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| - 1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
* 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
* 1966 – The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
* 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. Green Bay Packers defeat Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
* 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
* 1970 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
* 1970 – Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
* 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing prog
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| - 1943 – The world's largest office building, The Pentagon, is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
* 1947 – The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
* 1966 – The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa in Nigeria is overthrown in a military coup d’état.
* 1967 – The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles, California. Green Bay Packers defeat Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
* 1969 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5.
* 1970 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafra surrenders.
* 1970 – Muammar al-Qaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
* 1973 – Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
* 1976 – Gerald Ford's would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.
* 1977 – The Kälvesta air disaster kills 22 people, the worst air crash in Sweden's history.
* 1986 – The Living Seas opens at EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World, Florida.
* 1990 – AT&T's long distance telephone network suffers a cascade switching failure.
* 1991 – The United Nations deadline for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from occupied Kuwait expires, preparing the way for the start of Operation Desert Storm.
* 1992 – The international community recognizes the independence of Slovenia and Croatia from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
* 1993 – Salvatore Riina, the Mafia boss known as 'The Beast', is arrested in Sicily after three decades as a fugitive
* 1999 – The Racak incident: 45 Albanians in the Kosovo village of Racak are killed by Yugoslav security forces.
* 2000 – A man died after was hit by an LRT train in Singapore while crossing the tracks at the station named Jelapang Station, marking the first fatality on its LRT system.
* 2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
* 2005 – An intense solar flare blasts X-rays across the solar system.
* 2005 – ESA's SMART-1 lunar orbiter discovers elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, iron, and other surface elements on the moon.
* 2007 – Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, former Iraqi intelligence chief and half-brother of Saddam Hussein, and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, former chief judge of the Revolutionary Court, are executed by hanging in Iraq.
* 2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
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