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===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; The [[Great Baltimore Fire]] begins in [[Baltimore, Maryland]];<ref>{{cite book|author=Marion Elizabeth Rodgers|title=Mencken: The American Iconoclast|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iLNSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA571|date=10 August 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533129-5|pages=571|access-date=4 February 2019|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120557/https://books.google.com/books?id=iLNSDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA571|url-status=live}}</ref> it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
*[[1940]] &ndash; The second full-length animated [[Walt Disney]] film, ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'', premieres.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RV2hAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT212 |title=How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life |last1=Williams |first1=Pat |last2=Denney |first2=Jim |date=2010-01-01 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7573-9446-1 |pages=212 |df=mdy-all |access-date=2020-02-04 |archive-date=2020-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801123604/https://books.google.com/books?id=RV2hAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT212 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: [[Imperial Japanese Navy]] forces complete the evacuation of [[Imperial Japanese Army]] troops from [[Guadalcanal]] during [[Operation Ke]], ending Japanese attempts to retake the island from [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] forces in the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: In [[Anzio]], Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied [[Operation Shingle]].
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Korean War]]: More than 700 suspected communist sympathizers [[Sancheong-Hamyang massacre|are massacred]] by [[Republic of Korea Army|South Korean forces]].
*[[1962]] &ndash; The United States [[United States embargo against Cuba|bans]] all [[Cuba]]n imports and exports.
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[The Beatles]] land in the United States for the first time, at the newly renamed [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Byrne|first=Suzy|author-link=Suzy Byrne|title=The Beatles touched down in America 60 years ago. Thousands of shrieking fans mobbed JFK to catch a glimpse of the Fab Four.|work=Yahoo Entertainment|date=February 7, 2024|url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/the-beatles-america-jfk-fans-120029821.html}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; The [[1966 Iloilo City fire|Great Fire of Iloilo]] breaks out in a lumber yard in [[Iznart Street]] and burns for almost half a day destroying nearly three-quarters of the [[Iloilo City Proper|City Proper]] area and Php 50 million pesos in total properties' damage.<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |title=Heritage Community Resilience: The Experience of Stakeholders in Calle Real, Iloilo City, Philippines |date=2022 |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/1091/1/012011 |doi-access=free |last1=Ibabao |first1=Rhodella A. |last2=Balinas |first2=Vicente |last3=Camena |first3=Jerilee |last4=Trance |first4=Rene |last5=Defiesta |first5=Gay |last6=Grio |first6=Mary Earl |last7=Oreta |first7=Andres Winston |last8=Penaredondo |first8=Suzette |volume=1091 |issue=1 |page=012011 |bibcode=2022E&ES.1091a2011I }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 18, 1966 |title=Official Week in Review: February 16 ─ March 29, 1966 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1966/04/18/official-week-in-review-february-16-march-29-1966/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2023-02-01 |title=Sta. Teresita del Niño Church in Iloilo City |url=https://www.theoldchurches.com/philippines/iloilo/iloilo-city/sta-teresita-del-nino-church-iloilo-city/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=THEOLDCHURCHES |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Grenada]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Graça |first1=J. Da |last2=Graça |first2=John Da |title=Heads of State and Government |date=13 February 2017 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-349-65771-1 |page=398 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M0YfDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA398 |language=en |access-date=17 November 2021 |archive-date=14 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220214185418/https://books.google.com/books?id=M0YfDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA398 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Pluto]] moves inside [[Neptune]]'s orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
*[[1981]] &ndash; A [[1981 Pushkin Tu-104 crash|plane crash]] at [[Pushkin Airport]] kills 50 people, including 16 members of the [[Pacific Fleet (Russia)|Pacific Fleet]].<ref name="CF">{{cite web |last=Koshelev |first=S. |title=ЧЕРНЫЙ ФЕВРАЛЬ |trans-title=BLACK FEBRUARY |url=http://gazetam.ru/no030301/st03.htm |access-date=8 April 2019 |publisher=Morskaya Gazeta |language=ru}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[STS-41-B]] Mission: astronauts [[Bruce McCandless II]] and [[Robert L. Stewart]] make the first untethered [[space walk]] using the [[Manned Maneuvering Unit]] (MMU).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4219/Chapter13.html|title="More Favored than the Birds": The Manned Maneuvering Unit in Space |publisher=NASA|year=1998|access-date=February 7, 2024 |page=316}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; Twenty-eight years of one-family rule end in [[Haiti]], when President [[Jean-Claude Duvalier]] flees the [[Caribbean]] nation.
