- 378 Teotihuacan General Siyaj K'ak', conquers the important Mayan city Tikal and deposes its ruler
- 1129 Formal approval of the Order of Templars at the Council of Troyes
- 1343 Arnošt of Pardubice becomes the first Archbishop of Prague (and the last bishop of Prague)
Martin Luther Enters University
1501 Martin Luther enters the University of Erfurt, aged 17
Treaty of Madrid
1526 Charles V and Francis I sign the Treaty of Madrid, forcing Francis to renounce his claims to Burgundy, Italy, and Flanders
- 1601 Church authorities in Rome burn Hebrew books
- 1639 1st Connecticut constitution (Fundamental Orders) adopted in Hartford, published by Rodger Ludlow
- 1641 Dutch East India Company conquers the city of Malacca, killing about 7,000 people
- 1659 Battle of the Lines of Elvas: Portuguese forces defeat Spanish forces during the Portuguese Restoration War
- 1665 Portuguese trading port of Bombay is officially transferred to English control, as part of the dowry of Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza
- 1690 The musical instrument, the clarinet, is invented in Nuremberg, Germany
- 1699 Massachusetts holds a day of fasting for wrongly persecuted "witches"
- 1717 German mob leader and thief "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
- 1724 Spanish King Philip V abdicates the throne in favor of his 17-year-old son Louis I; he returns to rule in September after Louis dies of smallpox
- 1739 Britain and Spain sign 2nd Convention of Pardo - seeks to establish boundary between Georgia and Florida
1761 Third Battle of Panipat: In one of the largest battles of the 18th century, the mostly Muslim Afghan Durrani Empire defeats the mostly Hindu Maratha Empire in northern India. An estimated 60,000 to 70,000 people are killed in the fighting, and about 40,000 Maratha prisoners are massacred afterward.
- 1784 US Congress of the Confederation ratifies the Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War, and forwards it to the British government
Mozart's "Dissonance Quartet"
1785 Wolfgang Mozart completes his String Quartet No. 19 in C ("Dissonance quartet"), the last of six quartet set dedicated to Joseph Haydn (Op. 10/6, K. 465)
- 1794 Dr. Jesse Bennett performs the first successful cesarean section in the United States on his wife, Elizabeth, delivering a baby girl at their home in Edom, Virginia
Whitney's Muskets
1799 American inventor Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets
- 1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
- 1813 Gideon Hawley becomes the first state school superintendent in the United States (New York)
- 1814 Treaty of Kiel: King Frederick VI of Denmark cedes the Kingdom of Norway to King Charles XIII of Sweden
- 1822 Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrius Ypsilanti
Assassination Attempt on Napoleon III
1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who is later executed
- 1863 Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
- 1864 Skirmish at Cosby Creek, Tennessee - General Robert B. Vance captured
- 1868 North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh
- 1868 South Carolina constitutional convention meets with a black majority
- 1873 Prominent African American Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback elected to US Senate (though never seated due to state elections controversy)
- 1874 I. D. Shadd elected Speaker of lower house of Mississippi legislature
- 1878 US Supreme Court rules racial segregation on trains unconstitutional [1]
British Heir to the Throne Passes Away
1892 British Prince Albert Victor, oldest son of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) dies during a pandemic, his brother eventually becomes George V
- 1897 Cerro Aconcagua mountain in Argentina, 6,960 m (22,834 ft), is first climbed by a European expedition led by British mountaineer Edward FitzGerald
- 1898 Australian cricketer Joe Darling hits the first six in Test cricket (out of the ground)
Tosca
1900 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca", with a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, premieres at Teatro Costanzi in Rome, Italy
- 1907 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills more than 1,000
- 1908 Roger Hartigan scores century on Test debut v England in Adelaide (116)
Amundsen Ross Ice Shelf
1911 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition lands on the Ross Ice Shelf
Gandhi-Smuts Agreement
1914 The Gandhi-Smuts Agreement is reached between General Jan Smuts and Indian civil rights leader M.K. Gandhi, regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters in South Africa
- 1916 Dutch Zuiderzee dyke cracks
- 1918 Finland and USSR adopt New Style (Gregorian) calendar
- 1919 John McGraw, Charles A. Stoneham and Francis Xavier McQuade buy NY Giants
- 1927 Toronto Maple Leafs 1st hat trick (Hap Day) vs NY Rangers
- 1929 Afghan King Amanullah forced to resign
- 1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets) in US is installed Hialeah Park Race Track in Hialeah, Florida
Jockey Arcaro Wins 1st Race
1932 Racing Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Arcaro wins his 1st race at Agua Caliente racetrack in Tijuana, Mexico - aged 16 years
- 1935 Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline goes into use
- 1938 National Society for Legalization of Euthanasia forms (NY)
- 1939 All commercial ferry services between San Francisco and East Bay end
- 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
- 1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
- 1943 Montreal Canadiens' left wing Alex Smart becomes the first NHL rookie to score a hat trick in his first NHL game, a 5-1 win at home over the Chicago Black Hawks
1943 World War II: Casablanca Conference begins between Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and other Allied representatives
- 1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, withdrawal of its troops from Guadalcanal
- 1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow
- 1945 In Greece, Communists and the British agree to a cease-fire in the struggle to control Athens (and with it Greece)
- 1946 1946 NFL Draft: Frank Dancewicz from University of Notre Dame first pick by Boston Yanks
- 1946 2 jetties collapse in Ganges, crushing 160 Hindu pilgrims
- 1949 Black and Indian race rebellion in Durban, South Africa; 142 die
- 1950 US recalls all consular officials from China
- 1952 "Today Show" premieres with Dave Garroway & Jack Lescoulie on NBC-TV
- 1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
- 1952 Snowstorm in Sierra Nevada kills 26
- 1953 Vaughan William's "Sinfonia Antartica" premieres in Manchester
- 1953 WALA TV channel 10 in Mobile, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
Tito Elected
1953 Yugoslavia elects its first president, Marshal Tito
- 1954 Sandy Wilson's musical "The Boy Friend" opens at Wyndham's Theatre, in London's West End
- 1955 Heitor Villa-Lobos' 8th Symphony premieres by the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by the composer, in Carnegie Hall, New York City
- 1956 Jordan government refuses to join Pact of Baghdad
- 1957 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher)
- 1960 The Reserve Bank of Australia is established
- 1960 Tuindorp-Oostzaan in Northern Amsterdam, flooded
- 1961 Chicago Bear Willard Dewveall becomes 1st NFLer to join AFL
The Bell Jar
1963 "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath is published by Heinemann in the UK, the author commits suicide a month later
Segregation Now
1963 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!"
- 1964 Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 v England, 21 maiden overs in a row
Can't Help Thinking About Me
1966 David Bowie releases his 1st single "Can't Help Thinking About Me"
- 1967 20,000 attend Human Be-In, San Francisco
- 1967 Earthquake in Sicily kills 231
- 1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments
Beat Goes On
1967 Sonny & Cher release single "The Beat Goes On"
1968 Super Bowl II, Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, FL: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14; MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
- 1969 25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
- 1969 Matt Busby retires from Manchester United
- 1969 Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later
- 1970 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers patrol the Falls Road area of Belfast for the first time since 1969
- 1971 Cricketer John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs
- 1972 "Sanford & Son" starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson premieres on NBC TV
Margrethe II of Denmark
1972 Margrethe II of Denmark becomes the first Queen of Denmark since 1412
- 1972 WMAH TV channel 19 in Biloxi, Mississippi (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 WMAU TV channel 17 in Bude, Mississippi (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1972 WMAW TV channel 14 in Meridian, Mississippi (PBS) begins broadcasting
Aloha from Hawaii
1973 "Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite," an Elvis Presley concert broadcast live to Asia and Oceania and on delay to Europe and the US, becomes the most-watched broadcast by an individual entertainer
- 1973 2 Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are killed in Derry, Northern Ireland by a booby-trap bomb attached to their car by the Irish Republican Army
- 1973 Dancer Roy Castle is measured at 1,440 taps/min on BBC TV
- 1973 Grateful Dead bass player Phil Lesh busted on drug possession charges at his Marin County, California home
- 1973 Super Bowl VII, LA Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA: Miami Dolphins beat Washington Redskins, 14-7; MVP: Jake Scott, Miami, S
- 1974 World Football League is founded
- 1975 17-year-old Lesley Whittle is kidnapped in Shropshire, England
- 1975 Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
- 1975 USSR breaks trade agreement with US
- 1976 "The Bionic Woman" with Lindsay Wagner debuts on ABC (later NBC)
- 1977 "Fantasy Island" starring Ricardo Montalbán and Hervé Villechaize premieres on ABC TV
- 1977 RCA releases David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low"; the album is the first collaboration with Brian Eno, in what becomes known as his 'Berlin trilogy'
1978 British punk rock band Sex Pistols hold what becomes their final concert at Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco, California
Benitez vs. Palomino
1979 Puerto Rican boxer Wilfred Benitez beats WBC welterweight champion Carlos Palomino of Mexico in a 15-round split decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico; becomes two-division champion at the age of 20
- 1981 US Federal Communications Commission frees stations to air as many commercials an hour as they wish
Holiday
1984 Madonna debuts her single "Holiday" on American Bandstand televiison program
Mancini vs. Chacon
1984 Ray Mancini scores a 3rd-round TKO of Bobby Chacon to retain his WBA lightweight title in Reno, Nevada; Chacon so severely battered he thanks referee Richard Steele for stopping the fight
- 1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to Central American refugees
- 1985 British pound sinks to record low $US1.11
- 1986 Constitution of Guatemala takes effect
- 1986 Vinicio Cerezo becomes only the second freely elected President of Guatemala since CIA-sponsored coup in 1954
- 1987 Pitcher Jim "Catfish" Hunter and outfielder Billy Williams are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
"Satanic Verses" Burnt
1989 1,000 muslims burn Salman Rushdies' "Satanic Verses" in Bradford, England
- 1989 29-year-old French woman Marie Claude Adam gives birth to sextuplets in Paris
- 1989 Former Belgian premier Paul Vanden Boeynants kidnapped
No Hope for Gulf Peace
1990 Un Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
- 1991 "Barbara DeAngelis Show" premieres on CBS-TV
