| 2007 | Apple Computer unveils the revolutionary iPhone |
| 2005 | Mahmoud Abbas is elected as Palestinian Authority President |
| 1998 | Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title |
| 1998 | Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes |
| 1998 | Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned |
| 1998 | Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever |
| 1997 | Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital |
| 1995 | Ecuador and Peru involve in boundary fight |
| 1995 | Worker accidentally cuts electrial wires at Newark Airport |
| 1994 | 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000 |
| 1994 | Gunda Niemann skates world record (167.282 pts) |
| 1994 | Rintje Ritsma skates world record (156.201 points) |
| 1993 | Franziska van Almsick swims world record 100 m free style (53.33) |
| 1991 | Baker and Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse gulf crisis |
| 1991 | Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame |
| 1991 | Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games |
| 1990 | 64th U.S. manned space mission STS-32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit |
| 1990 | Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) and lose 87-78 |
| 1990 | Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1990 | Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses |
| 1989 | "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS |
| 1989 | Johnny Bench and Carl Yastrzemski elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1988 | August Wilson's "Piano Lesson," premieres in Boston |
| 1988 | English earl of St. Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli |
| 1988 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 1987 | Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed |
| 1987 | New Nicaraguan constitution takes effect |
| 1987 | Sir Rudolph Bing (of New York Met Opera) marries Lady Carroll Douglass |
| 1986 | New York Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Pittsburgh Penguins |
| 1985 | Flames set NHL record 264th regular season game without being shut-out |
| 1984 | Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession |
| 1984 | EAA moves operations to Oshkosh |
| 1984 | John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" |
| 1983 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Falkland Islands |
| 1982 | 5.9 earthquake in New England and Canada; 1st since 1855 |
| 1982 | Steve D'Innocenzo scores 3 hockey goals in 12 sec in Mass HS game |
| 1981 | Francisco Balsamao elected President of Portugal |
| 1980 | 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| 1979 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to WS Merwin |
| 1979 | High-school player Daryl Moreau makes 126th consecutive free throws |
| 1979 | K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste" |
| 1979 | Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) Pennsylvania law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses |
| 1978 | Commonwealth of Northern Marianas established |
| 1977 | "Porgy and Bess" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 122 performances |
| 1977 | Superbowl XI: Oakland Raiders beat Minnesota Vikings, 32-14 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: Fred Biletnikoff, Oakland, WR |
| 1976 | Bryan Trottier failed in 4th Islander penalty shot |
| 1976 | CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts |
| 1976 | Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK |
| 1975 | 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike |
| 1975 | Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes |
| 1973 | Luna 21 launched, to Moon |
| 1972 | Billionaire Howard Hughes says Clifford Irving's bio is a fake |
| 1972 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1972 | Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire |
| 1971 | "Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen" closes at Majestic New York City after 19 perf |
| 1970 | Constitution of Singapore enacted |
| 1969 | Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England |
| 1968 | 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana |
| 1968 | Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon |
| 1967 | Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond |
| 1967 | NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" |
| 1966 | Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism |
| 1965 | "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| 1964 | Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone |
| 1963 | Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" |
| 1962 | Mister M (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne in Minn, to become NWA champ |
| 1962 | NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks |
| 1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1961 | Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minn/St. Paul territory |
| 1960 | Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins |
| 1959 | "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV |
| 1959 | Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die |
| 1959 | Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St. Louis, to become NWA champ |
| 1958 | In basketball Oscar Robertson (Cin) scores 56, Seton Hall team 54 |
| 1957 | British premier Anthony Eden resigns |
| 1957 | Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR |
| 1957 | Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth" |
| 1957 | Kalmyk Autonomous Region reformed in RSFSR |
| 1957 | Karachayevo-Cherkess Autonomous Region reestablished in RSFSR |
| 1956 | Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers |
