The Treaty of Waitangi is signed which established New Zealand as a British colony.
Author: Staff
3 February 1998
A United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of the Cavalese cable car in Italy.
2 February 1972
The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in a protest the was known as Bloody Sunday.
1 February 1960
Four black students carry out the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
30 January 1956
American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.’s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
29 January 2002
In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush first uses the Axis of Evil description.