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A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs.
The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War.
Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
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