- 1757 – Louis XV of France survived an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who later became the last person to be executed in the country by drawing and quartering.
- 1919 – The German Workers' Party, the forerunner to the Nazi Party, was founded by Anton Drexler.
- 1949 – In his State of the Union speech, U.S. President Harry S. Truman (pictured) announced, "Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal."
- 1991 – Georgian troops attacked Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, opening the 1991–1992 South Ossetia War.
- 2003 – London police arrested six people in conjunction with an alleged terrorist plot to release ricin on the London Underground, although no ricin was actually found.
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