| 2011 | The Arctic sun rises two days earlier than expected over Ilulissat, Greenland |
| 2011 | Scientists posit that streams of antimatter positrons detected annihilating electrons cause Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes on top of thunderstorms |
| 2010 | The theory that Egypt's pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids |
| 2007 | Vietnam becomes the 150th member of the World Trade Organization |
| 2006 | Alaska's Augustine volcano erupts |
| 1998 | "Proposals," closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 76 performances |
| 1998 | 24th Annual People's Choice Awards - Seinfeld, Tim Allen win |
| 1998 | AFC Championship: Denver Broncos beat Pittsburgh Steelers 24-21 |
| 1998 | NFC Championship: Green Bay Packers beat San Francisco 49'ers 23-10 |
| 1998 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Michelle Kwan |
| 1997 | 23rd People's Choice Awards: Bill Cosby wins |
| 1997 | Martina Hingis beats Jennifer Capriati at Sydney Tennis International |
| 1997 | Telstar 401 Satellite Fails |
| 1996 | Space Shuttle STS-72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space |
| 1995 | 5th TV network (WB) Warner Brothers begins (WPIX-TV in New York City) |
| 1995 | Birmingham Barracudas granted CFL franchise |
| 1995 | DC-9 crashes near Maria La Baya, Colombia: 51 die, 9 yr old girl lives |
| 1995 | NHLPA and owners agree to end NHL strike |
| 1994 | Hyderabad score 6 for 944 against Andhra Pradesh in Ranji Trophy |
| 1994 | Irish government announces end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on IRA |
| 1993 | Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Buffalo, New York on WKBW |
| 1993 | Independent President candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics |
| 1992 | Algeria's President Chadli announces his resignation |
| 1992 | Paul Simon opens a tour in South Africa |
| 1992 | U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Kristi Yamaguchi. |
| 1991 | Congress empowers Bush to order attack on Iraq |
| 1991 | Ric Flair wins NWA/WCW wrestling title |
| 1991 | Soviets storm buildings in Vilnius to block Lithuania independence |
| 1991 | Ben Johnson 1st race after being stripped of his 1988 Olympic Gold medal for steroid use, he finished 2nd |
| 1990 | 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence |
| 1990 | Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84 |
| 1990 | Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229) |
| 1990 | Pat Lafontaine sets New York Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight |
| 1989 | 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc) |
| 1989 | Denver Nuggets' rookie Jerome Lane misses 7 free throws in a game against Milwaukee, one missed by 2 feet |
| 1989 | Kindergarten student caught with loaded handgun at Bronx school |
| 1988 | Test debut of Phil Simmons, WI vs. India, Madras |
| 1988 | U.S.S.R. announces it will participate in Seoul Summer Olympics |
| 1987 | Largest crowd (76,633) at NFL New York Giant Stadium (beat Washington 17-0) |
| 1986 | 1st black lt Governor since reconstruction sworn in (Douglas Wilder of Va) |
| 1984 | Denver Nuggets 163, San Antonio Spurs 155-highest-scoring NBA game |
| 1984 | STS-41-B vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 1984 | Supreme Court reinstated $10M award to Karen Silkwood's family |
| 1983 | Billy Martin named New York Yankee manager for 3rd time |
| 1982 | Atlanta Ga's temperature goes below zero F |
| 1982 | Honduras adopts constitution |
| 1981 | "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 93 performances |
| 1981 | Palau adopts constitution |
| 1981 | British team led by Ranulph Fiennes completes longest and fastest crossing of Antarctica, reaching Scott base after 75 days (2,500 miles) |
| 1980 | Debut of Pretenders |
| 1979 | "Grand Tour" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 61 performances |
| 1978 | Governor Askew dedicates RCUC solar office building |
| 1978 | Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link) |
| 1977 | Bollingen Prize awarded to David Ignatow |
| 1977 | Cubs trade outfielder Rick Monday to Dodgers for Bill Buckner |
| 1977 | France releases Abu Daoud, a Palestinian suspected of involvement in massacre of Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics |
| 1976 | "Pacific Overtures" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 193 performances |
| 1976 | Dorothy Hamill wins her 3rd consec national figure skating champions |
| 1976 | Military coup in Ecuador, President Guillermo Lara leaves |
| 1976 | Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," premieres in New York City |
| 1976 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 1976 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Terry Kubicka |
| 1975 | Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4 |
| 1974 | ABC airs final episode of "Love, American Style" |
| 1973 | American League adopts designated hitter rule |
| 1973 | Famous victory at the SCG Pakistan chasing 158 all out 106 |
| 1973 | Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington D.C. |
| 1972 | East-Pakistan becomes independent state of Bangladesh |
| 1972 | Abu Sayeed Chudhury becomes president and sheik Mujib ur-Rahman premier |
| 1971 | 1st "Quickie" Divorce granted in UK |
| 1971 | Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves |
| 1970 | Superbowl IV: Kansas City Chiefs beat Minnesota Vikings, 23-7 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Len Dawson, Kansas City, QB |
| 1969 | "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 |
| 1969 | Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts |
| 1968 | Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km) |
| 1967 | Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission |
| 1966 | "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV |
