| 2013 | U.S. Senator John Kerry is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next U.S. Secretary of State |
| 2013 | For the first time since launching Google Maps, Google extends its data coverage of North Korea, filling in previously blank areas on most of the country with detailed maps that identify landmarks |
| 2012 | The 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards takes place in Los Angeles, California |
| 2012 | French President Nicolas Sarkozy presents an economic reform package that increases taxes and proposes a new tax on financial transactions |
| 2011 | A 450 year-old painting by Titian of the Madonna and Child sets a record at Sotheby's, selling for $16.9 million |
| 2011 | Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak appoints Omar Suleiman Vice President, the first office existing under the President in 30 years |
| 2010 | The Wittelsback-Graff Diamond, a 31.06-carat Fancy Deep Blue diamond, once part of the Austrian and Bavarian Crown jewels, is placed on display at the Smithsonian |
| 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 |
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