2015 Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and Egyptian journalist Baher Mohamed are released on bail in Cairo while awaiting trial for allegedly assisting the Muslim Brotherhood; a third journalist, Australian Peter Grest, was deported earlier this month
2014 Italy's Democratic leader Matteo Renzi calls for a new government and for the country's Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, to resign
2014 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrests more anti-government protestors and now holds 19 people suspected of attempting to undermine him
2013 Seven years after Apple Inc. submitted its request to sell their iPhone under the name "iPhone" in Brazil, regulators denied their request, favoring IBG Electronica, who filed for the trademark in 2000, and was granted permission in 2008.
2011 At the 53rd Grammy Awards, Lady Antebellum wins the Song of the Year and Record of the Year award for the song, 'Need You Now'
2010 Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies in a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, hours before the opening ceremonies
2009 Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell declared force majeure on shipments from its main Nigerian terminal because of increased attacks by insurgents on key facilities. Force Majeure (French for “superior force”) is a common clause in contracts which essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties.
2008 Seven (7) people were killed and several more were trapped when a four-storey building collapsed in Lagos.
2007 Gunmen released 24 Filipino sailors taken hostage in the lawless southern oil-producing region..
1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong Thailand, kills 200
1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
1982 The first African American performers, the World’s Fair Colored Opera Company, appear at Carnegie Hall.
1976 Murtala Muhammed, a military head of state of Nigeria then, was killed at the age of thirth-seven (37) alongside with his Aide-De-Camp (ADC), Lieutenant Akintunde Akinsehinwa
1967 The Beatles single ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ is released.
1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1957 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was founded in New Orleans.
1945 U.S.S.R. captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
1933 The House of Commons defeated a bill that would have prohibited the sale of alcohol in the U.K.
1923 The first black professional basket ball team, “The Renaissance,” organized.
1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour
1861 Abraham Lincoln declared president
1818 Absalom Jones, the first African American Episcopal priest ordained in the U.S. , dies.
1795 1st state university in U.S. opens, University of North Carolina
1786 Abraham Baldwin selected president of University of Georgia
1693 College of William and Mary opens
1635 Oldest U.S. public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1566 St. Augustine, Florida founded
1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1457 Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor was born
1130 Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II 
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