BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 people are killed, including more than 50 army officials, by Bangladeshi Border Guards inside its headquarters.

Mosque of Abraham massacre: In the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein opens fire with an automatic rifle, killing 29 Palestinian worshippers and injuring 125 more before being subdued and beaten to death by survivors.

Khojaly massacre: about 613 civilians are killed by Armenian armed forces during the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan

Gulf War: An Iraqi scud missile hits an American military barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28 U.S. Army Reservists from Pennsylvania.

People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president.

The Suriname government is overthrown by a military coup which is initiated with the bombing of the police station from an army ship off the coast of the nation's capital, Paramaribo

The first unit of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Canada, goes online.

In his speech ''On the Personality Cult and its Consequences'' Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union denounces the cult of personality of Joseph Stalin.

Gamal Abdul Nasser is made premier of Egypt.

The first Pan American Games are held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia takes control of government in Czechoslovakia and the period of the Third Republic ends.

State of Prussia ceases to exist.

World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

February Strike: In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike is declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures instituted by the Nazis.

The {{USS|Ranger|CV-4|6}} is launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.

Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.

Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.

Glacier Bay National Monument (now Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve) is established in Alaska.

Diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union are established.

Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, is occupied by Bolshevist Russia.

Oregon places a 1 cent per U.S. gallon tax on gasoline, becoming the first U.S. state to levy a gasoline tax.

Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.

J.P. Morgan incorporates the United States Steel Corporation.

Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.

Provisional Cession of the Hawaiian or Sandwich Islands established by Lord George Paulet.

Samuel Colt is granted an United States patent for the Colt revolver.

Colonel William Tate and his force of 1000-1500 soldiers surrender after the Last Invasion of Britain.

George Washington holds the first Cabinet meeting as President of the United States.

Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England.

The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor.