| 2006 | Samuel Alito sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court |
| 2000 | Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes off coast of southern California, killing 88, crash caused by a bad stabilizer |
| 1999 | Super Bowl XXXIII, Pro Player Stadium, Miami, Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons 34-19 |
| 1998 | 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63) |
| 1998 | STS-89 (Endeavour 12) lands |
| 1994 | Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down |
| 1994 | Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36 |
| 1993 | "St. Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| 1993 | 81st Australian Mens Tennis: Jim Courier beats S Edberg (62 61 26 75) |
| 1993 | Superbowl XXVII: Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Troy Aikman, Dallas, quarterback |
| 1992 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority raised tolls on most New York City bridges from $2.50 to $3.00 |
| 1992 | Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires |
| 1991 | Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBA player to get a triple-double |
| 1991 | Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude |
| 1990 | 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds |
| 1990 | 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing |
| 1990 | Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ |
| 1988 | Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil |
| 1988 | Superbowl XXII: Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego Superbowl MVP: Doug Williams, Washington, quarterback |
| 1987 | 44th Golden Globes: Platoon, Marlee Matlin win |
| 1987 | United Steel workers union ratified a concessionary with USX Corp |
| 1986 | Mary Lund of Minn, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart |
| 1985 | "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 5 performances |
| 1985 | South Africa President PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence |
| 1984 | 36th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at NJ |
| 1984 | Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network |
| 1984 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1982 | 10 Arabian oryx, extinct except in zoos, released in Oman |
| 1982 | 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13 |
| 1982 | 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey |
| 1982 | Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14:26.59) |
| 1982 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| 1982 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 16-13 |
| 1982 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 1981 | "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1 |
| 1981 | 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter |
| 1981 | Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1:13.39) |
| 1980 | Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41 |
| 1978 | "Elvis: The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 101 performances |
| 1978 | Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements |
| 1977 | Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad |
| 1977 | Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, and Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1976 | "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1 |
| 1976 | Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308 |
| 1975 | Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold |
| 1975 | John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" |
| 1975 | UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship |
| 1974 | McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres |
| 1972 | Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral |
| 1972 | Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal |
| 1972 | Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana |
| 1972 | U.S. launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998) |
| 1971 | "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on United Kingdom pop chart |
| 1971 | Apollo 14 launched, 1st landing in lunar highlands |
| 1971 | Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey |
| 1971 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1971 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich |
| 1971 | & Dave Bancroft and George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1970 | Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges |
| 1969 | Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) |
| 1969 | Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1968 | Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs. India in his last Test for ten years |
| 1968 | Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia |
| 1968 | Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, U.S.S.R. |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1968 | Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins |
| 1966 | Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
| 1965 | Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1964 | U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer |
| 1963 | Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" and "Ruby Baby" |
| 1962 | General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| 1962 | Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout" |
| 1961 | David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel |
| 1961 | Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2 |
| 1961 | Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium |
| 1961 | Kanhai completes twin tons (117 and 115) vs. Australia at Adelaide |
| 1961 | NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign |
| 1961 | USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights |
| 1960 | Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress and singer Phyllis Newman in New York City |
| 1959 | Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL |
| 1958 | "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host |
| 1958 | James van Allen discovers radiation belt |
| 1958 | U.S. launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1 |
| 1957 | Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding) |
| 1957 | Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished |
| 1956 | French government of Mollet forms |
| 1956 | Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil |
| 1955 | RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer |
| 1953 | "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die |
| 1953 | Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning 1,835 |
| 1953 | New York, Cleveland, and Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues |
| 1952 | Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1 centuries |
| 1952 | Harry Heilmann and Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1950 | President Truman approves building of hydrogen bomb |
| 1949 | 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago) |
| 1948 | J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY |
| 1948 | Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway |
| 1946 | Yugoslavia adopts new constitution, becomes a federal republic |
| 1945 | U.S. 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath |
| 1944 | Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June |
| 1944 | U-592 sunk off Ireland |
| 1944 | U.S. forces invade Kwajalein Atoll |
| 1943 | 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton) |
| 1943 | Chile breaks contact with Germany and Japan |
| 1943 | General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad |
| 1942 | 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton) |
| 1941 | 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton) |
| 1941 | Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands |
| 1941 | Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1940 | 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton) |
| 1940 | C Turney and J Horwin's "My Dear Children," premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit |
| 1934 | Franklin D. Roosevelt devalus dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce |
| 1933 | French government of Daladier takes power |
| 1933 | Hitler promises parliamentary democracy |
| 1932 | U.S. railway unions accept 10% wage reduction |
| 1931 | NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals |
| 1931 | Philip Barry's "Tomorrow and Tomorrow," premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | 1st U.S. glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst, NJ |
| 1929 | Erich Maria Remarques publishes "Im West nieces Neues" in Berlin |
| 1929 | Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey |
| 1928 | Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company |
| 1927 | International allies military command in Germany disbands |
| 1927 | NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants |
| 1925 | Premier Ahmed Zogu becomes president of Angola |
| 1920 | 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in U.S. (New York City) begins publication |
| 1920 | Joe Malone, Quebec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game |
| 1920 | Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates |
| 1917 | Germany notifies U.S. that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship |
| 1916 | Dutch Girl Guides form |
| 1915 | 1st German poison gas attack, against Russians |
| 1911 | Congress names San Francisco as Panama Canal opening celebration site |
| 1906 | Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter |
| 1905 | 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach |
| 1905 | Carroll Wright appointed 1st U.S. Commissioner of Labor |
| 1904 | Bela Bartok's symphony "Kossuth," premieres |
| 1901 | Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal |
| 1901 | Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at Moscow Art Theater |
| 1901 | Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montreal Shamrocks in 2 for Stanley Cup |
| 1895 | Jose Marti and others leave New York City for invasion of Spanish Cuba |
| 1893 | "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing |
| 1874 | Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri |
| 1871 | Millions of birds fly over western SF, darkens sky |
| 1865 | Congress passes 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (121-24) |
| 1865 | General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies |
| 1863 | 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army |
| 1862 | Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovers dwarf companion of Sirius |
| 1861 | Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod," premieres in Weimar |
| 1861 | State of Louisiana takes over U.S. Mint at New Orleans |
| 1855 | Western railroads blocked by snow |
| 1854 | Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute) |
| 1851 | Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk |
| 1851 | SF Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California, founded |
| 1849 | Corn Laws abolished in Britain |
| 1842 | John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House |
| 1817 | Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau," premieres in Vienna |
| 1804 | British Vice-Admiral William Blighs fleet reaches Curacao |
| 1779 | Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog |
| 1696 | Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam) |
| 1679 | Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris |
| 1675 | Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft |
| 1627 | Spanish government goes bankrupt |
| 1609 | Wisselbank of Amsterdam established |
| 1596 | Catholic League disjoins |
| 1578 | Battle of Gembloers |
| 1560 | Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois |
| 1531 | Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other |
| 1504 | By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon |
| 876 | Charles becomes king of Italy |
| 314 | St. Silvester I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
