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What happened in history on this day: February 12?
On February 12 in ...
- 1049 - Bruno count of Egesheim and Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX.
- 1111 - German King Hendry V arrives at Saint Peter, Rome.
- 1128 - Toghtekin slave/atabek of Damascus, dies.
- 1130 - Pope Innocent II elected.
- 1211 - Birth of Henry VII Roman catholic German king (1220-35).
- 1242 - Hendrik VII Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide.
- 1438 - Birth of Adolf van Egmond duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen.
- 1474 - Birth of Lorenzo Campeggi(o) archbishop of Bologna/diplomat.
- 1502 - Granada Muslims forced to convert to Catholicism.
- 1528 - Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor and ecclesiastical power.
- 1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer German painter, dies at about age 57.
- 1542 - Death of Catherine Howard at about age 17 by beheading; Queen of England, 5th wife of Henry VIII.
- 1554 - Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded in public. Lady Jane Grey is executed by beheading in private in the Tower of London.
- 1567 - Birth of Thomas Campion England, composer/poet/physician.
- 1577 - Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict".
- 1584 - Birth of Casparus Barleaus Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring).
- 1585 - Birth of Caspar Bartholin Malmö, physician, theologian, writer on anatomy.
- 1588 - Birth of John Winthrop English attorney/puritan/first Governor of Massachusetts.
- 1590 - François Hotman/Hotomanus French lawyer/diplomat, dies at age 65.
- 1616 - John Drusius of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at age 65.
- 1624 - English parliament comes together.
- 1636 - Birth of Herman Witsius [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist.
- 1637 - Birth of John Swammerdam Dutch anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature).
- 1663 - Birth of Dr Cotton Mather witchcraft authority.
- 1665 - Birth of Rudolph J Camerarius German botanist/physician (sexuality plant).
- 1684 - Pietro Andrea Ziani composer, dies at age 67.
- 1733 - Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah.
- 1736 - Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor François I).
- 1761 - Death of Richard "Beau" Nash, master of ceremonies of Bath resort in England, at age 86.
- 1762 - English fleet occupies Martinique.
- 1763 - John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs.
- 1768 - Birth of Francis II Florence Italy, last Holy Roman emperor (1792-1806).
- 1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden dies. His son Prince Gustav becomes King Gustav III.
- 1772 - Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India.
- 1775 - Birth of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams wife of John Quincy Adams.
- 1791 - Birth of Jan D Zocher Junior; Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark Amsterdam).
- 1791 - Birth of Peter Cooper; industrialist/philanthropist (Cooper Union), first US presidential candidate of the Greenback Party.
- 1793 - First US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves.
- 1795 - Boston merchant Moses Brown makes first deposit of gold at Philadelphia Mint, $2275.22.
- 1804 - Death of Immanuel Kant at age 79 in Königsberg, Prussia; German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden).
- 1809 - Birth of Abraham Lincoln in Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA; (Republican) 16th President (1861-65) (dies 1865).
- 1809 - Birth of Charles Darwin in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; postulated theory of evolution (On the Origin of the Species By Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life).
- 1818 - Birth of Otto Ludwig; German writer (Die Heiterethei).
- 1818 - Chile gains independence from Spain.
- 1824 - Birth of Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati; Indian Hindu leader.
- 1825 - Creek Indian treaty signed with USA; tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the US government and migrate west by September 1, 1826.
- 1828 - Birth of George Meredith in England; poet/novelist (Shaving of Shagpat).
- 1828 - Birth of Robert Ransom Junior; Major General (Confederate Army) (dies 1892).
- 1831 - Birth of John Morrissey; boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track.
- 1832 - Ecuador annexes Galápagos Islands.
- 1838 - Birth of Charles Carroll Walcott; US Brevet Major General (Union volunteers) (dies 1898).
- 1839 - Boundary dispute between Maine and New Brunswick leads to Aroostook.
- 1840 - Housatonic Railroad opens.
- 1841 - Birth of Gijsbert van Tienhoven; Dutch mayor (Amsterdam)/foreign minister.
- 1850 - Birth of Amaat Vyncke; Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag).
- 1852 - Birth of Hendrik Blink; geographer (Van de Eems tot de Schelde).
- 1857 - Birth of Bobby Peel; cricket player (great English lefty 1884-96).
- 1861 - Birth of Lou [Andreas-]Salomé; Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott).
- 1861 - State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, Arkansas.
- 1865 - Birth of Kazimierz P Tetmajer; Polish writer/poet (Young Poland).
- 1867 - Birth of Hedwig Courths-Mahler; German author (Warbride).
- 1867 - Birth of Joe Howard in New York City, New York, USA; singer (Gay Nineties Revue).
- 1868 - Birth of Johan H A Schaper; Dutch Member of Parliament/founder (SDAP).
- 1869 - Birth of Hendrik P Marchant; Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD).
- 1870 - Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada.
- 1873 - Birth of Jón Trausti [Gudmundur Magnússon]; Icelandic writer (Heidarbylid).
- 1873 - The US Mint Act of 1873 is signed into law:
- the mint is established as a bureau within the Treasury Department;
- the silver dollar, 2-cent, silver 3-cent, and silver half dime are discontinued;
- half dollar weight increases from 192 grains to 192.904 (12.5 grams), with quarter dollar and dime set proportionately;
- a $3 gold coin is authorized;
- the right of silver holders to have their silver stuck as legal tender dollar coins is abolished;
- a Trade dollar is established as 420 grains of 0.900 fine silver.
- 1874 - King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island, Hawaii, is first king to visit US.
- 1877 - First news dispatch by telephone, between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1877 - US railroad builders strike against wage reduction.
- 1878 - Frederick Thayer patents the baseball catcher's mask (patent number 200,358).
- 1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden, the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.
- 1880 - Birth of John Llewellyn Lewis; union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).
- 1880 - National Croquet League organizes (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
- 1882 - Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam.
- 1883 - Birth of Ludwig Stossel in Austria; actor (Man With a Camera).
- 1885 - Birth of Julius Streicher; German district leader (Stürmer).
- 1885 - Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society.
- 1886 - Second British government of Salisbury forms.
- 1889 - Andrew Greenwood, cricket player (batted in England's first two Tests 1877), dies.
- 1891 - Birth of Cecil Dixon; cricket off-spinner (one Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair).
- 1891 - Birth of Max Terhune; actor (Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice).
- 1893 - Birth of Omar Bradley; General of US Army WWII "The GI General".
- 1896 - Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon), dies at age 84.
- 1896 - Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 win on 1,412 mounts (44.5 percent), dies at age 35.
- 1898 - Birth of Wallace Ford AKA Samuel Jones Grundy in Batton, England; actor (The Deputy).
- 1898 - Birth of Leroy Harris AKA Roy Harris in Oklahoma, USA; composer ("When Johnny Comes Marching Home").
- 1899 - First two-man team six-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, New York City.
- 1900 - Birth of Ferenc Körmendy; Hungarian/US author (Budapest Kaland).
- 1900 - Birth of Fred Emney in London, England; actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino).
- 1901 - Ramón de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colón), dies at age 83.
- 1904 - Birth of Ted Mack in Denver, Colorado, USA; TV host (Original Amateur Hour).
- 1905 - Birth of Harry Bellaver; actor (Sergeant Arcaro - Naked City).
- 1905 - Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double), dies.
- 1908 - New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska and Siberia) begins in New York City, New York, USA.
- 1909 - Birth of Barry Wood in New Haven, Connecticut, USA; singer (Your Hit Parade).
- 1909 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded in USA.
- 1909 - Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter and Wijnkoop).
- 1909 - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6).
- 1910 - Birth of Lee Byung Chull; Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business).
- 1911 - Birth of Charles Mathiesen in Norway; 1500 metre speed skater (Olympics-gold-1936).
- 1911 - Birth of Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez; President (Dominican Republic).
- 1912 - Birth of Ernest Clark in London, England; actor (Doctor in the House).
- 1912 - The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
- 1912 - Last Ch'ing (Manchu) emperor of China, Henry P'u-i, abdicates.
- 1913 - Birth of Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Bragança; grandson of emperor Pedro I.
- 1914 - Birth of Gordon Tex Beneke; saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orchestra).
- 1914 - Birth of Nello Celio; Swiss President.
- 1915 - Birth of Andrew J Goodpaster; US General/Supreme Commander (NATO-Europe).
- 1915 - Birth of Lorne Greene in Ottawa, Canada; actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica).
- 1915 - The cornerstone is laid for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
- 1916 - Birth of Joseph Lawrence Alioto in San Francisco, California, USA; American politician (Mayor of San Francisco 1968-1976).
- 1916 - Birth of Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske in Györ, Austria-Hungary; Austrian composer (Vom Tode).
- 1917 - Birth of Thomas K Scherman in New York City, New York, USA; conductor (Little Orchestra Society 1947-75).
- 1918 - Birth of Dominic DiMaggio; baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox).
- 1919 - Birth of Forrest Tucker in Plainfield, Indiana, USA; actor (O'Rourke - F Troop, Dusty Trail).
- 1920 - 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike.
- 1920 - Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten), dies at age 77.
- 1920 - National League votes 6-2 for one commissioner American League votes 6-2 to keep group commission.
- 1921 - Charles Leslie, cricket player (4 Tests England versus Australia 1882-83), dies.
- 1921 - Soviet troops invade Georgia.
- 1921 - Winston Churchill becomes British Minister of Colonies.
- 1923 - Birth of Franco Zeffirelli in Florence, Italy; movie director (Romeo and Juliet).
- 1923 - Birth of James Abdnor; American politician (Senator-Republican-South Dakota, 1981-87).
- 1924 - Birth of Hans Berghuis; Dutch author/poet (Three Women, Adam).
- 1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
- 1925 - First federal arbitration law approved by US Congress.
- 1925 - Estonia forbids Communist Party.
- 1926 - Birth of Joe Garagiola in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; sportscaster/host (Today Show).
- 1926 - Birth of Paul Hamlyn; English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus).
- 1927 - Birth of Anne Gillis in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA; actress (Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Little Men).
- 1927 - British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai.
- 1929 - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist, dies at age 66.
- 1929 - Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30).
- 1930 - Birth of Arlen Specter; American politician (Senator-Republican-Pennsylvania, 1981-).
- 1931 - Birth of Constance A Morella; American politician (Representative-Republican-Maryland).
- 1931 - Radio Vaticana first broadcasts.
- 1932 - Birth of Lincoln Kilpatrick in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (BJ - Leslie Uggams Show).
- 1932 - Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees.
- 1933 - Birth of Juanita [Ruth] Coulson; sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap).
- 1933 - German vice-chancellor Franz von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis.
- 1934 - Birth of Annette Crosbie in Edinburgh, Scotland; actress (Six Wives of Henry VIII, One Foot in the Grave).
- 1934 - Birth of Bill Russell in Monroe, Louisiana, USA; NBA star (Boston Celtics, Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1934 - France hit by a general strike against fascists and royalists.
- 1935 - Birth of Gene McDaniels; American vocalist/bandleader/actor (Young Swingers).
- 1935 - Birth of Ray Manzarek; keyboardist (The Doors - "Light My Fire", "Unknown Soldier").
- 1935 - Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean off Point Sur, California.
- 1936 - Birth of Fang Lizhi; Chinese astrophysicist/dissident.
- 1936 - Birth of Joe Don Baker in Groesback, Texas, USA; actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch).
- 1936 - Birth of Paul Shenar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Carrington - Roots).
- 1936 - Adolf Hitler decides the time is right for Germany to re-occupy the Rhineland.
- 1937 - Birth of Charles Everett Dumas in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; high jumper (Olympics-gold-1956).
- 1937 - Cleveland Rams granted an NFL franchise.
- 1938 - Birth of Judy Blume in Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA; author (Wifey, Are You There God? It's Me Margaret, Blubber, Forever).
- 1938 - German troops enter Austria.
- 1939 - Birth of John D Hancock; actor/director (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights).
- 1940 - Birth of Hank Brown; American politician (Representative-Republican-Colorado, 1981-88).
- 1941 - Birth of Naomi Uemura; mountain climber (first Japanese to scale Everest).
- 1941 - Birth of Ross Morgan; cricket player (New Zealand batsman in 20 Tests 1965-72).
- 1941 - Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen.
- 1941 - Holland Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".
- 1942 - Three German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest from Germany.
