- Feb 1 Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
Event of Interest
Feb 1 Ramsay MacDonald's incoming Labour government formally recognizes the Soviet Union
Ramsay MacDonald
- Feb 1 Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
- Feb 2 International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
- Feb 3 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
- Feb 4 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix, France
- Feb 4 George Kelly's play "Show-Off," premieres in New York City
- Feb 5 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
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Feb 7 Benito Mussolini's Italian government exchanges diplomats with USSR
Benito Mussolini
- Feb 8 1st US coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
- Feb 9 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
- Feb 10 Bucky Harris at 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
- Feb 12 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at influential concert "Experiment in Modern Music" held by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra at the Aeolian Hall, NYC
- Feb 12 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Feb 14 Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)
Thomas J. Watson
- Feb 15 A deputation for the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets with the Minister of the Interior, Sir Patrick Duncan, and presents him with a memorandum setting out their objections concerning the Class Areas Bill
- Feb 17 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
- Feb 18 US Ladies' Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
- Feb 18 US Men's Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
- Feb 18 US Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby resigns due to Teapot Dome scandal
- Feb 24 Greek parliament proclaims republic
- Feb 24 Johnny Weissmuller, swims 100m record (57 2/5 secs)
Event of Interest
Feb 24 Mahatma Gandhi released from jail
Mahatma Gandhi
- Feb 25 Marie Boyd scores 156 points in Maryland HS basketball game (163-3)
Coup d'état
Adolf Hitler