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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1.2.1539 | Emperor Karel and King Francois I sign anti-English treaty |
| 1.2.1587 | English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence |
| 1.2.1662 | Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates |
| 1.2.1669 | French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion |
| 1.2.1709 | Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez |
| 1.2.1717 | Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France |
| 1.2.1720 | Sweden and Prussia sign peace treaty |
| 1.2.1732 | Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions |
| 1.2.1742 | Sardinia and Austria sign alliance |
| 1.2.1783 | William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex |
| 1.2.1788 | "1st U.S. steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs and Longstreet" |
| 1.2.1789 | Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long |
| 1.2.1790 | Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (New York City) |
| 1.2.1793 | France declares war on England and Netherlands |
| 1.2.1793 | "Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, New York, for oiled silk and linen" |
| 1.2.1809 | Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system |
| 1.2.1810 | 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila) |
| 1.2.1810 | "Seville, Spain surrenders to French" |
| 1.2.1810 | "U.S. Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)" |
| 1.2.1814 | "Lord Byron's ""Corsair"" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication" |
| 1.2.1814 | "Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200" |
| 1.2.1840 | "Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in U.S., incorporated" |
| 1.2.1846 | "Theophile Gautier publishes ""Hashish Club"" about his initiation" |
| 1.2.1860 | "1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of New York City" |
| 1.2.1861 | Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands |
| 1.2.1861 | Texas becomes 7th state to secede |
| 1.2.1862 | "Julia Howe publishes ""Battle Hymn of Republic""" |
| 1.2.1864 | 2nd German-Danish war begins |
| 1.2.1864 | Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein |
| 1.2.1865 | 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day) |
| 1.2.1865 | General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins |
| 1.2.1865 | "J. S. Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Court, admitted to bar" |
| 1.2.1867 | Bricklayers start working 8-hour days |
| 1.2.1871 | Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Representatives (opposing leniency to former Confederates) |
| 1.2.1881 | "U.S. Assay Office in St. Louis, Missouri authorized" |
| 1.2.1883 | French Lt-colonel Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger |
| 1.2.1884 | "1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published" |
| 1.2.1887 | Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California and starts selling it off as a real estate development (Hollywood) |
| 1.2.1892 | "Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of ""400"" to describe socially elite" |
| 1.2.1893 | "Puccini's Opera ""Manon Lescaut,"" premieres in Turin" |
| 1.2.1893 | Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ) |
| 1.2.1896 | "Giacomo Puccini's Opera ""La Boheme,"" premieres in Turin" |
| 1.2.1898 | "1st auto insurance policy in U.S. issued, by Travelers Insurance Co" |
| 1.2.1902 | China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet |
| 1.2.1902 | "Hermann Sudermanns ""Es lebe das Leben,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 1.2.1905 | Hague soccer team ADO froms |
| 1.2.1905 | Hungarian premier Tisza resigns |
| 1.2.1906 | "1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas" |
| 1.2.1906 | English Minister of Foreign affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured |
| 1.2.1909 | "U.S. Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens" |
| 1.2.1910 | 1st British labour exchange opens |
| 1.2.1910 | Dragoumis government forms in Greece |
| 1.2.1914 | New York Giants and Chicago White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt |
| 1.2.1914 | Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed |
| 1.2.1914 | Tanganyika Railway opens |
| 1.2.1917 | Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war |
| 1.2.1918 | "Franz Lehars opera ""Wo die Lerche singt,"" premieres in Budapest" |
| 1.2.1918 | "Kern, Bolton and Wodehouse's musical premieres in New York City" |
| 1.2.1918 | Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14) |
| 1.2.1919 | Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert |
| 1.2.1920 | 1st commercial armored car introduced in St. Paul Minn |
| 1.2.1920 | Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police |
| 1.2.1920 | Soccer team Quick Boys forms |
| 1.2.1923 | Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel |
| 1.2.1923 | Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Mussolini |
| 1.2.1923 | "Noel Coward's ""Young Idea,"" premieres in London" |
| 1.2.1924 | Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens |
| 1.2.1924 | New British MacDonald government recognizes U.S.S.R. |
| 1.2.1924 | Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg |
| 1.2.1924 | Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain |
| 1.2.1925 | 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkampferbund in Berlin |
| 1.2.1926 | Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR |
| 1.2.1926 | Land at Broadway and Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch |
| 1.2.1929 | "1st clean and jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402 lbs" |
| 1.2.1930 | Arnold Schonbergs opera premieres in Frankfurt |
| 1.2.1932 | "Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th" |
| 1.2.1933 | Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname |
| 1.2.1933 | Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions |
| 1.2.1933 | "German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe" |
| 1.2.1934 | Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his |
| 1.2.1935 | "1st ""March of Time"" newsreel premieres at the Capitol" |
| 1.2.1935 | "James T Farrell finishes his ""Studs Lonigan"" trilogy" |
| 1.2.1937 | "Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port" |
| 1.2.1940 | Russia begins new offensive against Finland |
| 1.2.1941 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn |
| 1.2.1941 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
| 1.2.1942 | 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms |
| 1.2.1943 | German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
| 1.2.1943 | Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth) |
| 1.2.1944 | Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy |
| 1.2.1944 | U.S. 7th Infantry/25th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur |
| 1.2.1945 | U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie |
| 1.2.1946 | "Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president" |
| 1.2.1946 | "Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN" |
| 1.2.1947 | Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists |
| 1.2.1947 | Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad |
| 1.2.1947 | NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established |
| 1.2.1948 | Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates |
| 1.2.1948 | Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed |
| 1.2.1949 | "200"" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used" |
| 1.2.1949 | RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm) |
| 1.2.1950 | U.S.S.R. demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes |
| 1.2.1950 | Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland |
| 1.2.1951 | 1st telecast of atomic explosion |
| 1.2.1951 | 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated |
| 1.2.1951 | "-50 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)" |
| 1.2.1951 | Alfred Krupp and 28 other German war criminals freed |
| 1.2.1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1.2.1951 | United Nations condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea |
| 1.2.1952 | General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia |
| 1.2.1952 | "SN Behrman's ""Jane,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 1.2.1953 | Dr. A de Waal appointed as Netherlands 1st female asst sect of state |
| 1.2.1953 | "Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835" |
| 1.2.1953 | """General Electric Theater"" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts" |
| 1.2.1953 | "WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1953 | """You Are There"" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television" |
| 1.2.1954 | "1st TV soap opera ""Secret Storm"" premieres" |
| 1.2.1954 | Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire |
| 1.2.1954 | Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem |
| 1.2.1955 | HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark |
| 1.2.1956 | Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking |
| 1.2.1956 | "WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1957 | 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a U.S. scheduled passenger airline |
| 1.2.1957 | Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam |
| 1.2.1958 | "1st U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched" |
| 1.2.1958 | Egypt and Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic |
| 1.2.1958 | "WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1959 | Swiss males vote against voting rights for women |
| 1.2.1959 | Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit) |
| 1.2.1959 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss |
| 1.2.1959 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins |
| 1.2.1959 | Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament |
| 1.2.1959 | "WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, Louisiana (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1959 | Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1.2.1960 | 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62) |
| 1.2.1960 | "4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro North Carolina Woolworth" |
| 1.2.1960 | 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86) |
| 1.2.1960 | Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender |
| 1.2.1961 | 1st full-scale test of U.S. Minuteman ICBM is successful |
| 1.2.1961 | British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive |
| 1.2.1961 | Mackay and Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies |
| 1.2.1962 | """New Faces of '62"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances" |
| 1.2.1962 | NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule |
| 1.2.1963 | Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda |
| 1.2.1964 | "Beatles' ""I Want to Hold Your Hand,"" 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks" |
| 1.2.1964 | "Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban ""Louie Louie"" for obscenity" |
| 1.2.1964 | """Stop the World, I Want to..."" closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf" |
| 1.2.1964 | Suriname River dammed |
| 1.2.1965 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
| 1.2.1965 | "Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala" |
| 1.2.1965 | NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster |
| 1.2.1965 | "Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news" |
| 1.2.1967 | Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives |
| 1.2.1967 | "WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1968 | Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
| 1.2.1968 | Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president |
| 1.2.1968 | Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers |
| 1.2.1968 | World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi |
| 1.2.1969 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
| 1.2.1969 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 1.2.1969 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| 1.2.1969 | "WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1970 | "Ford Frick, Earle Combs and Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 1.2.1970 | "Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die" |
| 1.2.1970 | West-Germany and U.S.S.R. sign gas contract |
| 1.2.1970 | "WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 1.2.1972 | "1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395" |
| 1.2.1972 | "Wings release ""Give Ireland Back to the Irish"" in UK" |
| 1.2.1973 | Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| 1.2.1974 | """Good Times"" (spinoff from ""Maude"") premieres on CBS TV" |
| 1.2.1975 | "1st successful Washington Capitals penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks" |
| 1.2.1975 | """Hoppy, Gene and Me"" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65" |
| 1.2.1975 | Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot |
| 1.2.1975 | """Men on the Moon"" closes at Little Theater New York City after 5 performances" |
| 1.2.1975 | Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department |
| 1.2.1976 | East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich State U after he is warned not to |
| 1.2.1976 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 1.2.1976 | """Rich Man, Poor Man"" mini-series premieres on ABC TV" |
| 1.2.1976 | "Sonny and Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce" |
| 1.2.1977 | Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives |
| 1.2.1977 | Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball |
| 1.2.1978 | Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl |
| 1.2.1978 | Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a U.S. postage stamp |
| 1.2.1979 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile |
| 1.2.1979 | Patricia Hearst is released from a San Francisco prison for bank robbery |
| 1.2.1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 1.2.1980 | Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System |
| 1.2.1980 | "Soap opera ""Love of Life"" ends a 28 year run" |
| 1.2.1981 | "11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7" |
| 1.2.1981 | 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland |
| 1.2.1981 | "Duke Ellington-musical ""Sophisticated Ladies,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 1.2.1981 | "Dutch Antilles census is 231,932" |
| 1.2.1981 | French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq |
| 1.2.1981 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7 |
| 1.2.1981 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| 1.2.1981 | "Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG" |
| 1.2.1982 | """Late Night With David Letterman,"" debuts on NBC-TV" |
| 1.2.1982 | Senegal and Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia) |
| 1.2.1983 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1.2.1984 | China and Netherlands regain diplomatic relations |
| 1.2.1984 | Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner |
| 1.2.1984 | "Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)" |
| 1.2.1985 | "-61 degrees F (-52 degrees C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)" |
| 1.2.1985 | "-69 degrees F (-56 degrees C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)" |
| 1.2.1985 | Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 vs. Eng) |
| 1.2.1985 | "Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark" |
| 1.2.1985 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin |
| 1.2.1986 | "KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, California changes call letters to KRTH" |
| 1.2.1986 | Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switzerland |
| 1.2.1987 | "163 day strike against Deere and Co ends, workers accept wage freeze" |
| 1.2.1987 | "38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit" |
| 1.2.1987 | Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 1.2.1987 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6 |
| 1.2.1989 | Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion |
| 1.2.1989 | Princess Diane of England visits New York City |
| 1.2.1991 | "Afghanistan and Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die" |
| 1.2.1991 | Craig McDermott takes 8-97 vs. England at the WACA |
| 1.2.1991 | "President F. W. de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws" |
| 1.2.1991 | US Air and Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32 |
| 1.2.1992 | Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract - $4.7 mil |
| 1.2.1992 | """Crazy He Calls Me"" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances" |
| 1.2.1992 | Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by New York Islanders |
| 1.2.1993 | NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman |
| 1.2.1993 | Soyuz TM-16 lands |
| 1.2.1994 | Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec) |
| 1.2.1994 | "Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean" |
| 1.2.1995 | Amtrak New York City - Tampa run ends |
| 1.2.1995 | Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73) |
| 1.2.1995 | "Andy and Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record" |
| 1.2.1995 | Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air |
| 1.2.1998 | 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62) |
| 1.2.1998 | Australian Mixed: J. Gimelstob and V. Williams beat Suk and Sukova (62 61) |
| 1.2.1998 | "NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24" |
| 1.2.1998 | """Street Corner Symphony,"" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 79 perf" |
| 2.2.506 | King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out |
| 2.2.962 | Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor |
| 2.2.1032 | Koenraad II succeeds Rudolf III as king of Bourgundy |
| 2.2.1119 | Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II |
| 2.2.1141 | Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured |
| 2.2.1461 | 2nd battle of St. Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists |
| 2.2.1536 | Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires |
| 2.2.1550 | "English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed" |
| 2.2.1633 | "M Rossi's opera ""Erminia sul Giordano,"" premieres in Rome" |
| 2.2.1637 | "Zorilla's ""El mas Impropio Verdugo Para Las,"" premieres in Madrid" |
| 2.2.1653 | "New Amsterdam becomes a city, later called New York City" |
| 2.2.1709 | "British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires ""Robinson Crusoe""" |
| 2.2.1714 | "Nicholas Rowe's ""tragedy of Jane Shore,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.2.1731 | "Georg F Handels opera ""Poro,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.2.1732 | King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia |
| 2.2.1742 | British Walpole government resigns |
| 2.2.1762 | "Thomas Arnes opera ""Artaxerxes,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.2.1795 | "Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres" |
| 2.2.1798 | "Federal St. Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in U.S. destroyed by fire" |
| 2.2.1802 | "1st leopard exhibited in U.S., Boston (admission 25 cents )" |
| 2.2.1811 | "Russian settlers establish Ft. Ross trading post, north of SF" |
| 2.2.1823 | "Rossini's opera ""Semiramide"" premieres in Venice" |
| 2.2.1829 | "Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does 60,000 pounds damage" |
| 2.2.1843 | U.S. and British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee |
| 2.2.1848 | 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in San Francisco |
| 2.2.1848 | "Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; U.S. acquires Texas California, New Mexico and Arizona for $15 million" |
| 2.2.1852 | 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St. London) |
| 2.2.1852 | "Alexandre Dumas Jr's ""Le Dame aux Camelias,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 2.2.1854 | "Pope Pius IX encyclical ""On persecution of Armenians""" |
| 2.2.1863 | Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time |
| 2.2.1869 | James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade |
| 2.2.1870 | Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum |
| 2.2.1870 | "Mark Twain, 34, marries Olivia Langdon in Elmira, New York" |
| 2.2.1876 | "Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis" |
| 2.2.1878 | Greece declares war on Turkey |
| 2.2.1880 | SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton |
| 2.2.1882 | "Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn" |
| 2.2.1892 | Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) |
| 2.2.1892 | "Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England vs. Aust SCG" |
| 2.2.1892 | "Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby" |
| 2.2.1893 | "1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ" |
| 2.2.1894 | "U.S. warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island" |
| 2.2.1900 | "Gustave Charpentiers opera ""Louise"" premieres in Paris" |
| 2.2.1901 | Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization |
| 2.2.1904 | U.S. blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey |
| 2.2.1906 | Pope encyclical against separation of church and state |
| 2.2.1909 | Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris |
| 2.2.1912 | "Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)" |
| 2.2.1913 | N.Y. Giants sign Jim Thorpe |
| 2.2.1913 | New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens |
| 2.2.1914 | "James Royce Shannon's musical ""Shameen Dhu,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 2.2.1919 | Monarchist riot in Portugal |
| 2.2.1920 | Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace) |
| 2.2.1920 | France occupies (German) Memel territory |
| 2.2.1920 | Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: U.S.S.R. recognizes Estonian independence |
| 2.2.1922 | It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22 |
| 2.2.1922 | "James Joyce's ""Ulysses"" published in Paris (1,000 copies)" |
| 2.2.1923 | "Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio" |
| 2.2.1923 | United States signs friendship treaty with Central American countries |
| 2.2.1924 | International Ski Federation (FIS) forms |
| 2.2.1925 | "Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism and socialism" |
| 2.2.1925 | Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km |
| 2.2.1925 | NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began |
| 2.2.1926 | 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours |
| 2.2.1927 | "Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's ""Rio Rita,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 2.2.1927 | Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave and 54th St. New York City |
| 2.2.1931 | 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students |
| 2.2.1931 | "1st use of a rocket to deliver mail, Austria" |
| 2.2.1932 | Al Capone sent to prison |
| 2.2.1932 | Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries |
| 2.2.1932 | Grimmett takes 14 wickets vs. South Africa (7-116 and 7-83) |
| 2.2.1932 | Reconstruction Finance Corp organized |
| 2.2.1933 | "2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament" |
| 2.2.1933 | Goring bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany |
| 2.2.1933 | "Ucicky's ""Rotten Morning,"" premieres in Berlin" |
| 2.2.1934 | Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism |
| 2.2.1935 | "Lie detector 1st used in court, Portage, Wisconsin" |
| 2.2.1940 | Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch) |
| 2.2.1942 | Los Angeles Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans |
| 2.2.1942 | US auto factories switch from commercial to war production |
| 2.2.1943 | Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army |
| 2.2.1943 | Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest |
| 2.2.1943 | "German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II" |
| 2.2.1944 | "4th U.S. marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands" |
| 2.2.1944 | Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory |
| 2.2.1944 | Baseball meets in New York City to discuss postwar action |
| 2.2.1944 | "Edward Chodorov's ""Decision,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 2.2.1945 | Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp |
| 2.2.1946 | """Nellie Bly"" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 16 performances" |
| 2.2.1948 | President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program |
| 2.2.1949 | 1st 45 RPM record released |
| 2.2.1949 | Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident |
| 2.2.1950 | "1st broadcast of ""What's My Line,"" on CBS-TV" |
| 2.2.1950 | """Arms and the Girl"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 134 performances" |
| 2.2.1951 | "-35 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)" |
| 2.2.1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 2.2.1954 | "Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game" |
| 2.2.1954 | "President Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb, done in 1952" |
| 2.2.1954 | Snow falls on Gibraltar |
| 2.2.1955 | "1st presidential news conference on network TV, Eisenhower on ABC" |
