- Feb 1 Stapleton, Staten Island, becomes a customs-free port
Event of Interest
Donald Bradman
- Feb 4 Jim Margie, Philadelphia, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Feb 6 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
- Feb 8 Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings" premieres in NYC
- Feb 10 Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400m (5:14.2)
- Feb 11 44-day sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint Mich ends
- Feb 12 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
- Feb 13 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
- Feb 13 Maribel Vinson wins her 9th US figure skating championship
- Feb 13 NFL Boston Redskins move to Washington, D.C.
- Feb 13 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
- Feb 16 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
- Feb 16 Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage" premieres in Paris
- Feb 20 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, California
- Feb 21 Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
- Feb 21 The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
- Feb 24 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Washington, D.C.
- Feb 26 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden's "Ascent of F6" premieres in London
- Feb 27 Bradman scores 169 in 5th Test Cricket v England in 223 minutes