- 1942 - Birth of Chananjit Vohra; Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire.
- 1942 - Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic), dies at age 49.
- 1944 - Birth of Desmond Nuttall; English educator.
- 1944 - Birth of Moe Bandy in Meridian, Mississippi, USA; country vocalist (Just Good Ol' Boys).
- 1944 - Wendell Wilkie (Republican) enters US presidential race.
- 1945 - de Jong, Dutch vicar/resistance fighter, executed.
- 1945 - Birth of Cliff De Young in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment).
- 1945 - Birth of Joe Schermie in Madison, Wisconsin, USA; bassist (Three Dog Night - "Joy to the World").
- 1945 - Birth of Maud Adams in Lulea, Sweden; actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo).
- 1945 - Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies.
- 1945 - San Francisco, California, selected for site of United Nations Conference.
- 1945 - Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Germans, executed at age 39.
- 1946 - Birth of Ever Meulen [Eddy Vermeulen]; Dutch designer (children stamps 1992).
- 1947 - Birth of Guus Willemse; Dutch bassist/singer (Solution).
- 1947 - In Sikhote Alin, Vladivostok, Russia, an iron meteor of estimated weight 70-300 tons breaks up about 4.5km above the earth and rains iron meteorites, producing about 200 craters up to 26.6m in diameter and 6m deep, over an area 12km by 4km. A total of 8000 iron meteorites weighing 28-29 tons are recovered. The meteor is projected to ave originated in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- 1947 - Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands.
- 1947 - Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), dies at age 72.
- 1949 - Annie Get Your Gun closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 1147 performances.
- 1949 - Birth of Gundappa Viswanath; cricket player (prolific Indian batsman of 70s).
- 1949 - Birth of Len Randle; baseball player (New York Mets).
- 1949 - Birth of Stanley Knight; country artist (Black Oak Arkansas - "High on the Hog").
- 1949 - Panic in Quito, Ecuador, after War of the Worlds is played on radio.
- 1949 - Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey.
- 1949 - Unidentified aircraft bombs Jerusalem.
- 1950 - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb.
- 1950 - Birth of Michael Ironside; actor (Starship Troopers).
- 1950 - Birth of Steve Hackett; rock guitarist (Genesis - "Against All Odds").
- 1950 - US Senator Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees.
- 1951 - Birth of Gil "The Bird" Moore; rocker (Triumph).
- 1952 - Birth of Dr Salvador Pineda in Mexico City, Mexico; doctor.
- 1952 - Birth of Simon MacCorkindale in Cambridge, England; actor (Counterstrike, Falcon Crest, Manimal, Jaws 3D).
- 1953 - Birth of Joanna Kerns [de Varona] in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Maggie - Growing Pains).
- 1953 - USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
- 1954 - Dziga Vertov [Kaufman], Russian director (Three Songs of Lenin), dies at age 58.
- 1955 - Birth of Daniele Masala in Italy; pentathlete (Olympics-1976).
- 1955 - McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 and stays #1 for ten weeks.
- 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam.
- 1955 - Soviets dedicate space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan.
- 1955 - Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules), dies at age 71.
- 1956 - Birth of Ad P Melkert; Dutch minister of Social Affairs (1994-).
- 1956 - Birth of Paula Zahn in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning).
- 1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open.
- 1957 - Johannes Anker Larsen; Danish writer (Martha og Maria), dies at age 82.
- 1957 - Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) has been developed.
- 1958 - Birth of Arsenio Hall; comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America).
- 1958 - Birth of Ingrid Klich in Whittier, California, USA; rower (Olympics-1996).
- 1958 - Boston Celtics' Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse Nationals 119-101.
- 1958 - General Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected President of Guatemala.
- 1958 - Marcel Cachin, first communist French senator, dies at age 88.
- 1959 - Birth of Nancy Remy; reporter (New York City's Shadow Traffic).
- 1959 - Birth of Omar Hakim; drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report).
- 1959 - Birth of Per Gessle; rocker (Roxette - "Joy Ride").
- 1959 - Birth of Sigrid Thornton in Australia; actress (Amelia Lawson - Guns of Paradise).
- 1959 - The US Mint releases the 1959 Lincoln Memorial cent to circulation.
