0837 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1557 1st Russian Embassy opens in London
1929 Russia & US sign trade agreement
1594 Henri IV crowned King of France
1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I
1678 Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower
1700 Pacific island of New Britain discovered
1801 Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction
1803 Great fire in Bombay, India
1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted
1929 Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail
1814 Ludwig von Beethoven's 8th Symphony in F, premieres
1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans LA
1854 Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine
1864 Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"
1929 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)
1869 John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress
1872 Charlotte Ray, 1st Black woman lawyer, graduated Harvard U
1874 Baseball 1st played in England, at Lord's Cricket Grounds
1877 Electoral College declares R. B. Hayes winner in Presidential election
1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener)
1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine
1900 Conference in London calls for creation of a British Labor Party
1901 NL Rules Committee states that fouls count as strikes except after 2 strikes
1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma
1919 American Association for the Hard of Hearing formed (New York NY)
1922 Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote
1929 Commerce Sec. Herbert Hoover convenes 1st National Radio Conference
1925 Hitler resurrects NSDAP political party in Munich
1927 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in So. Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath
1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
1933 German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire
1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes
1929 Belgian government of Pierlot falls
1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1929 J S Hey discovers radio emissions from the Sun
1929 1st transport of French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1946 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres in NYC
1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President
1950 General Chiang Kai-Shek elected President of Nationalist China
1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting President to 2 terms
1956 Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"
1929 Female suffrage in Egypt
1959 Celtic Bob Cousy sets NBA rec. with 28 assists (team scores 173 pts)
1929 Chicago Cards trade RB Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam to Ruhrgebied opens
1929 US Olympics Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed
1963 Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
1966 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US
1967 Antigua & St Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK
1929 Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne"
1969 President Nixon visits West-Berlin
1970 New York Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance
1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota
1929 Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-year contract with White Sox
1974 "People" magazine begins sales
1929 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Final meeting between Mao tse Tung & Richard Nixon
1977 Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota
1981 Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
1929 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"
1982 Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw
1929 Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
1929 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA
1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 meters)
1985 Farmers converge in Washington to demand economic relief
1987 Donald Regan resigned as White House chief of staff
1929 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for rule violations
1929 "Washington Week In Review," 20th anniversary on PBS
1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympics 500 meter speed skating in record 39.1
1929 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympics figure skating Gold
1929 Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36 08 34
1990 Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)
1991 Singer James Brown is released from prison
1929 Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreat & Kuwait is liberated
1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years
1994 17th Olympics Winter games close in Lillehammer, Norway
1997 Singer Sade, arrested in Jamaica for disobeying a cop
1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer
1929 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati
1929 NFL RB David Meggett arrested in Toronto on sex assault charges