| 1956 | Samir el-Rifai forms government in Jordan |
| 1954 | -87 degrees F (-66 degrees C), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record) |
| 1954 | Bert Olmstead, Mont Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game |
| 1954 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Louise Bogan and Leonie Adams |
| 1953 | Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 pts in basketball game |
| 1953 | Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249 |
| 1952 | Belgian Pholien government resigns |
| 1952 | Karel Sys wins European heavyweight boxing title |
| 1952 | Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty |
| 1951 | Life After Tomorrow, 1st film to receive an "X" rating, premieres |
| 1951 | Washington Capitals NBA club folds |
| 1948 | Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston |
| 1947 | "Street Scene" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 148 performances |
| 1947 | Roger Sessions' 2nd Symphony, premieres in SF |
| 1946 | "Would-Be Gentleman" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| 1945 | U.S. soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invades Philippines |
| 1943 | Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars |
| 1942 | Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1942 | U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff created |
| 1941 | 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania |
| 1941 | Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane |
| 1940 | 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium |
| 1940 | J Thurber and E Nugent's "Male Animal," premieres in New York City |
| 1937 | Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians |
| 1937 | Maxwell Anderson's "High Tor" premieres in New York City |
| 1936 | Noel Coward's "Astonished Heart," premieres in London |
| 1936 | Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army |
| 1933 | Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction |
| 1930 | Boston Bruins wins then NHL record 14th straight game |
| 1929 | BG DeSylva and Lew Brown's musical "Follow Thru," premieres in New York City |
| 1929 | KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California begins radio transmissions |
| 1928 | Eugene O'Neill's "Marco Millions," premieres in New York City |
| 1927 | Dmitri Shostakovich' Octet opus 11, premieres in Moscow |
| 1927 | Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montreal, 78 children died |
| 1925 | German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption |
| 1923 | 1st flight of autogiro by Juan de la Cierva, Madrid, Spain |
| 1922 | KQV-AM in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | Rotterdam metal strike ends |
| 1915 | Exposition (now Civic) Auditorium dedicated, SF |
| 1912 | U.S. Marines invade Honduras |
| 1909 | Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south |
| 1908 | Frans Schollaert succeeds De Trooz as premier of Belgium |
| 1908 | Muir Woods National Monument, California established |
| 1905 | Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops |
| 1903 | 2 NYers buy Baltimore baseball franchise for $18,000 and moved it to NY |
| 1903 | Baseball's National and American Leagues make peace |
| 1903 | Wind Cave National Park, SD established |
| 1903 | Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 and move it to New York City (Yankees) |
| 1901 | NSW (918) defeat S Australia (157 and 156) by innings and 605 |
| 1894 | "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters |
| 1894 | Georges Feydeau's "Un la Patte," premieres in Paris |
| 1880 | 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days |
| 1879 | Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson |
| 1879 | Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas |
| 1866 | Fisk University establishes |
| 1861 | 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC |
| 1861 | Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede |
| 1857 | 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon California |
| 1855 | Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies |
| 1854 | Astor Library opens in New York City |
| 1848 | 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established |
| 1848 | People's uprising in Palermo Sicily |
| 1847 | 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star) |
| 1839 | Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science |
| 1839 | Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri) |
| 1834 | HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin arrive in Port San Julian, Patagonia |
| 1812 | Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon |
| 1811 | 1st Women's Golf Tournament held |
| 1799 | Income Tax introduced in UK |
| 1793 | 1st hot-air balloon flight in the U.S. lifts off in Philadelphia |
| 1793 | Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery |
| 1793 | Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America |
| 1792 | Russia and Turkey sign Peace of Jassy |
| 1788 | Connecticut becomes 5th state |
| 1760 | Afghans defeat Marathas in battle of Barari Ghat |
| 1718 | France declares war on Spain |
| 1570 | Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod |
| 1558 | Geneva becomes independent from Berne canton, Switzerland |
| 1522 | Adriaan F Boeyens elected only Dutch pope (Adrian VI) |
| 1493 | 1st sight of manatees by Christopher Columbus |
| 1464 | 1st meeting of States-General of Netherlands |
| 1428 | Pope Martinus V declares Jacoba van Beierens marriage invalid |
| 1349 | 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses |
| 1317 | Phillips V, the Tall, crowned king of France |
| 1296 | Earl Floris V signs accord with French king |
