1848 – California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese immigrants arrives in San Francisco.
1861 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949) is born.
1876 – The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
1883 – Johnston McCulley, American author and screenwriter, created Zorro (d. 1958) is born.
1887 – In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1895 – George Halas, American football player and coach, Chicago Bears (d. 1983) is born.
1897 – Howard Deering Johnson, American businessman, founded Howard Johnson's (d. 1972) is born.
1912 – Millvina Dean, English civil servant and cartographer; last survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009) is born.
1914 – Charlie Chaplin's first film appearance, Making a Living premieres.
1922 – Ulysses by James Joyce is published.
1923 – Red Schoendienst, American baseball player, coach, and manager, St. Louis Cardinals is born.
1925 – Serum run to Nome: Dog sleds reach Nome, Alaska with diphtheria serum, inspiring the Iditarod race.
1971 – Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
1972 – The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest at Bloody Sunday.
1976 – The Groundhog Day gale hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.
1988 – Auntie Anne's is founded by Anne F. Beiler in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
1990 – Apartheid: F. W. de Klerk announces the unbanning of the African National Congress and promises to release Nelson Mandela.
1996 – Gene Kelly, American actor, singer, dancer, and director (b. 1912) dies.
2000 – First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
2004 – Swiss tennis player Roger Federer becomes the No. 1 ranked men's singles player, a position he will hold for a record 237 weeks.
2007 – The worst flooding in Indonesia in 300 years begins.
2012 – The ferry MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea near the Finschhafen District, with an estimated 300 people missing.
2014 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1967) dies.
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