1849 – 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1903 – New York Highlanders (Yankees) baseball franchise is approved as a member of the American League
1926 – Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine The Beano’
1989 – 36th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #9 North Carolina beats #7 Duke, 77-74
1993 – 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
2000 – 41st SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Arkansas beats Auburn, 75-67
2018 – Plane crash of Bangladeshi carrier at Kathmandu airport kills at least 49 after plane approaches runway from wrong end
2022 – Saudi Arabia executes 81 convicted criminals, the country’s largest known mass execution in modern times
2023 – Cyclone Freddy makes landfall for a second time in central Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi, killing about 200 people and setting records as the longest-lasting cyclone in the southern hemisphere (formed Feb 6)