| 2.2.1956 | Coasters sign with Atlantic Records |
| 2.2.1957 | """Candide"" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 73 performances" |
| 2.2.1957 | Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd) |
| 2.2.1957 | United Nations adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt |
| 2.2.1958 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open |
| 2.2.1958 | Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic |
| 2.2.1958 | "WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.2.1959 | Buddy Holly's last performance |
| 2.2.1959 | Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers |
| 2.2.1960 | Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss |
| 2.2.1961 | Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam |
| 2.2.1962 | "1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)" |
| 2.2.1962 | 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years |
| 2.2.1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 2.2.1963 | Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard) |
| 2.2.1964 | "GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy" |
| 2.2.1964 | "Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame" |
| 2.2.1964 | Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating |
| 2.2.1965 | "Joe Ortons ""Loot,"" premieres in Brighton" |
| 2.2.1967 | Bolivia adopts its constitution |
| 2.2.1967 | Formation of American Basketball Association is announced |
| 2.2.1968 | "Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed" |
| 2.2.1969 | "KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, California (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 2.2.1969 | Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame |
| 2.2.1970 | "Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points" |
| 2.2.1971 | Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda |
| 2.2.1972 | "Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs and William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame" |
| 2.2.1972 | "Tom Stoppard's ""Jumpers,"" premieres in London" |
| 2.2.1973 | "James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA" |
| 2.2.1973 | """Midnight Special"" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV" |
| 2.2.1973 | "Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA" |
| 2.2.1973 | "Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ vs. Pakistan, Wellington" |
| 2.2.1974 | "Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, ""The Way We Were""" |
| 2.2.1974 | "Pope Paul VI encyclical ""To Honor Mary""" |
| 2.2.1974 | "Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)" |
| 2.2.1975 | Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia |
| 2.2.1975 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 2.2.1975 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 2.2.1975 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 2.2.1976 | """Honeymooners Second Honeymoon"" airs on TV" |
| 2.2.1976 | """Rich Little Show,"" debuts on NBC-TV" |
| 2.2.1976 | "Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom and ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 2.2.1977 | Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (U.S.S.R.) |
| 2.2.1977 | Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer |
| 2.2.1977 | "Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman" |
| 2.2.1980 | "FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected and public officials for bribes for political favors" |
| 2.2.1982 | Government troops and Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria |
| 2.2.1982 | """Late Night with David Letterman"" premieres on NBC" |
| 2.2.1982 | San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead |
| 2.2.1983 | Chicago Absp Joseph L. Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested |
| 2.2.1983 | Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals |
| 2.2.1984 | 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards |
| 2.2.1984 | Lebanese army fight in Beirut |
| 2.2.1985 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 2.2.1986 | Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 2.2.1986 | Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India |
| 2.2.1986 | """Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood"" closes at Ritz New York City after 13 performances" |
| 2.2.1986 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24 |
| 2.2.1986 | Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica |
| 2.2.1987 | "Kansas City Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires" |
| 2.2.1987 | Philippines adopts constitution |
| 2.2.1988 | "David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* vs. England at Sydney" |
| 2.2.1989 | 0 degrees F (-18 degrees C) or below in 15 U.S. states |
| 2.2.1989 | FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader |
| 2.2.1989 | NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president |
| 2.2.1990 | Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt |
| 2.2.1990 | South Africa's President FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela and legalizes ANC and 60 other political orgs |
| 2.2.1991 | Aravinda De Silva scores 267 vs. NZ at Wellington |
| 2.2.1991 | "NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56" |
| 2.2.1991 | US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents |
| 2.2.1992 | Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 2.2.1992 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec) |
| 2.2.1992 | "David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 vs. India at Perth" |
| 2.2.1992 | IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M) |
| 2.2.1992 | Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40) |
| 2.2.1992 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15 |
| 2.2.1993 | "Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song" |
| 2.2.1993 | Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec) |
| 2.2.1995 | Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket |
| 2.2.1995 | """Moliere Comedies"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 56 performances" |
| 2.2.1995 | U.S. space shuttle Discovery launched |
| 2.2.1996 | "Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA" |
| 2.2.1997 | Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am |
| 2.2.1997 | """Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus"" closes at Gershwin New York City" |
| 2.2.1997 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT) |
| 2.2.1997 | Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic |
| 2.2.1998 | Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in New York City for cocaine overdose |
| 2.2.1998 | Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board |
| 3.2.1377 | Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term |
| 3.2.1377 | Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy |
| 3.2.1488 | Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros) |
| 3.2.1547 | Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova |
| 3.2.1576 | Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris |
| 3.2.1591 | German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau |
| 3.2.1653 | Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile |
| 3.2.1660 | General Moncks army reaches London |
| 3.2.1690 | 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass) |
| 3.2.1740 | "Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily" |
| 3.2.1743 | "Philadelphia establishes a ""pesthouse"" to quarantine immigrants" |
| 3.2.1752 | Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills |
| 3.2.1781 | Dutch West Indies island of St. Eustatia taken by British |
| 3.2.1783 | Spain recognizes U.S. independence |
| 3.2.1809 | Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin) |
| 3.2.1815 | "World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland" |
| 3.2.1825 | Dutch North Sea coast floods |
| 3.2.1836 | Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York) |
| 3.2.1844 | "Hector Berlioz' ""Carnaval Romain,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 3.2.1855 | Wisconsin Supreme Court declares U.S. Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional |
| 3.2.1860 | Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st U.S. superintendent of agriculture |
| 3.2.1864 | Sherman's march through Mississippi |
| 3.2.1865 | "Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln and Stephens reach an impasse" |
| 3.2.1867 | "Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)" |
| 3.2.1869 | Booth theater at 23rd and 6th opens in New York City (Romeo and Juliet) |
| 3.2.1870 | 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed |
| 3.2.1876 | "Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football" |
| 3.2.1882 | Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo |
| 3.2.1887 | "To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act" |
| 3.2.1892 | Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin |
| 3.2.1894 | "1st U.S. steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me" |
| 3.2.1895 | Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs) |
| 3.2.1900 | Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt |
| 3.2.1901 | Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilie on Sumatra |
| 3.2.1903 | Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa |
| 3.2.1908 | Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act |
| 3.2.1913 | "16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified" |
| 3.2.1913 | "Golden/Cawthorne's musical ""Sunshine Girl,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.2.1915 | Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal |
| 3.2.1916 | "Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down" |
| 3.2.1916 | Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland |
| 3.2.1917 | US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub and diplomatic relations severed |
| 3.2.1918 | "Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service" |
| 3.2.1919 | "Herbert/Blossom's musical ""Velvet Lady,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.2.1919 | League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris) |
| 3.2.1919 | Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland) |
| 3.2.1924 | Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin) |
| 3.2.1927 | Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal |
| 3.2.1929 | Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam |
| 3.2.1930 | Vietnamese Communistic Party forms |
| 3.2.1930 | "William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons" |
| 3.2.1931 | "Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state ""apex of moronia""" |
| 3.2.1933 | "1st interstate legislative conference in U.S. opens, Washington, D.C." |
| 3.2.1933 | German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts |
| 3.2.1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin |
| 3.2.1937 | Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket vs. England |
| 3.2.1938 | "Paul Osborn's ""On Borrowed Time,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.2.1941 | "Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets min wages and max hrs" |
| 3.2.1942 | 1st Japanese air raid on Java |
| 3.2.1942 | Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942 |
| 3.2.1943 | 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others |
| 3.2.1945 | Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin |
| 3.2.1945 | "Walt Disney's ""3 Caballeros"" released" |
| 3.2.1947 | 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis) |
| 3.2.1947 | "-81 degrees F (-63 degrees C), Snag Yukon (North American record)" |
| 3.2.1947 | Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket |
| 3.2.1948 | Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US |
| 3.2.1950 | Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges |
| 3.2.1951 | Dick Button wins U.S. skating title for 6th time |
| 3.2.1951 | "Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle" |
| 3.2.1951 | "Tennessee Williams' ""Rose Tattoo,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 3.2.1951 | """Victor Borge Show,"" debuts on NBC TV" |
| 3.2.1953 | "J. Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show" |
| 3.2.1954 | Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32) |
| 3.2.1956 | "Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot" |
| 3.2.1956 | Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events |
| 3.2.1957 | Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| 3.2.1958 | "Royal Teens' ""Short Shorts"" enters Top 40 chart and peaks at #3" |
| 3.2.1959 | "American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65" |
| 3.2.1961 | "6th largest snowfall in New York City history (17.4"" (44.2cm))" |
| 3.2.1962 | John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm |
| 3.2.1962 | President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food and drugs |
| 3.2.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| 3.2.1964 | Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools |
| 3.2.1964 | """Meet the Beatles"" album goes Gold" |
| 3.2.1965 | 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams |
| 3.2.1965 | "Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down" |
| 3.2.1965 | Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture |
| 3.2.1965 | Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) |
| 3.2.1966 | 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
| 3.2.1966 | "1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S." |
| 3.2.1967 | """Purple Haze"" recorded by Jimi Hendrix" |
| 3.2.1969 | """Canterbury Tales"" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 122 performances" |
| 3.2.1969 | The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO |
| 3.2.1971 | "KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 3.2.1972 | "11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)" |
| 3.2.1972 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 3.2.1973 | "Dr. Hook's ""Cover of ""Rolling Stone"""" enters Top 40 and peaks at #6" |
| 3.2.1973 | President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law |
| 3.2.1974 | """Pajama Game"" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 65 performances" |
| 3.2.1974 | Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 3.2.1975 | "Billy Herman, Earl Averill, and Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame" |
| 3.2.1976 | 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia |
| 3.2.1977 | Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame |
| 3.2.1978 | Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test |
| 3.2.1978 | "India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445" |
| 3.2.1979 | Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players |
| 3.2.1979 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 3.2.1979 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 3.2.1979 | """YMCA"" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart" |
| 3.2.1980 | 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington |
| 3.2.1980 | Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 3.2.1980 | Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy |
| 3.2.1981 | Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup |
| 3.2.1981 | Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway |
| 3.2.1982 | Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission |
| 3.2.1982 | "Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, U.S.S.R." |
| 3.2.1982 | John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours |
| 3.2.1983 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners |
| 3.2.1984 | 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched |
| 3.2.1985 | """Harrigan 'n Hart"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 5 performances" |
| 3.2.1985 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 3.2.1986 | President Reagan announces formation of Commission on Challenger Accident |
| 3.2.1987 | Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton |
| 3.2.1987 | San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup |
| 3.2.1989 | Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head |
| 3.2.1989 | "Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay" |
| 3.2.1989 | "Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ vs. Pak, washed out" |
| 3.2.1990 | Darryl Strawberry enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation |
| 3.2.1990 | "Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race" |
| 3.2.1990 | New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Alcohol rehab center |
| 3.2.1991 | Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 3.2.1991 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21 |
| 3.2.1992 | Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends |
| 3.2.1992 | Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week |
| 3.2.1993 | Cincinnati Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments |
| 3.2.1993 | Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles California |
| 3.2.1994 | Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok |
| 3.2.1994 | """Les Miserables,"" opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore" |
| 3.2.1994 | President Bill Clinton lifts U.S. trade embargo against Vietnam |
| 3.2.1994 | STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit |
| 3.2.1995 | "STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit" |
| 3.2.1997 | Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca New York |
| 3.2.1997 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit Michigan on WKRK 97.1 FM |
| 3.2.1998 | Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals |
| 3.2.1998 | New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman |
| 3.2.1998 | Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain |
| 3.2.1998 | "U.S. military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20" |
| 4.2.1194 | "Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000" |
| 4.2.1508 | Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned |
| 4.2.1586 | "Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Neth" |
| 4.2.1600 | Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time near Prague |
| 4.2.1620 | Prince Bethlen Gabor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II |
| 4.2.1657 | Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal |
| 4.2.1697 | "3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia" |
| 4.2.1699 | 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow |
| 4.2.1782 | British garrison surrenders to French and Spanish fleet |
| 4.2.1783 | "Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)" |
| 4.2.1787 | 1st Anglican bishops of New York and Pennsylvania consecrated in London |
| 4.2.1787 | Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails |
| 4.2.1789 | 1st electoral college chooses Washington and Adams as President and VP |
| 4.2.1794 | French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
| 4.2.1797 | "Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000" |
| 4.2.1803 | "William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama ""Voice of Nature""" |
| 4.2.1822 | "Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa" |
| 4.2.1824 | J. W. Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to public |
| 4.2.1846 | "Mormons leave Nauvoo, Mo for settlement in west" |
| 4.2.1847 | 1st U.S. telegraph co established in Maryland |
| 4.2.1849 | University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students |
| 4.2.1854 | "Alvan Bovay proposes name ""Republican Party,"" Ripon, Wisc" |
| 4.2.1855 | "Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela" |
| 4.2.1861 | "Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery, Alabama, Ga, Fla, La, Miss and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy" |
| 4.2.1864 | "Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi" |
| 4.2.1865 | Hawaiian Board of Education formed |
| 4.2.1865 | Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army |
| 4.2.1866 | Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible |
| 4.2.1875 | Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belg |
| 4.2.1880 | "Steele MacKay's ""Hazel Kirke,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.2.1887 | Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads |
| 4.2.1895 | "1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago" |
| 4.2.1899 | Revolt against U.S. occupation of Philippines |
| 4.2.1903 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winn Victorias, 2 games to 1 and 1 tie" |
| 4.2.1904 | "John Millington Synges ""Well of Saints,"" premieres in Dublin" |
| 4.2.1913 | Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim |
| 4.2.1913 | National Institute of Arts and Letters founded |
| 4.2.1914 | U.S. Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law |
| 4.2.1915 | Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Miss Penitentiary |
| 4.2.1917 | Belgium Council of Flanders established |
| 4.2.1919 | City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown |
| 4.2.1920 | 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off |
| 4.2.1922 | WGY-AM in Schenectady New York begins radio transmissions |
| 4.2.1924 | 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix France |
| 4.2.1924 | "George Kelly's ""Show-Off,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.2.1926 | Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany |
| 4.2.1927 | KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions |
| 4.2.1929 | Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs. England at Adelaide |
| 4.2.1930 | "1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans" |
| 4.2.1931 | National League adopts a deader baseball |
| 4.2.1932 | "3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York" |
| 4.2.1932 | "Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria" |
| 4.2.1933 | German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
| 4.2.1936 | 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically (radium E) |
| 4.2.1937 | "Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games" |
| 4.2.1938 | Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts |
| 4.2.1938 | """Our Town,"" by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway" |
| 4.2.1939 | Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort |
| 4.2.1941 | British tanks occupy Maus Libya |
| 4.2.1941 | Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin |
| 4.2.1941 | "United Service Organization, USO, founded" |
| 4.2.1942 | Clinton Pierce becomes 1st U.S. general wounded in action in WW II |
| 4.2.1943 | "Bertolt Brecht's ""Der gute Mensch von Sezuan,"" premieres in Zurich" |
| 4.2.1944 | "Jean Anouilh's ""Antigone,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 4.2.1944 | U.S. 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein |
| 4.2.1945 | "FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta" |
| 4.2.1946 | "Garson Kanin's ""Born Yesterday,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.2.1948 | Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK |
| 4.2.1949 | Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia |
| 4.2.1951 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer |
| 4.2.1951 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button |
| 4.2.1952 | 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York) |
| 4.2.1956 | AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training |
| 4.2.1957 | 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse New York) |
| 4.2.1958 | Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950 |
| 4.2.1958 | """Oh, Captain!"" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 192 performances" |
| 4.2.1959 | Israel begins exporting copper ore |
| 4.2.1960 | BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member |
| 4.2.1960 | Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park |
| 4.2.1960 | "Lionel Bart's musical ""Fings ain't wot they used t'be,"" premieres" |
| 4.2.1961 | Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure |
| 4.2.1962 | """Gay Life"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 113 performances" |
| 4.2.1962 | Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game |
| 4.2.1962 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles |
| 4.2.1962 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt |
| 4.2.1964 | Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax |
| 4.2.1964 | FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City |
| 4.2.1965 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.2.1966 | All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
| 4.2.1967 | U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 3 |
| 4.2.1967 | """Wild Thing"" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby" |
| 4.2.1968 | Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball |
| 4.2.1968 | """Golden Rainbow"" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 355 performances" |
| 4.2.1969 | "Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple" |
| 4.2.1969 | John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders |
| 4.2.1969 | "Lonnie Elder's ""Ceremonies in Dark Old Men,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.2.1969 | Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO |
| 4.2.1969 | "41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost" |