- 1991 Jorge Serrano Elias sworn in as President of Guatemala
- 1991 Tyne Daly arrested for drunk driving in Van Nuys, California
- 1991 Valentin Pavlov become new premier of USSR
- 1993 Polish ferry boat capsizes in storm, 50 die
Eaton's Record Career Blocks
1993 Utah Jazz center Mark Eaton blocks 2 shots in a 96-89 win over Seattle SuperSonics; becomes only 2nd player in NBA history (along with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) to record 3,000 career blocks
- 1994 Inna Lassovskaya triple-jumps ladies world record (14.61m)
- 1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
- 1994 The Duchess of Kent converts to Catholicism, the first member of the Royal Family to do so in more than 300 years
- 1995 10,000 South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo
US Aid for Mexico
1995 Mexico pledges profits from state-owned Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an effort to secure US congressional approval of loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
Pazienza vs. Durán
1995 Vinny Pazienza beats Panamanian boxing legend Roberto Durán in a 12-round unanimous decision in a super middleweight bout in Atlantic City; 2nd time in 6 months Pazienza wears down 43-year-old Duran in a high profile pay-pay-view bout
- 1998 100th episode of "Ellen" airs
- 1998 Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis)
- 1999 Mel Lastman, Mayor of Toronto, calls in the Army to help with snow removal and emergency medical evacuations after major snowstorm hits the city
- 2000 A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
Love Don't Cost A Thing
2001 Jennifer Lopez scores her first UK No.1 single with 'Love Don't Cost A Thing'
- 2002 UK declared free of foot-and-mouth cattle disease
- 2004 The national flag of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag" restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years
- 2005 Landing of the Huygens probe on Saturn's moon Titan
Hero of the Nation Marina Popovich
2007 Legendary Russian test pilot Marina Popovich is awarded the honorary title "The Hero of the Nation" by the Russian Federation
- 2008 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Mercury flyby
- 2010 Yemen declares war on al-Qaeda
- 2011 Stampede near Sabarimala in Kerala, India kills 104 devotees and injures 100 more
- 2011 Tunisian President Ben Ali flees to Saudi Arabia after popular protests known as the Jasmine Revolution
- 2012 Ma Ying-jeou wins re-election as President of the Republic of China with 51% of the vote
- 2012 Suicide bomber kills 53 and injures 130 in Basra, Iraq
- 2014 American journalist David Satter is expelled from Russia
The River & The Thread
2014 Blue Note Records releases singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash's critically acclaimed thirteenth album "The River & The Thread"; produced by her husband John Leventhal, it wins 3 Grammy Awards
High Hopes
2014 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen's 18th studio album "High Hopes", produced with members of the E Street Band, including the deceased Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons
- 2015 63 people are killed and 70,000 are left homeless after floods devastate Mozambique and Malawi
- 2016 Sixth republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in North Charleston, South Carolina
- 2019 Americans chance of dying from an accidental opioid overdose higher than a car accident for the first time, according to US National Safety Council
- 2019 China posts shock drop in trade figures with a 4.4% fall in exports for December and a 7.6% fall in imports
- 2019 Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk, Poland, stabbed on stage at charity event. Dies two days later.
- 2019 Spinning disk of ice 300m wide, resembling the moon, forms in the Presumpscot river, Westbrook, Maine
Trumps' Russian Agent Denial
2019 US President Donald Trump denies he is a Russian agent after NY Times article states the FBI started an investigation and the Washington Post raised issues over a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
- 2019 US Republican leaders strip Congressman Steve King from House committees after series of racist comments
- 2020 Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora is fired amid Major League Baseball's investigation into sign-stealing by the Houston Astros; Cora was the Astros' bench coach before moving to Boston
Jeopardy's "Greatest of All Time"
2020 US game show Jeopardy "greatest of all time" tournament won by Ken Jennings
- 2021 Brazilian governor of Amazonas state Wilson Lima says their COVID-19 surge is now as bad as April 2020, with hospitals running out of oxygen and patients ventilated manually
- 2021 Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder charged and pleads not guilty to two counts of willful neglect of duty over the Flint water scandal that killed 12 people
Uganda's Museveni Re-elected
2021 Uganda elections re-elect President Museveni (in power since 1986), with main opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine disputing the result
Secret Service to Control Inauguration
2021 US Secret Service takes control of Joe Biden's inauguration as 20,000 troops authorized to guard Washington D.C., more than those stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Somalia
- 2023 Brock Purdy wins his first playoff game as a rookie quarterback against the Seattle Seahawks
- 2024 Dan Campbell leads the Detroit Lions to their first playoff win since 1991, defeating the Los Angeles Rams
- 2024 Frederik X becomes King of Denmark at Christiansborg Castle, Copenhagen, after the abdication of his mother Margrethe at 83, and the world's last reigning queen [1]
- 2025 US Justice Department releases special counsel Jack Smith's final report on former and future president Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election; Trump responds on social media calling Smith "deranged" and "a lamebrain"
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