Events in History
Event of Interest
Feb 7 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
Henry Clay
- Feb 12 Aroostoock (or "Pork & Beans) War: Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick
- Feb 18 Detroit Boat Club forms (& still exists)
- Feb 20 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
- Feb 24 Steam shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
- Feb 25 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
- Feb 7 Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
- Feb 9 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
- Feb 11 Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist/chemist
- Feb 20 Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
- Feb 22 Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)