1595 – Henry IV of France declares war on Spain.
1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American publisher and politician, 6th President of Pennsylvania (d. 1790) is born.
1773 – Captain James Cook commands the first expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle.
1867 – Carl Laemmle, German-American film producer, co-founded Universal Studios (d. 1939) is born.
1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822) dies.
1899 – The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
1904 – Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
1917 – The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860) dies.
1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848) dies.
1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer and referee is born.
1945 – The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in.
1946 – The UN Security Council holds its first session.
1954 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., American lawyer, radio host, and environmentalist is born.
1961 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
1964 – Michelle Obama, American lawyer and activist; 46th First Lady of the United States is born.
1969 – Black Panther Party members Bunchy Carter and John Huggins are killed during a meeting in Campbell Hall on the campus of UCLA.
1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by a firing squad in Utah, ending a ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in the United States.
1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law eight years and five months after declaring it.
1982 – Dwyane Wade, American basketball player is born.
1982 – "Cold Sunday": In numerous cities in the United States temperatures fall to their lowest levels in over 100 years.
1983 – The tallest department store in the world, Hudson's flagship store in downtown Detroit, closes due to high cost of operating.
1997 – Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer and academic, discovered Pluto (b. 1906) dies.
1997 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station: A Delta 2 carrying a GPS2R satellite explodes 13 seconds after launch, dropping 250 tons of burning rocket remains around the launch pad.
1998 – Lewinsky scandal: Matt Drudge breaks the story of the Bill Clinton–Monica Lewinsky affair on his website The Drudge Report.
2007 – The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea nuclear testing.
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