- Feb 1 Severe bushfires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & take 60 lives
- Feb 1 WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Feb 1 The 10-team American Basketball Association (ABA) with George Mikan as Commissioner is formed and lasts 9 years; its three-point shot remains a feature of the game
George Mikan
Event of Interest
Feb 3 "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
- Feb 3 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne
- Feb 4 "Wild Thing" cover version by Senator Bobby hits #20 on the pop singles chart
- Feb 4 US launches Lunar Orbiter 3
- Feb 5 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
- Feb 5 Anastasio Somoza Debayle elected President of Nicaragua
- Feb 5 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
- Feb 6 Cultural Revolution in Albania
Boxing Title Fight
Feb 6 Muhammad Ali pummels Ernie Terrell for 15 rounds to retain his world heavyweight boxing crown at Houston Astrodome; regains Terrell’s WBA belt as well
Muhammad Ali
- Feb 7 A fire at a restaurant in Montgomery, Alabama kills 25 people.
- Feb 8 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
- Feb 8 Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
- Feb 8 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
- Feb 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 10 25th Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
- Feb 12 Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
Event of Interest
Feb 12 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
- Feb 12 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
Event of Interest
Feb 14 "Respect" single recorded by Aretha Franklin (Billboard Song of the Year 1967)
Aretha Franklin
Golden Globes
Feb 15 24th Golden Globes: A Man for All Seasons, Paul Scofield, & Anouk Aimee win
Paul Scofield
- Feb 16 Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame
- Feb 17 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
- Feb 17 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
- Feb 18 Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers
- Feb 19 Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater
- Feb 22 Barbara Garson's "MacBird" premieres in NYC
- Feb 22 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
- Feb 22 25,000 US and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against the Viet Cong. Largest US airborne assault since WWII.
- Feb 23 25th amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted
- Feb 23 John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes" premieres in NYC
- Feb 23 Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
Historic Publication
Feb 23 Noam Chomsky's anti-Vietnam war essay "The Responsibility of Intellectuals" is published by the New York Review of Books
Noam Chomsky
Daytona 500
Feb 26 9th Daytona 500: Mario Andretti wins his first and only NASCAR Grand National event; only time driver born outside the US has ever won the Great American Race
Mario Andretti
NBA Record
Feb 28 Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
Wilt Chamberlain
- Feb 28 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years