop |
| 1989 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3 |
| 1989 | Orlando Arena opens |
| 1989 | U.S.S.R.'s Phobos II enters Martian orbit |
| 1989 | Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129 |
| 1988 | Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15 |
| 1988 | Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers |
| 1988 | Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938) |
| 1988 | United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s |
| 1987 | Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry |
| 1987 | William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA |
| 1986 | 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange |
| 1986 | Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda |
| 1985 | Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39 |
| 1984 | 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver |
| 1984 | Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman |
| 1984 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3 |
| 1984 | President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term |
| 1984 | Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek |
| 1984 | Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched |
| 1983 | "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on U.K. pop chart |
| 1983 | 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET and Tootsie win |
| 1982 | Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak |
| 1982 | Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians |
| 1981 | AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf and Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, and 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million |
| 1980 | 6 Iranian held U.S. hostages escape with help of Canadians |
| 1980 | Cleveland Cavaliers beat Los Angeles Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT |
| 1979 | 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7 |
| 1979 | Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays" |
| 1979 | Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, D.C. |
| 1979 | Emerson, Lake and Palmer disband after 10 years together |
| 1979 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7 |
| 1979 | President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years |
| 1978 | Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship |
| 1976 | Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire |
| 1975 | "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1975 | 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King |
| 1975 | W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2 |
| 1974 | 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago |
| 1972 | 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville |
| 1971 | Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, vs. England at Adelaide |
| 1970 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1969 | Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars |
| 1969 | Sheahan and Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs. W Indies |
| 1968 | Nauru adopts constitution |
| 1967 | "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 107 performances |
| 1967 | Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1967 | Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ |
| 1967 | WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1966 | "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 608 performances |
| 1966 | Lawry and Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs. England, Adelaide |
| 1966 | Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165 |
| 1966 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 1966 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
| 1964 | 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1964 | Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" and "Sie Leibt Dich" |
| 1964 | Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana) |
| 1964 | NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million |
| 1964 | Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," premieres |
| 1964 | Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit |
| 1963 | Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame |
| 1961 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen |
| 1961 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord |
| 1959 | Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released |
| 1958 | Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming |
| 1958 | Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward wed |
| 1957 | Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in New York City |
| 1956 | Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich |
| 1955 | John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) |
| 1954 | Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne |
| 1953 | 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres |
| 1951 | "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| 1951 | Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million |
| 1951 | Liz Taylor's 1st divorce, Conrad Hilton, Jr. |
| 1949 | England, Belgium, Lux, Netherlands, New Zealand and Switzerland recognize Israel |
| 1948 | "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 188 performances |
| 1948 | Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, and Phillies $500 each for signing high school players |
| 1947 | Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | 285 German bombers attack London |
| 1943 | New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal |
| 1943 | Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in New York City |
| 1942 | 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC |
| 1942 | German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi |
| 1942 | Peru and Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation) |
| 1936 | 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson |
| 1933 | German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor |
| 1932 | Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide |
| 1929 | Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms |
| 1927 | 4th German government of Marx forms |
| 1925 | British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader |
| 1924 | Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland |
| 1922 | Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador dissolved |
| 1921 | Hurricane hits Washington and Oregon |
| 1920 | Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co. |
| 1919 | Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment, prohibition |
| 1917 | English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch |
| 1916 | 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place |
| 1913 | Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates |
| 1912 | Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA |
| 1908 | Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates |
| 1906 | Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km |
| 1904 | 1st athletic letters given (University of Chicago football team) |
| 1903 | Dutch railroad workers strike |
| 1900 | Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed |
| 1900 | American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis |
| 1896 | Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer |
| 1895 | King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed |
| 1886 | 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe |
| 1879 | Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established |
| 1872 | Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina |
| 1864 | Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid) |
| 1863 | Battle at Bear River, Washington: U.S. Army vs indians |
| 1861 | Kansas becomes 34th state |
| 1860 | American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX |
| 1856 | Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery |
| 1850 | Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to U.S. Senate |
| 1848 | Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press) |
| 1845 | Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City) |
| 1839 | Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood |
| 1834 | President Jackson orders 1st use of U.S. troops to suppress a labor dispute |
| 1802 | John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress |
| 1788 | Australia Day |
| 1781 | Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich |
| 1732 | Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual |
| 1728 | John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London |
| 1676 | Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of Russia |
| 1613 | Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees |
| 1587 | Deventer and Zutphen surrender to Spain |
| 1574 | Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet |
| 1523 | Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden |
