The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USS Yorktown (CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial…
15 February 1999
Pluto crosses Neptune’s orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to…
10 February 1984
Kenyan soldiers kill an estimated 5000 ethnic Somali Kenyans in the Wagalla massacre.
7 February 1904
A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
6 February 1840
Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
3 February 1998
Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car…