| 1966 | 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain |
| 1964 | "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 302 performances |
| 1964 | 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health |
| 1964 | Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in U.S. (Cashbox) |
| 1964 | Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S. |
| 1964 | U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous |
| 1963 | 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA |
| 1963 | Beatles release "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" |
| 1962 | Volcano Huascaran in Peru, erupts; 4,000 die |
| 1961 | Racial riot at University of Georgia |
| 1960 | Chad declares independence from France |
| 1960 | Lamar Clark sets pro boxing record of 44 consecutive knockouts |
| 1959 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Theodore Roethke |
| 1959 | Hanif Mohammad completes 499 for Karachi, then 1st class world record |
| 1959 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mayfair Golf Open |
| 1959 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21 |
| 1954 | 2 ton locomotive swept into ravine by avalanche 10 die (Austria) |
| 1953 | J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club |
| 1952 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Marianne Moore |
| 1949 | Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles |
| 1946 | Bert Bell becomes 2nd NFL commissioner, moves Chicago headquarters to Philadelphia |
| 1946 | Enver Hoxha declares People's Rep of Albania with himself dictator |
| 1944 | Crakow-Plaszow Concentration Camp established |
| 1943 | U.S. and Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China |
| 1942 | -23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Kingston, Rhode Island (state record) |
| 1942 | Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya |
| 1941 | Princess Irene Brigade established in Congleton |
| 1940 | Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet premieres in Leningrad |
| 1938 | Bradman scores a second innings 113 vs. Qld after a ton in the 1st |
| 1938 | Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank |
| 1936 | Charles Anderson enters Kentucky House of Representatives |
| 1935 | Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland California (non-stop, of course) |
| 1927 | Royale Theater (Golden, CBS Radio Playhouse) opens at 242 W 45th New York City |
| 1925 | Franc B. Kellogg replaces Charles Hughes on as U.S. Secretary of State |
| 1923 | 1st Dutch Dada-evening (Theo Van Doesburg and Kurt Schwitters) |
| 1923 | French and Belgian troops occupy Ruhr to collect reparations |
| 1922 | Insulin 1st used to treat diabetes (Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada) |
| 1920 | French passenger ship Afrique sinks near La Rochelle; 553 die |
| 1919 | 3 year old German Communist Party (Spartacus) crushed |
| 1919 | Romania annexes Transylvania |
| 1917 | Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse's "Have a Heart," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu |
| 1915 | Col Jacob Ruppert and Col Tillinghast Huston purchase Yankees for $460,000 |
| 1913 | 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (New York City) |
| 1913 | Bread and Roses Strike begins |
| 1904 | Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising |
| 1897 | M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah) |
| 1893 | Jaap Eden skates world record 1500m (2:35) |
| 1892 | Hawaiian Historical Society founded |
| 1892 | Paul Gauguin marries a 13-year-old Tahitian girl |
| 1892 | William D McCoy of Indiana appointed U.S. minister to Liberia |
| 1885 | Henrik Ibsen's "Vildauden," premieres in Oslo |
| 1879 | Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins |
| 1873 | 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover's Journal, Chicago |
| 1866 | Steamship London sinks in storm off Land's End England, kills 220 |
| 1865 | Battle of Beverly, WV |
| 1864 | Charing Cross Station opens in London |
| 1863 | Naval engagement near Galveston between CSS Alabama and USS Hatteras |
| 1863 | Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas |
| 1861 | Alabama becomes 4th state to secede |
| 1861 | Mexico City captured by Juarez (Lib) in War of Reform |
| 1839 | Earthquake at Martinique destroys half of Port Royal-700 die |
| 1813 | 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii (or 1/21) |
| 1805 | Michigan Territory organizes |
| 1803 | Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to buy New Orleans; they buy La |
| 1790 | Statisten and Vonckisten unite as Belgium |
| 1787 | Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, discovered by William Herschel |
| 1785 | Continental Congress convenes in New York City |
| 1775 | Francis Salvador becomes 1st Jew elected to office in America (SC) |
| 1774 | Messier adds M51 (spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici) to his catalog |
| 1765 | Frisia bans Voltaires "Traite sur la tolerance" |
| 1759 | 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia |
| 1753 | Ferdinand VI of Spain and Pope Benedictus XIV sign concord |
| 1709 | Colley Cibber's "Rival Fools," premieres in London |
| 1693 | Mount Etna erupts, Sicily |
| 1599 | Jacob van Necks fleet leaves Bantam Java with pepper, clove and muskaat |
| 1571 | Emperor Maximilian II grants Austrian adel freedom of religion |
| 1569 | 1st recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul's Cathedral |
| 1558 | Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm |
| 1158 | Vladislav II of Bohemia becomes king |
| 532 | Nika-revolt against Justianus and Theodora in Hippodrome Constantinople |
| 314 | St. Militiades ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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