1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.

1835 – US President Andrew Jackson announces a celebratory dinner after having reduced the United States national debt to zero for the only time.

1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a "war on poverty" in the United States.

1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1920 – The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.

1927 – The first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.

1980 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giving $1.5 billion in loans to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.

1941 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.

2021 – Incited by Donald Trump, neo-fascist rabble storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt certification of the 2020 presidential election, resulting in four deaths and evacuation of the U.S. Congress.

1914 – The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.

1919 – The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.

1953 – The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.

1967 – The Doors released their eponymous debut album.

1975 – This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in TOPS-10. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed.

2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

1947 – Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.

1977 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

1990 – United States invasion of Panama: Manuel Noriega, former leader of Panama, surrenders to American forces.

2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, is established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

2020 – Iranian General Qasem Soleimani is killed by an American airstrike near Baghdad International Airport, igniting global concerns of a potential armed conflict.

2026 - United States military and law enforcement elements - on the orders of the criminal Trump regime - attack the sovereign nation of Venezuela and kidnap its president and first lady.

1920 – The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.

1921 – World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové.

1808 – The United States bans the importation of slaves.

1818 – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (anonymously) publishes the pioneering work of science fiction, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, in London.

1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.

1892 – Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.

1934 – A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.

1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.

1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.

1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.

1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.

1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

1951 – Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

1995 – The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published.

1999 – The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

2019 – The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan.<24> This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2020 – The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.

1890 – Wounded Knee Massacre: On Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

2003 – The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.

2023 – South Africa files a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over Israeli conducts in the Gaza Strip.

1657 – The Flushing Remonstrance articulates for the first time in North American history that freedom of religion is a fundamental right.

1831 – Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.

1929 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".

1963 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and "I Saw Her Standing There" are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.

2021 – The James Webb Space Telescope is launched.

1865 – Former Confederate officers Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones, and James Crowe form the Ku Klux Klan.

1815 – The novel Emma by Jane Austen is first published.

1893 – The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.

1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.

1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France.

2016 – A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70 and 100% effective, making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.

1924 – Adolf Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison.

1946 – It's a Wonderful Life premieres at the Globe Theatre in New York to mixed reviews.

1951 – The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.

1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

1998 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached.