Music Premiere
Feb 1 Giacomo Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut" premieres in Turin
Film & TV History
Feb 1 Thomas Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio at West Orange, New Jersey
Music Premiere
Feb 9 Giuseppe Verdi's comic opera "Falstaff" premieres at La Scala in Milan, Italy
- Feb 22 1st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 32-22 in Birmingham
- Feb 24 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America
- Feb 26 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, in Michigan
- Feb 26 Norwegian Einar Halvorsen skates world record 500m (48 sec)
- Feb 28 Edward Acheson of Pennsylvania, patents an abrasive he names "carborundum" (Silicon carbide)