| 4.2.1970 | """Charles Aznavour"" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 23 performances" |
| 4.2.1970 | """Gantry"" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 1 performance" |
| 4.2.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.2.1971 | Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard and Mitchell) |
| 4.2.1971 | Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for blacks |
| 4.2.1971 | British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt |
| 4.2.1971 | "Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil" |
| 4.2.1971 | National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC |
| 4.2.1972 | 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria |
| 4.2.1972 | Sen Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported |
| 4.2.1973 | Islanders and Sabres had a penalty free game |
| 4.2.1973 | Manfred Kokot runs world record 50m indoor (5.61 sec) |
| 4.2.1973 | """No, No Nanette"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 861 performances" |
| 4.2.1973 | "Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled" |
| 4.2.1974 | Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands |
| 4.2.1974 | "Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2 months" |
| 4.2.1974 | Gas rationing ends in Netherlands |
| 4.2.1974 | Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army |
| 4.2.1976 | "12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria" |
| 4.2.1976 | "7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala and Honduras" |
| 4.2.1976 | Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency |
| 4.2.1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 4.2.1977 | 30th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver |
| 4.2.1977 | "Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto a Chicago Street (11 die, 200 hurt)" |
| 4.2.1977 | "Fleetwood Mac's ""Rumours"" released" |
| 4.2.1977 | "Wings release ""Maybe I'm Amazed""" |
| 4.2.1979 | """Co-Ed Fever,"" TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS" |
| 4.2.1979 | "End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG)" |
| 4.2.1979 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament |
| 4.2.1980 | Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran |
| 4.2.1980 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek |
| 4.2.1982 | Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47m) Tacoma Wash |
| 4.2.1982 | "Musical ""Pump Boys and Dinettes,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 4.2.1982 | """Pump Boys and Dinettes"" opens at Princess Theater New York City for 573 performances" |
| 4.2.1982 | Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees |
| 4.2.1983 | Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium |
| 4.2.1983 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 4.2.1984 | """9"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 739 performances" |
| 4.2.1984 | """Backstage Magic"" opens at CommuniCore" |
| 4.2.1984 | Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168m) Las Vegas |
| 4.2.1985 | 20 countries (but not U.S.) sign United Nations treaty outlawing torture |
| 4.2.1985 | Naval exercises canceled when U.S. refuses to tell NZ of nuclear weapons |
| 4.2.1986 | 38th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford |
| 4.2.1986 | Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger plane |
| 4.2.1987 | President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress |
| 4.2.1987 | Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954 |
| 4.2.1987 | "Stars and Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup" |
| 4.2.1988 | Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges |
| 4.2.1989 | Dean Jones scores 216 vs. WI at the Adelaide Oval |
| 4.2.1990 | 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo |
| 4.2.1990 | Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81) |
| 4.2.1990 | Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04) |
| 4.2.1990 | Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69) |
| 4.2.1990 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21 |
| 4.2.1990 | Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic |
| 4.2.1990 | Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar) |
| 4.2.1990 | St. Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship |
| 4.2.1991 | Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose |
| 4.2.1991 | "Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs. SL, world record" |
| 4.2.1993 | "Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA" |
| 4.2.1993 | Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism |
| 4.2.1993 | Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror |
| 4.2.1994 | 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins |
| 4.2.1994 | 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan |
| 4.2.1994 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 m indoor (6.00 sec) |
| 4.2.1994 | Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71) |
| 4.2.1995 | Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria vs. South Australia |
| 4.2.1995 | Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke (27.77) |
| 4.2.1995 | "Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning" |
| 4.2.1996 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-13 |
| 4.2.1997 | 73 Israelis die when army copters collide |
| 4.2.1997 | Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals |
| 4.2.1997 | O.J. Simpson found libel in murders of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson |
| 4.2.1997 | Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish |
| 4.2.1998 | Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium |
| 5.2.816 | Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity |
| 5.2.1428 | "King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons" |
| 5.2.1488 | Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium |
| 5.2.1512 | French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna |
| 5.2.1556 | Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles |
| 5.2.1572 | "Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns out" |
| 5.2.1576 | Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours |
| 5.2.1631 | "Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England" |
| 5.2.1644 | "1st U.S. livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut" |
| 5.2.1649 | Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II |
| 5.2.1663 | Earthquake in Canada |
| 5.2.1679 | German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
| 5.2.1736 | "Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia" |
| 5.2.1777 | Georgia becomes 1st U.S. state to abolish both entail and primogeniture |
| 5.2.1778 | "Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina" |
| 5.2.1782 | Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English |
| 5.2.1783 | "Earthquakes ravage Calabria, killing 30,000" |
| 5.2.1783 | Sweden recognizes U.S. independence |
| 5.2.1795 | Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French general Michaud |
| 5.2.1816 | "Rossini's Opera ""Barber of Seville,"" premieres in Rome" |
| 5.2.1817 | "1st U.S. gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)" |
| 5.2.1825 | Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar |
| 5.2.1831 | "Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30" |
| 5.2.1846 | """Oregon Spectator"" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast" |
| 5.2.1850 | "Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, New York" |
| 5.2.1855 | British government of Palmerston forms |
| 5.2.1861 | Louisiana delegation except Mr. Bouligny withdraws from Congress |
| 5.2.1861 | 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale |
| 5.2.1861 | "Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Phila" |
| 5.2.1864 | "Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi" |
| 5.2.1865 | "Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)" |
| 5.2.1870 | "1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia" |
| 5.2.1879 | Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow |
| 5.2.1881 | Phoenix Arizona incorporates |
| 5.2.1885 | News of fall of Khartoum reaches London |
| 5.2.1887 | "Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Otello"" premieres at La Scala in Italy" |
| 5.2.1887 | Snow falls on San Francisco |
| 5.2.1893 | Alfred Naess skates world record 500m (49.4 sec) |
| 5.2.1894 | Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms |
| 5.2.1897 | Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel |
| 5.2.1900 | "British troops under Gen Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal" |
| 5.2.1901 | Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot |
| 5.2.1901 | Pierpont Morgan forms U.S. Steel Corp |
| 5.2.1904 | American occupation of Cuba ends |
| 5.2.1907 | Arnold Schonberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna |
| 5.2.1911 | Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam |
| 5.2.1916 | "Enrico Caruso recorded ""O Solo Mio"" for the Victor Talking Machine Co" |
| 5.2.1917 | "Congress overrides Wilson's veto, curtailing Asian immigration" |
| 5.2.1917 | Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St. New York City (demolished 1982) |
| 5.2.1917 | Present Mexican constitution adopted |
| 5.2.1918 | "1st U.S. pilot to down an enemy airplane, Stephen W. Thompson" |
| 5.2.1918 | Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R. |
| 5.2.1919 | NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers |
| 5.2.1921 | Yankees purchase 20 acres in Bronx for Yankee Stadium |
| 5.2.1922 | Reader's Digest magazine 1st published |
| 5.2.1923 | General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar |
| 5.2.1923 | Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy |
| 5.2.1927 | "Buster Keaton's movie ""The General"" released and bombed" |
| 5.2.1929 | "Jimmy Hatlo's ""They'll Do It Every Time"" cartoon debuts in SF" |
| 5.2.1930 | 5th Aliyah to Israel begins |
| 5.2.1931 | Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st U.S. women to earn a glider pilot license |
| 5.2.1933 | Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
| 5.2.1936 | National Wildlife Federation forms |
| 5.2.1937 | "1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, ""Modern Times,"" released" |
| 5.2.1937 | "Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes enlarging Supreme Court, ""court packing"" plan failed" |
| 5.2.1938 | Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500m (41.8 sec) |
| 5.2.1940 | Gen Winckelman replaces Gen Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander |
| 5.2.1940 | "Glenn Miller and his Orchestra record ""Tuxedo Junction""" |
| 5.2.1941 | Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands |
| 5.2.1942 | Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett and Gene Moore |
| 5.2.1942 | """Woman of the Year,"" starring Hepburn and Tracy opens at Radio City" |
| 5.2.1943 | Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots nazi general Seyffardt |
| 5.2.1943 | "Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission" |
| 5.2.1944 | 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin |
| 5.2.1945 | Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69t.6 kph (440 yd/20.8 s) |
| 5.2.1945 | "British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim" |
| 5.2.1945 | U.S. troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla |
| 5.2.1947 | Bolewet Beirut becomes president of Poland |
| 5.2.1948 | Dick Button becomes 1st U.S. figure skating Olympic champion |
| 5.2.1948 | Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st U.S. woman Olympic slalom champion |
| 5.2.1948 | """Nature of Things"" science show premieres on NBC prime time" |
| 5.2.1949 | "Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chic" |
| 5.2.1953 | "5th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell and Helen Hayes wins" |
| 5.2.1953 | """Peter Pan"" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City" |
| 5.2.1954 | "WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams, MA (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.2.1956 | "7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy" |
| 5.2.1956 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open |
| 5.2.1956 | New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build |
| 5.2.1957 | Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert |
| 5.2.1958 | Clifton R. Wharton confirmed as 1st U.S. black foreign minister (Romania) |
| 5.2.1958 | Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president of United Arab Republic |
| 5.2.1958 | "Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, WI vs. Pakistan, Port-of-Spain" |
| 5.2.1958 | Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km |
| 5.2.1959 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide |
| 5.2.1959 | """Redhead"" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 455 performances" |
| 5.2.1962 | French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's independence |
| 5.2.1962 | "Suit to bar Englewood New Jersey from ""racial segregated"" schools, filed" |
| 5.2.1962 | "Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees" |
| 5.2.1963 | Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
| 5.2.1963 | Soviet lunar probe failure |
| 5.2.1965 | Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels |
| 5.2.1966 | BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
| 5.2.1967 | Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
| 5.2.1967 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren |
| 5.2.1967 | """Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)" |
| 5.2.1968 | "KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 5.2.1968 | Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
| 5.2.1969 | """Turn-On,"" debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly" |
| 5.2.1969 | U.S. population reaches 200 million |
| 5.2.1969 | "Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm and head coach of Redskins" |
| 5.2.1970 | "1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six" |
| 5.2.1970 | "Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban" |
| 5.2.1970 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 5.2.1970 | "WSCV TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) suspends broadcasting" |
| 5.2.1971 | "Apollo 14, 3rd U.S. manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard and Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs" |
| 5.2.1972 | """Another Puff"" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65" |
| 5.2.1972 | Bob Douglas is 1st black elected to Basketball Hall of Fame |
| 5.2.1972 | U.S. airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage |
| 5.2.1973 | "Comic strip ""Hagar The Horrible"" debuted" |
| 5.2.1973 | "Funeral for LC William Nolde, last U.S. soldier killed in Vietnam War" |
| 5.2.1973 | Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders |
| 5.2.1974 | British mine strike |
| 5.2.1974 | "Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win" |
| 5.2.1974 | Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph |
| 5.2.1974 | Patty Hearst kidnapped |
| 5.2.1974 | U.S. Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure |
| 5.2.1976 | Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies |
| 5.2.1976 | Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs and Ian Redpath |
| 5.2.1977 | """CB Savage"" by Rod Hart peaks at #67" |
| 5.2.1977 | """Dis-Gorilla (part 1)"" by Rick Dees peaks at #56" |
| 5.2.1977 | General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio |
| 5.2.1977 | """In The Mood"" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40" |
| 5.2.1977 | Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight |
| 5.2.1977 | """Turn Loose On My Leg"" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98" |
| 5.2.1977 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 5.2.1977 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 5.2.1977 | """Up Your Nose"" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91" |
| 5.2.1978 | Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded |
| 5.2.1979 | "Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time" |
| 5.2.1979 | Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS |
| 5.2.1980 | 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit |
| 5.2.1980 | Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel |
| 5.2.1981 | "Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane" |
| 5.2.1981 | Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy |
| 5.2.1981 | """Piaf"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 165 performances" |
| 5.2.1982 | "DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people" |
| 5.2.1982 | Laker Airways collapse owing 270M pounds ($351M) |
| 5.2.1982 | Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns and flees to Neth |
| 5.2.1983 | Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial |
| 5.2.1984 | NZ beat England (82 and 93) by an innings in 3 days |
| 5.2.1984 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 5.2.1986 | "Corazon Aquino and Ferdinand Marcos appear on ""Nightline""" |
| 5.2.1987 | "Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time" |
| 5.2.1987 | Soyuz TM-2 launches |
| 5.2.1988 | Andre beats Hulk Hogan in 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years |
| 5.2.1988 | Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Gov Evan Mecham |
| 5.2.1988 | Panamanian Gen Manuel Noriega indicted by U.S. grand jury for drugs |
| 5.2.1989 | "Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points" |
| 5.2.1990 | Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC) |
| 5.2.1991 | All American Bowl ends after 14 years |
| 5.2.1991 | Big East Football conference forms |
| 5.2.1991 | "Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl" |
| 5.2.1991 | Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame |
| 5.2.1991 | LA King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHler to score 1000 points |
| 5.2.1991 | Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides |
| 5.2.1992 | Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case |
| 5.2.1992 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar |
| 5.2.1992 | Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs. India |
| 5.2.1993 | "Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 and injuring 160" |
| 5.2.1993 | "James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA" |
| 5.2.1994 | "Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime" |
| 5.2.1994 | """Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego,"" debuts on Fox TV" |
| 5.2.1995 | Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections |
| 5.2.1995 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13 |
| 5.2.1995 | Sandra Volker swims female European record 50m backstroke: 27.77 |
| 5.2.1997 | 3 Swiss banks create $70 million Holocaust fund |
| 5.2.1997 | "Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)" |
| 5.2.1998 | Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini |
| 5.2.1998 | "Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record" |
| 5.2.1998 | Nancy Kerring and Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd) |
| 6.2.337 | St. Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 6.2.1189 | Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England |
| 6.2.1508 | Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
| 6.2.1577 | King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots |
| 6.2.1626 | Huguenot rebels and French sign Peace of La Rochelle |
| 6.2.1651 | Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris |
| 6.2.1693 | "Royal charter granted College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va" |
| 6.2.1716 | England and Netherlands renew alliance |
| 6.2.1778 | England declares war on France |
| 6.2.1778 | "France recognizes U.S., signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st U.S. treaty" |
| 6.2.1788 | Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution |
| 6.2.1815 | New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens) |
| 6.2.1819 | Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore |
| 6.2.1820 | 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (New York to Sierra Leone) |
| 6.2.1820 | "U.S. population announced at 9,638,453 (1,771,656 blacks (18.4%))" |
| 6.2.1832 | "1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland" |
| 6.2.1832 | U.S. ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy |
| 6.2.1836 | HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania) |
| 6.2.1840 | Waitangi Day; treaty signed between Britain and Maoris of New Zealand |
| 6.2.1851 | "Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony ""Rhenisch,"" premieres in Dusseldorf" |
| 6.2.1854 | Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine |
| 6.2.1861 | 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America |
| 6.2.1861 | English Adm Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships |
| 6.2.1862 | Gen Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee |
| 6.2.1862 | Naval Engagement at Tenn River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle |
| 6.2.1862 | Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi |
| 6.2.1864 | Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia |
| 6.2.1865 | 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run) |
| 6.2.1865 | Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief |
| 6.2.1867 | Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South |
| 6.2.1869 | Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers |
| 6.2.1891 | 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17) |
| 6.2.1899 | "Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate" |
| 6.2.1900 | "Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)" |
| 6.2.1902 | Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City |
| 6.2.1904 | Russian-Japanese war began |
| 6.2.1911 | "1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona" |
| 6.2.1911 | Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey |
| 6.2.1918 | Britain grants women (30 and over) vote |
| 6.2.1919 | 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike |
| 6.2.1920 | Saarland administrated by League of Nations |
| 6.2.1921 | """The Kid,"" starring Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, released" |
| 6.2.1922 | Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI |
| 6.2.1922 | "U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation" |
| 6.2.1926 | NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates |
| 6.2.1926 | St. Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees |
| 6.2.1929 | "Rudy Vallee recorded ""Deep Night""" |
| 6.2.1932 | "1st Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)" |
| 6.2.1932 | Fascist coup in the Memel territory |
| 6.2.1933 | 112 foot ocean wave observed near Manila |
| 6.2.1933 | 20th Amendment goes into effect: President term begins in Jan not March |
| 6.2.1933 | "-90 degrees F (-68 degrees C), Oymyakon, U.S.S.R. (Asian record)" |
| 6.2.1933 | "Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in Pacific hurricane" |
| 6.2.1933 | President von Hindenburg and von Papen end Prussian parliament |
| 6.2.1934 | "Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500" |
| 6.2.1935 | 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey |
| 6.2.1935 | Monopoly board game goes on sale for 1st time |
| 6.2.1936 | "4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany" |
| 6.2.1936 | "Pravda criticizes Shostakovitch' ballet ""Clear Brook""" |
| 6.2.1937 | K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-U.S. female lawyer |
| 6.2.1939 | Spanish government flees to France |
| 6.2.1941 | Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19) |
| 6.2.1941 | Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed |
| 6.2.1941 | "British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya" |
| 6.2.1943 | "1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down" |
| 6.2.1943 | "Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's ""Your Hit Parade""" |
| 6.2.1945 | 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz |
| 6.2.1945 | Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder |
| 6.2.1946 | """Lute Song"" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 142 performances" |
| 6.2.1947 | Compton and Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket |
| 6.2.1948 | 1st radio-controlled airplane flown |
| 6.2.1948 | "Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia" |
| 6.2.1948 | "KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, California (CBS) 1st broadcast" |
| 6.2.1951 | """Broker Special"" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84" |
| 6.2.1951 | "U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Ill), to demonstrate lax in security" |
| 6.2.1952 | England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II |
| 6.2.1953 | "Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie" |
| 6.2.1953 | U.S. controls on wages and some consumer goods were lifted |
| 6.2.1956 | "Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing" |
| 6.2.1956 | French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers |
| 6.2.1956 | University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black) |
| 6.2.1958 | 7 members on Manchester United football team die in an air crash |
| 6.2.1958 | "Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid" |
| 6.2.1959 | 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM |
| 6.2.1959 | Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R. Murrow |
| 6.2.1961 | """Jail, No Bail"" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC" |
| 6.2.1961 | "KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.2.1962 | Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named |
| 6.2.1964 | France and Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
| 6.2.1964 | """Rugantino"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 28 performances" |
| 6.2.1964 | "WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.2.1965 | """Kelly"" opens and closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City" |
| 6.2.1965 | "Righteous Brothers ""You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"" hits #1" |
| 6.2.1967 | Cultural Revolution in Albania |
| 6.2.1967 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston |
| 6.2.1967 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 6.2.1968 | "10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France" |
| 6.2.1968 | Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns U.S. bombing of North Vietnam |
| 6.2.1968 | Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one |
| 6.2.1968 | "KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 6.2.1969 | """Dear World"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 132 performances" |
| 6.2.1969 | "Jerry Herman's ""Dear World,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 6.2.1970 | Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs. Australia at Durban |
| 6.2.1970 | "NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston and Portland" |
| 6.2.1971 | "1st time a golf ball is hit on Moon, by Alan Shepard" |
| 6.2.1973 | "40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution" |
| 6.2.1973 | 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah |
| 6.2.1973 | "Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edm" |
| 6.2.1973 | """Shelter"" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 31 performances" |
| 6.2.1974 | 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| 6.2.1974 | Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis |
| 6.2.1974 | U.S. House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon |
| 6.2.1975 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 6.2.1976 | "George Harrison releases ""This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)""" |
| 6.2.1977 | 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0 |
| 6.2.1977 | "Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 m over 16 buses, near Paris" |
| 6.2.1977 | "Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champ" |
| 6.2.1978 | "Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Sen-D-Minn) takes his office" |
| 6.2.1978 | "Snowstorm hits New England, parts of RI (54"" (137cm))" |
| 6.2.1979 | Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto |
| 6.2.1981 | "Beatles McCartney, Starr and Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon" |
| 6.2.1981 | """Brady Brides,"" debuts on NBC TV" |
| 6.2.1981 | Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4) |
| 6.2.1982 | """Centerfold"" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart" |
| 6.2.1983 | 13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19 |
| 6.2.1983 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 6.2.1984 | Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army |
| 6.2.1986 | New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals |
| 6.2.1987 | No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings |
| 6.2.1987 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| 6.2.1988 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 6.2.1989 | Lech Walesa begins negotiating with Polish government |
| 6.2.1990 | Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50 |
| 6.2.1990 | Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium |
| 6.2.1990 | "Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album ""A Night At The Opera"" in 9 minutes and 58.44 seconds backwards!" |
| 6.2.1991 | Mousey Davis becomes 1st coach of NY-New Jersey Knights |
| 6.2.1992 | """Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall"" on NBC" |
| 6.2.1993 | 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal |
| 6.2.1993 | Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 6.2.1994 | Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
| 6.2.1994 | """Government Inspector"" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 37 performances" |
| 6.2.1994 | Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica |
| 6.2.1994 | Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77m |
| 6.2.1994 | Martti Ahtisaari elected president of Finland |
| 6.2.1994 | NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3 |
| 6.2.1995 | Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter |
| 6.2.1995 | Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days |
| 6.2.1995 | Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket |
| 6.2.1996 | Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence |
| 6.2.1997 | "Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm" |
| 6.2.1998 | "Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years" |
| 6.2.1998 | Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3M and 4 minor leaguers |
| 7.2.1301 | Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales |
| 7.2.1522 | Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches |
| 7.2.1550 | Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III |
| 7.2.1569 | King Philip II forms inquistion in South America |
| 7.2.1613 | Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia |
| 7.2.1639 | Academie Franeaise begins Dictionary of French Language |
| 7.2.1653 | Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France |
| 7.2.1668 | "Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of ""Ballet of Peace""" |
| 7.2.1792 | Austria and Prussia sign anti-French covenant |
| 7.2.1792 | "D Cimarosa's opera ""Il Matrimonio Segreto,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 7.2.1795 | "11th Amendment to U.S. Constitution ratified, affirms power of states" |
| 7.2.1795 | Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies |
| 7.2.1812 | "8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri" |
| 7.2.1812 | Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords |
| 7.2.1818 | "1st successful U.S. educational magazine ""Academician,"" begins (New York City)" |
| 7.2.1827 | Ballet (Deserter) introduced to U.S. at Bowery Theater (New York City) |
| 7.2.1831 | Belgium adopts it's Constitution |
| 7.2.1836 | """Sketches by Boz"" (essays) published by Charles Dickens" |
| 7.2.1839 | "Henry Clay declares in Senate ""I had rather be right than president""" |
| 7.2.1862 | Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC |
| 7.2.1864 | "Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida" |
| 7.2.1872 | Alcorn A and M College opens |
| 7.2.1876 | President Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring |
| 7.2.1877 | 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (New York City) |
| 7.2.1881 | "Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces" |
| 7.2.1882 | Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss |
| 7.2.1883 | Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger |
| 7.2.1884 | Canadian Rugby Football Union forms |
| 7.2.1889 | Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco |
| 7.2.1891 | Great Blizzard of 1891 begins |
| 7.2.1900 | "British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal" |
| 7.2.1900 | Labour Party forms in England |
| 7.2.1901 | Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
| 7.2.1903 | VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo |
| 7.2.1904 | Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks) |
| 7.2.1905 | Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US |
| 7.2.1905 | Oklahoma admitted to statehood |
| 7.2.1908 | "Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St. Louis Browns for $5,000" |
| 7.2.1910 | "Edmond Rostand's ""Chantecler,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 7.2.1912 | 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40) |
| 7.2.1914 | "Charlie Chaplin debuts ""The Tramp"" in ""Kid Auto Races at Venice""" |
| 7.2.1914 | "Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, San Francisco" |
| 7.2.1915 | 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received |
| 7.2.1915 | 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army |
| 7.2.1922 | "John Willard's ""Cat and the Canary,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.2.1924 | Mussolini government exchanges diplomats with U.S.S.R. |
| 7.2.1928 | 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler) |
| 7.2.1931 | "U.S. opera, ""Peter Ibbetson,"" by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City" |
| 7.2.1933 | Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators |
| 7.2.1933 | "Social-Dem meeting in Berlin ""As thousands cheer"" Marxism is dead" |
| 7.2.1934 | "1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss" |
| 7.2.1935 | Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags |
| 7.2.1936 | A flag is authorized for Vice President |
| 7.2.1936 | "Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer" |
| 7.2.1940 | British railroads nationalized |
| 7.2.1940 | "Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, ""Pinocchio,"" premieres (New York City)" |
| 7.2.1941 | "Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey Orch record ""Everything Happens to Me""" |
| 7.2.1942 | "1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8"")" |
| 7.2.1943 | Shoe rationing begins in U.S. (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942) |
| 7.2.1944 | "Bing Crosby records ""Swinging on a Star"" for Decca Records" |
| 7.2.1944 | Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy |
| 7.2.1945 | General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila |
| 7.2.1945 | President Truman appoints Irwin C. Mollison judge of U.S. Customs Court |
| 7.2.1945 | U.S. 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer |
| 7.2.1946 | Filibuster in U.S. Senate kills FEPC bill |
| 7.2.1947 | Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine |
| 7.2.1948 | """Cradle Will Rock"" closes at Mansfield Theater New York City after 34 performances" |
| 7.2.1948 | Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff |
| 7.2.1949 | "Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees)" |
| 7.2.1950 | Georges Bidault forms French government |
| 7.2.1950 | "Sen Joe McCarthy finds ""communists"" in U.S. Ministry of Foreign Affairs" |
| 7.2.1950 | U.S. and Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime |
| 7.2.1956 | "Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled" |
| 7.2.1958 | 1st showing of DAF 600 auto |
| 7.2.1958 | "Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc" |
| 7.2.1958 | Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced |
| 7.2.1959 | Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution |
| 7.2.1959 | Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air) |
| 7.2.1959 | Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M |
| 7.2.1959 | """Whoop-Up"" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 56 performances" |
| 7.2.1960 | "Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea" |
| 7.2.1961 | "Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama ""A String of Beads""" |
| 7.2.1962 | Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298 |
| 7.2.1962 | President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba |
| 7.2.1962 | Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational |
| 7.2.1964 | Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream |
| 7.2.1964 | "Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st U.S. tour" |
| 7.2.1964 | Cassius Clay becomes a black Moslem |
| 7.2.1964 | "Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres" |
| 7.2.1965 | Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim and adopts the name Muhammad Ali |
| 7.2.1965 | George Harrison has his tonsils removed |
| 7.2.1965 | Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao |
| 7.2.1965 | U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam |
| 7.2.1965 | "WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.2.1966 | "KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.2.1968 | "Arthur Miller's ""Price,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 7.2.1968 | Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls |
| 7.2.1968 | "WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 7.2.1969 | Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
| 7.2.1969 | Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah) |
| 7.2.1969 | """This Is Tom Jones,"" debuts on ABC TV" |
| 7.2.1970 | """Hollywood Palace,"" last airs on ABC TV" |
| 7.2.1970 | """Jingle Jangle"" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies" |
| 7.2.1970 | "LSU's ""Pistol"" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause" |
| 7.2.1970 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| 7.2.1970 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| 7.2.1971 | Swiss men accept female suffrage |
| 7.2.1973 | 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| 7.2.1973 | Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities |
| 7.2.1974 | Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 7.2.1974 | "Mel Brooks' ""Blazing Saddles"" opens in movie theaters" |
| 7.2.1975 | NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak |
| 7.2.1976 | "Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game" |
| 7.2.1976 | "Larry Groce's ""Junk Food Junkie"" peaks at #9" |
| 7.2.1976 | World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (U.S.S.R.) |
| 7.2.1977 | Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts |
| 7.2.1978 | Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert |
| 7.2.1979 | Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds President Boumedienne in Algeria |
| 7.2.1979 | Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI vs. India at Kanpur |
| 7.2.1979 | "Pink Floyd premiered their live version of ""The Wall"" in Los Angeles" |
| 7.2.1979 | """Supertrain,"" TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC" |
| 7.2.1979 | Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals) |
| 7.2.1982 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 7.2.1982 | Luis A Monge elected President of Costa Rica |
| 7.2.1983 | "1st female secretary of transportation, Elizabeth Dole, sworn-in" |
| 7.2.1984 | "Bruce McCandless, U.S., makes 1st untethered space walk" |
| 7.2.1984 | Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS |
| 7.2.1985 | "Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5""" |
| 7.2.1985 | New York Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals |
| 7.2.1985 | """New York, New York"" became the official anthem of New York City" |
| 7.2.1986 | Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti |
| 7.2.1986 | Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos |
| 7.2.1986 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas |
| 7.2.1987 | Dennis Conner and Stars and Stripes bring America's Cup back to US |
| 7.2.1987 | "Madonna's ""Open Your Heart,"" single goes #1" |
| 7.2.1987 | """Ronnies Rap"" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93" |
| 7.2.1987 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 7.2.1988 | 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago |
| 7.2.1988 | Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens |
| 7.2.1988 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic |
| 7.2.1988 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6 |
| 7.2.1989 | 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton |
| 7.2.1989 | "Tennis superstar Bjorn Borg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan" |
| 7.2.1990 | Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators |
| 7.2.1990 | "Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half and loses 102-24" |
| 7.2.1990 | U.S.S.R. Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties |
| 7.2.1991 | "Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin and Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame" |
| 7.2.1991 | Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president |
| 7.2.1992 | Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial |
| 7.2.1992 | "Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA" |
| 7.2.1993 | NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20 |
| 7.2.1993 | Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic |
| 7.2.1994 | 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins |
| 7.2.1994 | Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge |
| 7.2.1994 | Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant |
| 7.2.1995 | Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting |
| 7.2.1997 | "U.S. and Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21" |
| 7.2.1998 | 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan |
| 7.2.1998 | NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7 |
| 8.2.421 | Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman emp |
| 8.2.1526 | "Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die" |
| 8.2.1575 | University of Leiden Netherlands opens |
| 8.2.1600 | Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death |
| 8.2.1601 | Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London |
| 8.2.1622 | King James I disbands the English parliament |
| 8.2.1672 | Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London |
| 8.2.1690 | French and Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire |
| 8.2.1690 | Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal |
| 8.2.1693 | William and Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US |
| 8.2.1735 | "1st opera in U.S. ""Flora,"" opens in Charleston, SC" |
| 8.2.1743 | Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth |
| 8.2.1744 | French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon |
| 8.2.1750 | Minor earthquake in London |
| 8.2.1776 | "Wolfgang von Goethes' ""Stella,"" premieres in Hamburg" |
| 8.2.1802 | Simon Willard patents banjo clock |
| 8.2.1807 | Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau |
| 8.2.1809 | Franz I of Austria declares war on France |
| 8.2.1837 | "1st Vice President chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin)" |
| 8.2.1861 | "Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama" |
| 8.2.1862 | "Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound" |
| 8.2.1862 | "Opera ""Lily of Killarney,"" premieres in London" |
| 8.2.1865 | "1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany" |
| 8.2.1883 | Louis Waterman begins experiments to invents fountain pen |
| 8.2.1887 | "Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st U.S. ski club" |
| 8.2.1887 | Dawes Act passed (indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship) |
| 8.2.1889 | Flood ravages Dutch coast |
| 8.2.1894 | "Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks" |
| 8.2.1895 | "Tchaikovsky/Petipa's ""Swan Lake,"" premieres in Petersburg" |
| 8.2.1896 | "Georges Feydeaus' ""Le Dindon,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 8.2.1896 | "Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conf" |
| 8.2.1898 | John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass) |
| 8.2.1904 | Russo-Japanese War begins |
| 8.2.1905 | "Cyclone hit Tahiti and adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people" |
| 8.2.1908 | Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Neth |
| 8.2.1909 | France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco |
| 8.2.1910 | Boy Scouts of America incorporated and chartered (William D. Boyce - Chicago) |
| 8.2.1911 | U.S. helps overthrow President Miguel Devila of Honduras |
| 8.2.1911 | "Victor Herbert's opera ""Natoma,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1912 | "1st eastbound U.S. transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla" |
| 8.2.1914 | General Zamon becomes president of Haiti |
| 8.2.1915 | """Birth of a Nation"" opens at Clune's Auditorium in LA" |
| 8.2.1916 | "French cruiser ""Admiral Charner"" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374" |
| 8.2.1916 | NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cents seats |
| 8.2.1918 | """Stars and Stripes,"" weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published" |
| 8.2.1920 | Swiss men vote against women's suffrage |
| 8.2.1922 | Radio arrives at the White House |
| 8.2.1923 | "Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120" |
| 8.2.1923 | German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
| 8.2.1924 | 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: Gen John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago |
| 8.2.1925 | "Kaufman and Berlin's ""cocoanuts,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1925 | Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta |
| 8.2.1926 | German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership |
| 8.2.1926 | "Sean O'Casey's ""Plough and Stars"" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin" |
| 8.2.1926 | Walt Disney Studios forms |
| 8.2.1927 | Belgian-Swiss treaty signed |
| 8.2.1928 | "1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, New York" |
| 8.2.1928 | Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV |
| 8.2.1929 | KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions |
| 8.2.1930 | """Happy Days Are Here Again"" by Benny Mereoff hits #1" |
| 8.2.1931 | "Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000" |
| 8.2.1933 | 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247 |
| 8.2.1933 | "-23 degrees F (-31 degrees C), Seminole, Texas (state record)" |
| 8.2.1934 | "Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, D.C." |
| 8.2.1934 | Gaston Doumergue forms new French government |
| 8.2.1935 | 1st NFL draft; Jay Berwanger of U Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles) He never plays in NFL |
| 8.2.1936 | "1st NFL draft, Eagles select Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger" |
| 8.2.1936 | "1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota" |
| 8.2.1936 | "1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers" |
| 8.2.1936 | Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party |
| 8.2.1937 | "Maxwell Anderson's ""Masque of Kings,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1940 | "Lewis and Hamilton's musical ""Two for the Show,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1940 | "Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland" |
| 8.2.1941 | Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore |
| 8.2.1941 | NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio |
| 8.2.1942 | "Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort" |
| 8.2.1942 | "Stravinsky's ""Danses Concertantes,"" premieres in Los Angeles" |
| 8.2.1943 | Red Army recaptures Kursk |
| 8.2.1944 | "1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin" |
| 8.2.1944 | U-762 sunk off Ireland |
| 8.2.1945 | Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald |
| 8.2.1946 | Bela Bartoks 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Phila |
| 8.2.1946 | Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties |
| 8.2.1947 | Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51) |
| 8.2.1947 | "KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St. Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.2.1948 | "5th Winter Olympic games close at St. Moritz, Switzerland" |
| 8.2.1949 | Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison |
| 8.2.1952 | """RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day,"" debuts on NBC TV" |
| 8.2.1953 | Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 8.2.1953 | "WLVirginia (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, Virginia (ABC) begins" |
| 8.2.1955 | "Malenkov resigns as U.S.S.R. premier, Bulganin replaces him" |
| 8.2.1956 | "Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die" |
| 8.2.1957 | San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall |
| 8.2.1958 | Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia |
| 8.2.1958 | "French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die" |
| 8.2.1958 | "KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.2.1960 | Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51) |
| 8.2.1962 | "KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 8.2.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.2.1963 | 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) |
| 8.2.1963 | AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs |
| 8.2.1963 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.2.1964 | "Peter Shaffer's ""Royal Hunt of the Sun,"" premieres in London" |
| 8.2.1964 | Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| 8.2.1965 | "Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84" |
| 8.2.1965 | "Supremes release ""Stop In the Name of Love""" |
| 8.2.1967 | Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) |
| 8.2.1967 | Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership |
