Historical Events
Historic Publication
Feb 1 Danielle Steel’s romance novel “Fine Things” is published
Danielle Steel
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Feb 4 US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
Ronald Reagan
- Feb 4 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
- Feb 4 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
- Feb 5 Dow Jones avg closes above 2,200 for 1st time
- Feb 5 Soyuz TM-2 launches
- Feb 6 No-smoking rules take effect in US federal buildings
- Feb 6 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
- Feb 7 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
- Feb 7 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring the America's Cup back to US
#1 in the Charts
- Feb 7 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
- Feb 7 Police in South Korea make hundreds of arrests during protest demonstrations, the country's biggest for 6 years, after a student died in custody
- Feb 8 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
- Feb 9 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
- Feb 9 NY Stock Exch installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
- Feb 10 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians in Lupao Massacre
- Feb 11 British Airways begins trading stocks
- Feb 11 England beat Australia 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup
- Feb 11 Philippines constitution goes into effect
- Feb 11 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 12 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
- Feb 13 Tigers' Jack Morris awarded $1.85 million salary by arbitrator
- Feb 14 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
- Feb 15 ABC-TV begins broadcasting "Amerika" mini-series
- Feb 15 Karlstad skates world record 10km (14:03,92)
- Feb 15 Nikolai Guljajev becomes world champion skater
- Feb 15 Craig Stadler disqualified from Andy Williams Open for kneeling on a towel to make a shot
- Feb 15 29th Daytona 500: Bill Elliott wins (176.263 MPH)
- Feb 16 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
- Feb 17 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
- Feb 17 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
- Feb 19 "Stardust" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 102 performances
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Feb 19 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985
Yul Brynner
- Feb 19 Less than a month after re-signing, A's pitcher Vida Blue retires
- Feb 19 Minnesota sheriff's office arrest FBI's most wanted, Thomas G. Harrelson
- Feb 19 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
- Feb 20 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by a computer store in Salt Lake City
- Feb 20 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
- Feb 20 37th Berlin International Film Festival: "The Theme" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 21 Syrian army marches into Beirut
- Feb 22 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
- Feb 23 Dick Howser retires from managing KC Royals, due to brain tumor
- Feb 23 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
- Feb 23 Supernova 1987A in LMC 1st seen; 1st naked-eye supernova since 1604
- Feb 24 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins
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Feb 24 LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Feb 24 Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
Larry King
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Feb 26 NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points in one game is a Chicago Bulls record
Michael Jordan
- Feb 26 Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
- Feb 26 USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Feb 26 Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
- Feb 27 "Washington Week In Review" 20th anniversary on PBS
- Feb 27 Donald Regan resigns as White House chief of staff
- Feb 27 Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
- Feb 27 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
Famous Birthdays
- Feb 1 Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
- Feb 1 Ronda Rousey American athlete (UFC Champion), born in Riverside, California
- Feb 2 Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
- Feb 2 Martin Spanjers, American actor
- Feb 4 Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
- Feb 5 Henry Golding, Malaysian actor (Crazy Rich Asians), born in Betong, Sarawak, Malaysia
- Feb 5 Darren Criss, American actor and singer-songwriter (Glee), born in San Francisco, California
- Feb 8 Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
- Feb 9 Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
- Feb 9 Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
- Feb 9 Michael B. Jordan, American actor (Black Panther), born in Santa Ana, California
- Feb 10 Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior), born in Seoul, South Korea
- Feb 14 Joseph Pichler, American actor
- Feb 14 Julia Savicheva, Russian singer
- Feb 14 David Wheater, English footballer
- Feb 14 Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan soccer striker (Uruguay, PSG), born in Salto, Uruguay
- Feb 16 Theresa Goh, Singaporean Paralympic swimmer
Ellen Page
Feb 21 Ellen Page, Canadian actress (Juno) and LGBT activist, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Ellen Page
- Feb 21 Burgess Abernethy, Australian Actor
- Feb 21 Ashley Greene, American model and actress
- Feb 24 Daniel Reilly, British entrepreneur
- Feb 24 Mayuko Iwasa, Japanese entertainer and model
- Feb 24 Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress
- Feb 25 Eva Avila, Canadian singer
- Feb 25 Michelle Lewin, American bodybuilder and fitness model, born in Maracay, Venezuela
- Feb 26 Juliet Simms, Guitarist and vocals for the band Automatic Loveletter
- Feb 28 Kerrea Gilbert, English footballer
Famous Deaths
- Feb 1 Ernest "Ern" Westmore, American 3rd generation make-up artist (Westmore family) and actor, dies from a heart attack at 82
- Feb 1 Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
- Feb 2 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
- Feb 2 Patrick "Spike" Hughes, British jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
- Feb 2 Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
- Feb 2 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
- Feb 4 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
- Feb 8 Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
- Feb 8 Harriet MacGibbon, American actress, dies of a pulmonary & cardiac failure at 81
- Feb 8 Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74
- Feb 10 Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
- Feb 11 Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
- Feb 12 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8), dies at 55
- Feb 13 M L "Curly" Page, cricketer (NZ Test capt 1933), dies
- Feb 14 Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
- Feb 14 Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
- Feb 15 Jimmy Holiday, American singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
- Feb 15 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
- Feb 17 Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo), dies
- Feb 17 Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls), dies
- Feb 18 Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky, composer, dies at 82
- Feb 20 Ivan Brkanovic, composer, dies at 80
Andy Warhol
Feb 22 Andy Warhol, American pop artist and film producer (Frankenstein, Bad), dies of a heart attack at 58
Andy Warhol
- Feb 22 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show), dies at 66
- Feb 22 Glenway Wescott, American writer (Apartment in Athens), dies at 85
- Feb 23 Esmond Knight, British actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder), dies from a heart attack at 80
- Feb 24 Jim Connors, American Legendary Radio personality, dies in a car crash at 46
- Feb 25 James Coco, American character actor and singer (Only When I Laugh, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death), dies of a heart attack at 56
- Feb 27 Joan Greenwood, British actress and director (Kind Hearts and Coronets, Amorous Mr Prawn), dies of a heart attack at 65
- Feb 28 Anny Ondra, actress (Blackmail), dies at 83
- Feb 28 Nora Kaye, US ballet dancer, dies at 67