1258 Baghdad, then a city of 1 million, falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed, with tens of thousands slaughtered, ending the Islamic Golden Age

1575Henry III of France is crowned at Rheims

1578Tycho Brahe first sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system

1633 Italian astronomerGalileo Galilei arrives in Rome for trial before the Inquisition for professing the belief that Earth revolves around the Sun

1777Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1858 English explorersRichard Francis Burton and John Speke explore Lake Tanganyika in Africa

1861Abraham Lincoln declared US President in Washington, D.C.

1866Jesse James robs his first bank, stealing $15,000 from the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri

1886 PainterThomas Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversial over use of male nudes in a coed art class

1916Albert Einstein presents Karl Schwarzschild’s solution to his equations for a (then theoretical) black hole to the Prussian Academy of Sciences

1917 Dutch exotic dancerMata Hari is arrested in Paris on suspicion that she is a German spy

1928Clas Thunberg of Finland wins his 4th Olympic gold medal when he dead-heats with Norway’s Bernt Evensen in the 500m speed skating at the St. Moritz Winter Games

1942 Germany's planned invasion of England, Operation Sea Lion, is canceled byAdolf Hitler

1943 German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, GeneralDwight D. Eisenhower visits front

1945 Allied planes begin bombing the German city of Dresden, resulting in a devastating firestorm that destroys the city and kills over 22,000 people

1952 Future world championRocky Marciano knocks out Italian heavyweight boxer Gino Buonvino in the 2nd round at Rhode Island Auditorium, Providence for his 40th straight win

1960Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label, after a failed attempt to buy the Verve label;

1969 Launch party for Mary Hopkin's debut album "Post Card", at the Post Office Tower restaurant in London, England; attendees include producerPaul McCartney, songwriterDonovan,Jimi Hendrix,Eric Clapton,Brian Jones, and Tony Visconti

1971 US Vice PresidentSpiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd while golfing, injuring 2

1972 Film adaptation of "Cabaret," directed byBob Fosse and based onJohn Kander andFred Ebb's musical of the same name, is released, starringLiza Minnelli, Michael York, andJoel Grey

1974Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship

1974 James 'Cool Papa' Bell is named to baseball's Hall of Fame

1976 AmericanDorothy Hamill (19) wins the free skate to clinch the women's figure-skating gold medal at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics

1984Konstantin Chernenko succeedsYuri Andropov as leader of the Soviet Union

1987 Tigers'Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator

1990Larry Bird (Celtics) ends NBA free throw streak of 71 games

1995 3rd ESPY Awards:Steve Young,Bonnie Blair win

1995 West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332,Courtney Walsh 13-55

1996 British boy bandTake That officially announce that they are disbanding, prompting UK government to set up counselling phone lines

1996 Death Row/Interscope Records releases rapperTupac Shakur's fourth studio album "All Eyez on Me," his final release during his lifetime

1997Joseph Stiglitz becomes Chief Economist of the World Bank

2000 Robert Wilson and Lou Reed's avant garde opera "POEtry", based on the life and work ofEdgar Allan Poe, premieres at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany

2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day afterCharles M. Schulz dies

2010Jason Mraz wins two Grammy Awards for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("Make It Mine") and Best Pop Collaboration ("Lucky" with Colbie Caillat)

2011 53rd Grammy Awards: "Need You Now"; Esperanza Spalding;Lady Gaga;Usher;Jeff Beck win

2012Marco van Basten is announced as the manager of Heerenveen for the 2012-13 season

2014 Japanese figure skaterYuzuru Hanyu is first to break 100 points barrier in the short program (101.45 points) at the Sochi Winter Olympics, on way to the men's singles gold medal

2015 "If You're Reading This It's Too Late" 4th mixtape byDrake is released

2017Harrison Ford involved in a near miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County

2017 US PresidentDonald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviserMichael Flynn over his dealings with Russia

2018 Israeli Police report recommends Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud and breach-of-trust charges

2018 South African PresidentJacob Zuma is ordered to step down by the A.N.C.

2019 NASA confirms Mars Opportunity rover's mission has ended after 15 years due to a sandstorm damaging its communications

2021 Former US PresidentDonald Trump acquitted in second Senate impeachment trial on charge of incitement of insurrection after senators vote 57 to 43 in favor of conviction, less than the two thirds majority required for impeachment

2021Mario Draghi, former head of the European Central Bank, is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister ahead of a new coalition government

2022 Super Bowl LVI halftime show features Hip Hop legendsDr. Dre,Snoop Dogg,Kendrick Lamar andMary J. Blige,Eminem and50 Cent

2025Cristiano Ronaldo was the world's highest athlete in 2024 earning $260 million, followed byStephen Curry andTyson Fury, with no women on the top 100 list compiled by Sportico[1]