| 8.2.1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.2.1968 | Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) |
| 8.2.1969 | Last edition of Saturday Evening Post |
| 8.2.1969 | "Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico" |
| 8.2.1971 | "Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ" |
| 8.2.1971 | South Vietnamese troops invade Laos |
| 8.2.1972 | Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame |
| 8.2.1973 | "Jean Kerrs ""Finishing Touches,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1973 | Mushtaq and Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs. NZ |
| 8.2.1973 | Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal |
| 8.2.1974 | """Good Times,"" debuts on CBS TV" |
| 8.2.1974 | "Ringo releases ""You're 16""" |
| 8.2.1974 | Skylab 4's astronauts land |
| 8.2.1974 | "Soap opera ""Secret Storm"" ends a 20 year run" |
| 8.2.1975 | 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea |
| 8.2.1975 | Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders |
| 8.2.1976 | Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR |
| 8.2.1976 | Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic |
| 8.2.1976 | "Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Wash-21,130)" |
| 8.2.1977 | "Earthquake in San Francisco, at 5.0, strongest since 1966" |
| 8.2.1978 | Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes Prime Minister of Kuwait |
| 8.2.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 8.2.1981 | """5 O'Clock Girl"" closes at Helen Hayes Theater New York City after 12 performances" |
| 8.2.1981 | """Brigadoon"" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 133 performances" |
| 8.2.1981 | Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 8.2.1981 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak |
| 8.2.1981 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton |
| 8.2.1982 | Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey) |
| 8.2.1983 | 35th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander |
| 8.2.1983 | Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino |
| 8.2.1983 | Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance |
| 8.2.1983 | Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days |
| 8.2.1983 | "Tina Howe's ""Painting Churches,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 8.2.1983 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period |
| 8.2.1984 | "14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia" |
| 8.2.1984 | 1st time 8 people in space |
| 8.2.1984 | A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation |
| 8.2.1984 | Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7 |
| 8.2.1985 | "1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs. Barbados" |
| 8.2.1985 | "Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5"" basketball shot" |
| 8.2.1985 | Michael Gross swims world record 800m freestyle (7:38.75) |
| 8.2.1985 | Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea |
| 8.2.1986 | "5' 7"" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition" |
| 8.2.1986 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano |
| 8.2.1987 | 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle |
| 8.2.1987 | Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 8.2.1988 | NASA launches DOD-2 |
| 8.2.1989 | 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles |
| 8.2.1989 | Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days |
| 8.2.1989 | "U.S. Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain, 145 die" |
| 8.2.1990 | """60 Minutes"" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine" |
| 8.2.1990 | "David Hares ""Racing Demon,"" premieres in London" |
| 8.2.1991 | "Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract" |
| 8.2.1992 | "16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France" |
| 8.2.1992 | """I'm Too Sexy"" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1" |
| 8.2.1992 | Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter |
| 8.2.1993 | "General Motors sues NBC, alleging that ""Dateline NBC"" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires" |
| 8.2.1993 | "Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die" |
| 8.2.1994 | Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car |
| 8.2.1994 | Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432 |
| 8.2.1994 | Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm |
| 8.2.1995 | "6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)" |
| 8.2.1996 | NFL and Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Balt but he had to leave the Browns' name behind |
| 8.2.1998 | 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0 |
| 8.2.1998 | 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at New York City |
| 8.2.1998 | NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accomodate the Olympics |
| 9.2.1267 | Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps |
| 9.2.1499 | France and Venice sign treaty against Milan |
| 9.2.1537 | Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England |
| 9.2.1540 | "The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)" |
| 9.2.1554 | Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated |
| 9.2.1574 | Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht |
| 9.2.1621 | Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623) |
| 9.2.1667 | Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty |
| 9.2.1674 | English reconquer New York from Netherlands |
| 9.2.1682 | "Thomas Otway's ""Venice Preserved,"" premieres in London" |
| 9.2.1742 | British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford |
| 9.2.1744 | Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews) |
| 9.2.1775 | English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion |
| 9.2.1788 | Austria declares war on Russia |
| 9.2.1799 | "USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I" |
| 9.2.1801 | France and Austrian sign Peace of Luneville |
| 9.2.1807 | French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon |
| 9.2.1822 | American Indian Society organizes |
| 9.2.1825 | House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president |
| 9.2.1849 | Roman Republic declared |
| 9.2.1861 | Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the U.S. Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states |
| 9.2.1861 | Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens elected president and VP of CSA |
| 9.2.1861 | Tennessee votes against secession |
| 9.2.1863 | Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane |
| 9.2.1867 | Nebraska becomes 37th U.S. state |
| 9.2.1870 | U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service |
| 9.2.1871 | Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress |
| 9.2.1885 | 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii |
| 9.2.1886 | President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence |
| 9.2.1891 | 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento |
| 9.2.1893 | Canal builder De Lesseps and others sentenced to prison for fraud |
| 9.2.1893 | "Verdi's opera ""Falstaff"" premieres in Milan" |
| 9.2.1895 | "1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minn Agricult beats Hamline, 9-3)" |
| 9.2.1895 | Volleyball invented by W. G. Morgan in Massachusetts |
| 9.2.1900 | "Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup" |
| 9.2.1904 | Japan declares war on Russia |
| 9.2.1906 | Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising |
| 9.2.1909 | 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) |
| 9.2.1909 | "1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio" |
| 9.2.1912 | US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion |
| 9.2.1913 | "10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die" |
| 9.2.1916 | Britain's military service act enforced (conscription) |
| 9.2.1916 | "NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, and Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)" |
| 9.2.1918 | Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va |
| 9.2.1918 | "Sacha Guitry's ""Deburan,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 9.2.1920 | International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard |
| 9.2.1920 | Joint Rules Com bans foreign substances and alterations to baseballs |
| 9.2.1922 | Italian government of Bonomi falls |
| 9.2.1922 | "Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii" |
| 9.2.1923 | Soviet Aeroflot airlines forms |
| 9.2.1924 | Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR |
| 9.2.1925 | German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
| 9.2.1925 | "Haifa Technion (Israel), opens" |
| 9.2.1926 | "Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools" |
| 9.2.1929 | "U.S.S.R., Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Romania sign Litvinov Pact" |
| 9.2.1932 | America enter Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time |
| 9.2.1932 | "U.S. airship Columbia crashes during storm in Flushing, New York" |
| 9.2.1933 | "-63 degrees F (-53 degrees C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)" |
| 9.2.1934 | "-14.3 degrees F (-25.7 degrees C), coldest day in New York City" |
| 9.2.1934 | "-51 degrees F (-46 degrees C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)" |
| 9.2.1934 | "Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Romania)" |
| 9.2.1935 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 9.2.1935 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 9.2.1939 | Belgian Spaak government falls |
| 9.2.1940 | Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 9.2.1941 | British troops conquer El Agheila |
| 9.2.1941 | "Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish cafe Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang ""No Entry for Jews"" signs in front of cafe)" |
| 9.2.1942 | Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in U.S. |
| 9.2.1942 | "Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes" |
| 9.2.1942 | "Philadelphia ""Phillies"" change nickname (temporarily) to ""Phils""" |
| 9.2.1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry |
| 9.2.1943 | "German riots at ""plutocratenzoontjes,"" 1,200 in Vught Camp" |
| 9.2.1943 | "Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle" |
| 9.2.1943 | Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents |
| 9.2.1943 | "NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears" |
| 9.2.1944 | U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland |
| 9.2.1945 | WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire |
| 9.2.1946 | Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms |
| 9.2.1947 | Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia |
| 9.2.1948 | "WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.2.1950 | Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists |
| 9.2.1951 | "St. Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45" |
| 9.2.1953 | """Adventures of Superman"" TV series premieres in syndication" |
| 9.2.1953 | "General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA" |
| 9.2.1953 | "WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (ABC) 1st broadcast" |
| 9.2.1954 | Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy |
| 9.2.1955 | Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law |
| 9.2.1955 | U.S. federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO |
| 9.2.1956 | -5 degrees F (15 degrees C) in Sicily |
| 9.2.1956 | "KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast" |
| 9.2.1956 | R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria |
| 9.2.1959 | "Coasters's ""Charlie Brown"" peaks at #2" |
| 9.2.1960 | AFL and NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact |
| 9.2.1961 | Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo |
| 9.2.1962 | Jamaica signs agreement to become independent |
| 9.2.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 9.2.1963 | "7th largest snowfall in New York City history (42.4 cm, 16.7"")" |
| 9.2.1963 | 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
| 9.2.1964 | "1st appearance of Beatles on ""Ed Sullivan Show"" (73.7 million viewers)" |
| 9.2.1964 | "9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria" |
| 9.2.1964 | GI Joe character created |
| 9.2.1964 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 India vs. England on debut at Delhi |
| 9.2.1964 | New York City news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV |
| 9.2.1966 | Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
| 9.2.1968 | Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
| 9.2.1969 | "KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 9.2.1969 | "World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight" |
| 9.2.1971 | Apollo 14 returns to Earth |
| 9.2.1971 | Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family |
| 9.2.1971 | Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 64 and causes over $ B damage |
| 9.2.1971 | Satchel Paige becomes 1st negro-league player elected to baseball HOF |
| 9.2.1972 | British Government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike |
| 9.2.1974 | """Daddy What If"" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41" |
| 9.2.1974 | """The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)"" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24" |
| 9.2.1974 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill |
| 9.2.1974 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr |
| 9.2.1975 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic |
| 9.2.1975 | Soyuz 17 returns to Earth |
| 9.2.1976 | Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame |
| 9.2.1979 | "21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey" |
| 9.2.1979 | "ABC airs ""Heroes of Rock N Roll"" special" |
| 9.2.1979 | "Beginning of James Clavell's novel ""Whirlwind""" |
| 9.2.1979 | Nigeria amends constitution |
| 9.2.1980 | "Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-pt goals in a game" |
| 9.2.1982 | 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington |
| 9.2.1983 | Belgium buys 44 F-16s |
| 9.2.1984 | """Rink"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 204 performances" |
| 9.2.1985 | "Madonna's ""Like a Virgin,"" album goes #1 for 3 weeks" |
| 9.2.1986 | 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas |
| 9.2.1986 | Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) |
| 9.2.1986 | Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen |
| 9.2.1986 | "Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title" |
| 9.2.1986 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 9.2.1986 | Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt |
| 9.2.1986 | West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
| 9.2.1987 | Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide |
| 9.2.1987 | New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club |
| 9.2.1988 | 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St. Louis |
| 9.2.1988 | NH begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991) |
| 9.2.1989 | Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games |
| 9.2.1989 | Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election |
| 9.2.1990 | """Bradys"" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV" |
| 9.2.1990 | Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) and mile (4:17:13) |
| 9.2.1990 | Galileo flies by Venus |
| 9.2.1990 | Namibia's constitution ratified |
| 9.2.1991 | Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73) |
| 9.2.1991 | Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice and beats him |
| 9.2.1991 | """This Is Ponderous"" by 2nu peaks at #46" |
| 9.2.1991 | U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case |
| 9.2.1991 | Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration |
| 9.2.1992 | """2 Shakespearean Actors"" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 29 performances" |
| 9.2.1992 | 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando |
| 9.2.1992 | Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germ |
| 9.2.1992 | Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07m) |
| 9.2.1992 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 400m medley (4:07.10) |
| 9.2.1992 | NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113 |
| 9.2.1992 | Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary |
| 9.2.1993 | Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma |
| 9.2.1994 | Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat |
| 9.2.1995 | """Heiress"" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 340 performances" |
| 9.2.1995 | Irina Privalova runs female world record 50m (5.96 sec) |
| 9.2.1996 | WYNY-FM in New York City changes calls to WKTU-FM |
| 9.2.1997 | 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds |
| 9.2.1997 | 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland |
| 9.2.1997 | "Fox cartoon series ""Simpsons"" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history" |
| 9.2.1997 | Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr. Pepper National Pro-Am |
| 9.2.1997 | LG Senior Golf Championship |
| 9.2.1997 | Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational |
| 9.2.1997 | Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am |
| 9.2.1997 | "Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games" |
| 9.2.1998 | 6th annual ESPY Awards |
| 9.2.1998 | Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze |
| 9.2.2002 | XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City Utah/Quebec City |
| 10.2.60 | St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta |
| 10.2.1098 | Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch |
| 10.2.1535 | 12 nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets |
| 10.2.1635 | Academie Franeaise forms in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu) |
| 10.2.1676 | Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass |
| 10.2.1713 | Netherlands and England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier |
| 10.2.1716 | Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France |
| 10.2.1720 | Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England |
| 10.2.1746 | English Pelham government resigns |
| 10.2.1749 | "10th (final) volume of Fielding's ""Tom Jones"" is published" |
| 10.2.1763 | "Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to England" |
| 10.2.1774 | Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit |
| 10.2.1794 | "Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres" |
| 10.2.1807 | U.S. Coast Survey authorized by Congress |
| 10.2.1824 | Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru |
| 10.2.1840 | British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg |
| 10.2.1846 | Beginning of Mormon march to west US |
| 10.2.1846 | "British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India" |
| 10.2.1855 | U.S. citizenship laws amended all children of U.S. parents born abroad granted U.S. citizenship |
| 10.2.1859 | Gen Horsford defeats Begum of Oude and Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny |
| 10.2.1860 | "John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres" |
| 10.2.1862 | Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms |
| 10.2.1863 | "1st U.S. fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia" |
| 10.2.1863 | P. T. Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York City) |
| 10.2.1866 | Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms |
| 10.2.1868 | "Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida" |
| 10.2.1870 | City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time) |
| 10.2.1870 | YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (New York City) |
| 10.2.1878 | Peace of Zanjon |
| 10.2.1878 | "Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres" |
| 10.2.1879 | 1st electric arc light used in the California Theater |
| 10.2.1879 | Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo |
| 10.2.1880 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage |
| 10.2.1881 | "Jacques Offenbach's opera ""Les Contes d'Hoffman,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 10.2.1882 | "Rimski-Korsakovs opera ""Snyegurochka,"" premieres in St. Petersburg" |
| 10.2.1883 | "Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisconsin, kills 71" |
| 10.2.1890 | "Around 11M acres, ceded to U.S. by Sioux Indians opens for settlement" |
| 10.2.1897 | "N.Y. Times begins using slogan ""All the News That's Fit to Print""" |
| 10.2.1899 | "-39 degrees F (-39 degrees C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)" |
| 10.2.1899 | US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley. U.S. gets PR and Guam |
| 10.2.1900 | Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec) |
| 10.2.1904 | Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships |
| 10.2.1906 | "Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship ""HMS Dreadnought"" launched" |
| 10.2.1906 | State of siege proclaimed in Zululand |
| 10.2.1908 | Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.2.1912 | Hobbs and Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs. Aust at MCG |
| 10.2.1913 | "Edward Sheldons ""Romance,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.2.1916 | Conscription begins in Britain |
| 10.2.1917 | Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor |
| 10.2.1920 | Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with ball |
| 10.2.1923 | Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company |
| 10.2.1923 | "Owen Davis' ""Icebound,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.2.1923 | SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied |
| 10.2.1924 | "Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)" |
| 10.2.1925 | "1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind" |
| 10.2.1925 | AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year |
| 10.2.1926 | "Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins" |
| 10.2.1927 | President Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference |
| 10.2.1930 | Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress |
| 10.2.1931 | New Delhi becomes capital of India |
| 10.2.1931 | Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in New York City |
| 10.2.1933 | "-54 degrees F (-48 degrees C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)" |
| 10.2.1933 | Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co New York City) |
| 10.2.1933 | Dutch seaplane bombs Dutch ship |
| 10.2.1933 | Hitler proclaims end of Marxism |
| 10.2.1933 | "Mutiny on ""7 Provinces"" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed" |
| 10.2.1934 | 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine |
| 10.2.1934 | "Byrd souvenir sheet issued, New York City; 1st unperforated ungummed U.S. stamp" |
| 10.2.1934 | "Howard Hanson's ""Merry Mount,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.2.1934 | "Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says ""Life becomes merrier""" |
| 10.2.1934 | Thomson/Gertrude Steins opera premieres in New York City |
| 10.2.1935 | 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service |
| 10.2.1935 | Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive |
| 10.2.1937 | Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2) |
| 10.2.1938 | King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga |
| 10.2.1940 | """In The Mood"" by Glenn Miller hits #1" |
| 10.2.1940 | Tom and Jerry created by Hanna and Barbera debut by MGM |
| 10.2.1940 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer |
| 10.2.1940 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner |
| 10.2.1941 | "1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA" |
| 10.2.1941 | "Anti-nazi ""Het Parool"" begins publishing in Netherlands" |
| 10.2.1942 | "Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of ""Chattanooga Choo Choo""" |
| 10.2.1943 | 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia |
| 10.2.1943 | """Manifesto of Algerian People"" calls for equality and self-determination" |
| 10.2.1943 | Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau |
| 10.2.1944 | Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
| 10.2.1944 | U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland |
| 10.2.1945 | """Rum and Coca Cola"" by Andrews Sisters hits #1" |
| 10.2.1946 | 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum |
| 10.2.1947 | Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia |
| 10.2.1947 | Netherlands Radio Union forms |
| 10.2.1947 | Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland |
| 10.2.1947 | WW II peace treaties signed |
| 10.2.1948 | Greek Gen Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki |
| 10.2.1949 | "Arthur Miller's ""Death of a Salesman"" opens at Morosco Theater, New York City" |
| 10.2.1951 | """John and Marsha"" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21" |
| 10.2.1951 | Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari |
| 10.2.1953 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Westwood and Demmy GRB |
| 10.2.1953 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of GRB |
| 10.2.1953 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA |
| 10.2.1953 | Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA |
| 10.2.1954 | Eisenhower warns against U.S. intervention in Vietnam |
| 10.2.1954 | Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy GRB |
