Events in History
- Feb 1 King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir, Prince Luis Filipe are assassinated by Republican sympathizers in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon
- Feb 3 Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
- Feb 3 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
- Feb 4 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma with the addition to the Union of Oklahoma on November 16, 1907
- Feb 11 Heemskerk's government begins in Holland
- Feb 12 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
- Feb 18 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
- Feb 18 The American ambassador to Japan is given a note by the Japanese in which they agree to restrict Japanese emigration to the US; this becomes known as the 'Gentlemen's Agreement'
- Feb 24 In 'Muller v Oregon', the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails 'liberty of contract'
- Feb 25 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
- Feb 27 Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)
- Feb 28 Failed assassination attempt on Shah Mohammed Ali in Tehran
- Feb 29 Dutch scientists produce solid helium
Birthdays in History
- Feb 1 George Pal, Hungarian-American film director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons), born in Cegléd, Hungary (d. 1980)
- Feb 5 Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins, born in Brighton, England (d. 1969)
- Feb 6 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician (Prime Minister), born in Pieve Santo Stefano, Italy (d. 1999)
- Feb 6 Edward Lansdale, United States Air Force Officer, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1987)
- Feb 8 Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, English governor of the Bank of England (d. 1995)
- Feb 11 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and writer (Poedjangga Baroe), born in Natal, Dutch East Indies (d. 1994)
- Feb 11 Vivian Fuchs, English geologist and explorer (led Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1st to cross Antarctica via South Pole), born in Freshwater, Isle of Wight (d. 1999)
- Feb 12 Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
- Feb 12 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
- Feb 15 Sarto Fournier, Quebec politician (d. 1980)
- Feb 15 Ypk van der Fear, Dutch writer (Reade Runen), born in Sondel, Netherlands (d. 1983)
- Feb 20 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, Russian test pilot (world speed record in BI-1 rocket plane, but killed in its crash), born in Brinkovskya, Russia (d. 1943)
- Feb 20 Rosalind Laura Burke, British aviator (d. 1994)
- Feb 22 Romulo Betancourt, President of Venezuela (Acción Democrática: 1945-48, 1959-64) known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", born in Guatire, Venezuela (d. 1981)
- Feb 23 William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (Liberal: 1971-72), born in Redfern, New South Wales (d. 1988)
- Feb 25 Frank G. Slaughter [C.V. Terry], American novelist and physician (Sangaree), born in Washington D.C. (d. 2001)
- Feb 26 Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (d. 2007)
- Feb 26 Tex Avery, American cartoonist at Warner Bros, MGM (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig), born in Taylor, Texas (d. 1980)
- Feb 28 Alexander Golitzen, American art director (d. 2005)
- Feb 29 Balthus [Balthazar Klossowski], French Polish painter (Valerie), born in Paris, France (d. 2001)
Deaths in History
- Feb 1 Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by Republican sympathisers at 44
- Feb 10 Mustafa Kamil Pasha, Egyptian lawyer, journalist, Nationalist and a founder of Egyptian National Party, dies at 33
- Feb 21 Harriet Hosmer, American neoclassical sculptor, dies at 77
- Feb 23 Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
- Feb 29 John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, first Governor-General of Australia (as Lord Hopetoun)
- Feb 29 Pat Garrett, American Western lawman, dies at 57
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