- 2003 Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at #1 on the UK singles chart with "All The Things She Said"
- 2012 Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
- 2012 MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papua New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126 missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)
- 2012 NHL player Sam Gagner becomes the first player to scores eight points in one game for the Edmonton Oilers against the Chicago Blackhawks since 1989
- 2013 18 people are killed and 34 are injured after a bus catches fire after falling down a ravine in Gansu province, China
- 2013 23 people are killed and 8 are injured after militants attacked an army base in the Lakki Marwat District, Pakistan
Event of Interest
2013 Shinzō Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister vows to defend the Senkaku Islands "at all costs"
- 2014 Protests in Ukraine turn violent after parliament passes legislation that outlaws protest
Super Bowl
2014 Super Bowl XLVIII, MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ: Seattle Seahawks beat Denver Broncos, 42-8; MVP: Malcolm Smith, Seattle, LB
- 2019 More than 40 mummies from 323-30 BC found at a burial site at Tuna el-Gebel archaeological site south of Cairo, Egypt
- 2019 Virginia Governor Ralph Northam admits to wearing blackface in 1984 but says he's not in a photo of men wearing blackface and a Ku Klux Klan robe on a yearbook page
BAFTA Awards
2020 73rd British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "1917" Best Film, Sam Mendes Best Director, Renée Zellweger, Joaquin Phoenix best actors
Australian Men's Tennis Open
2020 Australian Open Men's Tennis: Novak Đoković of Serbia rallies to beat Austrian Dominic Thiem 6-4, 4-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 for a record-extending eighth title at Melbourne Park
- 2020 Palindrome Day: the date 02022020 reads the same forward and backward including in the US and China (last one like this 11 November 1111)
Super Bowl
2020 Super Bowl LIV, Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL: Kansas City Chiefs beat San Francisco 49ers, 31-20; MVP: Patrick Mahomes, KC Chiefs, QB; Chiefs' 1st victory in 50 years
- 2021 Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be confirmed as head of the US Department of Homeland Security
Event of Interest
2021 Jeff Bezos announces he is stepping down as CEO of Amazon after 30 years, becoming executive chairman
- 2021 Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay person to be confirmed to a US cabinet post as transportation secretary
- 2021 Russia's Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine deemed 91.6% effective according to analysis published in "The Lancet" [1]
- 2021 Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny jailed for three and a half years in jail over alleged parole violations in Moscow