| 10.2.1954 | Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN |
| 10.2.1954 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch GER |
| 10.2.1954 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US |
| 10.2.1956 | "Elvis Presley records ""Heartbreak Hotel"" for RCA" |
| 10.2.1956 | """My Friend Flicka"" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV" |
| 10.2.1957 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open |
| 10.2.1957 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms |
| 10.2.1959 | "Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes ""Lonely, but not alone""" |
| 10.2.1959 | Tornado in St. Louis kills 19 and injures 265 |
| 10.2.1960 | "Charles Ives' ""Lincoln, the Great Commoner,"" premieres" |
| 10.2.1960 | """Unsinkable Molly Brown"" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 532 performances" |
| 10.2.1961 | AFL's LA Chargers move to San Diego |
| 10.2.1961 | Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power |
| 10.2.1961 | "Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres" |
| 10.2.1962 | Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA |
| 10.2.1962 | U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel |
| 10.2.1963 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| 10.2.1963 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
| 10.2.1963 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz |
| 10.2.1964 | "Australian destroyer ""Voyager"" sinks in collision, killing 82" |
| 10.2.1964 | Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne |
| 10.2.1964 | "WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 10.2.1966 | Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
| 10.2.1967 | 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect |
| 10.2.1968 | "Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France" |
| 10.2.1968 | """Spooky"" by Classics IV hits #3" |
| 10.2.1969 | "LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94" |
| 10.2.1970 | 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record) |
| 10.2.1970 | "Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, and German youths (Val d'Isere, France)" |
| 10.2.1971 | "American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in NY" |
| 10.2.1971 | Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (New York Yankees) |
| 10.2.1971 | "John Guares ""House of Blue Leaves,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.2.1971 | Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa |
| 10.2.1972 | "BBC bans ""Give Ireland Back to the Irish"" by Wings" |
| 10.2.1972 | Ras al Khaima joins United Arab Emirates |
| 10.2.1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 10.2.1973 | 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0 |
| 10.2.1973 | "83m wide gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die" |
| 10.2.1973 | Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs. NZ Dunedin |
| 10.2.1974 | Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic |
| 10.2.1974 | """Gigi"" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 103 performances" |
| 10.2.1974 | Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out |
| 10.2.1974 | Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17) |
| 10.2.1974 | Silver futures hit record $4.81 an ounce in London |
| 10.2.1975 | "William ""Judy"" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame" |
| 10.2.1977 | Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro |
| 10.2.1977 | Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976) |
| 10.2.1977 | """Party with Comden and Green"" opens at Morosco Theater New York City for 92 performances" |
| 10.2.1977 | Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born |
| 10.2.1978 | Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA |
| 10.2.1979 | "Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed" |
| 10.2.1979 | """Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1" |
| 10.2.1980 | "Ianford Wilsons ""Talley's Folly,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 10.2.1980 | Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic |
| 10.2.1981 | 8 killed and 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton |
| 10.2.1981 | Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249 |
| 10.2.1981 | 33rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at LA |
| 10.2.1982 | "28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec" |
| 10.2.1983 | Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral U.K. nuclear disarmament |
| 10.2.1985 | 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana |
| 10.2.1985 | Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission |
| 10.2.1985 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 10.2.1985 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 10.2.1986 | """John Lennon: Live in New York City"" album is released" |
| 10.2.1987 | Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre |
| 10.2.1988 | 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) |
| 10.2.1988 | Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails |
| 10.2.1989 | Celtic Kansas City Jones and Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame |
| 10.2.1989 | Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV |
| 10.2.1989 | "Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St. Louis" |
| 10.2.1989 | Ron Brown chosen 1st black chairman of a major U.S. party (Democrats) |
| 10.2.1989 | "Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pak vs. NZ age 16 years 189 days" |
| 10.2.1989 | "To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition and not a sport, in a New Jersey court" |
| 10.2.1989 | Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff |
| 10.2.1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 10.2.1990 | "6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)" |
| 10.2.1990 | Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 10.2.1990 | Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water |
| 10.2.1990 | South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th |
| 10.2.1990 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| 10.2.1991 | 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte |
| 10.2.1991 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament |
| 10.2.1991 | Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54) |
| 10.2.1991 | """La Bete"" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 24 performances" |
| 10.2.1991 | Lithuania votes for independence from U.S.S.R. |
| 10.2.1991 | NBA All Star Game at Charlotte North Carolina |
| 10.2.1992 | Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA |
| 10.2.1992 | """Dangerous Women"" final episode on WWOR-TV" |
| 10.2.1992 | Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana |
| 10.2.1993 | Jani Sievinen swims world record 200m backstroke (1:55.59) |
| 10.2.1993 | """Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey"" airs on ABC and drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people" |
| 10.2.1993 | U.S. officially backs peace plan in Bosnia |
| 10.2.1995 | "Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA" |
| 10.2.1995 | Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12m) |
| 10.2.1995 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek |
| 10.2.1996 | IBM's Deep Blue defeats chess champ Gary Kasparov |
| 10.2.1997 | 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards |
| 10.2.1997 | 5th annual ESPY Awards presented |
| 10.2.1997 | Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU) |
| 10.2.1997 | Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991 |
| 10.2.1997 | O. J. Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages |
| 10.2.1997 | Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR |
| 10.2.1998 | AOL raises monthly flat rate internet access from $19.95 to $21.95 |
| 10.2.1998 | Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery |
| 11.2.385 | Oldest Pope elected; Siricius-bishop of Tarragona |
| 11.2.824 | St. Paschal I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 11.2.1531 | Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England |
| 11.2.1543 | Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army |
| 11.2.1543 | Karel/Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant |
| 11.2.1573 | "1st European, Francis Drake sees the Pacific (from Panama)" |
| 11.2.1575 | King Frederick of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe |
| 11.2.1638 | Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode |
| 11.2.1720 | Sweden and Prussia sign peace (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) |
| 11.2.1752 | "Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the U.S., opened" |
| 11.2.1766 | Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia |
| 11.2.1768 | "Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes" |
| 11.2.1790 | Society of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery |
| 11.2.1793 | Prussian troops occupy Venlo Neth |
| 11.2.1794 | 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public |
| 11.2.1808 | "Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa" |
| 11.2.1809 | Robert Fulton patents steamboat |
| 11.2.1810 | Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria |
| 11.2.1811 | President Madison prohibits trade with Britain for 3rd time in 4 years |
| 11.2.1812 | "Massachusetts Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill-1st ""gerrymander""" |
| 11.2.1814 | Norway's independence proclaimed |
| 11.2.1826 | London University founded |
| 11.2.1837 | American Physiological Society organizes in Boston |
| 11.2.1840 | "Gaetano Donizetti's Opera ""La Fille du Regiment,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 11.2.1843 | "Opera ""I Lombardi,"" premieres in Milan" |
| 11.2.1851 | "1st cricket 1st-class game in Australia, Tasmania vs. Vic, Launceston" |
| 11.2.1852 | 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London) |
| 11.2.1854 | Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time |
| 11.2.1858 | 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes France |
| 11.2.1861 | President-elect Lincoln takes train from Spingfield Illinois to Washington D.C. |
| 11.2.1861 | U.S. House unanimously passes resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state |
| 11.2.1873 | Spanish Cortes fires king Amadeus I |
| 11.2.1878 | "1st U.S. bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms" |
| 11.2.1878 | 1st weekly Weather report published in UK |
| 11.2.1889 | Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 |
| 11.2.1895 | "-17 degrees F (-27.2 degrees C) in Braemar, Grampian (UK record)" |
| 11.2.1895 | Georgetown became part of Washington D.C. |
| 11.2.1896 | "Oscar Wildes ""Salom"" premieres in Paris" |
| 11.2.1897 | "White Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, New York City" |
| 11.2.1898 | "Owen Smith of NC, AME Zion minister, named minister to Liberia" |
| 11.2.1899 | "-15 degrees F (-26 degrees C), Washington, D.C. (district record)" |
| 11.2.1899 | "-61 degrees F, Montana (record low temperature)" |
| 11.2.1902 | Police beats up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels |
| 11.2.1903 | Anton Bruckner's 9th Symfonie premieres in Vienna |
| 11.2.1905 | "James Blackstone, Seattle, bowls 299 -last pin breaks but stands" |
| 11.2.1905 | Pope Pius X publishes encyclical Vehementer nos |
| 11.2.1907 | De Master's Dutch government resigns |
| 11.2.1907 | "Passenger ship Larchmont sinks by Block Island, 322 die" |
| 11.2.1908 | Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory vs England |
| 11.2.1908 | Heemskerk's government begins in Holland |
| 11.2.1916 | Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert |
| 11.2.1916 | Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control |
| 11.2.1919 | "Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany" |
| 11.2.1921 | Ambassador Theater opens at 215 W 49th St. New York City |
| 11.2.1922 | """April Showers"" by Al Jolson hits #1" |
| 11.2.1922 | U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras |
| 11.2.1926 | Tokelau (Union) Islands in South Pacific transfers to NZ |
| 11.2.1927 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Beatrix Loughran |
| 11.2.1927 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles |
| 11.2.1928 | "2nd Winter Olympic games opens in St. Moritz, Switzerland" |
| 11.2.1929 | "Eugene O'Neill's ""Dynamo,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 11.2.1929 | "Vatican City, world's smallest country, made an enclave of Rome" |
| 11.2.1932 | 73 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in February |
| 11.2.1935 | "-11 degrees F (-24 degrees C), Ifrane, Morocco (African record low)" |
| 11.2.1935 | "1st U.S. airplane flight with auto slung beneath fuselage, New York" |
| 11.2.1936 | Pumping begins to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay |
| 11.2.1937 | 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends |
| 11.2.1938 | "Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston, to become wrestling champ" |
| 11.2.1941 | 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo) |
| 11.2.1941 | Lt-Gen Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli |
| 11.2.1941 | Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
| 11.2.1942 | """Archie"" comic book debuts" |
| 11.2.1943 | General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe |
| 11.2.1943 | Transport nr 47 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany |
| 11.2.1944 | U-424 sunk off Ireland |
| 11.2.1944 | German troops reconquer Aprilia Italy |
| 11.2.1945 | "1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California" |
| 11.2.1945 | "Yalta agreement signed by FDR, Churchill and Stalin" |
| 11.2.1948 | "Billy Griffith scores cricket century on debut Eng vs. WI, out for 140" |
| 11.2.1948 | John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland |
| 11.2.1948 | "Test Cricket debut of Frank Worrell, vs. England Port-of-Spain" |
| 11.2.1949 | Willie Pep recaptures world featherweight boxing title |
| 11.2.1950 | """Rag Mop"" by The Ames Brothers hit #1" |
| 11.2.1951 | Kwame Nkrumah wins 1st parliamentary election on Gold coast (Ghana) |
| 11.2.1953 | President Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Rosenberg couple |
| 11.2.1953 | Russia breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 11.2.1953 | """Hazel Flagg"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 190 performances" |
| 11.2.1953 | "J. Styne/B. Hilliard's musical ""Hazel Flagg,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 11.2.1954 | "6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor and Eve Arden wins" |
| 11.2.1957 | "KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.2.1957 | "NHL Players Association forms (New York City), Red Wings' Ted Lindsay elected president" |
| 11.2.1958 | "1st flight with black stewardess, Ruth Carol Taylor, Ithaca New York" |
| 11.2.1958 | Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Chu En-lai as Min of Foreign affairs |
| 11.2.1958 | "WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ABC) begins broadcasting" |
| 11.2.1959 | Vinoo Mankad ends his final Test Cricket (v WI at Delhi) |
| 11.2.1960 | Jack Paar walks off his TV show |
| 11.2.1961 | Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black |
| 11.2.1961 | Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem |
| 11.2.1962 | "Beatles record ""Please, Please Me""" |
| 11.2.1963 | Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
| 11.2.1963 | CIA Domestic Operations Division created |
| 11.2.1964 | Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum |
| 11.2.1964 | "Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus" |
| 11.2.1964 | Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France |
| 11.2.1965 | Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox |
| 11.2.1965 | Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee |
| 11.2.1966 | "San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year" |
| 11.2.1968 | Israeli-Jordan border fight |
| 11.2.1968 | "Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York" |
| 11.2.1968 | Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City) |
| 11.2.1969 | "Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah" |
| 11.2.1969 | "Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ" |
| 11.2.1970 | "26.37 cm (10.38"") of rainfall, Mt Washington, NH (state 24-hr rec)" |
| 11.2.1970 | "Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite, Osumi, in orbit" |
| 11.2.1970 | "John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland" |
| 11.2.1971 | Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal |
| 11.2.1971 | "U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons" |
| 11.2.1973 | 1st one-day international for Pakistan and NZ |
| 11.2.1973 | "1st sub 17-min 1,500m female free style swim (Shane Gould 16m56.9s)" |
| 11.2.1973 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Naples-Lely Golf Classic |
| 11.2.1973 | Philadelphia 76ers lose their 20th NBA game in a row |
| 11.2.1974 | "1st baseball arbitration Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins, Twins offered $23,000" |
| 11.2.1974 | Dick Woodson is 1st of 48 to invoke baseball's new arbitration rule |
| 11.2.1974 | Titan-Centaur Test launch fails |
| 11.2.1975 | Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership |
| 11.2.1976 | "Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army" |
| 11.2.1977 | 20.2-kg lobster caught off Nova Scotia (heaviest known crustacean) |
| 11.2.1978 | 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| 11.2.1978 | 25th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin |
| 11.2.1978 | "China lifts a ban on Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens" |
| 11.2.1978 | EOKA organization disbands in Cyprus |
| 11.2.1979 | "43 million watch ""Elvis!"" on ABC" |
| 11.2.1979 | Emmy News and Documentaries Award presentation |
| 11.2.1979 | "Iran's premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power" |
| 11.2.1979 | "Musical ""They're Playing Our Song,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 11.2.1979 | """They're Playing Our Song"" opens at Imperial New York City for 1082 performances" |
| 11.2.1981 | Australia all out 83 vs. India at MCG chasing 143 to win |
| 11.2.1981 | Polish premier Jozef Pinkowski replaced by Wojciech Jaruzelski |
| 11.2.1982 | Ozzie Smith for Garry Templeton trade finally goes through |
| 11.2.1983 | "4th largest snowfall in New York City history (18""(46 cm))" |
| 11.2.1983 | """Weird Al"" Yankovic records ""Ricky"" and ""Buckingham Blues"" debut LP" |
| 11.2.1984 | 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth |
| 11.2.1984 | Wayne Gretzky sets NHL short handed season scoring record at 11 |
| 11.2.1985 | Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord |
| 11.2.1985 | "Kent Hrbek signs 5-year, $6 million contract with Minnesota Twins" |
| 11.2.1985 | "Wasim Akram takes 10 wickets in his 2nd Test Cricket, NZ still wins" |
| 11.2.1986 | "Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by U.S.S.R., leaves country" |
| 11.2.1986 | Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 11.2.1986 | Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq |
| 11.2.1987 | British Airways begins trading stocks |
| 11.2.1987 | England beat Australia 2-0 to win the World Series Cup |
| 11.2.1987 | Philippines constitution goes into effect |
| 11.2.1987 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 11.2.1988 | Anthony M. Kennedy appointed to Supreme Court |
| 11.2.1989 | Barbara Clementine Harris consecrated 1st female bishop (Episcopalian) |
| 11.2.1989 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary |
| 11.2.1990 | 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami |
| 11.2.1990 | "James ""Buster"" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown" |
| 11.2.1990 | Nelson Mandela (political prisoner-27 years) freed in South Africa |
| 11.2.1990 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| 11.2.1991 | "UNPO, Unrepresented Nations and People Org forms in Hague Neth" |
| 11.2.1992 | F-16 jet crashes at residential district of Hengelo Netherlands (No deaths) |
| 11.2.1992 | Michael Johnson runs indoor world record 400m (44.97 sec) |
| 11.2.1993 | Howard Stern's radio show begins transmitting to Rochester New York (WRQI) |
| 11.2.1993 | Irina Privalova runs world record 60m indoor (6.92 secs) |
| 11.2.1993 | Janet Reno selected by Clinton as U.S. Attorney General |
| 11.2.1994 | "Lu Parker, (South Carolina), crowned 43rd Miss USA" |
| 11.2.1994 | "Space shuttle STS-60 (Discovery 18), lands" |
| 11.2.1995 | Danyon Loader swims world record 400m freestyle (340.46) |
| 11.2.1995 | Mark Foster swims world record 50m butterfly (23.55 sec) |
| 11.2.1995 | Sandra Volker swims European record 50m backstroke (27.67 sec) |
| 11.2.1995 | "Space shuttle STS-63 (Discovery 19), lands" |
| 11.2.1995 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge |
| 11.2.1995 | West Indies score 5-660 against New Zealand |
| 11.2.1996 | 46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio |
| 11.2.1997 | Bill Parcells becomes head coach of New York Jets |
| 11.2.1997 | STS 82 (Discovery 22) launches |
| 11.2.1998 | KVBC-FM (Las Vegas) offers Monica Lewinsky $5M for interview |
| 11.2.1998 | "Lyrics to ""Candle in the Wind 1997,"" auctioned for $442,500" |
| 12.2.1049 | Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX |
| 12.2.1111 | "German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome" |
| 12.2.1130 | Pope Innocent II elected |
| 12.2.1528 | Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power |
| 12.2.1541 | "Santiago, Chile founded (or Feb 24)" |
| 12.2.1577 | "Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs ""Eternal Edict""" |
| 12.2.1624 | English parliament comes together |
| 12.2.1709 | "Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"")" |
| 12.2.1733 | "Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah" |
| 12.2.1736 | Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I) |
| 12.2.1762 | English fleet occupies Martinique |
| 12.2.1763 | John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs |
| 12.2.1772 | "Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India" |
| 12.2.1793 | 1st U.S. fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves |
| 12.2.1797 | "Haydn's song ""Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 12.2.1818 | Chile gains independence from Spain |
| 12.2.1821 | Mercantile Library of City of New York opens |
| 12.2.1825 | "Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government and migrate west by Sept 1, 1826" |
| 12.2.1832 | Ecuador annexes Gal pagos Islands |
| 12.2.1839 | Aroostock War: Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick |
| 12.2.1840 | Housatonic Railroad opens |
| 12.2.1848 | "Ballet ""Faust"" premieres, Milan" |
| 12.2.1850 | "Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300" |
| 12.2.1861 | "State troops seize U.S. munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas" |
| 12.2.1865 | "Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in U.S. House of Reps" |
| 12.2.1870 | Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for U.S. silver coins to circulate in Canada |
| 12.2.1873 | Congress abolishes bimetallism and authorizes $1 and $3 gold coins |
| 12.2.1874 | "King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit U.S." |
| 12.2.1876 | Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop |
| 12.2.1877 | "1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Mass" |
| 12.2.1877 | U.S. railroad builders strike against wage reduction |
| 12.2.1878 | "Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)" |
| 12.2.1879 | "1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, New York City)" |
| 12.2.1879 | News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London |
| 12.2.1880 | National Croquet League organizes (Phila) |
| 12.2.1882 | Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam |
| 12.2.1885 | Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society |
| 12.2.1886 | 2nd British government of Salisbury forms |
| 12.2.1889 | "Cesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres" |
| 12.2.1889 | "Henrik Ibsens ""Fruen fra Haven,"" premieres in Oslo" |
| 12.2.1899 | "1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in U.S. begins, MSG, New York City" |
| 12.2.1899 | "-47 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)" |
| 12.2.1901 | Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed |
| 12.2.1906 | "George Cohans musical ""George Washington,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.2.1908 | "Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female" |
| 12.2.1908 | New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel |
| 12.2.1909 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms |
| 12.2.1909 | Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter and Wijnkoop) |
| 12.2.1909 | Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6) |
| 12.2.1912 | China adopts Gregorian calendar |
| 12.2.1912 | "Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates" |
| 12.2.1915 | Cornerstone laid for Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. |
| 12.2.1916 | "1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip ""Gumps""" |
| 12.2.1920 | NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission |
| 12.2.1921 | Soviet troops invade Georgia |
| 12.2.1921 | "Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies" |
| 12.2.1924 | "George Gershwin's ""Rhapsody In Blue"" premieres at Carnegie Hall (New York City)" |
| 12.2.1924 | "George Kaufman's ""Beggar on Horseback,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.2.1924 | President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech |
| 12.2.1925 | 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress |
| 12.2.1925 | E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo |
| 12.2.1925 | Estonia forbids communist Party |
| 12.2.1926 | Barendrecht soccer team forms |
| 12.2.1927 | British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai |
| 12.2.1929 | Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30) |
| 12.2.1932 | Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees |
| 12.2.1933 | German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis |
| 12.2.1934 | Export-Import Bank incorporates |
| 12.2.1934 | France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists |
| 12.2.1935 | "Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean" |
| 12.2.1937 | Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise |
| 12.2.1938 | Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden |
| 12.2.1938 | German troops entered Austria |
| 12.2.1941 | "Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen" |
| 12.2.1941 | "Occupation Police arrest ""Jewish Foursome""" |
| 12.2.1942 | 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
| 12.2.1943 | General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa |
| 12.2.1944 | Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race |
| 12.2.1945 | San Francisco selected for site of United Nations Conference |
| 12.2.1947 | Daytime fireball and meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia |
| 12.2.1947 | "Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands" |
| 12.2.1948 | 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps |
| 12.2.1949 | """Annie Get Your Gun"" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 1147 performances" |
| 12.2.1949 | "Panic in Quito Ecuador, after ""War of the World"" played on radio" |
| 12.2.1949 | Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey |
| 12.2.1949 | Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem |
| 12.2.1950 | Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb |
| 12.2.1950 | Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees |
| 12.2.1953 | U.S.S.R. breaks relations with Israel |
| 12.2.1955 | "McGuire Sisters' ""Sincerely"" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for 10 weeks" |
| 12.2.1955 | President Eisenhower sends 1st U.S. advisors to South Vietnam |
| 12.2.1955 | "Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan" |
| 12.2.1955 | "WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.2.1956 | Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open |
| 12.2.1957 | Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed |
| 12.2.1958 | Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101 |
| 12.2.1958 | General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala |
| 12.2.1960 | Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers |
| 12.2.1961 | Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125 |
| 12.2.1961 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 12.2.1961 | Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 years 82 days |
| 12.2.1961 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 toward Venus |
| 12.2.1962 | "Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia" |
| 12.2.1963 | Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
| 12.2.1964 | Beatles 1st New York City concert at Carnegie Hall |
| 12.2.1964 | End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career |
| 12.2.1964 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 12.2.1964 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
| 12.2.1965 | "KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 12.2.1965 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| 12.2.1967 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater |
| 12.2.1967 | "Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs" |
| 12.2.1970 | "Anthony Shaffers ""Sleuth,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 12.2.1971 | "Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Aust vs. England" |
| 12.2.1973 | 1st U.S. POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippine |
| 12.2.1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.2.1977 | Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0 |
| 12.2.1978 | Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| 12.2.1978 | """Jesus Christ Superstar"" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 96 performances" |
| 12.2.1978 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne |
| 12.2.1978 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner |
| 12.2.1979 | "Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched" |
| 12.2.1980 | """Canterbury Tales"" opens at Rialto Theater New York City for 16 performances" |
| 12.2.1980 | "New York Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs. Winnipeg Jets" |
| 12.2.1980 | Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117 |
| 12.2.1981 | "Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA" |
| 12.2.1981 | Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent |
| 12.2.1981 | Cape Verde amends its constitution |
| 12.2.1981 | "Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m" |
| 12.2.1982 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 12.2.1982 | "Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record" |
| 12.2.1984 | Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 12.2.1984 | "Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH" |
| 12.2.1984 | "Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean skate ""Bolero"" at Olympics" |
| 12.2.1984 | West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality and gold medal |
| 12.2.1985 | 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary |
| 12.2.1985 | West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup |
| 12.2.1986 | "1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is vs. Guyana" |
| 12.2.1987 | Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages |
| 12.2.1989 | 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston |
| 12.2.1989 | "5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting ""Satanic Verses"" novel" |
| 12.2.1989 | 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry |
| 12.2.1989 | Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church |
| 12.2.1989 | "Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season" |
| 12.2.1989 | "Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h" |
| 12.2.1989 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman |
| 12.2.1991 | Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence |
| 12.2.1991 | North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition |
| 12.2.1994 | "17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway" |
| 12.2.1994 | 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston |
| 12.2.1994 | "Edvard Munch's painting ""The Cry"" stolen (in Oslo)" |
| 12.2.1994 | Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m |
| 12.2.1994 | Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose |
| 12.2.1995 | 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix |
| 12.2.1995 | Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly |
| 12.2.1995 | Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec) |
| 12.2.1995 | Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51) |
| 12.2.1995 | Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec) |
| 12.2.1995 | Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15) |
| 12.2.1995 | PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections |
| 12.2.1995 | Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m) |
| 12.2.1995 | Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec) |
| 12.2.1997 | Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O. J. Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement |
| 12.2.1998 | "250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die and 50 hurt" |
| 12.2.1998 | Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach |
| 12.2.1998 | """Freak,"" opens at Cort Theater New York City" |
| 12.2.1998 | Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740 |
| 12.2.1998 | U.S. district judge T. Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional |
| 13.2.1130 | Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II |
| 13.2.1349 | Jews are expelled from Burgsordf Switzerland |
| 13.2.1510 | Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal |
| 13.2.1545 | Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange |
| 13.2.1566 | "St. Augustine, Florida founded" |
| 13.2.1601 | John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London |
| 13.2.1633 | Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun |
| 13.2.1635 | "Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded" |
| 13.2.1651 | Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo |
| 13.2.1668 | Treaty of Lisbon: Spain recognizes Portugal |
| 13.2.1678 | "Tycho Brahe 1st sketches ""Tychonic system"" of solar system" |
| 13.2.1689 | British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights |
| 13.2.1692 | MacDonald clan murdered on orders of King William III |
| 13.2.1693 | College of William and Mary opens |
| 13.2.1706 | Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen |
| 13.2.1741 | Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (American Magazine) |
| 13.2.1755 | Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java |
| 13.2.1777 | "de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress" |
| 13.2.1782 | French fleet occupies St. Christopher |
| 13.2.1786 | Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia |
| 13.2.1795 | "1st state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina" |
| 13.2.1799 | "1st U.S. law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts" |
| 13.2.1809 | "French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege" |
| 13.2.1816 | Teatro San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire |
| 13.2.1826 | "American Temperance Society, forms in Boston" |
| 13.2.1832 | 1st appearance of cholera at London |
| 13.2.1837 | Riot in New York over high price of flour |
| 13.2.1858 | "Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa" |
| 13.2.1860 | King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes |
| 13.2.1861 | 1st military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor |
| 13.2.1861 | Abraham Lincoln declared president |
| 13.2.1861 | Col Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua Indians |
| 13.2.1864 | "Miridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt, Mississippi" |
| 13.2.1866 | "Jesse James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, Missouri ($15,000)" |
| 13.2.1867 | "Johann Strauss' ""Blue Danube"" waltz premieres in Vienna" |
| 13.2.1886 | Painter Thomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class |
| 13.2.1895 | Moving picture projector patented |
| 13.2.1899 | "-1 degrees F (-18 degrees C) New Orleans, Louisiana" |
| 13.2.1899 | "-16 degrees F (-27 degrees C), Minden Louisiana (state record)" |
| 13.2.1899 | "-2 degrees F (-19 degrees C) Tallahassee, Florida (state record)" |
| 13.2.1905 | "-29 degrees F (-34 degrees C) Pond, Arkansas (state record)" |
| 13.2.1905 | "-40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Lebanon, Kansas (state record)" |
| 13.2.1905 | "-40 degrees F (-40 degrees C) Warsaw, Missouri (state record)" |
| 13.2.1907 | English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are arrested |
| 13.2.1912 | England regains cricket's Ashes |
| 13.2.1914 | "American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers-ASCAP forms in New York City" |
| 13.2.1920 | League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland |
| 13.2.1920 | National Negro Baseball League organizes |
| 13.2.1920 | Switzerland rejoin League of Nations |
| 13.2.1923 | "1st Black pro Basketball team, ""Renaissance,"" organizes" |
| 13.2.1924 | King Tut's tomb opened |
| 13.2.1925 | U.S. Congress makes Surpreme Court appeal more difficult |
| 13.2.1927 | Uprising against Portuguese regime of Gen Carmona defeated |
| 13.2.1929 | Cruiser Act: OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier |
| 13.2.1929 | "Vladimir Mayakofsky's ""Klop,"" premieres in Moscow" |
| 13.2.1932 | """Free Eats"" introduces George ""Spanky"" McFarland to ""Our Gang""" |
| 13.2.1934 | Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party |
| 13.2.1935 | "1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland" |
| 13.2.1935 | Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant |
| 13.2.1937 | "Bradman scores 123 SA vs. Queensland, 165 mins, 10-4s 1-6 in cricket" |
| 13.2.1937 | Maribel Vinson wins her 9th U.S. figure skating championship |
| 13.2.1937 | NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington D.C. |
| 13.2.1937 | """Prince Valiant"" comic strip appears; known for historical detail" |
| 13.2.1937 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 13.2.1937 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 13.2.1940 | Bradman scores 209* in 161 minutes for South Aust at the WACA |
| 13.2.1941 | Nazi leaders attack Dutch Jewish Council |
| 13.2.1942 | Hitler's Operation Seelowe (invasion of England) cancelled |
| 13.2.1943 | "German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, General Eisenhower visits front" |
| 13.2.1943 | Women's Marine Corps created |
| 13.2.1945 | "Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die" |
| 13.2.1945 | Gerbrandy British government refuses Dutch Jewish right to buy |
| 13.2.1945 | "U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die" |
| 13.2.1946 | """Duchess Misbehaves"" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 5 performances" |
| 13.2.1948 | Andy Ganteaume scores 112 for West Indies in only Test Cricket innings |
| 13.2.1948 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Lannoy and Baugniet of BEL |
| 13.2.1948 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Richard Button USA |
| 13.2.1948 | "Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England" |
| 13.2.1952 | Rocky Marciano defeated Lee Savold for his 39th straight win |
| 13.2.1953 | A's change name of Shibe Park to Connie Mack Stadium |
| 13.2.1954 | Frank Selvey scores 100 points for Furman beating Newberry 149-95 |
| 13.2.1955 | Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls |
| 13.2.1955 | "KRCG TV channel 13 in Jefferson City, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 13.2.1955 | Patty Berg wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 13.2.1956 | KYW-AM in Philadelphia Penn gives calls to WTAM (now WWWE) Cleveland |
| 13.2.1957 | Southern Christian Leadership Conference organizes in New Orleans |
| 13.2.1959 | Barbie doll goes on sale |
| 13.2.1959 | "Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns" |
| 13.2.1960 | """Beg, Borrow or Steal"" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 5 performances" |
| 13.2.1960 | France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria |
| 13.2.1960 | """Saratoga"" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 80 performances" |
| 13.2.1961 | Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records |
| 13.2.1961 | Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus |
| 13.2.1965 | "Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title" |
| 13.2.1965 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| 13.2.1965 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
| 13.2.1966 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| 13.2.1968 | "U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam" |
| 13.2.1969 | Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
| 13.2.1969 | Suriname government of Pengel resigns |
| 13.2.1970 | "Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New Delhi" |
| 13.2.1970 | NL offices begins move from Cin to San Francisco (completed Feb 23) |
| 13.2.1971 | "12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos" |
| 13.2.1971 | "Golfing VP Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd, injuring 2" |
| 13.2.1972 | "11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan" |
| 13.2.1972 | """1776"" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,217 performances" |
| 13.2.1972 | """Grease"" opens on Broadway" |
| 13.2.1973 | "Musical ""El Grande de Coca-Cola,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.2.1973 | U.S. dollar devalues 10 percent |
| 13.2.1974 | Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from U.S.S.R. |
| 13.2.1974 | "James ""Cool Papa"" Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame" |
| 13.2.1974 | """Rainbow Jones"" opens and closes at Music Box Theater New York City" |
| 13.2.1975 | Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation |
| 13.2.1976 | "Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold, Innsbruck, Austria" |
| 13.2.1976 | Peter Casserly of NZ hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes |
| 13.2.1977 | Eric Heiden is 1st American to win world speed skating championship |
| 13.2.1977 | """Guys and Dolls"" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 239 performances" |
| 13.2.1977 | """Ipi Tombi"" closes at Harkness Theater New York City after 39 performances" |
| 13.2.1977 | Pam Higgins wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic |
| 13.2.1977 | """Robber Bridegroom"" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 145 performances" |
| 13.2.1978 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 13.2.1979 | 2nd Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 13.2.1979 | Washington State's Hood Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm |
| 13.2.1980 | Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated |
| 13.2.1980 | NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin |
| 13.2.1981 | Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words |
| 13.2.1982 | "Dark Side of the Moon, is on charts for 402nd week" |
| 13.2.1982 | Islander's Bryan Trottier scores 5 goals against Flyers |
| 13.2.1983 | 33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA |
| 13.2.1983 | Australia beats NZ 2-0 to win World Series Cup |
| 13.2.1983 | Donna White wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 13.2.1983 | "E Bernstein, Levinson and Link's musical ""Merlin"" premieres in New York City" |
| 13.2.1983 | """Merlin"" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances" |
| 13.2.1983 | World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12 rounds |
| 13.2.1984 | 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant |
| 13.2.1984 | Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader |
| 13.2.1985 | Dow Jones closes at 1297.92 (record high) after topping 1300 earlier |
| 13.2.1985 | Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity leaders |
| 13.2.1987 | Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator |
| 13.2.1988 | "15th Winter Olympic games open at Calgary, Canada" |
| 13.2.1988 | Christine Wachtel runs world record 800m indoor (1:56:40) |
| 13.2.1988 | "European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1, 1992" |
| 13.2.1988 | Heike Dreschler long jumps world record indoor (7.37m) |
| 13.2.1988 | Ronald Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18:11.41) |
| 13.2.1989 | Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden Boeynants freed |
| 13.2.1989 | Oklahoma football player Charles Thompson is charged with selling cocaine; he is later sentenced to 2 years in prison |
| 13.2.1989 | "Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients" |
| 13.2.1990 | "50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa" |
| 13.2.1990 | Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
| 13.2.1990 | "U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify" |
| 13.2.1991 | Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel |
| 13.2.1991 | "U.S. bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334" |
| 13.2.1992 | Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW |
| 13.2.1992 | """Most Happy Fella"" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 229 performances" |
| 13.2.1992 | West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game |
| 13.2.1993 | Ljubow Kremljowa runs world record 1000m indoor (2:34:84) |
| 13.2.1993 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 200m indoor (21.87 sec) |
| 13.2.1993 | Sergei Bubka pole vaults indoor record (6.14 m) |
| 13.2.1994 | 44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis |
| 13.2.1994 | Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.9m |
| 13.2.1994 | "Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5000m 6:34,96" |
| 13.2.1994 | "Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200" |
| 13.2.1995 | "Howard Stern radio show premieres in San Diego, California on KIOZ 105.3 FM" |
| 13.2.1995 | "West Indies beat NZ by innings and 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55" |
| 13.2.1996 | "Howard Stern announces he will be making the film ""Private Parts""" |
| 13.2.1996 | "Rock musical ""Rent,"" by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway" |
| 13.2.1997 | Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope |
| 13.2.1997 | """Three Sisters,"" opens at Criterion Theater New York City" |
| 13.2.2000 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship |
| 13.2.2000 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship |
| 14.2.842 | Charles II and Louis the German sign treaty |
| 14.2.1014 | "Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor" |
| 14.2.1076 | Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV |
| 14.2.1130 | Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II |
| 14.2.1540 | "Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels" |
| 14.2.1556 | Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic |
| 14.2.1610 | "Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki" |
| 14.2.1613 | King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik |
| 14.2.1630 | Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil |
| 14.2.1670 | Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna |
| 14.2.1689 | English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne |
| 14.2.1711 | "Handels opera Rinaldo, premieres" |
| 14.2.1746 | Henry Pelham appointed English premier |
| 14.2.1766 | Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels |
| 14.2.1778 | """Stars and Stripes"" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)" |
| 14.2.1794 | "1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila" |
| 14.2.1803 | "Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Pennsylvania" |
| 14.2.1848 | James K. Polk became 1st President photographed in office by Matthew Brady |
| 14.2.1859 | Oregon admitted as 33rd state |
| 14.2.1862 | "Galena, 1st U.S. iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Connecticut" |
| 14.2.1867 | Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. issues 1st policy |
| 14.2.1867 | Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia) |
| 14.2.1872 | "1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)" |
| 14.2.1876 | A G Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor |
| 14.2.1879 | Chilean troops occupy Antofagasta |
| 14.2.1883 | 1st state labor union legislation; New Jersey legalizes unions |
| 14.2.1887 | "Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000" |
| 14.2.1889 | 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for east |
| 14.2.1890 | 1st NSW vs. South Australia 1st-class cricket game |
| 14.2.1894 | Venus is both a morning star and evening star |
| 14.2.1895 | "Oscar Wilde's ""Importance of Being Earnest,"" opens in London" |
| 14.2.1896 | "George Lohmann takes a hat-trick vs. South Africa, 8-7 for inning" |
| 14.2.1896 | South Africa all out for 30 vs. England - their lowest ever |
| 14.2.1896 | "Stanley Cup: Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0" |
| 14.2.1896 | "Theodor Herzl publishes ""Der Judenstaat""" |
| 14.2.1899 | U.S. Congress begins using voting machines |
| 14.2.1900 | "Date of events in movie ""Picnic at Hanging Rock""" |
| 14.2.1903 | U.S. Department of Commerce and Labor forms |
| 14.2.1907 | 1st U.S. fox hound association forms in New York City |
| 14.2.1912 | "1st U.S. submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Connecticut" |
| 14.2.1912 | Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state |
| 14.2.1914 | High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands |
| 14.2.1918 | "H Atteridge and S Rombergs musical ""Sinbad,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 14.2.1918 | U.S.S.R. adopts New Style (Gregorian) calendar (originally Feb 1) |
| 14.2.1919 | United Parcel Service forms |
| 14.2.1920 | League of Women Voters forms in Chicago |
| 14.2.1921 | Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized |
| 14.2.1921 | "Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing ""Ulysses,"" NY" |
| 14.2.1924 | IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson |
| 14.2.1925 | "State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed" |
