1892 The rules of basketball were published for the first time, in Springfield, Mass.
1929 Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave baseball the approval to play despite World War II. He encouraged night games so that war workers could attend.
1973 President Richard Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.
1978 Serial killer Ted Bundy murdered two students in a sorority house at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
1978 - The Super Bowl was played indoors for the first time. The game was played at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Denver Broncos 27-10.
1997 - Dennis Rodman (Chicago Bulls) kicked cameraman Eugene Amosin in the groin.
2004 The NASA Spirit rover rolled onto the surface of Mars.
2005 A military court at Fort Hood, Texas, sentenced Army Specialist Charles Graner Jr. to 10 years behind bars for physically and sexually mistreating Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison.
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