On this day in 1996, Venice's opera house was destroyed by fire.
On this day in 2002, in his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush described "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of evil, in which he included Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
On this day in 2005, the first direct commercial flights from China to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei.
On this day in 2015, Malaysia officially declared the disappearance of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 an accident and its passengers and crew presumed dead.