Year 307 » Emperor Hui of Jin Jin Huidi, List of Chinese monarchs Chinese Emperor of the Jin Dynasty (265–420) Jin Dynasty, is poisoned and succeeded by his son Emperor Huai of Jin Jin Huaidi.
Year 871 » Alfred the Great leads a Wessex called West Saxon army to Battle of Ashdown or repel an invasion by Danelaw Vikings.
Year 1297 » François Grimaldi, disguised as a monk, leads his men to capture the fortress protecting the Rock of Monaco, establishing House of Grimaldi called his family as the rulers of Monaco.
Year 1499 » Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany.
Year 1697 » Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
Year 1746 » Jacobite Rising of 1745 called Second Jacobite Rising: Charles Edward Stuart or Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
Year 1790 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City or New York, New York.
Year 1806 » Cape Colony becomes a United Kingdom called British colony.
Year 1811 » 1811 German Coast Uprising An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana St. Charles and St. James Parish, Louisiana St. James, Louisiana.
Year 1815 » War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans Andrew Jackson leads United States or American forces in victory over the British.
Year 1835 » The United States public debt History known as United States national debt is zero for the only time.
Year 1863 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield
Year 1867 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
Year 1877 » Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the Cavalry (United States) named United States Cavalry at Battle of Wolf Mountain or Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
Year 1904 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
Year 1906 » A landslide in Haverstraw (village), New York known as Haverstraw, New York, caused by the excavation of clay along the Hudson River, kills 20 people.
Year 1912 » The African National Congress is founded.
Year 1918 » President Woodrow Wilson announces his "Fourteen Points" for the aftermath of World War I.
Year 1920 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in a complete failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers named Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
Year 1940 » World War II: Britain Rationing in the United Kingdom called introduces food rationing.
Year 1945 » World War II: Commonwealth of the Philippines or Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Imperial Japanese Army called Japanese Imperial forces.
Year 1956 » Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionary known as missionaries are killed by the Huaorani people or Huaorani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.
Year 1962 » The Harmelen train disaster killed 93 people in the Netherlands.
Year 1964 » President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
Year 1971 » Bowing to international pressure, President of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto releases Bengali people or Bengali leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from prison, who had been arrested after declaring the independence of Bangladesh.
Year 1973 » Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party (United States) called Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate complex e.g Watergate begins.
Year 1973 » Soviet Union e.g Soviet space mission 'Luna 21' is launched.
Year 1975 » Ella T. Grasso becomes List of Governors of Connecticut known as Governor of Connecticut, the first woman to serve as a Governor in the United States other than by succeeding her husband.
Year 1977 » 1977 Moscow bombings Three bombs explode in Moscow Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenians Armenian separatist group.
Year 1979 » The Whiddy Island Disaster known as tanker 'Betelgeuse' explodes in Bantry Bay, Ireland.
Year 1981 » A local farmer reports a Trans-en-Provence Case named UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence called Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
Year 1982 » Bell System divestiture known as The break up of AT&T: AT&T Corporation known as AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
Year 1989 » Kegworth air disaster: British Midland International or British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737 Classic e.g Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
Year 1989 » Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
Year 1994 » Russian Astronaut Russian called cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on 'Soyuz TM-18' leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
Year 2002 » President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
Year 2003 » US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte-Douglas Airport, Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people on board.
Year 2003 » Turkish Airlines Flight 634 crashes near Diyarbakır Airport, Turkey, killing the entire crew and 70 of 75 passengers.
Year 2005 » The nuclear sub USS San Francisco SSN-711 6 collides at full speed with an undersea mountain south of Guam. One man is killed, but the sub surfaces and is repaired.
Year 2009 » A 6.1-magnitude 2009 Costa Rica earthquake e.g earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
Year 2010 » Gunmen from an offshoot the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda Togo national football team attack called attacked the bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three.
Year 2011 » The attempted assassination of Arizona United States House of Representatives Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent 2011 Tucson shooting shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway Inc. Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is