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union]]: The [[Central Committee]] of the [[Soviet Communist Party]] agrees to give up its monopoly on power.
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Haiti]]'s first democratically elected president, [[Jean-Bertrand Aristide]], is sworn in.
*  1991   &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: The [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] launches [[Downing Street mortar attack|a mortar attack]] on [[10 Downing Street]] in London, the headquarters of the British government.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Maastricht Treaty]] is signed, leading to the creation of the [[European Union]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe|author2=Council of Europe. Directorate of Co-operation for Local and Regional Democracy|title=International Conference on Financial Relations Between State, Regional and Local Authorities in Federal States: Proceedings, Moscow (Russian Federation), 5-7 October 2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCfOkLHJ5ZQC&pg=PA27|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-4763-9|pages=27|access-date=12 January 2020|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801120618/https://books.google.com/books?id=nCfOkLHJ5ZQC&pg=PA27|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Ramzi Yousef]], the mastermind of the [[1993 World Trade Center bombing]], is arrested in [[Islamabad|Islamabad, Pakistan]].
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Abdullah II of Jordan|Crown Prince Abdullah]] becomes the King of [[Jordan]] on [[Death and state funeral of Hussein of Jordan|the death]] of his father, King [[Hussein of Jordan|Hussein]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Gillett |first=Katy |date=February 7, 2020 |title=Remembering the day King Abdullah II of Jordan ascended the throne |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/remembering-the-day-king-abdullah-ii-of-jordan-ascended-the-throne-1.975096 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201150943/https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/remembering-the-day-king-abdullah-ii-of-jordan-ascended-the-throne-1.975096 |archive-date=February 1, 2021 |access-date=January 25, 2021 |website=National News}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; Space Shuttle program: [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] is launched on mission [[STS-98]], carrying the ''[[Destiny (ISS module)|Destiny]]'' laboratory module to the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Warnock|first=Lynda|title=STS-98|url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-98.html|access-date=2022-01-31|website=www.nasa.gov|publisher=NASA|archive-date=2018-02-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208181454/https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-98.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Black Saturday bushfires|Bushfires in Victoria]] leave 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
*[[2012]] &ndash; President [[Mohamed Nasheed]] of the [[Maldives|Republic of Maldives]] resigns, after 23 days of anti-governmental protests calling for the release of the Chief Judge unlawfully arrested by the military.
*[[2013]] &ndash; The U.S. state of [[Mississippi]] officially certifies the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Thirteenth Amendment]], becoming the last state to approve the abolition of [[slavery]]. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
*[[2014]] &ndash; Scientists announce that the [[Happisburgh footprints]] in [[Norfolk]], England, date back to more than 800,000 years ago, making them the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0088329|pmid=24516637|pmc=3917592|title=Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=9|issue=2|pages=e88329|year=2014|last1=Ashton|first1=Nick|last2=Lewis|first2=Simon G|last3=De Groote|first3=Isabelle|last4=Duffy|first4=Sarah M|last5=Bates|first5=Martin|last6=Bates|first6=Richard|last7=Hoare|first7=Peter|last8=Lewis|first8=Mark|last9=Parfitt|first9=Simon A|last10=Peglar|first10=Sylvia|last11=Williams|first11=Craig|last12=Stringer|first12=Chris|bibcode=2014PLoSO...988329A|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; North Korea launches [[Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4]] into outer space violating multiple UN treaties and prompting condemnation from around the world.
*[[2021]] &ndash; The [[2021 Uttarakhand flood]] begins.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ghoshal |first1=Devjyot |last2=Kumar |first2=Manoj |date=2021-02-07 |title=Himalayan glacier breaks in India, around 125 missing in floods |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/india/himalayan-glacier-breaks-india-around-125-missing-floods-2021-02-07/ |access-date=2022-11-11}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; Pakistan election offices are hit by [[2024 Balochistan bombings|twin bombings]], killing at least 24 people a day before [[2024 Pakistani general election|general elections.]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-07 |title=Pakistan election offices hit by twin bombings, killing at least 24 people a day before parliamentary vote - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-election-2024-bomb-explosions-attack-baluchistan-what-to-know/ |access-date=2024-02-09 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>