| 2015 | The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is planning rules for commercial drones that will limit flights to uncrowded areas within the operator’s line of sight, meaning that uses such as package delivery or long-range news reporting are off limits |
| 2014 | Lebanon’s new Prime Minister Tammam Salam declares that he has been able to form a new cabinet, breaking the 10-month impasse between Hezbollah and Sunni rival parties; Salam intends to hold presidential elections on time |
| 2014 | Renaud Lavillenie, French champion pole vaulter, breaks the previous height record, held by athlete Sergey Bubka, at the Pole Vault Stars meet in Donetsk, Ukraine; Lavillenie reached 6.16 meters indoors, exceeding Bubka’s world record of 6.15 m indoors achieved in 1993 |
| 2013 | British catering firm Compass Group and Whitbread, one of the country’s largest hotel chains, find horse DNA in products sold as “beef” |
| 2013 | A near-Earth asteroid, 2012 DA14, comes within 17,200 miles of the Earth’s surface, a record-close approach for an object estimated at 50 meters, or 160 ft in in diameter |
| 2012 | A painting by Francis Bacon sells at Christies for 21.3 million pounds; ‘The Portrait of Henrietta Moraes’ is the second most valuable post-war contemporary art sold at the auction house |
| 2012 | Procter & Gamble sells Pringles to the Kellogg Company for $2.7 billion |
| 2011 | Inflation in the People’s Republic of China reaches 4.9% |
| 2011 | In Malaysia, Islamic morality police arrest more than 80 muslims to prevent them from celebrating Valentine’s Day |
| 2010 | Men’s freestyle skiing moguls competitor, Alexandre Bilodeau, wins the first gold medal Canada has ever won on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics |
| 1998 | Dale Eggeling wins Los Angeles Women’s Golf Championship |
| 1998 | Daytona 500 race |
| 1997 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Tara Lipinski |
| 1997 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldridge |
| 1995 | Burundi premier Anatole Kanyenkiko, resigns |
| 1995 | Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17 |
| 1995 | Population of People’s Republic of China hits 1.2 billion |
| 1994 | U.S. asks Aristide to adopt a peace plan from Haiti |
| 1993 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Rochester, New York on WNVE 95.1 FM |
| 1992 | 100th episode of “Cops” airs on Fox |
| 1992 | Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys |
| 1991 | Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die |
| 1991 | Troy State sets NCAA Div II record with 103 points in 2nd half routing DeVry Institute 187-117 |
| 1990 | Baseball owners lock out players |