| 14.2.1929 | "St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed" |
| 14.2.1931 | "Bradman scores 152 Aust vs. WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives" |
| 14.2.1931 | Spanish Government of General Damasco Berenguer falls |
| 14.2.1932 | South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings vs. Aust (Ironmonger 5-6) |
| 14.2.1934 | NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto |
| 14.2.1936 | National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago |
| 14.2.1936 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson |
| 14.2.1936 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee |
| 14.2.1939 | Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind |
| 14.2.1940 | British merchant vessel fleet is armed |
| 14.2.1941 | "1,000,000th vehicle traverses the New York Midtown Tunnel" |
| 14.2.1941 | "Carson McCuller's ""Reflections in a Golden Eye"" published" |
| 14.2.1941 | Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street |
| 14.2.1941 | "German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya" |
| 14.2.1942 | Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra |
| 14.2.1942 | Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens |
| 14.2.1943 | German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
| 14.2.1943 | Soviets recapture Rostov |
| 14.2.1944 | Anti-Japanese revolt on Java |
| 14.2.1944 | "Carl Wick publishes ""Salmon Trolling for Commercial and Sport Fishing" |
| 14.2.1945 | 8th Air Force bombs Dresden |
| 14.2.1945 | "Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Ecuador joins UN" |
| 14.2.1946 | Bank of England nationalized |
| 14.2.1949 | 1st session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel) |
| 14.2.1949 | "Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses" |
| 14.2.1950 | Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg |
| 14.2.1950 | U.S.S.R. and China sign peace treaty |
| 14.2.1951 | Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta and takes middleweight title |
| 14.2.1952 | "6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway" |
| 14.2.1952 | Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller |
| 14.2.1954 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 14.2.1954 | "Senator John Kennedy appears on ""Meet the Press""" |
| 14.2.1954 | "WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.2.1955 | "WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (NBC) begins" |
| 14.2.1956 | 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow |
| 14.2.1956 | Indonesia withdraws from Netherlands Indonesian Union |
| 14.2.1956 | Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate |
| 14.2.1957 | Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites |
| 14.2.1958 | Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan forms |
| 14.2.1959 | $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York City |
| 14.2.1960 | Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| 14.2.1960 | Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| 14.2.1961 | "Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley California" |
| 14.2.1961 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational |
| 14.2.1962 | 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV |
| 14.2.1963 | U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1 |
| 14.2.1966 | Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps |
| 14.2.1966 | "Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points" |
| 14.2.1966 | Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty |
| 14.2.1967 | "Aretha Franklin records ""Respect""" |
| 14.2.1967 | Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up |
| 14.2.1968 | Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central |
| 14.2.1968 | "WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting" |
| 14.2.1970 | """Gantry"" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 1 performance" |
| 14.2.1971 | "Movie ""Ben Hur"" 1st shown on television" |
| 14.2.1971 | Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House |
| 14.2.1972 | "John and Yoko co-host ""Mike Douglas Show"" for entire week" |
| 14.2.1972 | Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit and soft landing on Moon |
| 14.2.1975 | Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station |
| 14.2.1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 14.2.1978 | "1st ""micro on a chip"" patented by Texas Instruments" |
| 14.2.1978 | "In girls' High School basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St. George" |
| 14.2.1979 | """Whoopee!"" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 204 performances" |
| 14.2.1980 | "13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York" |
| 14.2.1980 | U.S. launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares |
| 14.2.1980 | """West Side Story"" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 341 performances" |
| 14.2.1982 | Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 14.2.1982 | """Night of 100 Stars"" takes place at New York's Radio City Music Hall" |
| 14.2.1984 | Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia |
| 14.2.1985 | Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut |
| 14.2.1987 | "53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit" |
| 14.2.1988 | 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player |
| 14.2.1988 | Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay |
| 14.2.1988 | Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500 |
| 14.2.1988 | General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden |
| 14.2.1988 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic |
| 14.2.1989 | African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam |
| 14.2.1989 | Boxer Mike Tyson divorces actress Robin Givens |
| 14.2.1989 | "Khomeini orders Moslems to murder ""Satanic Verses"" novelist Rushdie" |
| 14.2.1989 | Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in Dom Rep |
| 14.2.1989 | Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster |
| 14.2.1989 | World's 1st satellite Skyphone opens |
| 14.2.1990 | "Alan Ayckbourn's ""Man of the Moment,"" premieres in London" |
| 14.2.1990 | "Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some" |
| 14.2.1990 | Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system |
| 14.2.1991 | """Mule Bone"" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater New York City for 67 performances" |
| 14.2.1991 | NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration |
| 14.2.1992 | Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec) |
| 14.2.1992 | Cease fire in Somalia begins |
| 14.2.1992 | Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) |
| 14.2.1992 | Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec) |
| 14.2.1993 | "Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79" |
| 14.2.1994 | Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33) |
| 14.2.1994 | Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia (51) weds Deborah Koons |
| 14.2.1995 | Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas |
| 14.2.1995 | Wellington 2-498d and 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 and 2-476d |
| 15.2.399 | Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death |
| 15.2.732 | "Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line" |
| 15.2.1145 | Bernardo elected Pope Eugene III |
| 15.2.1313 | Peace of Angleur |
| 15.2.1386 | Duke Philip the Stout forms Council of Flanders |
| 15.2.1539 | Emperor Charles receives Cardinal Pole in Toledo |
| 15.2.1552 | Dutch coast hit by heavy storm |
| 15.2.1563 | Russian troops occupy Polotsk Lithuania |
| 15.2.1637 | Ferdinand III succeeds Ferdinand II as Holy Roman Emperor |
| 15.2.1677 | King Charles II reports anti-French covenant with Netherlands |
| 15.2.1686 | "Jean Baptiste Lully's opera ""Armide,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 15.2.1689 | German Parliament declares war on France |
| 15.2.1745 | "Colley Cibbers ""Papal Tyranny,"" premieres in London" |
| 15.2.1763 | "Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign Peace of Hubertusburg" |
| 15.2.1764 | St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue |
| 15.2.1768 | "1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia" |
| 15.2.1775 | Angelo Braschi chosen as Pope Pius VI |
| 15.2.1797 | Battle of Cape St. Vincent |
| 15.2.1799 | "1st U.S. printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania" |
| 15.2.1804 | New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery |
| 15.2.1842 | "1st adhesive postage stamps in U.S. (private delivery company), New York City" |
| 15.2.1845 | "William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72"" (183 cm) reflector" |
| 15.2.1848 | Sarah Roberts barred from white school in Boston |
| 15.2.1851 | Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescueing a fugitive slave |
| 15.2.1852 | "Great Ormond St. Hospital for Sick Children, London, admits 1st patient" |
| 15.2.1861 | Ft. Point completed and garrisoned (but has never fired cannon in anger) |
| 15.2.1862 | "Grant's major assault on Ft. Donelson, Tennessee" |
| 15.2.1864 | Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans |
| 15.2.1869 | Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped |
| 15.2.1870 | "Ground broken for Northern Pacific Railway near Duluth, Minn" |
| 15.2.1876 | Historic Elm at Boston blown down |
| 15.2.1879 | Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Court |
| 15.2.1882 | "1st cargo of frozen meat leaves NZ for Britain, on SS Dunedin" |
| 15.2.1882 | SS Dunedin leaves NZ with 1st frozen meat to England |
| 15.2.1895 | "23 cm (9"") of snow falls on New Orleans" |
| 15.2.1898 | "USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die" |
| 15.2.1900 | General French relieves Kimberley/Cecil Rhodes |
| 15.2.1902 | Underground railway (U-Bahn) |
| 15.2.1903 | "1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris and Rose Michtom" |
| 15.2.1905 | "1st race meet at Oaklawn Park (Hot Springs, Ark)" |
| 15.2.1906 | British Labour Party organizes |
| 15.2.1912 | "Fram reaches latitude 78 degrees 41' S, farthest south ever by ship" |
| 15.2.1913 | 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in New York City |
| 15.2.1916 | "New York Yankees buy Frank ""Home Run"" Baker from the Athletics for $37,500" |
| 15.2.1917 | SF Public Library (Main Branch at Civic center) dedicated |
| 15.2.1918 | "1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland" |
| 15.2.1918 | "Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania adopt Gregorian calendar" |
| 15.2.1919 | American Legion organizes in Paris |
| 15.2.1921 | "Arthur Mailey completes 9-121 vs. England, Australian Test Cricket rec" |
| 15.2.1922 | Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions from Essex |
| 15.2.1926 | Brooks Atkinson Theater opens at 256 W 47th St. New York City |
| 15.2.1926 | Contract air mail service begins in U.S. |
| 15.2.1929 | St. Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago) |
| 15.2.1930 | Weona beats Toluca in Illinois Basketball Tournament in 10 overtimes |
| 15.2.1931 | 1st Dracula movie released |
| 15.2.1931 | Spring training site of New York Yankees in St. Petersburg is renamed Miller Huggins Field in honor of the team's late manager |
| 15.2.1932 | "3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, New York" |
| 15.2.1932 | Aust beat South Africa in cricket by an inn in 5 hours 53 min playing time |
| 15.2.1932 | "George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on ""Guy Lombardo Show""" |
| 15.2.1932 | "John Van Druten's ""There's Always Juliet,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.2.1932 | U.S. bobsled team member Eddie Eagan becomes only athlete to win gold in both Summer and Winter Olympics (1920 boxing gold) |
| 15.2.1933 | Karl Radek praises invincible force of German Communist Party |
| 15.2.1933 | President-elect Franklin Roosevelt survives assassination attempt |
| 15.2.1933 | "Social-democratic newspaper ""Vorwarts"" banned again in Berlin" |
| 15.2.1936 | "-60 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Parshall, North Dakota (state record)" |
| 15.2.1936 | Hitler announce building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game) |
| 15.2.1936 | "Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold" |
| 15.2.1939 | German battleship Bismarck was launched |
| 15.2.1939 | "Lillian Hellman's ""Little Foxes,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.2.1941 | "Duke Ellington 1st records ""Take the A Train""" |
| 15.2.1942 | German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery |
| 15.2.1942 | "Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra" |
| 15.2.1942 | Singapore surrenders to Japanese |
| 15.2.1943 | Women's camp Tamtui on Ambon (Moluccas) hit by allied air raid |
| 15.2.1944 | 891 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 15.2.1944 | "Bombing and shooting at Monte Cassino convent Italy, begins" |
| 15.2.1946 | Bank of England nationalized |
| 15.2.1947 | """Toplitzky of Notre Dame"" closes at Century Theater New York City after 60 performances" |
| 15.2.1948 | Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan |
| 15.2.1949 | "Dmitri Shostakovitch' ""Song of the Woods,"" premieres in Leningrad" |
| 15.2.1950 | "KENS TV channel 5 in San Antonio, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.2.1950 | "Walt Disney's ""Cinderella"" released" |
| 15.2.1950 | "WM Inge's ""Come Back, Little Sheba,"" premieres in New York City" |
| 15.2.1950 | "WSYR (now WSTM) TV channel 3 in Syracuse, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.2.1954 | "1st bevatron in operation-Berkeley, California" |
| 15.2.1954 | "WRDW TV channel 12 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.2.1955 | 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced |
| 15.2.1956 | "Pirates and Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham Alabama, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white" |
| 15.2.1956 | Urho Kekkonen appointed president of Finland |
| 15.2.1957 | Andrei A Gromyko succeeds Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet foreign minister |
| 15.2.1958 | Ice Dance Championship at Paris won by June Markham/Courtney Jones GRB |
| 15.2.1958 | Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Barbara Wagner/Rob Paul of CAN |
| 15.2.1958 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by Carol Heiss of USA |
| 15.2.1958 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by David Jenkins USA |
| 15.2.1958 | Sjafroeddin Prawiranegara forms anti-government of Middle Sumatra |
| 15.2.1959 | Antonio Segni forms Italian government |
| 15.2.1959 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Tournament |
| 15.2.1961 | Australia beat WI 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever |
| 15.2.1961 | "Entire U.S. figure skating team of 18, dies in Belgian Sabena 707 crash" |
| 15.2.1962 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 15.2.1963 | 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
| 15.2.1963 | "Ken Lynch records ""Misery,"" 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else" |
| 15.2.1964 | "Beatles' ""Meet the Beatles!,"" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks" |
| 15.2.1964 | Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton |
| 15.2.1965 | John Lennon passes his driving test |
| 15.2.1965 | "Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada, replacing the Union Jack flag" |
| 15.2.1966 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 15.2.1967 | 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted |
| 15.2.1967 | D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber |
| 15.2.1967 | "Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23)" |
| 15.2.1968 | "Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver" |
| 15.2.1968 | "WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.2.1970 | Ard Schenk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| 15.2.1970 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| 15.2.1970 | "Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102" |
| 15.2.1970 | "KAMU TV channel 15 in College Station, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting" |
| 15.2.1970 | Nationalists disrupt United Nations session on Congo |
| 15.2.1971 | "After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal" |
| 15.2.1972 | Bill Torrey becomes 1st Islander General Manager |
| 15.2.1972 | Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes metropolitan of Imbros/Tenedos |
| 15.2.1972 | President Velasco Ibarra of Ecuador deposed for 4th time |
| 15.2.1973 | Friendsville Academy (Tenn) ends 138-game basketball losing streak |
| 15.2.1973 | "U.S.S.R. launches Prognoz 3 to study sun (589/200,300 km)" |
| 15.2.1976 | "12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria" |
| 15.2.1976 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic |
| 15.2.1977 | Social-democrats win Danish parliamentary election |
| 15.2.1978 | England all out 64 for 1st loss to NZ in cricket (Boycott capt) |
| 15.2.1978 | "Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola, Florida" |
| 15.2.1978 | Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 15.2.1978 | Zaire revises constitution |
| 15.2.1979 | "21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey wins" |
| 15.2.1979 | "Paul Shirley (21) of Australia, sucked a lifesaver for 4 hours 40 mins" |
| 15.2.1979 | Temple City Kazoo Orchestra appears on Mike Douglas Show |
| 15.2.1979 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 15.2.1980 | Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec |
| 15.2.1980 | Wayne Gretzy assists on NHL-record-tieing 7 goals |
| 15.2.1981 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
| 15.2.1981 | "Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George, New York" |
| 15.2.1982 | "Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), begins streak of 63 consecutive free throw" |
| 15.2.1982 | "Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die" |
| 15.2.1984 | "500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq" |
| 15.2.1985 | STS 51-E vehicle moves to launch pad |
| 15.2.1985 | "World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23" |
| 15.2.1986 | "44,180 largest NBA crowd to date - Philadelphia at Detroit" |
| 15.2.1986 | Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged Philippines presidential election |
| 15.2.1987 | "ABC-TV begins broadcasting ""Amerika"" mini-series" |
| 15.2.1987 | Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot |
| 15.2.1987 | "Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)" |
| 15.2.1987 | Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater |
| 15.2.1988 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 15.2.1989 | Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt |
| 15.2.1989 | Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan ends |
| 15.2.1990 | Baseball owners lock out players |
| 15.2.1991 | "Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die" |
| 15.2.1991 | Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
| 15.2.1992 | "100th episode of ""Cops"" airs on Fox" |
| 15.2.1992 | Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys |
| 15.2.1993 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester New York on WNVE 95.1 FM |
| 15.2.1994 | U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti |
| 15.2.1995 | "Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns" |
| 15.2.1995 | Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17 |
| 15.2.1995 | Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion |
| 15.2.1997 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski |
| 15.2.1997 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge |
| 15.2.1998 | Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women's Golf Championship |
| 15.2.1998 | Daytona 500 race |
| 16.2.374 | 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
| 16.2.600 | "Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying ""God bless You"" is the correct response to a sneeze" |
| 16.2.1486 | Diet of Frankfort |
| 16.2.1512 | Battle at Valeggio: French troops beat Venetianen |
| 16.2.1559 | Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy |
| 16.2.1641 | English king Charles I accept Triennial Act |
| 16.2.1655 | Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker |
| 16.2.1659 | 1st known check (400 pounds) (on display at Westminster Abbey) |
| 16.2.1666 | Netherlands and Brandenburg sign treaty |
| 16.2.1677 | Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower |
| 16.2.1741 | "Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, 2nd U.S. magazine begins publishing" |
| 16.2.1742 | Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier |
| 16.2.1751 | "1st publication of Gray's ""Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard""" |
| 16.2.1760 | Native American hostages killed in Ft. Prince George |
| 16.2.1771 | Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy |
| 16.2.1777 | Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice) |
| 16.2.1804 | "Lt. Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate ""Philadelphia"" after pirates seized it" |
| 16.2.1824 | Athenaeum founded |
| 16.2.1832 | "HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1 degrees N, 29 degrees W)" |
| 16.2.1838 | Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions |
| 16.2.1840 | "American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica" |
| 16.2.1846 | Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India |
| 16.2.1854 | "Franz Liszts symphony ""Orpheus,"" premieres" |
| 16.2.1857 | Gallaudet College (Natl Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington D.C.) |
| 16.2.1860 | Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns |
| 16.2.1862 | "Ft. Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)" |
| 16.2.1868 | Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms (New York) |
| 16.2.1878 | Silver dollar became U.S. legal tender |
| 16.2.1880 | American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (New York City) |
| 16.2.1883 | """Ladies Home Journal"" begins publishing" |
| 16.2.1887 | "1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York" |
| 16.2.1887 | Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5) |
| 16.2.1892 | "Opera ""Werther,"" premieres in Vienna" |
| 16.2.1894 | "British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast" |
| 16.2.1899 | Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (Eng vs. SA Johannesburg) |
| 16.2.1900 | 1st Chinese daily newspaper in U.S. publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po-SF) |
| 16.2.1900 | "Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1" |
| 16.2.1903 | "-59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam, Minnesota (state record)" |
| 16.2.1905 | 1st U.S. Esperanto club organizes in Boston |
| 16.2.1909 | 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City |
| 16.2.1909 | Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary |
| 16.2.1912 | VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| 16.2.1913 | President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico |
| 16.2.1914 | 1st airplane flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco |
| 16.2.1915 | "Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack. He sits out 1915 season" |
| 16.2.1916 | Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia |
| 16.2.1917 | 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid |
| 16.2.1918 | Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day) |
| 16.2.1923 | Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory |
| 16.2.1923 | Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen |
| 16.2.1923 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard |
| 16.2.1923 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger |
| 16.2.1926 | Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France |
| 16.2.1927 | "Noel Coward's ""Marquise,"" premieres in London" |
| 16.2.1927 | U.S. restores diplomatic relations with Turkey |
| 16.2.1929 | KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions |
| 16.2.1931 | Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes president of Finland |
| 16.2.1932 | "1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree" |
| 16.2.1933 | Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists |
| 16.2.1933 | "England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics" |
| 16.2.1936 | "4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany" |
| 16.2.1936 | Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections |
| 16.2.1937 | "DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers" |
| 16.2.1937 | "Jean Anouilh's ""Le Voyageur Sans Baggage,"" premieres in Paris" |
| 16.2.1938 | U.S. Federal Crop Insurance program authorized |
| 16.2.1940 | British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway |
| 16.2.1942 | German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery |
| 16.2.1943 | "-32 degrees F (-36 degrees C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record)" |
| 16.2.1943 | British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia |
| 16.2.1943 | Red army conquers Kharkov |
| 16.2.1943 | "Sign on Munich facade: ""Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!"" done by ""White Rose"" student group, caught on 2/18, |