| 660 | Emperor Jimmu founded Japan and established his capital in Yamato |
| 1250 | Seventh Crusade- Ayyubids defended Al Mansurah, Egypt, from invading crusaders |
| 1613 | Mughal emperor Jahangir allows East India Co. to set up a factory in Surat |
| 1715 | Tuscarora War ends with a peace treaty and reservation near Lake Mattamusket |
| 1809 | Robert Fulton invents the steamboat in the US |
| 1826 | University College London founded as the first secular university in England |
| 1826 | Swaminarayan writes Shikshapatri, the basis of Swaminarayan Hinduism |
| 1847 | Thomas Edison, an inventor, born |
| 1852 | The first British public toilet for women opens in London |
| 1858 | Bernadette Soubirous reports first Marian apparition in Lourdes, France |
| 1874 | Thomas Edison, an inventor, born |
| 1919 | Friedrich Ebert was elected the first President of the Weimar Republic, in Germany |
| 1929 | Lateran Treaty settles Roman Question and establishes Vatican City in Italy |
| 1938 | BBC airs its first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of R.U.R. |
| 1953 | Soviet Union breaks diplomatic relations with Israel |
| 1955 | Publication of newspapers starts in India |
| 1963 | American-born poet Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London |
| 1964 | Limassol, Cyprus sees 50 killed in a fight between Greek and Turkish residents |
| 1966 | Former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies in Tashkent |
| 1968 | Sanitation workers in Memphis, TN strike for 2 months after 2 black employees killed |
| 1968 | Jana Sangh founder, writer, and journalist Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay assassinated |
| 1968 | Border conflict ensues between Israel and Jordan |
| 1970 | Japan launches first satellite Yosumi on Lambda-4 rocket |
| 1978 | China lifts ban on works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Dickens |
| 1978 | Wedding of 16 Unification Church couples held in New York City |
| 1979 | The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapses, and Ayatollah Khamenei seizes power |
| 1987 | British Airways privatized, listed on London Stock Exchange |
| 1990 | Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela released after 27 years in prison |
| 1996 | 46th NBA All-Star Game, East beats West 129-118 |
| 1997 | Bill Parcells becomes head coach of the New York Jets |
| 1998 | “Candle in the Wind 1997” lyrics auctioned for $442,500 |
| 2001 | Dutch programmer launches Anna Kurnikova virus, affects millions of emails |
| 2006 | Dick Cheney accidentally shoots a friend in a hunting accident |
| 2008 | Rebel soldiers invade the homes of the President and Prime Minister in East Timor |
| 2009 | Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after a power-sharing agreement |
| 2010 | EU Summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece’s economy |
| 2011 | Hosni Mubarak resigns as President of Egypt after Egyptian Revolution |
| 2012 | Whitney Houston, singer, and actress, dies at the age 48 |
| 2013 | Horizon Monaco Alliance wins 50.3% of the votes in the Monaco Parliament election |
| 2013 | An explosion in the Komi region of Russia killed 18 mine workers |
| 2014 | Indian Athletes were granted permission to compete at the Winter Olympics under their own nation’s flag |
