1992: Rebel forces occupy Zaire's national radio station in Kinshasa and broadcast a demand for the government's resignation.
1987: Philippine security forces open fire on a crowd of 10,000-15,000 demonstrators at Malacañang Palace, Manila, killing 13.
1984: The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
1927: Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1824: The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
1808: The Portuguese royal family arrives in Brazil after fleeing the French army's invasion of Portugal two months earlier.
1689: The Convention Parliament convenes to determine whether James II and VII, the last Roman Catholic monarch of England, Ireland and Scotland, had vacated the thrones of England and Ireland when he fled to France in 1688.