| 1783 | American Civil War: England officially declared an end to its hostilities with the United States. |
| 1789 | George Washington was elected the first president of the United States. |
| 1935 | George Washington was re-elected as US president in his second term. |
| 1899 | The Philippines - USA war has begun. |
| 1927 | British Malcolm Campbell broke the world record by speeding up to 281.4 km per hour with his car named "Bluebird". |
| 1932 | The Winter Olympics started in Lake Placid (New York). |
| 1936 | Radium E was the first synthetically obtained radioactive element. |
| 1976 | 22,778 people died in the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras. |
| 1998 | 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Afghanistan: More than 5,000 people died. |
| 2003 | The new name of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is Serbia and Montenegro. |
| 2006 | 88 people died and 280 people were injured in a stampede that occurred in a stadium near Manila, the capital of the Philippines. |