- 0565 Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
- 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican.
- 1521 Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms.
- 1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to the English against the French
- 1771 Spain agrees to cede Falkland Islands to Britain.
- 1771 Spain ceded the Falkland Islands to Britain.
- 1779 US - Claudius Smith, "Cowboy of the Ramapos," hangs
- 1813 Major General Henry Proctor leads 500 soldiers and militia, with Tecumseh's 800 Indians from Amherstburg, in a counterattack across the frozen Detroit River after his defeat 4 days earlier. He recaptures the River Raison post, and defeats 900 US troops led by Brig. Gen. James Winchester, capturing Winchester and 500 Americans
- 1824 Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1840 British colonists reach New Zealand.
- 1840 The first British colonists arrive at Port Nicholson, New Zealand.
- 1863 The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation of Russia.
- 1874 Liberal Alexander Mackenzie 1822-1892 defeats John A. Macdonald in the second Canadian general election, 138 seats to 67
- 1877 Arthur Tooth, an Anglican clergyman is taken into custody after being prosecuted for using ritualist practices
- 1878 Canada wins right to decide whether or not to be included in British trade treaties
- 1879 Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Isandlwana - Zulu troops defeat British troops.
- 1879 US - Chief Dull Knife makes last fight for freedom
- 1887 Visitor posting - First performance of "Ruddigore" at the Savoy Theatre - United Kingdom
- 1889 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC.
- 1890 The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
- 1899 Leaders of six Australian colonies meet in Melbourne to discuss a federation bill.
- 1901 Edward VII becomes King after his mother, Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, dies.
- 1901 Victoria, Queen of England, dies at age 82.
- 1905 Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 1905 In what is called the "Bloody Sunday" incident, Cossacks and Imperial Army troops in St Petersburg, Russia, massacre more than 100 peaceful protesters.
- 1906 SS Valencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
- 1906 US steamer Valencia wrecked on a reef off the coast of Vancouver Island; 126 passengers and crew die at sea;
- 1912 US - Bridge to Florida Keys opens
- 1917 World War I: President Woodrow Wilson calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
- 1919 Act Zluky was signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
- 1921 Visitor posting - Steven Killius is born..HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIG GUY!!!!! - USA
- 1922 Pope Benedict the 15th dies and is succeeded by Pius the 11th.
- 1924 Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister.
- 1927 UK hist First football broadcast by BBC
- 1928 Visitor posting - Edna May Wright was born in Philadelphia, Pa, USA
- 1931 Sir Isaac Isaacs sworn in as Australia's first Australian-born governor-general.
- 1932 Visitor posting - Dolores Horan born - USA
- 1938 Thornton Wilder's play, Our Town, debuts in Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1941 Visitor posting - Timothy Patrick Kenny was born - USA
- 1943 American and Australian troops took New Guinea in the first land victory over the Japanese in World War II.
- 1944 Allied forces begin their beach assault at Anzio, Italy, during WWII.
- 1944 American troops invaded Italy, landing at Anzio beach in a move to outflank German defensive positions.
- 1944 World War II: Allies begin Operation Shingle (an assault on Anzio, Italy).
- 1945 HMCS Trentonian (Corvette) torpedoed
- 1946 Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1946 Iran: Qazi Muhammad declares the independent people's Republic of Mahabad at the Chuwarchira Square in the kurdish city of Mahabad. He is the new president; Hadschi Baba Scheich is the prime minister.
- 1947 Hollywood station KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins broadcasting.
- 1947 KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1950 US - Preston Tucker, maker of the Tucker automobile was cleared of all fraud charges against him. But it was too little, too late. The Tucker automobile was history.
- 1951 The Canadian destroyer HMCS Huron is put under United Nations command for service off Korea
- 1952 The first Jet airliner, the de Havilland Comet, enters service for BOAC.
- 1953 Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible, opens on Broadway.
- 1957 Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1957 The New York City "Mad Bomber," George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and is charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
- 1962 The Organization of American States (OAS) suspends Cuba's membership.
- 1963 Elyse treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
- 1966 Visitor posting - Elmer Todd Brown was born - USA
- 1967 Visitor posting - Nikos Papavasilakis was born
- 1968 The TV sketch comedy Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In debuts on NBC.
- 1968 The comedy television show Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In premieres on the NBC network.
- 1970 The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first regularly scheduled commercial flight on a route from New York to London.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Patricia Daniels born - USA
- 1973 A chartered Boeing 707 exploded in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria killing 176.
- 1973 George Foreman breaks Joe Frazier's professional career undefeated heavyweight world boxing champion status.
- 1973 In the Roe vs. Wade decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy.
- 1973 The Supreme Court announces the famous Roe versus Wade decision, legalizing abortion (in the first six months of pregnancy) in the U.S.
- 1973 US President Lyndon Baines Johnson dies in Texas
- 1980 Andrei Sakharov is arrested in Moscow.
- 1983 Bjrn Borg retires from tennis after winning five consecutive Wimbledon championships.
- 1984 Passengers escape when the ferry Karrabee sinks at its moorings in Circular Quay after coming third in annual Sydney ferry race.
- 1984 The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous "1984" television commercial.
- 1985 A cold wave damaged 90 percent of the Florida citrus crop.
- 1987 Glen Tremml, 27, pedaled the ultralight aircraft Eagle over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for a human-powered flight record of 37.2 miles.
- 1987 Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a press conference on live national television, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
- 1988 In Northern Territory, Australia a 6.9 earthequake occured with damage in the Tennant Creek area. Felt over two-thirds of Australia.
- 1988 Two earthquakes, one registering 7.0 on the Richter scale, cause 20km fault near Tennant Creek, northern Australia.
- 1989 In Tajikistan a 5.3 earthquake occured, two hundred seventy-four people killed, many injured, extensive damage (VII) and mudslides in the Gissar area
- 1990 Graduate student Robert T. Morris is convicted in federal court for unleashing a malicious "worm" on a computer network.
- 1990 Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm. Birth of Louis-Charles Rgnier
- 1991 Iraq launched the third and bloodiest Scud missile attack against Israel, injuring 98 people. Three others died of heart attacks.
- 1991 The Canadian House of Commons votes 217-47 to endorse UN resolution on military action against Iraq
- 1992 Boeing sells 51% of financially-troubled de Havilland Aircraft to Montreal-based Bombardier, with the province of Ontario acquiring the remaining shares
- 1992 Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Hannah K Anderson was born - she was voted most school spirit in 2009 - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Jennifer Aman is born. - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - the love of my life max lord was born
- 1994 Canadian rocker Bryan Adams, with guests Rod Stewart and Sting, has a #1 Billboard hit with the single, All For Love
- 1994 Twenty-one firefighters die after they are trapped in a brush fire in southern Argentina;
- 1995 Rose Kennedy dies at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at age 104.
- 1995 Twenty-one Israelis are killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing in central Israel.
- 1995 Two Palestinians killed 18 Israeli soldiers, a civilian and themselves in a bombing outside a military camp in central Israel.
- 1996 Costas Simitis was chosen to be the new prime minister of Greece. His predecessor, Andreas Papandreou, had stepped down due to ill health.
- 1996 The Galileo probe plunges into Jupiter's atmosphere and finds it windier and drier than expected, with less helium and less lightning.
- 1997 A weekend freeze cost Florida farmers at least 100 million dollars in crop losses. Winter vegetables in south Dade County and southwest Florida were hardest hit when temperatures dropped as much as 20 degrees in four hours Saturday night
- 1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first female secretary of state after confirmation by the United States Senate.
- 1997 The Senate confirms President Clinton's nomination of Madeleine Albright, making her the first female secretary of state in U.S. history.
- 1998 Accused bomber Ted Kaczynski pleaded guilty to all counts against him in California and New Jersey. He was sentenced to life in prison on May 4.
- 1999 Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 2002 AOL Time Warner brings a federal suit against Microsoft alleging that the market for AOL's Netscape Navigator Internet browser was harmed when Microsoft started to give away a competing browser.
- 2002 Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in American history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2003 Last successful contact with the spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects.
- 2003 Snowboard pioneer Craig Kelly died in a British Columbia avalanche.
- 2003 The Netherlands vote for a new parliament after the previous had only been into power for 86 days.
- 2003 The Senate approved the nomination of former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge to be the first secretary of home security by a 94-0 vote.
- 2004 Allegations that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had accepted bribes damaged his credibility, a new poll showed. But, Sharon brushed aside the allegations and a source said no indictment was expected.
- 2006 Aníbal Cavaco Silva is elected president of Portugal.
- 2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president.
- 2006 Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant scores 81 points, the second highest by one individual in NBA history, against the Toronto Raptors.
- 2007 A bombing in a market in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 88 people and injures 160 others.
- 2007 The jury portion of the trial against Robert Pickton, accused of being Canada's worst serial killer, opens in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
- 2008 Jewish Holiday - Tu B'Shevat - Work permitted
- 2010 Visitor posting - Simon Yoon-Sama's birthday!!!! everybody celebrate it !!!! NOW!!!! - Korea (South)
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