- 1959 - George Antheil, US pianist/composer (Ballet Mécanique), dies at age 58.
- 1960 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillian (World's funniest circus clown), dies at age 71.
- 1960 - Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.
- 1961 - Birth of Chris Heyne in Offenbach, Germany; WLAF General Manager (Frankfurt Galaxy).
- 1961 - Boston Celtics' player Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Philadelphia Warriors 136-125.
- 1961 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
- 1961 - Mushtaq Mohammad scores first Test Cricket century at age 17 years 82 days.
- 1961 - USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus.
- 1962 - Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia, USA.
- 1963 - Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron.
- 1963 - Birth of Brent Jones; NFL tight end (San Francisco 49ers).
- 1964 - Birth of Maurice Douglass; NFL safety (New York Giants).
- 1964 - Birth of Michel Petit in Saint Malo, France; NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning).
- 1964 - Birth of Milton Small; cricket pace bowler (West Indies versus Australia 1984).
- 1964 - Birth of Raphael Sbarge; actor (Glenn - Risky Business, Sherman - My Science Project, Brian - Better Days).
- 1964 - End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test cricket career.
- 1964 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming.
- 1964 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen.
- 1965 - Birth of Ruben Amaro; US baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians).
- 1965 - Henry Kulky, actor (Otto - Life of Riley), dies at age 53.
- 1966 - Birth of Boty Goodwin; artist.
- 1967 - Birth of Andrew Dunkley in Kent, England; golfer (1991-93 Co-Captain University of West Florida).
- 1967 - Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater.
- 1968 - Birth of Chynna Phillips in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer (Wilson Phillips - "Hold On").
- 1968 - Birth of Josh Brolin; actor (Johnny - Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok - Young Riders).
- 1968 - Birth of Todd Fanning in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; golfer (Manitoba Amateur-1984, 1990, 1991, 1992).
- 1969 - Birth of Colin Keely in Buffalo, New York, USA; water polo driver (Olympics-1996).
- 1969 - Birth of Josh Brolin; actor (Johnny - Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok - Young Riders).
- 1969 - Birth of Shauna Lyn Searles; Miss California-USA (1996).
- 1969 - Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch and Perlemoer), dies at age 80.
- 1970 - Birth of Bryan Roy; Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax).
- 1970 - Birth of Dell Demps; NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs).
- 1970 - Birth of Lamar Thomas; NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Miami Dolphins).
- 1971 - Birth of Lincoln Kennedy; tackle (Oakland Raiders).
- 1971 - Birth of Romeo Bandison; NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns).
- 1971 - Birth of Shane Tonkin; Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996).
- 1971 - Birth of Shante Carver; NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys).
- 1971 - Birth of Tracy Kennick; Miss Utah-USA (1996).
- 1971 - George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at age 86.
- 1971 - James Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney), dies at age 95.
- 1971 - Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 and 0 Australia versus England.
- 1972 - Birth of Andrew Cassesse; actor (Wormser - Revenge of Nerds, TV 101).
- 1972 - Birth of Dulip Samaraweera; cricket player (Sri Lankan Test opening batsman 1993-).
- 1973 - First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.
- 1973 - Birth of Brendon Mark Cameron in Pirongia, New Zealand; 4km pursuit cyclist (Olympics-1996).
- 1973 - Ohio becomes the first US state to post distances on signs in System International (Metric) units.
- 1974 - Birth of Ian Mcintyre in Montréal, Quebec, Canada; NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks).
- 1975 - Birth of Chris Szarka; Canadian Football League full back (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
- 1975 - Birth of Matt Finkes; linebacker (New York Jets).
- 1975 - Birth of Scot Pollard; NBA center (Detroit Pistons).
- 1975 - Birth of Seth Payne; defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars).
- 1976 - Birth of Christopher Pettiet in Los Angeles, California; actor (Young Riders).
- 1976 - James Clifton Williams, composer/band master (Sinfonians), dies at age 52.
- 1976 - Death of Sal Mineo at age 37, stabbed to death behind his apartment building; actor/singer (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause film, The Gene Krupa Story film).
- 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1977 - Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0.
- 1978 - Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic.
- 1978 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne.
- 1978 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner.
- 1979 - Kosmos 1076, first Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched.
- 1979 - Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the Battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
- 1980 - Birth of Christina Ricci; American actress (Wednesday - Addams Family, Mermaids, Casper).
- 1980 - Birth of Sarah Lancaster in Kansas City, Kansas; actress (Rachel - Saved By the Bell: New Class).
- 1980 - Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails), dies.
- 1980 - New York Islanders second scoreless tie, versus Winnipeg Jets.
- 1980 - Richard Hadlee becomes New Zealand's top wicket-taker with 117.
- 1981 - Cape Verde amends its constitution.
- 1981 - Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Living, You Only Live Once), dies.
- 1981 - Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10 minutes.
- 1981 - Admiral Bobby R Inman, US Navy, becomes deputy director of US Central Intelligence Agency.
- 1981 - Arbitrator Goetz declares Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent.
- 1982 - Hal Hooker, cricket player (307 partners with Alan Kippax for last wicket), dies.
- 1982 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
- 1982 - Victor Jory of Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada, actor (Adventures of Tom Sawyer, First Lady, Jigsaw), dies at age 79 (born 1902).
- 1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tying NHL record.
- 1982 - Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at age 87.
- 1983 - Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at age 100.
- 1984 - Cale Yarborough becomes first Daytona 500 qualifier above 200 MPH.
- 1984 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Final del Juego), dies at age 69.
- 1984 - West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup.
- 1984 - Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic.
- 1984 - Anna Anderson Manahan [claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia] dies in Virginia.
- 1985 - 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary.
- 1985 - Nicholas Colssanto, actor (Coach - Cheers), dies at age 61.
- 1985 - West Indies beats Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup.
- 1986 - First-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Island versus Guyana.
- 1986 - Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at age 82.
- 1987 - Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip - Rescue 8), dies at age 55.
- 1987 - Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded US$7 million damages.
- 1988 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1989 - 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston, Texas.
- 1989 - Five Pakistani Muslim rioters killed protesting Satanic Verses book.
- 1989 - 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry.
- 1989 - Wayne Gretzky sets two records, his 45th hat trick and 10th 40+ goal season.
- 1989 - Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at age 83.
- 1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Dutch/Austrian writer (Heldenplatz), dies at age 58.
- 1989 - Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-San Francisco, 80 days 20 hours.
- 1989 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman.
- 1991 - Edward A Blatt, director (Between Two Worlds), dies at age 88.
- 1991 - Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence.
- 1991 - North and South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition.
- 1991 - Robert Wagner, mayor (New York City - Democrat - 1954-65), dies.
- 1992 - Bep [Lambertus] van Klaveren, Dutch boxing champion (Olympics-gold-1928), dies (born 1907).
- 1992 - Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent), dies.
- 1992 - Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherlands BV), dies at age 74.
- 1993 - James Bulger, age 2, disappears from the Strand Shopping Centre in Liverpool - his body is found on a disused railway in Liverpool two days later.
- 1993 - Buena Vista generally releases the film Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey to theaters in the USA.
- 1994 - (to February 27) XVII Olympic Winter Games are held in Lillehammer, Norway.
- 1994 - 20th century premiere of six restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston.
- 1994 - Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is stolen in a 50-second robbery of a museum in Oslo, Norway.
- 1995 - 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1995 - Death of Robert Bolt, English writer (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty) (born 1924).
- 1995 - L Jansma Fries, publisher (Friese stamp), dies.
- 1995 - Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player, dies at age 66.
- 1995 - Jeff Rouse swims world record 50 metre backstroke (24.37 seconds).
- 1995 - Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50 metre butterfly.
- 1995 - Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7 minutes 37.51 seconds).
- 1995 - Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7 minutes 35.15 seconds).
- 1995 - PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections.
- 1995 - Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at age 49.
- 1995 - Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.12 metres).
- 1995 - Susan Auch skates female world record 500 metre (38.94 seconds).
- 1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500 metre (38.69 seconds).
- 1996 - Bob Shaw, Irish science fiction writer, dies of cancer at age 64 (born 1931).
- 1997 - David Bowie receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- 1997 - Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement.
- 1997 - Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at age 77.
- 1998 - 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, four die and 50 hurt.
