- Feb 1 KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
Event of Interest
Feb 2 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 performances
Jerome Kern
Meeting of Interest
Feb 2 Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
John Paul II
Tenzin Gyatso
Event of Interest
Feb 3 US President Ronald Reagan announces formation of commission of enquiry on Challenger Accident
Ronald Reagan
- Feb 3 OPEC fails to agree upon a petroleum production agreement after a 2 day meeting in Vienna
Meeting of Interest
Feb 3 The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta
Mother Teresa
NHL All-Star Game
Feb 4 38th NHL All-Star Game, Hartford Civic Centre: Wales Conference beats Campbell Conference, 4-3 (OT); MVP: Grant Fuhr, Edmonton Oilers, G
Grant Fuhr
- Feb 4 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan passenger airliner
Event of Interest
Feb 5 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
Corazon Aquino
Ferdinand Marcos
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France: Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
Jean-Claude Duvalier
Election of Interest
Feb 7 Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
Ferdinand Marcos
Corazon Aquino
- Feb 8 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
- Feb 8 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
- Feb 8 1984 Summer Olympics LAPD bomb squad chief Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit are killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs
Film Premier
Feb 8 The crime film "A Better Tomorrow", starring Yun Fat Chow, premieres in Hong Kong
Yun Fat Chow
NBA All-Star Game
Feb 9 36th NBA All-Star Game, Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX: East beats West, 139-132; MVP: Isiah Thomas, Detroit Pistons, G
Isiah Thomas
- Feb 9 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
- Feb 9 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
- Feb 9 Marvin Johnson stops Leslie Stewart in 7 rounds in Indianapolis to win WBA light heavyweight boxing title; record 3rd time he regains a version of light heavyweight crown
- Feb 9 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
- Feb 9 West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
Album Release
Feb 10 "John Lennon: Live in NYC" album is released posthumously
John Lennon
- Feb 11 Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country
- Feb 11 Australia beat India 2-0 to win cricket's World Series Cup, David Boon scores the most runs in the series (418)
- Feb 11 Iran begins Fajr-8 offensive against Iraq
- Feb 12 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
- Feb 14 36th Berlin International Film Festival: "Stammheim" wins the Golden Bear
- Feb 15 44,180 largest NBA crowd to date-Philadelphia at Detroit
- Feb 15 Ferdinand Marcos wins rigged presidential election in the Philippines
- Feb 15 Philippines National Assembly authorizes 6 more years for Ferdinand Marcos
- Feb 16 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances
- Feb 16 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
- Feb 16 Dutch speed skater Hein Vergeer becomes World Allround champion for the second time
- Feb 16 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
Election of Interest
Feb 16 Mário Soares from the Socialist Party is elected the 1st civilian President of Portugal
Mário Soares
Daytona 500
Feb 16 28th Daytona 500: Geoff Bodine wins on fuel mileage after Dale Earnhardt forced to pit for gas with 3 laps to go, then blows engine leaving the pits
Dale Earnhardt
Event of Interest
Feb 16 PGA Seniors' Championship Men's Golf, PGA National GC: South African Gary Player wins first of 6 Senior Tour major titles with a 2 stroke victory over runner-up Lee Elder
Gary Player
- Feb 17 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
- Feb 17 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
- Feb 17 Johnson & Johnson announces it will no longer sell capsule drugs
- Feb 17 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
- Feb 18 San Antonio guard Alvin Robertson scores NBA's 2nd quadruple double-20 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists & 10 steals in 120-114 win over Phoenix Suns
Event of Interest
Feb 18 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner: he died of smoking-induced lung cancer on 10th October 1985
Yul Brynner
Event of Interest
Feb 20 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
Orel Hershiser
Event of Interest
Feb 20 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany, New York
Mike Tyson
- Feb 21 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
- Feb 22 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines
- Feb 23 Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
- Feb 23 Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)
- Feb 24 Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
- Feb 25 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
- Feb 25 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country
- Feb 25 Iran conquers Iraqi Fao peninsula
- Feb 25 Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
- Feb 26 Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
- Feb 26 People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
- Feb 27 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis
- Feb 28 European Economic Community signs "Special Act" for Europe free trade
- Feb 28 Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs