| 1997 | 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch |
| 1997 | Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80 |
| 1997 | Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E. Sullivan Award |
| 1997 | President Clinton trips and tears up his knee requiring surgery |
| 1996 | Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi |
| 1996 | Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter) |
| 1995 | 1st time 13 people in space |
| 1994 | Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped |
| 1994 | Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov and N Thagard |
| 1993 | "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances |
| 1993 | "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater New York City after * performances |
| 1993 | "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| 1993 | 3,000th performance of "Nunsense" |
| 1993 | Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57) |
| 1993 | Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship |
| 1993 | Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days |
| 1993 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR) |
| 1992 | Farm Aid V |
| 1992 | Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication |
| 1991 | Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave |
| 1991 | Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel and Phil Duchesnay (FRA) |
| 1991 | Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok and A Dmitriev |
| 1991 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN) |
| 1991 | British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment |
| 1990 | 4th Soul Train Music Awards: Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson |
| 1990 | Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress |
| 1987 | Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87 |
| 1987 | Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m |
| 1987 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt |
| 1987 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl |
| 1986 | European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km) |
| 1985 | 11th People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins 4 awards |
| 1985 | Michael Secrest (U.S.) completes 24-hour ride of 516 miles, 427 yards |
| 1984 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-41-C mission |
| 1983 | OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years |
| 1982 | Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century |
| 1980 | 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1980 | Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund W Germany won by Regoczy and Sallay |
| 1980 | Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova and Shakhrai (U.S.S.R.) |
| 1980 | Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard (22 are U.S. amateur boxers) |
| 1980 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch |
| 1978 | Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead) |
| 1978 | NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge) |
| 1976 | Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1973 | Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland |
| 1972 | NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC |
| 1971 | Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV |
| 1971 | Rolling Stones left England for France to escape taxes |
| 1971 | South Vietnamese troops flee Laos |
| 1971 | The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes |
| 1969 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct |
| 1969 | Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. New Zealand |
| 1968 | POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| 1968 | CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA |
| 1967 | 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith |
| 1967 | John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
| 1965 | Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany |
| 1964 | "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway New York City after 112 performances |
| 1964 | Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder |
| 1963 | SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists |
| 1962 | Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France |
| 1962 | Gordie Howe (Detroit Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals |
| 1961 | George Weiss becomes President of New York Mets |
| 1960 | 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield California |
| 1960 | Wilt Chamberlain (Philadelphia) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points |
| 1958 | RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star) |
| 1958 | Recording Industry Association of American created |
| 1958 | South Africa government disallows ANC |
| 1958 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test |
| 1957 | Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns |
| 1955 | Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal |
| 1954 | Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game |
| 1954 | KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins |
| 1954 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| 1954 | NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak |
| 1953 | KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Communist Party |
| 1951 | During Korean War, U.S. / U.N. forces recapture Seoul |
| 1951 | Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany |
| 1950 | FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins |
| 1948 | Freedom Train arrives in San Francisco |
| 1946 | Belgian government of Spaak, forms |
| 1945 | RAF bomb cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm |
| 1941 | Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies |
| 1941 | Xavier Cugat and Orchestra record "Babalu" |
| 1940 | 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas |
| 1939 | England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia |
| 1937 | Battle of the Century: Fred Allen and Jack Benny meet on radio |
| 1937 | Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge |
| 1936 | Federal Register, 1st magazine of the U.S. government, publishes 1st issue |
| 1935 | 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars |
| 1933 | Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation |
| 1933 | Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense |
| 1931 | 1st theater built for rear movie projection (New York City) |
| 1923 | Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicie in Poland |
| 1923 | German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP |
| 1923 | President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st President to pay taxes |
| 1922 | KGU-AM in Honolulu Hawaii begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | KSD-AM in Saint Louis Missouri begins radio transmissions |
| 1922 | WGR-AM in Buffalo New York begins radio transmissions |
| 1918 | 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF |
| 1916 | Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun |
| 1915 | German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile |
| 1914 | Serbia and Turkey sign peace treaty |
| 1912 | King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt |
| 1909 | Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms |
| 1908 | Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4 |
| 1906 | Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms |
| 1903 | 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida |
| 1903 | Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games |
| 1903 | WB Yeats and Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin |
| 1901 | 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A |
| 1900 | Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics |
| 1900 | U.S. currency goes on gold standard |
| 1899 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2 |
| 1896 | Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952) |
| 1889 | August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen |
| 1888 | 2nd largest snowfall in New York City history (21") |
| 1885 | "Mikado" opera premieres in London |
| 1885 | Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado," premieres in London |
| 1875 | Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres |
| 1870 | California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible |
| 1864 | Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris |
| 1864 | Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana |
| 1862 | Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern |
| 1845 | -5.3 degrees F (-20.7 degrees C) in Groningen |
| 1843 | Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall) |
| 1840 | Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid |
| 1836 | HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin leaves Australia |
| 1826 | General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama |
| 1821 | African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York) |
| 1812 | Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812 |
| 1800 | Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII |
| 1794 | Eli Whitney patents cotton gin |
| 1743 | 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall) |
| 1734 | Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne |
| 1689 | Scotland dismisses Willem III and Mary Stuart as king and queen |
| 1653 | Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno |
| 1644 | England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island) |
| 1590 | Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League |
| 1559 | Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht and Woudrichem, Netherlands |
| 1558 | Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor |
