| 1618 | | Johann Kepler discovers the third Law of Planetary Motion. |
| 1702 | | Queen Ann becomes the monarch of England upon the death of William III. |
| 1790 | | George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address. |
| 1853 | | The first bronze statue of Andrew Jackson is unveiled in Washington, D.C. |
| 1855 | | The first train crosses Niagara Falls on a suspension bridge. |
| 1862 | | On the second day of the Battle of Pea Ridge, Confederate forces, including some Indian troops, under General Earl Van Dorn suprise Union troops, but the Union troops win the battle. | |
| 1862 | | The Confederate ironclad C.S.S. Virginia (formerly U.S.S. Merrimack) is launched. |
| 1880 | | President Rutherford B. Hays declares that the United States will have jurisdiction over any canal built across the isthmus of Panama. |
| 1904 | | The Bundestag in Germany lifts the ban on the Jesuit order of priests. |
| 1908 | | The House of Commons, London, turns down the women's suffrage bill. |
| 1909 | | Pope Pius X lifts the church ban on interfaith marriages in Hungary. |
| 1910 | | Baroness de Laroche becomes the first woman to obtain a pilot's license in France. |
| 1921 | | Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato is assassinated while leaving Parliament in Madrid. |
| 1921 | | French troops occupy Dusseldorf. |
| 1941 | | Martial law is proclaimed in Holland in order to extinguish any anti-Nazi protests. |
| 1942 | | Japanese troops capture Rangoon, Burma. |
| 1943 | | Japanese forces attack American troops on Hill 700 in Bougainville. The battle will last five days. |
| 1945 | | Phyllis Mae Daley recieves a commission in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She will become the first African-American nurse to serve duty in World War II. |
| 1948 | | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional. |
| 1954 | | France and Vietnam open talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina. |
| 1961 | | Max Conrad circles the globe in a record time of eight days, 18 hours and 49 minutes in Piper Aztec. |
| 1965 | | More than 4,000 Marines land at Da Nang in South Vietnam and become the first U.S. combat troops in Vietnam. |
| 1966 | | Australia announces that it will triple the number of troops in Vietnam. |
| 1970 | | The Nixon administration discloses the deaths of 27 Americans in Laos. |
| 1973 | | Two bombs explode near Trafalgar Square in Great Britain, injuring 234. |
| 1982 | | The United States accuses the Soviets of killing 3,000 Afghans with poison gas. |
| 1985 | | Thomas Creighton dies after having three heart transplants in a 46-hour period. |
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