- Feb 1 Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
#1 in the Charts
Feb 2 Barbra Streisand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
- Feb 2 Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
- Feb 2 The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
- Feb 2 Playmobil toys debut at the Nuremberg Toy Fair, designed by Hans Beck and produced by the Brandstätter Group
- Feb 3 "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
- Feb 4 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
- Feb 4 Petroleum rationing ends in Netherlands
- Feb 4 Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire, England, carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members
- Feb 4 Randolph Hearst’s 19-year-old daughter, Patty Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in California by the Symbionese Liberation Army
- Feb 5 British miners begin their strike in reaction to the three-day week
- Feb 5 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
- Feb 5 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
- Feb 5 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
- Feb 5 John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the United States Congress
- Feb 6 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
- Feb 6 Dutch speed limit set at 100km due to oil crisis
Historic Event
Feb 6 US House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of President Richard Nixon
- Feb 7 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Film Release
Feb 7 Mel Brooks' film "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder
Election of Interest
Feb 7 UK Prime Minister Edward Heath calls for a 'snap' general election in the midst of a protracted miners' strike
Music Single
Feb 8 Ringo Starr releases a cover of "You're Sixteen" as a single in UK; originally released by Johnny Burnette in 1960
Sports History
Feb 9 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
- Feb 9 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
- Feb 10 "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
- Feb 10 Iran / Iraqi border fight breaks out
- Feb 10 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
- Feb 10 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
- Feb 11 Minnesota Twins pitcher Dick Woodson is first of 48 to invoke Major League Baseball's new arbitration rule
- Feb 11 Titan-Centaur rocket test launch fails
- Feb 11 First Major League Baseball arbitration case; Minnesota Twins pitcher Dick Woodson seeking $29,000 wins; Twins offered $23,000
Historic Event
Feb 11 Henry Kissinger unveils Nixon Administration's seven-point "Project Independence" plan to make the U.S. energy independent
- Feb 11 Libya nationalizes three US oil companies that had not agreed to 51 percent nationalization in September
- Feb 12 Heads of state of Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia discuss oil strategy in view of the progress in Arab-Israeli disengagement
- Feb 13 "Rainbow Jones" opens & closes at Music Box Theater NYC
Historic Event
Feb 13 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship
Daytona 500
Feb 17 16th Daytona 500: Richard Petty first driver to win back-to-back titles at Daytona; his 5th Great American race
Sports History
Feb 20 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
TV Show Appearance
Feb 23 Teri Garr appears on "The Bob Newhart Show" in "Confessions of an Orthodontist"
- Feb 24 Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
- Feb 24 Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
- Feb 25 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
- Feb 26 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
- Feb 27 "People" magazine begins sales
- Feb 27 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Feb 28 Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
- Feb 28 UK general election results in a hung parliament
- Feb 28 Taiwan police shoots into crowd
- Feb 28 US & Egypt re-form diplomatic relations after 7 years