Year 1606 » Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is executed for plotting against Parliament of England called Parliament and James I of England known as King James.
Year 1747 » The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
Year 1801 » John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.
Year 1814 » Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata e.g Supreme Director of Argentina.
Year 1846 » After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unify as the City of Milwaukee called Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Year 1848 » John C. Frémont is Court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders.
Year 1849 » Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom pursuant to legislation in 1846.
Year 1862 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an convert 18.5 in cm adj=on telescope now located at Northwestern University.
Year 1865 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
Year 1865 » American Civil War: Confederate States of America e.g Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
Year 1867 » Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board a French ship bound for Algeria.
Year 1891 » History of Portugal (1834–1910) or History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republicanism called republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
Year 1900 » Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassination known as assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion.
Year 1915 » World War I: German Empire Germany is the first to make large-scale use of Chemical weapons in World War I poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russian Empire Russia.
Year 1917 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will U-boat Campaign (World War I) called resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
Year 1918 » A Battle of May Island named series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
Year 1919 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
Year 1942 » World War II: Allied forces are defeated by the Japanese at the Battle of Malaya and retreat to the island of Singapore.
Year 1944 » World War II: American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands.
Year 1945 » World War II: the end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Rakhine State called Arakan
Year 1945 » World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed.
Year 1945 » United States Army US Army private Eddie Slovik is capital punishment executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the American Civil War Civil War.
Year 1949 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
Year 1950 » President of the United States e.g President Harry S. Truman announces a program to develop the hydrogen bomb.
Year 1953 » A North Sea flood of 1953 or North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom
Year 1957 » Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, Los Angeles called Pacoima, California are killed following the Pacoima aircraft accident known as mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
Year 1958 » James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
Year 1958 » Explorer program: 'Explorer 1' The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
Year 1961 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into space science named outer space.
Year 1966 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna programme known as Luna program.
Year 1968 » Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
Year 1968 » Nauru gains independence from Australia.
Year 1971 » The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by United States named Americans and allies in Vietnam, begins in Detroit, Michigan.
Year 1971 » Apollo program: Apollo 14 Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro formation known as Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
Year 1995 » President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its Economy of Mexico or economy.
Year 1996 » An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
Year 1996 » Comet Hyakutake is discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake.
Year 2000 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
Year 2001 » In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
Year 2003 » The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
Year 2007 » 31 January 2007 Birmingham raid e.g Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
Year 2009 » In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an Molo fire oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya Molo, days after 2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
Year 2010 » 'Avatar (2009 film) or Avatar' becomes the first film to gross over List of highest-grossing films or $2 billion worldwide.
Year 2011 » A January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American blizzard named winter storm hits North America for the January 25–27, 2011 North American blizzard e.g second time in the same month, causing $1.8 billion in damage across the United States and Canada and kil
Year 2013 » Torre Ejecutiva Pemex explosion e.g An explosion at the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex known as Pemex Executive Tower in Mexico City kills at least 33 people and injures more than 100.