- 1998 - Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their fourth head coach.
- 1998 - Intel unveils its first graphics chip, the i740.
- 1998 - US district judge T Hogan declares the presidential line-item veto law is unconstitutional.
- 1999 - The US Senate votes on whether to remove President Bill Clinton from office. The president is acquitted on both articles of impeachment.
- 2000 - Death of Charles Schulz at age 77 after a heart attack; cartoonist (Peanuts, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973, Emmy award).
- 2001 - The NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2002 - The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo.
- 2002 - The U.S. Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear waste repository.
- 2002 - For the first time in its history, Major League Baseball owns a team after acquiring the Expos from Jeffrey Loria for $120 million.
- 2003 - In La Paz, Bolivia, striking police clash with the army, first with tear gas, then with bullets. The army was trying to protect the presidential palace from stone-throwing youths. 27 are left dead, over 100 seriously injured. This is followed by 24 hours of mobs looting and burning public and foreign business buildings.
- 2003 - Death of American hotel pioneer Charles Kemmons Wilson, at age 90. Wilson founded the first Holiday Inn hotel in 1952.
- 2004 - San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.
- 2005 - Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32-story office block, in Madrid, Spain.
- 2007 - An armed gunman shoots and kills five people at the Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City, Utah, before being killed by the police, bringing the evening's rampage death toll to six.
- 2007 - Death of Peter Ellenshaw in Santa Barbara, California, USA; artist at Disneyland, for Disney movies, four Oscar nominations, named Disney Legend 1993.
- 2008 - At the International Space Station, the Columbus laboratory module built by the Europe Space Agency is installed and opened for the first time.
- 2008 - In the USA, General Motors reports a fiscal 2007 year loss of US$39 billion.
- 2008 - In Los Angeles and New York, film and television writers vote to lift their 100-day-old strike against major studios and return to work. Writers Guild of America members voted 92.5 percent in favor of ending the strike, with a new three-year contract approved in principle.
- 2008 - PDVSA, a state oil company in Venezuela, suspends sales of crude oil to ExxonMobil, in response to a legal challenge by them.
- 2008 - Bridgestone, under investigation for an alleged price-fixing cartel, uncovers improper payments of at least 150 million Japanese yen to foreign governments and withdraws from the marine hose business.
- 2008 - In Damascus, Syria, Hezbollah leader Imad Moughniyah is killed by a car bomb attack. Moughniyah was an elusive international terrorist of 25 years, accused or convicted of many high-profile bombings in the 1980s.
- 2008 - Death of Badri Patarkatsishvili, Georgian businessman and politician (born 1955).
- 2009 - Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop commuter plane nosedives and slams into a home in western New York state, killing all 49 people aboard and one on the ground.
- 2010 - The EuroMillions lottery grand prize is 112 million British pounds (US$174 million), shared by a UK ticketholder (Britain's biggest lottery prize) and a winning ticket bought in Spain.
- 2010 - Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili is killed when his sled flips during a practice run just prior to the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
- 2010 - In Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the XXI Olympic Winter Games open. Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky lights the outdoor cauldron of the Olympic flame. 2600 athletes representing 82 nations are scheduled to participate in 86 events.
- 2013 - North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test.
- 2015 - Leaders from Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France reach an agreement on the conflict in eastern Ukraine that includes a ceasefire and withdrawal of heavy weapons.
- 2015 - The United Nations Security Council adopts Resolution 2199 to combat terrorism.
- 2016 - Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill sign an Ecumenical Declaration in the first such meeting between leaders of the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches since their split in 1054.
- 2019 - The Republic of Macedonia renames itself the Republic of North Macedonia, officially ending a decades-old dispute with Greece and paving the way for the former's integration into NATO and the European Union.
- 2022 - Death of Ivan Reitman at age 75 in his sleep in Montecito, California, USA; American director and producer (Meatballs (1979), National Lampoon's Animal House, Kindergarten Cop, Ghostbusters, Space Jam).
- 2023 - The U.S. Air Force shoots down an unknown object flying over Lake Huron in Michigan.
- 2023 - Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Kansas City Chiefs beat Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
- 2023 - Death of David Jolicoeur AKA Trugoy the Dove at age 54; rapper (De La Soul).
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