1879 – 1st 5 cent and 10 cent store opened by Frank W. Woolworth in Utica, New York (failed almost immediately)
1912 – J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1967 – Barbara Garson’s “MacBird” premieres in NYC
1968 – Rock group Genesis release their 1st record “Silent Sun”
1984 – Brothers Anton and Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1998 – XVIII Winter Olympic Games close in Nagano Japan
2013 – 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali
2014 – Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
2014 – Snowboard Olympic parallel special slalom event debuts and is run for the only time at the Sochi Winter Games; Russian Vic Wild and Julia Dujmovits of Canada win unique gold medals
2014 – Viktor Yanukovych is ousted as President of Ukraine by the parliament following the Euromaidan revolution