904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar ofRussia
1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1728 - John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1732 - Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1781 - Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1788 - Australia Day
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1848 - Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1895 - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike
1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1906 - Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927 - 4th German govt of Marx forms
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1932 - Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
1933 - German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1942 - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943 - Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in centralItaly
1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre inPoland
1947 - Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1949 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1951 - "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1954 - Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1956 - F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
1957 - Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
1966 - Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1967 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1967 - WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nauru adopts constitution
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969 - Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Aust v W Indies
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
1972 - 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1974 - 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1523 - Sermon of Constanz: Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 - Sea battle of Reimerswaal - Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 - Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1595 - William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 - Fjodor Aleksejevitsj becomes czar of
1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1728 - John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London [NS=Feb 9]
1732 - Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1781 - Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1788 - Australia Day
1802 - John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1834 - Pres Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute
1839 - Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (NYC)
1848 - Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 - Henry Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate
1856 - Victoria Cross established to acknowledge bravery
1860 - American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 - Kansas becomes 34th state
1863 - Battle at Bear River, Washington: US army vs indians
1864 - Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872 - Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 - Custer Battlefield National Monument, Mont established
1886 - 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1895 - King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 - Emile Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 - Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 - American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1903 - Dutch railroad workers strike
1904 - 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1906 - Coen de King skates world record time: 32,370 km
1908 - Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912 - Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1913 - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1917 - English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919 - Secretary of state proclaims 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 - Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with KC Slide Co
1921 - Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1922 - Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923 - 1st flight of autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 - Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 - British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927 - 4th German govt of Marx forms
1929 - Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1932 - Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
1933 - German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 - 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1942 - 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
1942 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942 - Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943 - New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Jap sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943 - Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots," premieres in NYC
1944 - 285 German bombers attack London
1944 - USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central
1944 - World War II: About 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in
1947 - Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," premieres in NYC
1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 188 perfs
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1949 - Brit, Belgium, Lux, Neth, NZ & Switz recognize Israel
1951 - "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 56 performances
1951 - Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 - Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 - 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1954 - Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1955 - John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1956 - F Durrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame," premieres in Zurich
1957 - Graham Greene's "Potting Shed," premieres in NYC
1958 - Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 - Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 - Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 - Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 - Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 - Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 - NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
1964 - Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964 - Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 - "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances
1966 - Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide
1966 - Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1966 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1967 - "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 107 perfs
1967 - Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1967 - WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - Nauru adopts constitution
1969 - Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969 - Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Aust v W Indies
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, v England at Adelaide
1972 - 5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1974 - 27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1975 - "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975 - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1980 - Cleve Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982 - Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1985 - pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 - Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 - Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 - Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 - Orlando Arena opens
1989 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
1991 - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1993 - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995 - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995 - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1995 - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 - Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1996 - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale Fla
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 - Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainlandChina (from Guangzhou ) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei Beijing
1975 - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975 - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1976 - Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978 - Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1978 - Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 - 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills 2, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays"
1979 - Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 - Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 - Pres Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 - 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians
1980 - Cleve Cavaliers beat LA Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1981 - AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982 - Old Dominion ends La Tech's women's basketball rec 54-game win streak
1982 - Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 - "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 - 40th Golden Globes: Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 - 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 - Pres Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 - Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985 - Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th pt of season in game 39
1985 - pop stars in LA record "We Are The World"
1986 - 193.8 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 - Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987 - Lisa files for separation from husband NY Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 - William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 - Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 - Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 - Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 - United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36h54m15s
1989 - 77th Australian Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 - Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 - Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 - Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-pt loss since Oct 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 - L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 - Orlando Arena opens
1989 - USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1989 - Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use NY Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1990 - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 - "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 320 perfs
1991 - Nelson Mandela & Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet after 28 years
1993 - Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995 - Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 - Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995 - Superbowl XXIX: SF 49ers beat SD Chargers, 49-26 in Miami
1995 - Superbowl MVP: Steve Young, San Francisco, QB
1996 - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 - Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1996 - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - "Capeman," opens at Marquis Theater NYC
1998 - Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Ft Lauderdale Fla
1998 - Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 - Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 - Woman's Clinic in Birmingham Ala bombed, 1 killed
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from the mainland
