- 1737 – Thomas Paine is born.
- 1820 – King George III dies after years of mental illness.
- 1843 – William McKinley is born. He later becomes the 25th president of the United States.
- 1861 – Kansas enters the Union.
- 1863 – Bear River Massacre occurs
- 1874 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr. is born.
- 1891 – Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii.
- 1892 – The Coca-Cola Company is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1896 – Emile Grubbe is the first doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer.
- 1920 – Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week.
- 1924 – Carl R. Taylor received patent no. 445,294 from the U.S. Patent Office for his machine that would roll an ice cream core.
- 1926 – Violette Neatly Anderson becomes the first black woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme Court
- 1936 – Babe Ruth inducted into the Hall of Fame
- 1945 – Tom Selleck is born.
- 1954 – Oprah Winfrey is born.
- 1963 – American poet Robert Frost dies at age 88.
- 1977 – “Roots” premieres on television.
- 2000 – Karl Malone becomes the 3rd player in NBA history to score 30,000 career points.
- 2002 – George W. Bush describes an “Axis of evil” in his state of the union address.
- 2003 – Frank Moss dies
- 2009 – Rod Blagojevich, the Governor of Illinois is removed from office after being convicted of corruption charges.
- 2012 – American snowboarder Shaun White achieves the first ever SuperPipe perfect score (100) in Winter X Games history.
- 2014 – Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
- 2018 – Marvel film “Black Panther” directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman premieres in Los Angeles
